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![Navajo/Dine: the Weaving Project, No. 2](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1992Call Number: V 381Format: VHSProducers: Trella LaughlinCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Since 1974 the US government has tried to remove 10,000 Dine/Navajo from their ancestral lands to make profits of the huge amount of energy resources they possess. Marsha Gomez discusses the Weaving Project which aims to sell Navajo rugs made by the traditional weavers of the Joint Use and Big Mountain Area. Rug sales help restore self-sufficiency and sovereignty of the Dine/Navajo peoples and supports the women and their families in their resistance to the US government’s policy of forced relocation.
![Broken Rainbow](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 2/1/1992Call Number: V 382Format: VHSProducers: Trella LaughlinCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Documentary about the resistance by the Navajo and Hopi nations against forced relocation, genocide and white supremacy. Also about their struggle to repeal a 1974 law calling for their removal from the site of a massive strip mine run by Peabody Western Coal Company.
![Winona LaDuke - From Genocide to Resistance: The Next 500 Years](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 4/21/1992Call Number: CE 485Format: Cass A & BProgram: Alternative RadioCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Winona LaDuke, Native American activist, environmentalist juxtaposes two concepts of Native American life (time is cyclical and reciprocity) with two concepts in industrial thinking (time as timeline and capitalism). She speaks in response to the quincentennial celebration of Columbus' arrival to the "new world." LaDuke calls for recognition of the "holocaust" of the Native American people and cites statistics relating to the mistreatment of indigenous populations, such as using their land as toxic waste dumps.
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