New Native American Films
Crooked arrows (DVD)Call Number: SFCC Circulating DVD : CROOKEDISBN: B008YAPPXKNative American lacrosse players on the Crooked Arrows high school team are long-time losers. A former star player sets out to turn the chumps into champs and, in the process, learns the value of loyalty himself.
Thunderheart (DVD)Call Number: SFCC Circulating DVD : THUNDERHA young, part-Sioux FBI agent is sent to solve a murder on an Indian reservation. There he meets the irreverent local sheriff and the tribe's religious leader, who helps the agent begin to understand his lost heritage.
Films about Native Americans
A few popular Native American films are listed below. Go to the SFCC Intercultural Film Guide for a more complete list of Native American films available at the SFCC Library
Business of fancydancing (DVD)Call Number: SFCC Circulating DVD : BUSINESSISBN: B0000950WIFormer Spokane Reservation best friends, Seymour and Aristotle have taken different paths when they are brought together for the funeral of an old friend. Both went off to college; one is now a successful poet, the other returned home embittered. Tensions and resentments flare as they meet again.
Powwow highway (DVD)Call Number: SFCC Circulating DVD : POWWOWISBN: B00020HCBSWith nothing in common but their Native American heritage, two men begin a cross-country adventure filled with comedy and drama.
Smoke signals (DVD)Call Number: SFCC Circulating DVD : SMOKEISBN: B004YCKJX8Two young Native Americans, Victor and Thomas, leave their small town to retrieve the remains of Victor's father. Based on the book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie.
