Research Guides: Native American Studies: Films

DVDs & Videos at UNM

Use the Quick Search box below to start searching for DVDs and Videos owned by the library. Or, click on the links below to start finding videos.

Sample searches:

exact title: "miss navajo"
keyword: indians educations (indians is short cut for "Indians of North America")

In addition, the library subscribes to databases that stream documentaries and select feature films:

Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary streaming documentaries, educational, and corporate videos.
NOTE: Search results include film segment titles as well as film titles. To search film titles only, use the ALL FORMATS filter.
Kanopy Streaming Video This link opens in a new window
An on-demand streaming video service providing access to multidisciplinary documentaries and films.

Chicksaw TV Video Series
A series of videos created by the Chickasaw Nation covering culture, history, and many other aspects of Chickasaw life.

Beyond Standick Rock
BEYOND STANDING ROCK takes a close-up look at the controversy on the front lines of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The film investigates the collision of energy development and tribal rights/sovereignty. BEYOND STANDING ROCK explores these issues through three different tribal stories: The Dakota Access Pipeline (Standing Rock Sioux), the Southern Ute Tribe energy development, and a coalition of tribes in the Four Corners region, fighting for control over the Bears Ears National Monument.
Ancient Pathways: Modern Leaders - Voices of Pueblo Leadership
Leaders are not self selected, but nourished, encouraged and chosen based on the commitment and skills needed by a community at a given time.
Canes of Power
In 1864, President Abraham Lincoln recognized Pueblo independence by bestowing an ornamental, silver tipped cane to each Pueblo Nation. From more than 500 Indian nations in the United States, only New Mexico’s 19 Pueblos received these symbolic gifts of sovereign status.
Keep Talking
Keep Talking follows four Alaska Native women fighting to save Kodiak Alutiiq, an endangered language now spoken by less than 40 remaining fluent Native Elders. Their small community travels to remote Afognak Island to start teaching kids Alutiiq