NAPT Launches New Website
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NAPT has unveiled a new website to aid filmmakers with production resources and PBS viewers with what's currently on public television. The new site also allows filmmakers and musicians with a venue to post their latest work, among other features.  The new home page with a fresh look and new logos also places all of NAPT's products and services-- AIROS.org and VisionMaker Video--under one umbrella to create a more uniform and consistent image of NAPT products. Click here to read more about the new website. To view the new website or sign up as a user to submit content, go to: www.nativetelecom.org. |
Modern Native American Culture, Issues Explored by PBS Series
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American Experience has updated its We Shall Remain website with a new project depicting modern Native American culture.  The Native Now project looks at language, sovereignty and tribal enterprise, stemming from traditional practices. Included in the web project are videos of Cherokee, Nipmuc and Shawnee speakers, and essays about sovereignty by tribal leaders and scholars, including a report by W. Ron Allen, chairman of the Jamestown S'Kallam Tribe. Also included are videos about tribal businesses, such as enterprise beyond gaming by the Citizen Potawatomi Nation in Oklahoma. "Non-Native people have a very limited and stereotyped image of Native people," said Sharon Grimberg, We Shall Remain executive producer. "We wanted to give aspects of contemporary Native life, which is something American Experience, a history series, has never done before. Many Native people face real problems but Native communities are doing some interesting things establishing enterprise and sovereignty, and preserving language and culture." "This is the remain part in We Shall Remain," added multimedia producer Callie Wiser. "We want to get PBS audiences to see what they don't see every day--what is going on in what Indian communities every day." The Native Now project is part of the roll out of We Shall Remain, the upcoming five-part series that explores pivotal moments in U.S. history from the Native American perspective. Other projects associated with the release of the series include ReelNative, short films by amateur filmmakers from across the nation, and a Native radio project that will be released this spring. To read more about the We Shall Remain series or about Native Now or other projects, go to: www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/weshallremain. NAPT has provided funding for the series and has served as an adviser. We Shall Remain will debut on PBS' American Experience on April 13, 2009.
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Congress Approves Delay in Digital TV Transition
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A bill to delay to the digital television transition to June is heading to President Obama. Congress voted last week to delay the transition until June 12, saying that many Americans weren't ready for the transition. The transition from analog to digital broadcast is slated for Feb. 17. The president is expected to sign the bill to delay the transition. For more information on the DTV transition, go to: www.dtv.gov. |
| AIROS Carries State of Native Nations Address Live Today
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The online Native radio network, AIROS.org, will carry the National Congress of American Indians annual State of Native Nations live at noon (Eastern) today.NCAI President Joe Garcia (Ohkay Owingeh) will deliver the 8th annual address in Washington, D.C. Garcia's address will coincide with the release of President Obama's budget. The State of Native Nations will be repeated on AIROS.org during the following dates and times: 2/12: 8 a.m., 2 p.m., 8 p.m. 2/13: 9 a.m., 3 p.m., 9 p.m. 2/15: 10 a.m., 4 p.m., 10 p.m. 2/16: 11 a.m., 5 p.m., 11 p.m. All times are eastern standard. For more information about NCAI's report, go to: www.ncai.org. AIROS has created a blog for discussion on the State of Native Nations. To enter a comment, click here. |
NM Film Festival Highlighting Black and Indian Stories
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The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center and the New Mexico Office of African American Affairs will host a film festival featuring both Native Americans and African Americans in recognition of Black History Month.
Call of All Drums: Picturing Our Future Together will run from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Feb. 27 at the Cultural Center in Albuquerque. The event will include workshops centered on youth and discuss images of people of color in film.
NAPT, which is also a sponsor of Call of All Drums, will have three films the organization has funded in the festival, including American Cowboys, A Native American Night Before Christmas and In the Mix.
For more information about the festival or school groups wanting to make reservations for workshop attendance, contact Hakim Bellamy at 505-222-9442 or edwardh.bellamy@state.nm.us. |
| VisionMaker Video February Special: Change in America |
In honor of Black History Month, VisionMaker Video celebrates the collaborations and bravery of all people of color:
American Cowboys
Before the days of great athletes like Jim Thorpe and Jackie Robinson, Jackson Sundown, a Nez Perce horseman, and George Fletcher, an African American who came to know horses through the Umatilla tribe, rose above the color barriers of their time and became heroes and legends in the rodeo arenas of the West. Their contributions as men facing racism are honored and remembered today.
Sundown survived the 1877 Nez Perce retreat with Chief Joseph and escaped into Canada. He later returned to the United States and settled in on the Nez Perce reservation, where he took an allotment of land and became a legendary horseman.
 George Fletcher, who came west on the Oregon Trail from Missouri with his family, would meet Sundown at the 1911 Pendleton Round-Up. However, Fletcher was no stranger to Native people. His family settled in Oregon and Fletcher built a relationship with the Umatilla. Fletcher was adopted by the tribe and was taught horsemanship, hunting, culture and their language.
But it was that event in 1911 that would lead Sundown to be named as the first Native American to win a world title at the Pendleton Round-Up and Fletcher as the first African American to compete for a world title at the Pendleton Round-Up.
The film comes in a newly packaged version that includes such bonus features as:
- A 26-minute version of the film as seen on PBS.
- And a 47-minute version that includes raw black and white silent film footage, in addition to a broader explanation of the 1877 Nez Perce Retreat.
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See our online catalog for a full listing of other stories about Native Americans at www.visionmaker.org.
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Producer Profile
Dustinn Craig
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Sarah Colt
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Directors Dustinn Craig (White Mountain Apache) and Sarah Colt join forces to bring the story of Geronimo, the last hold out of the Chiricahua Apache tribe.
Although some regard him as a hero, others, including tribal descendants, tell a different story.
The film is part four in American Experience's new five-part series, We Shall Remain, airing May 4.
This profile is part of NAPT's behind-the-scenes look at the series that brings to life more than 300 years of Native American history in America. We Shall Remain begins April 13.
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Next month: Julianna Brannum, co-producer, and Stanley Nelson, producer/director, Wounded Knee. |
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