American Indian Film Gallery, at The University of Arizona, available online

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American Indian Film Gallery, at The University of Arizona
Historic documentary and educational films by and about Native peoples of the Americas, online and flash videos.

The American Indian Film Gallery http://aifg.arizona.edu  is an online collection of more than 450 historic films by and about Native peoples of the Americas, compiled and digitized by historian J. Fred MacDonald over many years.  These films range in date from 1925-2010. Most date to the so-called Golden Age of educational filmmaking, from 1945 to the rise of consumer-grade video equipment in the 1970s.  Many of the films from that period were sponsored by industry or governmental agencies. Others were made by independent educational filmmakers.

With the change in technology from film to video, films in the collection shift from being about Native people to by Native peoples. Much of the work made in the last third of the 20th century comes from Indian communities themselves.

The AIFG's films were awarded to the University of Arizona (UA) in 2011 by the AIFG's founder, Dr. J. Fred Macdonald<http://aifg.arizona.edu/content/founder>. Dr. MacDonald provided the films on DVD and staff in the UA Office of Instruction and Assessment<http://oia.arizona.edu> converted those films to Flash video and MPEG4 video for streaming across platforms to play in web browsers and on Apple iOS devices such as iPads, iPhones and the iPod Touch.

In its fully-realized state, the American Indian Film Gallery will establish UA as a center for study of image and representation of Native peoples of the Americas, and will support on-going research in Southwestern and Borderlands interdisciplinary studies—serving the outreach and research missions of the University.

You will find a wide variety of lifeways, cultural practices, biographies, public presentations, governmental actions, public ceremonials, and people represented. Some films also contain audio of Native languages being spoken, chants, and songs, providing a valuable resource for language preservation.

Garry Forger

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