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Native American Heritage Month at POV and America ReFramed
November is Native American Heritage Month. Watch the following films that spotlight unique Native American stories and perspectives. Check out these POV titles and more, streaming on our homepage ([link removed]) and by downloading the PBS app.

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Fruits of Labor ([link removed]) (dir. by Emily Cohen Ibañez)

Ashley, a Mexican-American teenager living in California, dreams of graduating high school and going to college. But when ICE raids threaten her family, Ashley is forced to become the breadwinner, working days in the strawberry fields and nights at a food processing company.

Water Warriors ([link removed]) (dir. by Michael Premo)

When an energy company begins searching for natural gas in New Brunswick, Canada, indigenous and white families unite to drive out the company in a campaign to protect their water and way of life.

Standing Above the Clouds ([link removed]) (dir. by Jalena Keane-Lee)

Standing Above the Clouds follows Native Hawaiian mother-daughter activists as they stand to protect their sacred mountain Mauna Kea from the building of the world’s largest telescope.

Love is the First Sacred Lesson ([link removed]) (dir. by Jess Murwin)

Love Is the First Sacred Lesson is a first-person documentary that follows Montreal artist Jess Murwin’s journey to connect and reconcile the different parts of their identity: queer, trans, Mi’kmaw.

On a Knife Edge ([link removed]) (dir. by Jalena Keane-Lee)

On a Knife Edge is the coming-of-age story of George Dull Knife, a Lakota teenager growing up on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation. The film traces George’s path to activism, inspired by his family’s long history of fighting for justice for Native Americans. His focus: shutting down the liquor stores in Whiteclay, a tiny town nearby that exists only to sell beer to the reservation’s vulnerable population.

Blood Memory ([link removed]) (dir. by Drew Nicholas)

Blood Memory explores the impact reunification can have on communal healing, as Sandy Hawk, who was removed from her Sicangu Lakota relatives and placed with white missionaries over 400 miles from the reservation, helps organize the first annual Welcome Home Ceremony for Adopted and Foster Relatives of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe - the community from which she was removed over 60 years ago.

Sisters Rising ([link removed]) (dir. by Willow O'Feral & Brad Heck)

Sisters Rising features six Native American women reclaiming personal & tribal sovereignty in the face of violence.

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