If you have Netflix, I recommend watching "Reel Injuns".

[Lydia Leftcoast]

4. Native peoples around the world have been subjected to many of the same indignities

Once Were Warriors was a powerful film and well worth seeing. When I saw it at a Portland Film Festival, the audience gasped with one voice when they realized what the oldest daughter was going to do after being raped.

Another one, again showing the effects of colonization on Native peoples, is the difficult-to-find Australian movie The Fringe Dwellers. It concerns an Aboriginal family living in a small town. At the time, I was dating an Australian, and I asked him if he felt that the racism of the white townspeople had been overplayed. His opinion was that people in that part of Australia (he had some idea where the film was taking place) were MORE racist than portrayed in the film.