Vision Maker Media Celebrates 4 New Films by, about Native Americans, Alaska Natives

Vision Maker Media Celebrates 4 New Films by, about Native Americans, Alaska Natives

Vision Maker Media (visionmakermedia.org) is celebrating four new films in its library, continuing their tradition as the premier source of public media by and about Native Americans and Alaska Natives for 45 years. Without a Whisper explores the untold story of how Indigenous women influenced the early suffragists in their fight for freedom and equality. Blood Memory follows the untold history of America’s Indian Adoption Era when nearly one-third of children were removed from tribal communities nationwide. As political scrutiny over Indian child welfare intensifies, a survivor of the Adoption Era helps others find their way home through song and ceremony.

Also added recently was Sisters Rising, which is the story of six Native women fighting to heal their society crippled for far too long by violence against Indigenous women in the United States. Finally, Vision Maker Media has added Chasing Voices to its library. It is the extraordinary life’s journey of controversial ethnographer John Peabody Harrington, who compiled well over 1 million pages of notes about more than 100 different Native American languages during his 50-year career.

Vision Maker Media is a nonprofit established in 1976 with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Nebraska Educational Television (NET). Their mission is to empower and engage Native people to share their stories. Find airings of these four films in your area by checking your local PBS listings, or visiting pbs.org/tv_schedules/. Learn about Vision Maker Media’s full collection of high-quality films by visiting visionmakermedia.org.