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  1. 6 days ago · September 27, 2024. Directed by Sydney Freeland, ‘ Rez Ball ‘ is a sports drama revolving around the exploits of the Chuska Warriors, a Native American high school basketball team, whose efforts to win the State Championship are hampered when their star player, Nataanii Jackson, passes away. His death has a rippling effect on the team’s ...

  2. 9 hours ago · In a newly released movie released on Netflix, an all-Indigenous high school basketball team on the Navajo Nation is reclaiming Native imagery on their sports jerseys. Rez Ball follows the Chuska Warriors as they deal with issues that disproportionately affect Indigenous communities, including suicide and alcoholism.

  3. 3 days ago · The film follows Jimmy Holiday as he leads the Chuska Warriors to victory after the loss of his best friend. With the team shaken by grief, they must find a way to overcome their struggles, both ...

  4. 2 days ago · Director Warwick Thornton (Samson & Delilah, The New Boy) has been announced as director of First Warrior, an upcoming feature film about Australian Aboriginal resistance fighter Pemulwuy. A Bidjigal man of the Sydney tribes, Pemulwuy led a 12-year resistance against British settlers moving into his people's traditional lands after Australia ...

  5. 5 days ago · The Sioux and Cheyenne fighters were acutely aware of the danger posed by the military engagement of non-combatants and that "even a semblance of an attack on the women and children" would draw the warriors back to the village, according to historian John S. Gray. [57] Such was their concern that an apparent reconnaissance by Capt ...

  6. 3 days ago · First-time filmmaker Noel Joe created the new documentary, 'The Forgotten Warriors,' which tells the story of the 1983 Miawpukek hunger strike. (Jessica Singer/CBC) For Noel Joe, the work of the ...

  7. Sep 17, 2024 · Documentary. Society. News & Current Affairs. This film contains scenes discussing residential schools, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, suicide, and police violence. Viewer discretion is advised. Yintah follows Witsuwit’en leaders for over a decade as they fight to protect their lands from fossil-fuel companies. Sign in to Watch. Trailer.