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that thrived in Portland, before WWI, and how it gradually became one of the worst
places, outside of the South, to be black in the United States.

WHITE SHAMANS AND PLASTIC MEDICINE MEN, Produced by Native
Voices Public Television 28 minutes
White Shamans and Plastic Medicine Men is a thoughtful critique of the appropriation of Native
American culture and spirituality by white new age people who make a living and lifestyle from
using and selling indigenous spiritual ritual and symbols.

FEAR AND LEARNING AT HOOVER ELEMENTARY, Directed by Laura
Angelica Simón (1997) 1 hour
Fear and Learning is a rich video that explores the ramification of the passage of Proposition
187, a ballot measure passed in California in 1996 which denies public education and health care to
undocumented immigrants. Based on her experience as a teacher at Hoover Elementary School in
Los Angeles, Simón interviews teachers, students and parents to examine both the individual and
community impacts of social policy that perpetrates racism through stereotypes, exclusion and
denial of resources.

CONSCIENCE AND THE CONSTITUTION, Produced by Frank Abe is
association with the Independent Television Service (2001) 1 hour
During World War II, Japanese American’s were put in concentration camps in the U.S. Draft age
men from the camps were subsequently drafted to serve in the U.S. military. Many young men
resisted the draft on the basis that they and their families were unconstitutionally incarcerated.
Conscience and the Constitution tells the story of the draft resisters from the concentration
camps, to the largest draft resistance trial in U.S. history, to incarceration in a federal
penitentiary to present day struggles to uncover this history.

IN THE LIGHT OF REVERENCE, Directed by Christopher McLeod, (2001) 73
minutes
Across the U.S., Native Americans are struggling to protect their sacred places. Religious
freedom, so valued in America, is not guaranteed to those who practice land-based religion. In
the Light of Reverence tells the story of three indigenous communities and the lands they
struggle to protect: the Lakota of the Great Plains, the Hopi of the Four Corners area, and the
Wintu of northern California.

KE KULANA HE MAHU: REMBERING A SENSE OF PLACE, Directed by
Kathryn Xian and Brent Anbe, (2001) 67 minutes
The award-winning documentary film, "Ke Kulana He Mahu," takes us on a historical journey as
scholars and oral traditionalists illustrate what life and culture was like in the Hawaiian Islands
for the Mahu (transgendered individuals). The journey also leads the audience through present
day culture and society to see first hand how colonization and modernization have affected the
spirits of Hawai‘i’s people.

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