What Was Ours

Streaming video - 2016

An Eastern Shoshone elder and two Northern Arapaho youth living on the Wind River Indian Reservation attempt to learn why thousands of ancestral artifacts are in the darkness of underground archives of museums and churches, boxed away and forgotten. Like millions of indigenous people in many parts of the world, they do not control their own material culture. It is being preserved, locked away, by ‘outsiders’ who themselves do not know what they have. These beautiful ancestral objects — drums, pipes, eagle wing fans, medicine bags, weapons, and ceremonial attire — are far from home, their meaning slowly being lost to time. Should tribes attempt to bring them back? Many want to, including our three main characters. But why do they wan...t them back? What answers do they seek from these artifacts? How can they take control of their own past? Is recovering what’s lost even possible anymore?

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Genres
Documentary films
Published
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Vision Maker Media 2016.
2022.
Language
English
Other Authors
Mat Hames (film director)
Online Access
A Kanopy streaming video
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Title from title frames.
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In Process Record.
Physical Description
1 online resource (streaming video file) (80 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).