Narratives and Storytelling
Please not: Not all of the presentations here are validated for truth according to First Nations People. [best true treatises]
- Bear Dance. Benjamin Pavisook from Towaoc on the Ute Mountain Reservation in Southwest Colorado, telling a traditional Ute story about the origin of the Bear Dance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atmaZwBp7xE
- Northern Ute Bear Dance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKvXwceZbC4
- The museum's eighth annual Living Earth Festival features programs and activities on environmental issues, active lifestyles and the importance of Native foods in our diets. The festival features music, daily cooking demonstrations, artist demonstrators and traditional Native dance. In this segment, the Southern Ute Bear Dancers from southern Colorado demonstrate the bear dance, a women's choice social dance that has been part of their traditions from pre-contact times. This performance was webcast and recorded in the Potomac Atrium of the National Museum of the American Indian on July 15, 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zLiLGEDatM. Smithsonian NMAI
- Historical documentary on the Ute Indian People of Utah and Colorado. Shot on 16mm film in the mid-1990s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPaeDxp5Ti8
- Ute History documentary - Spirit of the Nuche. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPaeDxp5Ti8
- Washakie - Last Chief of the Eastern Shoshone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm4vcpHkGNo
- Native American Indian Chiefs and leaders. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ma0_EIcoAo
- America's Great Indian Nations - Full Length Documentary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MazI9dFA6ME
- The Indigenous People of America - Documentary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3H32D8UEeU
- The Wild West - custer's last stand. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDxXvwJosaU
- A Good Day to Die (1988): Documentary on the Battle of the Little Bighorn. This independent production provides cultural and social context to the battle. While providing an excellent graphical analysis to the battle itself, the film also hauntingly captures the mystery and tragedy of the event. See supporting article at http://www.aeolus13umbra.com/2012/06/... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgV9bQNNNBY