Across the Americas : indigenous perspectives
Film et Vidéo
- Auteurs : Leppzer Robbie ; Van Lennep Erik ;
- Editeurs : Watertown, Mass. Documentary Educational Resources ;
- Date d'édition : 2014
- Sujets : Indiens d'Amérique -- Influence étrangère -- DVD, Indiens d'Amérique, Industrialisation, Films ethnographiques DVD États-Unis
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 DVD mono face toutes zones (46 min), : N. et bl., sonore
- Pays de publication : États-Unis
- Collection (notice d'ensemble) : Turning Tide, : The Robbie Leppzer collection.
Notes
Version en anglais ; Tournage : Arctic to Amazonia to tribal lands conference, septembre 1989, Smith College, Northampton, MA
Résumé
Indiqué sur la jaquette : In this compilation DVD, award-winning independent documentary filmmaker Robbie Leppzer chronicles indigenous people from North, South, and Central America speaking out about their common legacies of survival and contemporary struggles over land, human rights, and the environment. Columbus Didn't Discover Us : In preparation for the Columbus Quincentennial, 300 Native men and women from North, South and Central America came to the highlands of Ecuador to take part in the First Continental Conference of Indigenous Peoples. This documentary is a moving testimony about the impact of the Columbus legacy on the lives of indigenous peoples from across the hemisphere. Native people speak about the devastation of their cultures resulting from the 'European Invasion,' contemporary struggles over land and human rights, the importance of reviving spiritual traditions, and the need to alert the world to the environmental crises threatening the survival of the planet. Arctic to Amazonia : From the Arctic to the Amazon, much of our world's fragile ecosystem is at risk. Multinational corporations and government development projects often engage in practices which threaten not only the environment, but the survival of indigenous cultures. To discuss this growing problem, representatives of Native communities from around the world came to Smith College to attend the week-long Arctic to Amazonia Tribal Lands Conference. Through excerpts from speeches presented at the conference Arctic to Amazonia shows that as the threat of global environmental disaster looms over us, mainstream society can learn from both the struggles and Triumps Native peoples.