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Blood Memory follows the journey of Sandy White Hawk, a Sicangu Lakota adoptee from the Rosebud Reservation, including the first gathering for Adopted and Fostered Relatives of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. Featuring Jerry Dearly’s (Oglala Lakota) “Song for Adoptees,” as well as Lynn Castaway Eagle Feather, Marlies White Hat, Conrad Eagle Feather, Archie Little, (Sicangu Lakota), and Senator James Abourezk, who passed several laws boosting tribal sovereignty.
Every four years, the Navajo Nation elects its president, whom many consider the most powerful Native American in the country. Frustrated about the lack of progress in the reservation, Moroni Benally, a witty academic with radical ideas, hopes to defeat the incumbent president. Moroni for President follows the political newcomer’s grueling, lonely campaign against the “old guard,” and the monumental effort it takes to change the narrative and inspire people to move in new directions. SDPB2: Tuesday, November 3, 7pm (6 MT); Saturday November 7, 9pm (8 MT) & Sunday, November 8, 4pm (3 MT)
Unspoken: America’s Native American Boarding Schools takes a moving and insightful look into the history, operation, and legacy of the federal Indian Boarding School system, whose goal was total assimilation of Native Americans at the cost of stripping away Native culture, tradition, and language. SDPB2: Tuesday, November 17, 8pm (7 MT)
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Learn. Dream. Grow.
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SDPB2: Tuesday, November 17, 7pm (6 MT); Saturday, November 21, 9pm (8 MT) & Sunday, November 22, 4pm (3 MT)
American Masters N. Scott Momaday examines the enigmatic life and mind of National Medal of Arts-winner Navarro Scott Momaday, the Kiowa novelist, short-story writer, essayist and poet. His Pulitzer Prize-winning novel House Made of Dawn led to the breakthrough of Native American literature into the mainstream. SDPB2: Sunday, November 22, 9pm (8 MT)
