Post by blackcrowheart on Nov 25, 2006 10:57:04 GMT -5
Program: A SEAT AT THE DRUM Series: INDIAN COUNTRY DIARIES
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Length: 86 min. Air Times:
11/7/2006 at 2:30 AM [KLRN Channel 9 / KLRN-DT 9.1]
www.klrn.org/Programming/ViewProgram.aspx?ProgramID=139813
<http://www.klrn.org/Programming/ViewProgram.aspx?ProgramID=139813>
Program Description In "A Seat at the Drum", journalist Mark
Anthony Rolo (Bad River Ojibwe) seeks to learn how Native Americans in
Los Angeles preserve a tribal identity, survive economically and cope
with the pressures of assimilation in a challenging metropolis. His
personal quest to come to terms with these issues leads him to meet
Native community leaders, Indians relocated from reservations, boarding
school students, Native business leaders and single parent families
whose stories typify the experiences of urban Indians. As these
characters tell how Indians in Los Angeles create community and retain a
connection to their tribes; choose whether their language and traditions
are relevant in the modern world; cope with mounting social problems and
declining social services; and develop business empires fueled by gaming
profits, Rolo is propelled toward a reckoning with his own identity.
Rolo finds that though relocated Indians seem to lose their tribal
identity, indigenous California tribes such as the Gabrieleno/Tongva and
the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians strive to strengthen theirs.
Original inhabitants of the LA Basin, the Gabrieleno/Tongva tribe grasp
threads of their original birdsongs, traditional ways and history in an
idealistic attempt to gain Federal recognition, and with that, the
golden road that the Pechanga have achieved. The Pechanga, a dwindling
band before the National Indian Gaming Act was passed, are now so
prosperous that Governor Schwarzenegger looks to them and other gaming
tribes to help bail out California debt. But what makes them Indian? Is
a Federal I.D. number enough? Do the wealthy Indians bear responsibility
for philanthropy toward the poor?
<http://www.klrn.org/Programming/ViewPrograms.aspx?SeriesID=14886>
Length: 86 min. Air Times:
11/7/2006 at 2:30 AM [KLRN Channel 9 / KLRN-DT 9.1]
www.klrn.org/Programming/ViewProgram.aspx?ProgramID=139813
<http://www.klrn.org/Programming/ViewProgram.aspx?ProgramID=139813>
Program Description In "A Seat at the Drum", journalist Mark
Anthony Rolo (Bad River Ojibwe) seeks to learn how Native Americans in
Los Angeles preserve a tribal identity, survive economically and cope
with the pressures of assimilation in a challenging metropolis. His
personal quest to come to terms with these issues leads him to meet
Native community leaders, Indians relocated from reservations, boarding
school students, Native business leaders and single parent families
whose stories typify the experiences of urban Indians. As these
characters tell how Indians in Los Angeles create community and retain a
connection to their tribes; choose whether their language and traditions
are relevant in the modern world; cope with mounting social problems and
declining social services; and develop business empires fueled by gaming
profits, Rolo is propelled toward a reckoning with his own identity.
Rolo finds that though relocated Indians seem to lose their tribal
identity, indigenous California tribes such as the Gabrieleno/Tongva and
the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians strive to strengthen theirs.
Original inhabitants of the LA Basin, the Gabrieleno/Tongva tribe grasp
threads of their original birdsongs, traditional ways and history in an
idealistic attempt to gain Federal recognition, and with that, the
golden road that the Pechanga have achieved. The Pechanga, a dwindling
band before the National Indian Gaming Act was passed, are now so
prosperous that Governor Schwarzenegger looks to them and other gaming
tribes to help bail out California debt. But what makes them Indian? Is
a Federal I.D. number enough? Do the wealthy Indians bear responsibility
for philanthropy toward the poor?