FEATURED WORKS

Works selected by videomakers from the indigenous communities that hosted VAI in Mexico, along with staff from the Film and Video Center of the National Museum of the American Indian.

• Corn is Who we Are: Pueblo Indian Food
  
• Cowtipping: the Militant Waiter
  
• Haircuts Hurt
  
• High Horse
  
• Hocak Ecology
  
• In Whose Honor?
  
• It Starts with a Whisper
  
• Lighting the Seventh Fire
  
• Qullig
  
• Stolen Waters
  
• Tenacity
• A Video Book

TOUR SCHEDULE

All programs were introduced in English and Spanish by Native directors from the United States. All videos were subtitled or dubbed into Spanish from English and indigenous languages.

Michoacán

August 16 - 17, 6 - 9 pm
Casa Natal de Morelos, Calle Corregidora esq. García Obeso 133, Col. Centro, Morelia.

August 18, 6 - 8 pm
Casa Para el Arte y la Cultura, Paracho.

August 19, 6 - 8 pm
Hospital del Pueblo, Santa Fé de la Laguna.

Morelos

August 21, 6 - 9 pm
Casa de Maximiliano. Calle Matamoros 14, Col. Acapatzingo, Cuernavaca.

August 22, 6 - 8 pm
Auditorio, Tepoztlán.

Oaxaca

August 24 and 30, 8 - 10 pm
Centro Fotográfico Alvarez Bravo, Calle Murguía 302, Col. Centro, Oaxaca City.

August 25
Community screening at Zapotec village Soledad Salinas, Quiatoni.

August 26
Community screening at Mixe village San Juan Guichicovi.

August 27
Community screening at Mazatec village Las Margaritas Soyaltepec.

August 29
Community screening at Zapotec village of Teotlaxco.

US PARTICIPANTS

• Beverly Singer (Tewa-Navajo)
  
• Daryl Lonetree (Hocak-Iowa-Dakota)
  
• Marlon White Eagle (Hocak)
  
• Randy Redroad (Cherokee)

ORGANIZATIONS

• The Film and Video Center (FVC) of the National Museum of the American Indian
• Centro de Video Indígena - Oaxaca
  
• Centro de Video Indígena - Morelia
  
• Proyecto Transferencia de Medios a Comunidades y Organizaciones Indígenas, INI (now Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas-CDI)
  

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Regional participants and selectors:

• Estela Dolores Aldeco (Mazatec)
  
• Jorge Emilio Castellanos (Zapotec)
  
• Dante Cerano Bautista (P'urhépecha)
  
• Héctor Cruz Sandoval (Driki)
  
• Aldo González Rojas (Zapotec)
  
• Guillermo Hernández (Nahua)
  
• Francisco Limeta (Zapotec)
  
• Cirenio López Simón (Totonac)
  
• Esther López Vázquez (Zapotec)
  
• Carlos Martínez Martínez (Zapotec)
  
• José Luis Matías Alonso (Nahua)
  
• Raúl Máximo Cortés (P'urhépecha)
  
• Abel Montes Ríos (Zapotec)
  
• Santiago Ortela (Mazatec)
  
• Gracia Peña (P'urhépecha)
  
• María Santiago Ruiz (Zapotec)
  
• Valente Soto (P'urhépecha)
  
• Ramón Torres (P'urhépecha)
  
• Mario Vidal (Nahua)

Credits:

• Photos courtesy of: Film and Video Center, NMAI
  
• Video America Indígena Tour Staff
  Senior Advisor: Elizabeth Weatherford
  Latin American Specialist: Carol Kalafatic (Quechua/Spanish/Croatian)
  Project Coordinator: Erica Wortham
  Regional Coordinators:
  José Luis Vázquez (Mexico City)
  Javier Sámano Chong (Michoacán)
  Elsa Margarita Peña (Morelos)
  Juan José García (Oaxaca)
  Guillermo Monteforte (Oaxaca)

Funders:

• US-Mexico Fund for Culture
  
• National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution
  
• Instituto Nacional Indigenista

Image credit: Randy Redroad (Cherokee) and Erica Wortham with P’urépecha community members in Michoacán. NMAI’s Video América Indígena tour, Mexico 1998. Courtesy of the Film and Video Center of Smithsonian’s NMAI.; Beverly Singer (Tewa/Diné) at the Centro de Video Indígena of Michoacán. NMAI’s Video América Indígena tour, Mexico 1998. Courtesy of the Film and Video Center of Smithsonian’s NMAI.; Daryl Lonetree (Hochak) in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca. NMAI’s Video América Indígena tour, Mexico 1998. Courtesy of the Film and Video Center of Smithsonian’s NMAI.