COMMUNITY: ENVIRONMENT IS SACRED

Vision Maker Media’s second 45th Anniversary event presents "commUNITY: Environment is Sacred" a free month-long celebration of International Earth Day from April 1-30, 2021. Join us for these on-demand films, a panel discussion about transforming Indigenous values into the “Rights of Nature” and a #VMMcommUNITYcleanup challenge.

SISTERS RISING NATIONAL PREMIERE

Don't miss the premiere of Sisters Rising as part of America ReFramed on WORLD Channel on April 20, 2021, at 8/7 PM CT. Sisters Rising is the story of six Native women fighting to heal a society crippled for far too long by violence against indigenous women in the United States.

CHASING VOICES NATIONAL PREMIERE

Catch the premiere of Chasing Voices on FNX on May 2, 2021! Chasing Voices tells the life journey of controversial ethnographer John Peabody Harrington.

45 YEAR ANNIVERSARY

Vision Maker Media has been the premiere source of public media by and about Native Americans for 45 years.

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celebrate 45 years with Vision Maker Media

Vision Maker Media is the premiere source of public media by and about Native Americans for 45 years. Our mission is empowering and engaging Native people to share stories. We envision a world changed and healed by understanding Native stories and the public conversations they generate. We work with VMM funded producers to develop, produce and distribute programs for all public media. VMM supports training to increase the number of American Indians and Alaska Natives producing public broadcasting programs.

Catch the premiere of Chasing Voices on @fnxtv on

Catch the premiere of Chasing Voices on @fnxtv on May 2, 2021! Chasing Voices tells the extraordinary life journey of controversial ethnographer John Peabody Harrington. Understanding languages was his gift, Harrington crisscrossed the U.S. chasing the voices of the last speakers of Native America's dying languages.
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Beginning in 1907, for the next 50 years this mission became his obsession. Growing paranoid, fearing others would steal his work, he started hiding it. Not until after his death in 1961 the extent of his work was finally revealed, as boxes and boxes of notes began arriving at the Smithsonian.
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In his 50 year career Harrington amassed over a million pages of notes on over 150 different tribal languages. Some of these languages were consider dead until his notes were discovered.
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Producer Daniel Golding states, “I quickly became aware of just how large the problem of traditional language loss is within our tribal communities. I realized that this man (John Peabody Harrington) had accomplished all this work on Native American languages yet, virtually no one has heard of him. It was as if he was purposefully left out of history.”
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Today descendants of those last speakers are now reviving their languages thanks to Harrington and the elders who trusted and spoke to him.
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Learn more about this film by visiting our film page at the link in our bio!
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#NativeLanguage #PerseveringNativeLanguage #ChasingVoices #indigenousknowledge #indigenouspride #indigenoushistory #indigenousculture #native #nativeculture #community #VMM #VisionMakerMedia #Indigenouspride #Nativepride #Indigenousheritage #Nativehistory #Indigenoushistory

Crying Earth Rise up is a story of protecting, lan

Crying Earth Rise up is a story of protecting, land, water, and a way of life. In this portrait of the human cost of uranium mining and its impact on sacred water, Debra White Plume and Elisha Yellow Thunder seek to uncover the reason behind radiation in drinking water and how to protect their families and community.
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"It's like Mother Earth against Father Greed. You're either for uranium or against it. There is no middle ground." (Debra White Plume)
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#CryingEarthRiseUp #EnvironmentIsSacred #SacredLand #SacredWater #indigenousknowledge #indigenouspride #indigenoushistory #indigenousculture #native #nativeculture #community #environment #environmentallyfriendly #ecofriendly #VMM #VisionMakerMedia

Six Native American Women journey through life as

Six Native American Women journey through life as survivors and work every day to change the world. Watch as these courageous women fight to restore personal and tribal sovereignty.
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Catch the premiere of @Sistersrisingmovie on @WORLDChannel's #AmericaReframed on April 20th.
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(CW/TW: Sexual assault)
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#WORLDChannel #AmericaReFramed #VMM #VisionMakerMedia #Native #Indigenous #NativePride #IndigenousPride #NativeWomen #IndigenousWomen #SistersRising #TribalSovereignty #premiere

Follow along as host Chris Eyre (Cheyenne Arapaho)

Follow along as host Chris Eyre (Cheyenne Arapaho) explores the Pacific Northwest in Growing Native: Coast Salish. On this adventure, Chris revisits ancient connection to the water, experiences traditional and contemporary arts and meets tribe members that are bringing a traditional root, camas, back to harvest.
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Watch for free as part of #CommUNITY: Environment is Sacred on our website today! Link in bio.
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#earthday #earthday2021 #happyearthday #earthday🌎 #indigenous #indigenousknowledge #indigenouspride #indigenoushistory #indigenousculture #native #nativeculture #community #environment #environmentallyfriendly #ecofriendly #VMM #VisionMakerMedia #CoastSalish #GrowingNative #CheyenneArapaho

It’s not surprising that Indigenous Peoples are

It’s not surprising that Indigenous Peoples are at the forefront of a growing movement to acknowledge the legal “Rights of Nature.”
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Rights of Nature is a growing global movement to transform Indigenous values into enforceable laws that can protect the planet for all life. Indigenous environmental leaders share their approaches to adopting Rights of Nature into tribal governance for protecting Mother Earth and Indigenous rights.
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Join a live Zoom panel discussion on April 20, 2021 at 6 PM/CT to hear more about this mission from @bioneers
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Register and learn more at the link in our bio!
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#earthday #earthdayeveryday #earthday2021 #happyearthday #earthday🌎
#indigenousknowledge #indigenouspride #indigenoushistory #indigenousculture #native #nativeculture #community #environment #environmentallyfriendly #ecofriendly #VMM #VisionMakerMedia
#VMMcommUNITYCleanup

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