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Celebrate Native American & Alaska Native Heritage Month
Kameron White

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Celebrate past and present

Learning from Indigenous and native voices from across the continent

This November, learn more about Native Americans and their cultures, accomplishments, and contributions. Celebrate the diverse experiences of Native Americans and Alaska Natives with this collection of documentaries on PBS.org or on the PBS video app.

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Buffy Sainte-Marie

Buffy Sainte – Marie:
Carry it On


Experience the story of the Oscar-winning Indigenous artist. Don't miss the new season, premiering Nov 22nd.

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In Their Element

Local, USA

In Their Element

IN THEIR ELEMENT spotlights Indigenous leaders rising up to meet the challenge of the climate crisis. The film features four communities across the United States, each working to protect a different natural resource: earth, air, fire, and water. For people whose existence is inseparable from their native land, climate change is not a tale of the future - it is the present.

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If Cities Could Dance

If Cities Could Dance

Indigenous Enterprise Brings Powwow Dance to the World Stage

Indigenous Enterprise, made up of a new generation of Native American Powwow dancers from across the U.S. and Canada, is on a mission to bring Native culture to new heights and audiences.

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Conscience Point

Independent Lens presents Conscience Point

A Native American activist fights to protect her tribe from the onslaughts of development in the Hamptons.

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alter-NATIVE: Kitchen

Independent Lens

alter-NATIVE: Kitchen

Meet three talented young Indigenous chefs – all preparing foods from their native cultures that sustained their communities for generations. From wild rice bowls and sumac duck confit to poke and imu-cooked kalua pig, to honey Lakota popcorn, see how cooking connects each of these chefs to their own histories, and what they in turn can teach others with mouth-watering delicacies.

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A Qayaq to Carry Us

Local, USA

A Qayaq to Carry Us

Get to know the Sugpiat community as they come home to Kodiak Island in Alaska to learn and build Indigenous knowledge. Merging Indigenous knowledge with western science, Dr. Sven Haakanson and other Sugpiat people in Akhiok pass along the ingenuity of traditional knowledge in a living context to young Sugpiat while building a kayak from wood gathered on the treeless beaches of Cape Alitak.

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