Comparative
Religion & Global Myth
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First Nations
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| AMAZON
BEAMING,
1991, Petru Popescu. Based on the
dairies of Loren McIntyre, who spent 40 years exploring the
Amazon basin, discovering the source of the river in 1971.
Recounts his astounding adventures among the time-traveling,
telepathic Cat People. |
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THIEF OF TIME,
2004,Chris Eyrie. PBS adaptation of Tony Hillermans 3rd
novel involving Lt. Joe Leaphorn (Wes Studi of Dances with
Wolves and The Last of the Mohicans) and Officer Jim Chee
(Adam Beach of Smoke Signals and Windtalkers) of the Navajo
Tribal Police, and a murder of course. (DVD) |
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| BLACK
ELK SPEAKS: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala
Sioux, 2000, John G. Neihardt. |
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| BOOK
OF THE HOPI,
1977, Frank Waters. |
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| CLEARCUT,
1993, Ryszard Bugajski. Graham Greene (Northern Exposure,
Dances With Wolves) stars in this film about an Indian spirit's
revenge against a greedy lumber mill owner (also appearing:
Fred "Red Crow" Westermen). (VHS) |
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| COYOTE
WAITS, 2003,
Jan Egleson. PBS adaptation of Tony Hillermans 2nd novel
involving Lt. Joe Leaphorn (Wes Studi of Dances with Wolves
and The Last of the Mohicans) and Officer Jim Chee (Adam Beach
of Smoke Signals and Windtalkers) of the Navajo Tribal Police,
and a murder of course. .(DVD) |
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| DAUGHTERS
OF THE EARTH,
1977, Carolyn Niethammer. The lives
and legends of American Indian women. |
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| THE
EMERALD FOREST, 1985, John
Boorman. Powers Boothe plays an American engineer working
on a dam project in Brazil. When his young son is seemingly
absorbed one day into the dense perils and beauty of the Amazon
rain forest, Boothe's character goes on a protracted, 10-year
search for him. In the interim, Boorman puts his full storytelling
powers to work by characteristically exploring the arcane
rhythms and dangers of an indigenous world hidden from ordinary
view. Specifically, Boorman leads us into the life of a forest
tribe who have assimilated the missing child and who will
ultimately send him back with the opposite of his father's
pro-development sensibility. (DVD) |
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| HEROES
AND HEROINES IN TLINGIT-HAIDA LEGEND, 1989,
Mary L. Beck. |
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| FROM
THE HEART OF THE WORLD: THE ELDER BROTHERS' WARNING,
1991, Alan Ereira. The only outside contact with the Kogi:
the last surviving pre-Columbian civilization of South America.
(VHS) |
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| HOW
THE RAVEN STOLE THE SUN, 2001,
Maria Williams. A childrens book of the Northwest Tribal
legend of creation. |
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| INDIAN
LEGENDS OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST, 2003,
Ella E. Clark |
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| LAME
DEER, SEEKER OF VISIONS, 1994,
Lame Deer and R. Erdoes |
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| THE
LAST OF HIS TRIBE,
1992, Harry Hook. True story, starring Graham Greene as
"Ishi," the last Yahi and free ranging Native American
who was forced by circumstance to enter modern civilization
in the early 20th Century in California. (DVD) |
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| MEDICINE
MAN, 1992, John McTiernan. Story of a research scientist
(Sean Connery) who discovers a cure for cancer in the Brazilian
rain forest, but then can't retrace his steps in creating
the potion. Added pressure on his work is coming from developers
burning down the forest, while an American bureaucrat (Lorraine
Bracco), who holds the purse strings on the grant, has arrived
to give him a bad time. (DVD) |
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| MEDICINE
RIVER, 1997,
Stuart Margolin. Humorous story about a contemporary Native
American careerist (Graham Greene) squaring his ethnic loyalties
and identity with career demands. Returning home to reservation
for his mothers funeral, Greene gets caught up in tribal life,
and remembers who he really is. (VHS) |
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| MEXICAN
& CENTRAL AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY,
1967, Irene Nicholson. |
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| MYTHS
AND LEGENDS OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST, 1997,
Katharine Berry Judson. |
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| NATIVE
AMERICAN MYTHS & MYSTERIES,
