Writer-actor Vishy Ayyar, American filmmakers Cristy Coors Beasly and Rashaana Shah & their team share details on their film ...

Celebrate ten years of the festival with ten days of free programming Kirby Ewald For ten years, the Smithsonian’s Recovering Voices Initiative has supported an event like no other: the Mother Tongue ...

The systematic abuse of Indigenous children at Indian Residential Schools barely received attention in North America despite ...

Famous for Netflix series Indian Matchmaker, Indian-American filmmaker Smriti Mundhra's short documentary, 'I Am Ready, Warden', is nominated for an Oscar. The film explores John Henry Ramirez's life ...

Unprecedented Paul Reubens, a Deaf rebellion, Leonard Peltier's life, dying in SF, and more real life from the 41st film fest.

In our program, learn about the peoples, cultures, histories, and modern contributions of American Indian and Indigenous communities. Together, we seek to empower a generation of scholars, advocates, ...

Documentarians worked quickly to change up the ending of 'Free Leonard Peltier' after Biden commuted Peltier's sentence.

This is something that we always prepared for," producer Jhane Myers told Yahoo Entertainment about the documentary's contingency plan.

Free Leonard Peltier,” a persuasively well-researched and often infuriating documentary about the American Indian Movement activist convicted nearly a half-century ago of killing two FBI agents, had ...

Directors Jesse Short Bull and David France have diligently assembled a potent history lesson reaffirming William Faulkner’s warning: ‘The past is never dead. It’s not even past.’ It’s ...

The American Indian Studies Minor gathers an understanding and examines the history, culture, politics, and issues of indigenous peoples in North America. We embrace a holistic, collaborative approach ...

Ahmed, a film scholar with a PhD from the University of Manchester, has curated major programs including the “Not Just Bollywood” season and recently organized Indian cinema showcases at ...