Shamanic Visions: Forgotten Territories

A young woman's story of possession and healing in rural Rajasthan

Traditional Northwestern Indigenous spiritual images combined with cutting-edge computer animation in this surreal short film about the power of...

In this documentary film a team of researchers examine the social contexts that influenced the emergence and permanence of heavy metal music in...

"The Ninth Island" tells the story of Hawaii’s indigenous population and its struggles to stay connected to its ancestral home.

Concerned about the declining health of people all around them, Native American women are sparking physical and spiritual rejuvenation through...

What does blood have to do with identity? Kendra Mylnechuk, an adult Native adoptee, born in 1980 at the cusp of the enactment of the Indian Child...

Combining archival photos with new and found footage, this short film presents a personal, impressionistic rendering of what it's like growing up...

An intimate and thrilling portrait of a young Siksika woman and the deep bonds between her father and family in the golden plains of Blackfoot...

A documentary essay on coming of age and the power of the unconscious. In the same vein as Sweatlodge Song, this is a message of courage and hope.

This feature-length documentary by Alanis Obomsawin examines the plight of Native people who come to Montreal searching for jobs and a better life....

Salvia Divinorum is an often misunderstood and powerful psychedelic plant used by the Mazatec shamans in southern Mexico for centuries. This...

Xapiri is a Yanomami term that characterizes the shamans, male spirits (xapiri thëpë) and also auxiliary spirits (xapiri pë). Xapiri...