THIS IS INDIAN COUNTRY with Billy Frank Jr. is the Emmy Award-winning television series produced by Baby Wild Films. An extraordinary group of leaders have joined a "Legacy Project" to complete the series and keep Billy's remarkable spirit alive.
This Is Indian Country explores Climate change which is probably the biggest crisis the world faces today – and this is the front line. With every wave that comes in from the Arctic Sea up here, a piece of Native Alaska goes with it.
This emmy award-winning television series Special documents Billy Frank Jr's travels to Native Alaskan villages still reeling from the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, visiting subsistence hunting grounds and sacred sites still stuck in the muck of persistent and toxic oil.
Gwich'in Nation leader Bernadette Demientieff together with veteran government caribou scientist Ken Whitten share this powerful and personal essay on izhik Gwats'an Gwandaii Goodlit, "the Sacred Place Where Life Begins," Alaska's endangered Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
In this fourth special in the series THIS IS INDIAN COUNTRY finishes the story Billy started - Climate action and resiliency among the Pacific Northwest’s first people, led by habitat protection and restoration. While the non-Native world continues to fiddle while Rome burns, the tribes are taking action, saving the lifeways of their people and all of us. Because they have to
Countless programs have traveled to Hawai’i; this may be the first to actually visit The Nation of Hawai’i. It’s an extraordinary journey to Paradise, a look at how that Paradise was lost… and how people like Bumpy Kanahele and Emmett Aluli are fighting to find it again.
The Miccosukee number only about 550 members, but their influence resounds throughout the region. And much of that has to do with Chief William Buffalo Tiger.
This episode traces the trials and tribulations of a remote Indian tribe determined to save its culture. The Makah Nation is the only whaling people in the Lower 48, a treaty right secured in 1855 in exchange for much of what is now the spectacular Olympic National Park.
Low-stakes gambling has always been a part of American Indian culture. Now, the stakes are as high as they come. Indian gaming is now a $25 billion-a-year industry that has transformed some impoverished tribes into major financial and political players in their communities.
This spectacular, unprecedented special takes viewers to the southernmost human-habitated place on Earth, the archipelago of Tierra del Fuego, the last frontier of Chile and Argentina.
This final installment in the This Is Indian Country series by Baby Wild Films is a very special history lesson – as only Billy Frank Jr. could've given. Billy was a Nisqually Indian. All his life he’d been hearing and passing along the story of the hanging of the greatest Nisqually of all – Leschi.
The story of a young man from Lakota Nation who comes to
the Pacific Northwest to visit his Coastal Salish relatives. During his visit,
he experiences many things and learns much about salmon and the
Northwest environment. He witnesses the annual Canoe Journey and
helps respond to an oil spill in the river.
Emmy Award for Billy Frank Jr. for “Outstanding On-Air Host or Moderator” for THIS IS INDIAN COUNTRY With Billy Frank Jr.: Native Alaska & The Big Spill
Emmy Award Nominations for Michael Harris for "Oustanding Documentary - Cultural" / THIS IS INDIAN COUNTRY With Billy Frank Jr.: REFUGE; for Kevin Ely and Kirk Miller for "Outstanding Photography - Program" / THIS IS INDIAN COUNTRY With Billy Frank Jr.: Native Alaska & The Big Spill; and for Michael Harris for "Outstanding Documentary - Cultural" / THIS IS INDIAN COUNTRY With Billy Frank Jr.: The Iñupiat, Hanging On at the Top of the World
Michael Harris was a co-recipient with Michael Robinson-Dorn and the Kathy & Steve Berman Environmental Law Clinic at the University of Washington for the prestigious National Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) Award of Excellence in a Public Interest Case or Project, for their combined efforts to provide legal assistance and help photo-document the successful campaign of 187 tribes in Native Alaska to push the State and the U.S. Government to call on Exxon to pay up in Prince William Sound. The resulting film was Michael's critically acclaimed feature-length documentary, THE 3RD TRUSTEE: Native Alaska & The Big Spill, repackaged as the premiere special of THIS IS INDIAN COUNTRY With Billy Frank Jr.
Common Cause Award (1985), for his human rights efforts Washington State
Environmental Excellence Award (1987), on behalf of the State Ecological Commission and other tribes
American Indian Distinguished Service Award (1989)
Martin Luther King, Jr. Distinguished Service Award (1990), for humanitarian achievement
Albert Schweitzer Prize (1992), for humanitarianism
American Indian Visionary Award (2004), from Indian Country Today for “Exceptional Contributions to Indian American Freedom"
Nominated by U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye for Nobel Peace Prize (2010)
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