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Seeking the spirit plains Indians in Russia
Title
Seeking the spirit [electronic resource] : plains Indians in Russia / Warrior Women Inc. ; director, Liucija Baskauskas ; producer, Bea Medicine.
Published
Watertown, MA : Documentary Educational Resources, [1999]
Physical Description
1 streaming video (27 min.)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Documentary.
Originally filmed in 1995 and copyright in 1997.
Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2010. (Ethnographic video online). Available via World Wide Web.
English; some dialogue in Russian with English subtitles.
Society of Visual Anthropology, honorable mention
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Summary
Shows how a group of Russians and Lithuanians, predominantly couples with young children, hold a powwow outside of St. Petersburg, and the reaction of a group of Indians in South Dakota to a videotape of the powwow. Through the powwow, the Russians and Lithuanians are seeking a better way to live, and hope to impart authentic Native American values to their offspring.
Variant and related titles
Plains Indians in Russia
Ethnographic video online.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English; Russian
Added to Catalog
June 15, 2010
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