NAPT

About this original series

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.

  • # Episodes

    100 episodes

  • Rating

    TV-UN

Episodes of NAPT

    • Play The Indian Children's Place - Hintil Kuu Ca - NAPT on Blip NAPT episodes on Blip

      The Indian Children's Place - Hintil Kuu Ca

      Pomo for The Indian Children's Place, Hintil Kuu Ca is the only Native American child development center (CDC) in an urban area in California. Started in 1974, the idea originated from a school called Red Rock School created during the Alcatraz island occupation in the early 70's. It currently serves 119 children. Hintil is one of seven CDC's currently listed for closure at the end of August. Funding for early child education has been suspended due to the budget crisis in Sacramento.

      • Release date
        Aug 19, 2010
      • Runtime
        11:12
    • Play The Thick Dark Fog - NAPT on Blip NAPT episodes on Blip

      The Thick Dark Fog

      Walter Littlemoon is a 69-year-old Lakota man born and raised in Wounded Knee, South Dakota. At the age of five, he was removed from his family to attend a Federal government boarding school where his culture, language and spirituality were suppressed. The Thick Dark Fog profiles Walter's journey to heal himself and his community while reclaiming his heritage. The film's title comes from Walter's own self-diagnosis of the state-of-mind that he lived in for so many years until he began to tell ...

      • Release date
        Jan 30, 2012
      • Runtime
        02:36
    • Play Return of the Red Lake Walleye - NAPT on Blip NAPT episodes on Blip

      Return of the Red Lake Walleye

      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.

      • Release date
        Jan 17, 2012
      • Runtime
        00:31
    • Play Native Waters: A Chitimacha Recollection - NAPT on Blip NAPT episodes on Blip

      Native Waters: A Chitimacha Recollection

      The Chitimacha Indians of the Atchafalaya Basin in Louisiana are known as "the People of many waters." This documentary film project emphasizes that there are different means of knowing and remembering--and they are not mutually exclusive. The small Chitimacha Indian Tribe will offer one an alternative way of recalling Native American history.

      • Release date
        Jan 3, 2012
      • Runtime
        01:50
    • Play NAPT's 2012 Production Reel - NAPT on Blip NAPT episodes on Blip

      NAPT's 2012 Production Reel

      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.

      • Release date
        Dec 2, 2011
      • Runtime
        13:15
    • Play NAPT Horse You See Promo - NAPT on Blip NAPT episodes on Blip

      NAPT Horse You See Promo

      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.

      • Release date
        Nov 14, 2011
      • Runtime
        00:44
    • Play Racing the Rez Trailer - NAPT on Blip NAPT episodes on Blip

      Racing the Rez Trailer

      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.

      • Release date
        Nov 9, 2011
      • Runtime
        02:33
    • Play VisionMaker Film Festival Social Media Friendly Screenings - Apache 8 - NAPT on Blip NAPT episodes on Blip

      VisionMaker Film Festival Social Media Friendly ...

      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

      • Release date
        Sep 29, 2011
      • Runtime
        00:49
    • Play VisionMaker Film Festival Social Media Friendly Screenings - Standing Bear's Footsteps - NAPT on Blip NAPT episodes on Blip

      VisionMaker Film Festival Social Media Friendly ...

      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.

      • Release date
        Sep 29, 2011
      • Runtime
        00:45
    • Play NAPT Growing Native Trailer - NAPT on Blip NAPT episodes on Blip

      NAPT Growing Native Trailer

      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...

      • Release date
        Sep 16, 2011
      • Runtime
        10:07
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