TY - ADVS AU - Girmus,Dan ED - Documentary Educational Resources (Firm), ED - Kanopy (Firm), TI - Oyate PY - 2019/// PB - Documentary Educational Resources KW - Indigenous peoples KW - Documentary films KW - lcgft N1 - Title from title frames; Film; In Process Record; Originally produced by Documentary Educational Resources in 2019 N2 - OYATE is a time capsule of moments, feelings, gestures, and events that took place on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota during the summer of 2015. The narrative, pieced together from the daily activities of two Lakota families and a few other subjects, anchors the viewer among the rhythms and sounds of everyday life while sidestepping the kinds of negative, issue-based approaches that have so long dominated films set in native spaces. While not an outwardly politicized film, Oyate is a deeply political one; a film that represents a collection of seemingly commonplace occurrences (a conversation in the back of a truck, a group of young girls lighting off fireworks, a wedding reception) as deeply felt grasps toward purpose in an often difficult world UR - https://tus.kanopy.com/node/10438088 UR - https://www.kanopy.com/node/10438088/external-image ER -