Film portrays native peoples' struggles

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committed against them, recently aired on public television stations. In it, IndiHome of the Brave, produced by ans tell from their own point of view Helen Solberg Ladd. Distributed by how they have united against violations Michael Anderson, 402 San Francisco of their rights. The main countries dealt with are the United States, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, and Guatemala.

The drums and singing that introduce the film are symbolic of the rebirth of indigenous cultures and traditions. For many years in the United States the drums were silenced by law, and singing and dancing were only done clandestinely. The Red Nations maintained their culture underground, fighting for their right to exist as distinct peoples.

They also fought to defend and recover their traditional lands and resources. Thomas Banyaca, a holy man, talks of the uranium mining in Hopi lands in Arizona and New Mexico. Now that giant energy corporations want the uranium and other Indianowned mineral wealth, the Indian Katie Smith and Roberta Blackgoat, Dineh (Navajo) elders from Arizona, tell of the forcible removal of their nation over the last seven years. More people have been removed from Dineh lands today than marched there from Fort Sumner in 1868, when they were The Means brothers-Russell, Bill, Ted, and Dale-of the Great Sioux Nation from the Dakotas, founding members of the American Indian Movement, discuss how they came to fight back, the importance of living in harmony with the earth, and the imporRussell Means, a founding member of the American Indian Movement, talks about his fight in the documentary Blvd., San Anselmo, CA 94960.

This excellent film, which documents the resistance of indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere to the crimes "Home of the Brave. " sheepherders must go. given the land "forever." tance of traditions.

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