Topic: Native American

Energy production on native lands is polluting the reservation and leaving poverty in its dirty shadow.

"It was obviously the dirtiest coal-fired plant in the West."

The Black Mesa and Kayenta mines became the largest coal strip-mining complex in the world.

"Water has the power to take life and to give life. If you don't respect it, you might find yourself in a serious situation."

An exceptional young man chooses to learn his native language and plans one day to lead his tribe.

Most Indians don't ride horses or wear feathers, but in the movies they always do.

On Will Sampson's performance in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

"After playing the bonehead savage for so many years, the Navajo get their sweet revenge."

Dances With Wolves- fleshed out characters or same old stereotypes?

Three decades ago, two Crow Indian adoptees died after running away. No one knew why.

Chris Billing discusses the challenges he faced investigating his own family's past.

Embodying two spirits

Gender as a spectrum, not a divide

Striving to be accepted, not tolerated

"This is how I'm gonna be"

Gay rights pioneer Harry Hay strongly identified with the traditions of the nadleehi.

Role models can make all the difference in a young person's life.

Fred's mother turned her loss into a personal mission to help other kids like her son.

Jessie Little Doe Baird, a Wampanoag linguist, helps her tribe revive its mother tongue.

Jessie Little Doe describes her initial resistance to working with a white linguist.

The Wampanoag people are recovering ancestral stories and writing original songs in their language.

A new generation is breathing life into what was once thought to be a lost language.

Though their ethnicities are mixed, the Wampanoag take pride in their tribal heritage.

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Follow Robin Charboneau as she struggles to raise two young children while coping with the wounds of abuse.

David Sutherland on the "magic" of filmmaking.

Alien beings offer a chance at a survival — but at a great cost.