Besides a Cherokee language demonstration, the group performs the blanket, quail, and round dances. Audience participation is encouraged throughout the program. This documentary explores the conflict dividing Native Hawaiians and anthropologists over ownership of ancestral remains, recounting efforts by Kunani Nihipali and his wife Ipo to repatriate their ancestral remains from Phoebe Hearst Museum at the University of California at Berkeley. A question and answer period follows the presentation. A discussion with the sisters follows the performance.
Audience members learn chants, song lines and pose questions.
In partnership with the justice system, circle sentencing is a way for Native offenders to re-connect with their spiritual traditions and to break away from the cycle of crime, court and prison, an alternative approach to justice and healing for aboriginal men in Canada's Yukon Territory. On May 20, director, Shanti Thakur, introduces the film, with a discussion after the screening. The group performs ceremonies called Danzas , in hope that humanity as a whole can reestablish a connection to each other and to the earth. The story of Charlene Teters, a Spokane Indian, whose campaign against Chief Illiniwek, the University of Illinois beloved team mascot, turned a college town upside down, forcing many people to rethink the larger issues of culture and identity. Charlene Teters introduces the film, with discussion after the screening.