November is Native American Heritage Month

NATIVE REPORT
Thursday Nights, 8:30 p.m. 

Native Report, now in its fourth season, highlights stories of success and challenge coming from our sovereign Indian nations. This series celebrates art, culture and heritage, listens to tribal elders, and features some of our most influential and prominent leaders of Indian Country today.

INDEPENDENT LENS “March Point”
Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 9 p.m. 

March Point follows the journey of three troubled teens from the Swinomish Tribe who have been asked to make a film about the threat their people face from two local oil refineries. In the late 1950s, the refineries were built on March Point, an area that was once part of the Swinomish reservation by treaty. March Point is the story of three boys awakening to the destruction these refineries have wrought in their communities. Ambivalent environmental ambassadors at the onset, the boys grapple with their assignment through humor, sarcasm and a candid self-knowledge. As the filmmaking evolves, they begin to experience the need to understand and tell their stories and the power of this process to change their lives. 

To learn more about the film and the issues, visit the companion website for March Point (pbs.org/marchpoint). Get detailed information about the film, watch preview clips, read an interview with the filmmakers and explore the subject in depth with links and resources. The site also features a Talkback section for viewers to share their ideas and opinions.

WE SHALL REMAIN
Premieres April 2009 

From PBS’ acclaimed history series, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, in association with Native American Public Television, comes WE SHALL REMAIN, a groundbreaking miniseries and provocative multimedia project. Five 90-minute documentaries spanning three hundred years tell the story of pivotal moments in U.S. history from the Native-American perspective. 

The companion Web site (pbs.org/weshallremain) will provide video trailers of all five films, production bios, episode descriptions, testimonials from partners and a behind-the-scenes feature and will highlight the ReelNative project and key contemporary Native issues, languages and cultures. A series teacher’s guide will provide suggestions for active learning and support the integration of Native history into social studies standards-based curricula. After broadcast, all five WE SHALL REMAIN films, nearly eight hours, will be streamed.