Native American Film Series: WHAT WAS OURS
Vision Maker Media and The Ross Media Arts Center are proud to present a series of free screenings featuring short Native American films and tv programs from the VMM public broadcasting archives, spanning nearly 50 years of programming.
Screenings in this series will take place on the second Monday of each month in 2024 and are admission free and open to the public. Tickets available at the Ross box office (online ticketing not available for free screenings). Check back for more information!
WHAT WAS OURS (2017)
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11 – 7:15 p.m.
An Eastern Shoshone Elder and two Northern Arapaho youth living on the Wind River Indian Reservation attempt to learn why thousands of ancestral artifacts are in the darkness of underground archives of museums and churches, boxed away and forgotten. Like millions of indigenous people in many parts of the world, they do not control their own material culture. It is being preserved, locked away, by ‘outsiders’ who themselves do not know what they have. (60 min)
ABOUT VISION MAKER MEDIA
What began as a film archive to conserve and document Native American stories, transformed into the nation’s leader in content by and about Indigenous people for public broadcasting. Vision Maker Media works with Native producers to develop, produce, and distribute programs to educate audiences. More info…
A note on image quality: Programs in this series have been collected from public broadcasts spanning from the 1970s to today and may contain a low-resolution picture and occasional image anomalies from their transfer to digital media.