Gary Farmer
1) Heater
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Two homeless men (Gary Farmer, Stephen Ouimette) team up to return a stolen baseboard heater for a refund and use the money to get off the streets.
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Winter in the Blood is a hauntingly beautiful film that is true to the lyrical and unflinching spirit of James Welch's classic 1974 novel of Native American life. Virgil First Raise (Chaske Spencer, the Twilight trilogy) wakes in a ditch on the hardscrabble plains of Montana. He stumbles home to his ranch on the reservation only to learn that his wife, Agnes (Julia Jones), has left him. Worse, she's stolen his beloved rifle. Virgil sets out to find...
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One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface as Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to the police or to her husband, Bazil, and thirteen-year-old son, Joe. Increasingly alone, Joe finds himself thrust prematurely into an adult world for which he is ill prepared. While his father, who is a tribal judge,...
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"Orphans Gig and Rye Dolan don't have a penny to their names. The brothers work grueling, odd jobs each day just to secure a meal, and spend nights sleeping wherever they can with other day laborers. Twenty-three-year-old Gig is a passionate union man, fighting for fair pay and calling out the corrupt employers who exploit the working class. Eager to emulate his older brother, Rye follows suit, though he can't quite muster Gig's passion for the cause....
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Though Victor and Thomas have lived their entire young lives in the same tiny town, they couldn't have less in common! But when Victor is urgently called away, it's Thomas who comes up with the money to pay for his trip. There's just one thing Victor has to do: take Thomas along for the ride! This most unlikely pair leaves home on what becomes an unexpected adventure of friendship and discovery!
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2020.
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2 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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"The dark divide is based on the true story of renowned butterfly expert Dr. Robert Pyle's perilous 1995 journey across one of America's largest undeveloped wildlands. At the urging of his dying wife Thea, the shy author finds himself in over his head on an epic, life-changing expedition through Washington's Gifford Pinchot National Forest in search of new species of butterflies."--Container.
7) Dark wind
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p2003
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1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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The popular hero of several Tony Hillerman best-sellers, Navajo cop Jim Chee, is a student of the old ways who wanted to be a medicine man before he became a lawman. Now as a cop covering the Arizona Territories belonging to the Hopi and Navajo Indians, he's torn between both worlds. When the badly mutilated victim of a Navajo skinwalker is found on Hopi land, Chee is suddenly plunged into a world of mystery filled with drug dealers, F.B.I. agents,...
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2014
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1 videodisc (approximately 117 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Jimmy Picard, a Native American Blackfoot who fought in France during WWII, is admitted to Topeka Military Hospital in Kansas, an institution specializing in mental illness. Although he does not suffer any psychological causes for his painful symptoms, he is diagnosed as schizophrenic. Nevertheless, the hospital management decides to seek the opinion of Georges Devereux, a French anthropologist, psychoanalyst and specialist in Native American culture....
9) Heater
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[2002], 1999
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1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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On a crisp December morning, two homeless men join forces to exploit the only possession they own - an electric space heater. Without a place to plug it in, they decide to return it for a cash refund. What follows is a journey from the inner city to a suburban shopping mall, battling bitter cold, ruthless human beings, and their difficulty in clinging to one another.
10) Evergreen
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2009
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1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Living in a leaking shack on the edge of town with her mother and grandmother, fourteen-year-old Henrietta wants everything she doesn't have. After meeting Chat Turly, she believes his wealthy family is ideal, and tries desparately to become part of their family. When she can no longer ignore the severe flaws in Chat's home life, Henrietta comes to appreciate what she does have.
11) First cow
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[2020]
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1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The quiet, skilled cook Otis "Cookie" Figowitz has traveled west into Oregon with a group of aggressive fur trappers. While living in the territory, Cookie develops a friendship with the Chinese immigrant King-Lu, who's also come to Oregon to seek his fortune. Soon the two collaborate on a successful business of selling baked goods in their frontier outpost--but Cookie and Lu's business plan is dependent on stealing milk from the first cow imported...
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2021
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“A haunted work, full of voices old and new. It is about a family’s reckoning with loss and injustice, and it is about a people trying for the same. The journey of this family’s way home is full—in equal measure—of melancholy and love.” —Tommy Orange, author of There There
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In 1884, the Canadian government enacted a ban on the potlatch, the foundational ceremony of the Haida people. The tradition, which determined social structure, transmitted cultural knowledge, and redistributed wealth, was seen as a cultural impediment to the government's aim of assimilation.
The tradition did not die, however, the knowledge of the ceremony was kept alive by the Elders through other events until the ban was lifted. In 1969, a potlatch...
14) Intervention
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Mark, porn star-turned-producer, is addicted to alcohol, drugs, gambling and sex; Joe is a Kiwi comedian with a drink problem; Sara is a former model, and recovering heroin addict with anger and food issues; and Harry is a prescription drug addict from a privileged family. Under the treatment of Counselors Bill (COLM FEORE) and his wife Kelly (ANDIE MACDOWELL), the weekend of group therapy results in a series of highly entertaining emotional and physical...
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Red Road volume 2
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Kopus becomes the focal point for suspicion and rage from the tribe. Harold protects Junior.
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Red Road volume 4
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Harold is surprised by an unexpected but fortunate turn of events. Junior and Marie argue.
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Red Road volume 3
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Marie meets with the Tribal Council to discuss the issue of a casino, which Sky is opposed to.
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Red Road volume 5
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Harold makes a discovery in an abandoned mine. Kopus goes to Junior's campsite but finds it burning
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Red Road volume 5
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Kopus heads to Brooklyn armed with new knowledge, while Jean makes a bold decision.