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The Native American Voices video project, completed in 2011, was conducted by exhibition curator Lucy Fowler Williams with support from the Annenberg Foundation and Gregory Annenberg Weingarten. Dr. Williams hired Hopi journalist, Patty Talahongva and her Phoenix based film crew, and traveled to four U.S. locations to conduct 25 first-person interviews with Native American artists, activists, scholars, and youth in their home communities. The following films highlight important issues that emerged from those discussions. Portions of these videos are presented in the Native American Voices exhibition.
Filmed at the National Museum of the American Indian and at the US Capitol Building's Statuary Hall in Washington, DC, Our Ongoing Fight for Sovereignty highlights the political efforts and accomplishments of Native American lawyers and activists in their continued quest to safeguard Native America. Highlights include landmark litigation such as Cobell v Salazar, repatriation legislation, efforts to stop the use of Indian mascots, and the US Capitol Building's statue of Pop'ay that remembers the Pueblo Revolt of 1680.
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