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Sackheim, 1996), which all resulted from collaborations between prominent Native writers (N. Scott Momaday [Kiowa], Gerald Vizenor [Anishinaabe], Thomas King [Cherokee], and Greg Sarris [Pomo/Miwok], respectively) and non-Native directors. 36 In 18 | “ INDIANS WATCHING INDIANS ” terms of Smoke Signals’s own production, the proximity of the Spokane and Coeur d’Alene homelands to Canada calls our attention to First Nations nationhood and cinema history. Most of the lead actors in Smoke Signals are Canadian First Nations, including Tantoo Cardinal, Adam Beach, Evan Adams, and Gary Farmer.

In the 1970s, Trudell’s work as an activist spokesperson conveyed aim’s new ability to amplify 22 | “ INDIANS WATCHING INDIANS ” 2. John Trudell as dj Randy Peone, in the k-rez Radio studio trailer. 3. Thomas Builds-the-Fire’s portable radio. Native public speech with mass media, making the organization’s political goals reverberate on the national and global stage. S. 42 In 1979, shortly after Trudell burned an American flag on the steps of the fbi building in Washington dc during a protest, a suspicious arson fire destroyed his house on the Shoshone Paiute reservation in Duck Valley, Nevada, killing his young family.

Enormous challenges remain at levels of funding, training, infrastructure, technological resources, licensing, broadcast time, distribution, and language. Despite these ongoing problems, a range of institutions have worked to support the surge in global Indigenous documentary, experimental, and feature filmmaking in the last quarter of the twentieth century in each of these areas. Notably, the emergence of film festivals to curate and host screenings of new work, as well as organizations such as the napt in the United States; the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (aptn), National Film Board (nfb), and ibc of Canada; the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (caama) of Australia; and Maori Television of Aotearoa/New Zealand, have contributed to a dynamic, structurally layered Indigenous film world.

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