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For this year's Presidential Proclamation, see here:
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The National Museum of the American Indian’s Native Cinema Showcase is an annual celebration of the best in Native film. By embracing oral histories, knowledge, and ancestral lands, Indigenous peoples are creating films to better understand the past and imagine a new way of thinking for the future.
All films are available on demand from November 18, 2022, 12:01 AM ET, to November 25, 2022, 11:59 PM ET.
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Feature BootleggerRegistration is required and is limited to 800 viewers. For Mature Audiences: Contains coarse language and brief nudity. Two radically opposed women divide their community into two sides over the free sale of alcohol, confronting each other to determine the best path to independence. |
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Feature + Shorts Program Daughter of a Lost BirdAn adult Native adoptee reconnects with her birth family, discovers her Lummi heritage, and confronts issues of her own identity. Feature is preceded by SŪKŪJULA TEI (Stories of My Mother) and Nahasdzáán (Earth). |
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Shorts Program Emergence Shorts ProgramStories of how the past can help us navigate an uncertain future. |
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Shorts Program Future-Focused Shorts ProgramFamily-friendly short films that are fun for kids of all ages. |
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Feature Imagining the IndianRegistration is required and is limited to 1000 viewers. A comprehensive examination of the movement to eradicate the words, images, and gestures that many Native Americans and their allies find demeaning and offensive. Special support for Imagining the Indian is provided by The Ciesla Foundation. |
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From the Archives In Memoriam: A Conversation with Jeff Barnaby, Mi'kmaq (1976–2022)A conversation with Blood Quantum film director, Jeff Barnaby, recorded for Native Cinema Showcase 2020. |
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Feature Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of EmpathyAn intimate portrait of survival, love, and the collective work of healing in the Kainai First Nation in Southern Alberta, a Blackfoot community facing the impacts of substance use and a drug-poisoning epidemic. |
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Feature Portraits from a FireA coming-of-age tale about inherited trauma, family, acceptance, and defiance. |
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Shorts Program Rise Above Shorts ProgramThese shorts focus on the realities of rising above adversity and learning life’s lessons. |
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Shorts Program Twisted Tales Shorts ProgramShorts that invite viewers into spooky, creepy, and unfamiliar tales from an Indigenous perspective. |
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Feature Warrior SpiritFor Mature Audiences: Contains triggering scenes of rapid weight loss. A shocking exposé on the extreme weight-cutting measures motivated by the UFC. |
Firekeeper's Daughter by 
Native Historians Write Back by 
The Rediscovery of America : native peoples and the unmaking of U.S. history by 
The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen by 
American Indian Politics and the American Political System by 
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by 
How Indians Use Wild Plants for Food, Medicine and Crafts by 
Indigenous Continent : the epic contest for North America by 
An Infinity of Nations : how the native New World shaped early North America by 
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse by 
Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea by 
Native North American Art by 
North American Indians: a Very Short Introduction by 
