Browse Films

In this stereotype-breaking documentary about the meaning of tradition and change people speak frankly about the challenges they face balancing their lives in two cultures. A young drummer and dancer guides tourists through a museum, a silver carver/disc jockey talks about his love both of rock and roll and traditional carving, and a Tlingit elder teaches children at a summer fish camp. A Matter of Respect portrays a diverse group of people expressing their culture and identity and honoring their ancestors way of life through teaching language, harvesting and preparing traditional foods, restoring community cemeteries and dancing, carving and weaving.

Nancy McCray
Booklist
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Nancy Putnam

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Ideal for discussion, shows people are in the twentieth century, yet have history and it's alive and well.
Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Richard Dauenhauer
Sealaska Heritage Foundation

A MATTER OF RESPECT has practical significance for achieving a more harmonious life in our culturally diverse communities.
Richard K. Nelson
Anthropologist and Author, Make Prayers to the Raven

AWARDS & SCREENINGS:

• Silver Apple, National Educational Film and Video Festival
• Finalist, Athens International Film Festival
• Honorable Mention, Society for Visual Anthropology
• Bilingual Multicultural Equity Conference
• Two Rivers Native Film and Video Festival
• American Indian Film and Video Festival

Resource Web Sites

Index of Native American Resources on the Internet

The Tlingit of the Northwest Coast