NAPT shares Native stories with the world through support of the creation, promotion and distribution of Native media. With funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Ford Foundation, NAPT provides project funding and distribution services to independent producers of video and audio content. See samples of what we've produced over the last 30 years as well as upcoming releases. Finished works are distributed to the public broadcasting system, on the internet, and through our on-line catalog.
The Native Nations Institute film Return of the Red Lake Walleye chronicles the extraordinary effort of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians—working together with the State of Minnesota and the federal government—to bring back the culturally vital walleye from the brink of extinction and restore it to health in Red Lake.
Get a sneak-peek look at each of NAPT's films scheduled to be broadcasted on PBS in 2012. Trailers shown include Grab, Standing Bear's Footsteps, Smokin' Fish, Up Heartbreak Hill, and Racing the Rez.
Meet Ross, a horse from the Navajo reservation. Hear his story and share his thoughts as he explains the very essence of being a horse.
Moving beyond stereotypes of the past and present, Racing the Rez tells the complex story of contemporary life on the Navajo Nation--America's largest Indian Reservation--from the perspective of two high school boys' cross country teams.
http://visionmaker.org/festival - This year the VisionMaker Film Festival will have social media friendly screenings, including Apache 8. NAPT will also be Skyping in the Film Maker for the Sat Oct 1 screening http://nativetelecom.org/events/2011/10/shimasani_and_apache_8_screening
http://visionmaker.org/festival - This year the VisionMaker Film Festival will have social media friendly screenings, including Standing Bear's Footsteps. Post comments on our Facebook page or tweet using the #VMFF2011 hashtag to start a dialogue with filmmakers and other attendees of the film festival.
Growing Native – Celebrating Tribal Cultures and Traditional Ways. A Public Television Film Production. Promotional Trailer, featuring Santa Clara Pueblo artist Roxanne Swentzell with host, film director Chris Eyre (Cheyenne & Arapaho); produced by Beverly Morris (Aleut) at KNME in Albuquerque, N.M. NAPT employed a Native crew in this production. From the trailer, “Roxanne founded The Flowering Tree Institute to promote and practice sustainable methods of agriculture. Roxanne’s passions includ...
The Traditional Native American Farmers Association, also known as TNAFA, held its 16th Annual Indigenous Sustainable Communities Design Course July 2011, in collaboration with Hopi Tutskwa Permaculture in Northern Arizona. TNAFA has been working since 1992 to increase the Native community's interest in agriculture, especially the youth. Instructor Lilian Hill taught a natural building workshop on the Hopi Reservation, where agricultural methods date back as far as the 1500s. ISCD students lea...
The World Series of Stickball is an annual event in Philadelphia, Mississippi where stickball players from around the country come to compete. Jake, an Oklahoma Choctaw player, hopes to defeat the Nukoachi stickball team. Stickball has given Jake, and many others the opportunity to connect with cultural traditions of their tribes.
Narrated by national award-winning journalist Bill Kurtis, "Will Rogers and American Politics" explores the life and political persuasion of Oklahoma's favorite son through the eyes of great Americans such as Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Mickey Rooney, Cherokee Chief Chad Smith, comedian Lewis Black and many others. Will's words and musings influence the American political landscape through some of our nation's most difficult times in the 1920's and 1930's and the still have a po...