1976; 1991, Vincent H. Gaddis. |
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| NAVAHO
RELIGION,
1990, Gladys A. Reichard |
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| NAVAJO
WITCHCRAFT,1944;
1967, Clyde Kluckhohn. |
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| NORTH
AMERICAN INDIAN MYTHOLOGY,
1965, Cottie Burland. |
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| THE
PEYOTE RELIGION AMONG THE NAVAHO, 1982,
David F. Aberle |
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| POTLATCH:
Native Ceremony and Myth on the Northwest Coast,
1993, Mary Giraudo Beck |
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| POWWOW
HIGHWAY, 1989, Jonathan Wacks. An oversized Cheyenne
man-child (Gary Farmer) who decides to go on a spiritual quest,
while simultaneously giving a ride to his lifelong Indian
activist friend (A. Martinez). The film takes us through some
pretty desolate Indian communities. (DVD) |
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| REDMAN'S
RELIGION,
Ruth M. Underhill. |
OUT
OF PRINT |
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| THE
SACRED HOOP: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions,
1992, Paula Gunn Alien. |
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| SEVEN
ARROWS, 1985,
Hyemeyohsts Storm. (stories) |
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| SHAMANS
AND KUSHTAKAS: North Coast Tales of the Supernatural,
1991, Mary Giraudo Beck. |
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| SKINS,
2002, Chris Eyre. Skins is the second feature film directed
by Chris Eyre (Smoke Signals). As with the previous movie,
Skins concerns two very different and determined protagonists
who have grown up together: a cop, Rudy Yellow Lodge (Eric
Schweig), on the Lakota reservation's police force, and his
older brother Mogie (Graham Greene), an unrepentant drunk.
Frustrated by Mogie's self-destruction and outraged by rampant
alcoholism throughout the rez (with the disease's concomitant
social violence and general hell-raising at an all-time high),
Rudy resorts to off-duty, anonymous jungle justice--beating
suspects and torching a Nebraska border-town liquor store--with
tragic consequences. (DVD) |
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| SKINWALKERS,
2002, Chris Eyre. PBS adaptation of Tony Hillermans 1986
bestseller that first paired Lt. Joe Leaphorn (Wes Studi of
Dances with Wolves and The Last of the Mohicans) and Officer
Jim Chee (Adam Beach of Smoke Signals and Windtalkers) of
the Navajo Tribal Police. Leaphorn, a veteran urban cop recently
returned to the reservation, is Scully to Chee's Mulder as
they investigate a series of murders seemingly committed by
a "skinwalker," a shape-shifting evil spirit. (DVD) |
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| SMOKE
SIGNALS,
1998, Chris Eyre. The first feature made by a Native American
crew and creative team, the film concerns two young Idaho
men with radically different memories of one Arnold Joseph
(Gary Farmer), a former resident of the reservation who split
years before and has just died in Phoenix. Arnold's strapping,
popular son, Victor (Adam Beach), remembers him best as an
alcoholic, occasionally abusive father who drove off one day
and never came back. By contrast, Thomas Builds-the-Fire (Evan
Adams), whom Arnold had saved from certain death years earlier,
has chosen to exaggerate the man's life and deeds in a mythmaking
fashion that drives Victor crazy. Circumstances bring the
two together, however, in a bus ride to retrieve Arnold's
ashes. There, in Phoenix, a confrontation with the reality
of the dead man's fullest legacy has a profound effect on
both characters. (DVD) |
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| SOUTH
AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY,
1968, Harold Osborne. |
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| THUNDERHEART,
1992, Michael Apted. Thunderheart is an unusual story about
an arrogant FBI agent (Val Kilmer) who participates in a federal
investigation of a murder on an Oglala Sioux reservation.
Kilmer's character is part Sioux himself, a detail that leaves
him cold as he sets about pushing his way through the community
to find facts on the case. In time, however, he begins to
feel an ethnic tug and grows increasingly sympathetic to the
locals and hostile toward his fellow G-men, much to the dismay
of his agency mentor (Sam Shepard). The script is based on
real events that occurred on the Pine Ridge Reservation in
1975 in South Dakota. (DVD) |
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| TOUCH
THE EARTH: A Self Portrait of Indian Existence,
1992, T.C. McLuhan. |
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| UNDERSTANDING
NORTHWEST COAST ART: : A Guide to
Crests, Beings, and Symbols,
2000, Cheryl Shearar. |
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