Joy Harjo Movies

  • 2005
    A Thousand Roads

    A Thousand Roads

    A Thousand Roads

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    The film threads together four stories, taking us into the life of a stressed-out Mohawk stockbroker in Manhattan; a young Inupiat girl sent to live...

    A Thousand Roads
  • 2019
    Words from a Bear

    Words from a Bear

    Words from a Bear

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    A visual journey into the mind and soul of Pulitzer Prize–winning author Navarro Scott Momaday, relating each written line to his unique Native...

    Words from a Bear
  • 2021
    Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting

    Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting

    Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting

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    Examining the movement that is ending the use of Native American names, logos, and mascots in the world of sports and beyond.

    Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting
  • 1970
    Pepper's Pow Wow

    Pepper's Pow Wow

    Pepper's Pow Wow

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    A look at the life of Native American jazz saxophone pioneer Jim Pepper, the first widely recognized musician to fuse Native American music with jazz.

    Pepper's Pow Wow
  • 2011
    Games of the North

    Games of the North

    Games of the North

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    For thousands of years, traditional Inuit sports have been vital for survival within the unforgiving Arctic. Acrobatic and explosive, these ancestral...

    Games of the North
  • 2020
    Love and Fury

    Love and Fury

    Love and Fury

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    Filmmaker Sterlin Harjo follows Native artists for a year as they navigate their careers in the US and abroad. The film explores the immense...

    Love and Fury
  • 2022
    Cara Romero: Following the Light

    Cara Romero: Following the Light

    Cara Romero: Following the Light

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    Cara Romero's contemporary fine art photography captures Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultural memory, collective history, and lived experiences...

    Cara Romero: Following the Light
  • 2016
    Medicine Woman

    Medicine Woman

    Medicine Woman

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    America's first Native doctor, Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865-1915) studied medicine at a time when few women dared. She graduated first in her class...

    Medicine Woman
  • 1970
    Khonsay: Poem of Many Tongues

    Khonsay: Poem of Many Tongues

    Khonsay: Poem of Many Tongues

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    Khonsay: Poem of Many Tongues is a tribute and call to action for linguistic diversity. A 15-minute motion poem (poem on film), each line comes from...

    Khonsay: Poem of Many Tongues
  • 1982
    Jaune Quick-To-See Smith

    Jaune Quick-To-See Smith

    Jaune Quick-To-See Smith

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    Jaune Quick-To-See-Smith, Shoshone French Cree painter, discusses her abstract paintings, which depict her Indian heritage with scenes of early...

    Jaune Quick-To-See Smith