Amá = mother / Dartmouth Films ; Raindog Films presents ; a Raindog Films production ; in association with Bedlam Productions ; a Lorna Tucker film ; directed by Lorna Tucker ; producers, [Lorna Tucker], Ged Doherty, Colin Firth, Nuala O' Leary, co-producer Andrea Vecchiato ; [screenwriter, Lorna Tucker].
Publisher:
Bullfrog Films,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
1 videodisc (74 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
This disc is a DVD-R and may fail to play on some equipment. Participants, Jean Whitehorse, Reimert Ravenholt. Title from title frame.
Contents:
Credtis. Prologue : Conclusion and action. -- 2. Stories are passed down the generations -- 3. Hidden history of the Navajo -- 4. Horror of the boarding school -- 5. [Dr. Reimart Ravenholt] : Doctor "birth control" and his vision -- 6. Forced relocation of Native Americans -- 7. Jean's politcal awakening -- 8. Birth control program is cranked up -- 9. Jean is sterilized -- 10. Scale of involuntary sterilization -- 11. Importance of the community organization -- 12. Women speak out and find some healing -- 13. Native tribes stand together -- 14. Legacies -- 15. Conclusion and action. -- 16. Credtis.
Summary:
Amá tells an important and untold story: the abuses committed against Native American women by the US Government during the 1960s and 70s. The women were removed from their families and sent to boarding schools. They were subjected to forced relocation away from their traditional lands and, perhaps worst of all, they were subjected to involuntary sterilization. The result of nine years painstaking and sensitive work by filmmaker Lorna Tucker, the film features the testimony of many Native Americans, including three remarkable women who tell their stories - Jean Whitehorse, Yvonne Swan and Charon Aseytoyer - as well as a revealing and rare interview with Dr. Reimart Ravenholt whose population control ideas were the framework for some of the government policies directed at Native American women.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.