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Publisher
Katahdin Productions
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (30 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A short documentary about Ishi, billed in 1911 as the "last wild Indian" when he wandered out of the woods in Oroville, CA, and became a national sensation. When Ishi died, his brain was removed and sent to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. Eighty years later, his descendants in California fight to have his remains repatriated to his ancestral home. Contrary to the master narrative that Indians would die off, the film shows how Native...
Publisher
California Newsreel
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (63 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Few judges provoke the ire of conservatives more than Thelton Henderson, Senior Judge of the Federal District Court of Northern California. His career in many ways parallels the larger historic arc of the Civil Rights movement and the changing vision of government -- from Jim Crow laws to Civil Rights victories and back again with recent attacks on affirmative action. Similarly reflected are the changes and conflicts in judicial philosophy during...
Publisher
Media Arts Center San Diego
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (274 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The 4-disc collection included dozens of stories grouped within chapters, which include Japanese Internment in WWII, Racism in Our Times, Who We Are, Family Stories, Our Town, Coming to California and more."--Description from www.mediaartscenter.org website.
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