Fwd: American Indian Film Gallery online -- free

[Rudy Troike]

Just a quick note to inform you that the AMERICAN INDIAN FILM GALLERY has
reached a milestone: its 400th film is now online. More are on the way.  And it
remains totally free to view and download: no registration, no fees, no hidden
agenda.  The website is located at: www.aifilmgallery.com

   The AIFG website offers access to educational movies about native peoples
residing from the Arctic Circle to the southern tip of Chile.  Its purpose is
to present students of the American Indian easy access to educational motion
pictures from the past in hopes of expanding academic pursuits aand promoting
personal enlightenment.

   Here you will find a diversity of motion pictures focusing on almost 100
tribes.  There are feature films that include BEFORE THE WHITE MAN CAME, a
Western movie with an all-Indian cast (Crow and Northern Cheyenne) made in
Montana in 1918.

   There are educational shorts ranging from school films on individual tribes
such as the Hopi, Navajo, Apache, and Havasupai, to TV adventure programs that
take viewers into the lives of such South American peoples as the Jivaro,
Colorado, and Aymara.

   The AIFG offers a wonderful collection of recent documentaries about the
Yu'pik-speaking Eskimo people of sub-Arctic Southwestern Alaska.  And in The
American Indian Videotape Archive there are more than 200 amateur films made by
Native American filmmakers as part of the U.S. Bicentennial observances in 1976.

   Ever expanding, the AMERICAN INDIAN FILM GALLERY is a rich resource for
teachers.  Educators have praised its mission.  Already several universities
have integrated its resources into course work.

   Please visit us at: www.aifilmgallery.com

J. Fred MacDonald
Professor Emeritus of History
CEO, MacDonald & Associates
5660 North Jersey Avenue
Chicago, IL  60659
773-267-9899
www.jfredmacdonald.com