Explores 8 concepts in Native studies & the words commonly used to describe them: sovereignty, land, indigeneity, nation, blood, tradition, colonialism, & indigenous knowledge. Each section includes 3 or 4 essays with definitions & significance of the concept, within a historical, social, & political context.

Travels to Standing Rock and explores the Native American community in West Michigan. 108 minutes in 2 parts.
Intro; Standing Rock 11:29; Sage 36:26-38:00; Part II Reclaiming 53:32; Pow wow 1:08:19; Creation story 1:14; Boarding schools 1:22; Seventh 1:31.

26:47. Lin Thomas, Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa, reclaims the relationships and traditions of her ancestors by reclaiming food from the seeds she grows, to the way she skins a bison. Her journey takes us to the Native Food Summit where she talks to experts on Native Food Sovereignty, to her tribe’s farm, and a powwow.

Start: 18:00, runs 44 minutes

lectures/interviews

As early humans spread out across the world, their toughest challenge was colonizing the Americas - because a huge ice sheet blocked the route. It has long been thought that the pioneers, known as Clovis people, arrived about 13,000 years ago, but a discovery in Mexico suggests people arrived earlier than previously thought - and by boat, not on foot. How closely related were these First Americans to today's Native Americans?

Indigenous researchers wrote this work about and for themselves about language, culture and identity, early childhood education, teacher education, curriculum, pedagogy, educational psychology, etc.

Indigenous authors explore why and how they are shifting educational efforts to an Indigenous center to serve their peoples.

Native scholars have started to develop their own research methodologies and paradigms that are based in tribal knowledge systems and values, and that allow inherent Indigenous knowledge and lived experiences to strengthen the research.

Detroit-born, Western Shoshone author centers Native Americans as essential to U.S. history.

Classic essays by feminist intellectual, poet and literary scholar, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, about issues she encountered as a Native American in academia. She asks questions of critical importance to tribal people.

Addresses gender, sexuality, & feminism in Native American & Indigenous sovereignty, colonial space, "Indianness," & the connections between queer theory & colonialism within Indigenous studies.