Educational Microsite
Here you will find items that allow for further discussion and learning in the classroom around the many titles within our VisionMaker Educational Catalog. You will also find forum discussions that deal with the topics that our educational titles cover as well as issues that teachers, students and parents face in Indian Country. Finally, you will be able to find and connect in our members section with educators, students and their parents.
Spotlight: Interactive Timeline
Featured Educational Resources
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GRAB
GRAB is an intimate portrait of the little-documented Grab Day in the villages of the Laguna Pueblo Tribe, who annually throw water and food items from the rooftop of a home to people standing below them. A community-wide prayer of abundance, thanks and renewal, Grab Day exists at the intersection of traditional Native and contemporary Western cultures. Billy Luther's film, which is narrated by Parker Posey, follows three families as they prepare for the annual event, chronicling their lives for the year leading up to this day.
Viewer Discussion GuideGeneralEthnic Studies, Native American Studies, Social Studies -
Smokin' Fish
Cory Mann (Tlingit) is a quirky businessman hustling to make a dollar in Juneau, Alaska. He gets hungry for smoked salmon and decides to spend a summer smoking fish at a family's traditional fish camp. The unusual story of his life and the untold history of his people interweave with the process of preparing traditional food as he struggles to pay his bills and keep his business afloat.
Viewer Discussion GuideGeneralAlaska Native Studies, Ethnic Studies, Native American Studies, Social Studies -
Standing Bear's Footsteps
In 1877, the Ponca people were exiled from their Nebraska homeland to Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma. To honor his dying son's last wish to be buried in his homeland, Chief Standing Bear set off on a grueling, six-hundred-mile journey home.
Viewer Discussion GuideGeneralEthnic Studies, Native American Studies, Social Studies -
Columbus Day Legacy
Columbus Day Legacy explores the quintessential American issues of free speech and ethnic pride against the backdrop of the ongoing Columbus Day parade controversy in Denver, Colorado. Navajo filmmaker Bennie Klain takes viewers into this very personal yet very public conflict, asking tough questions about identity and history in America.
Viewer Discussion Guide, Interactive TimelineGrades 7-9, Grades 9-12, Higher Ed, GeneralEthnic Studies, Journalism, Native American Studies, Social Studies
