Native Nations on Hallmark, NBC

From a publicist's e-mail:Hello xx

For Newspaper Rock, I thought you might be interested in a special program that will be airing on Hallmark Channel Sunday, March 1 at 7 a.m. Odyssey Networks , the nation's largest coalition of Christian, Jewish and Muslim faith groups dedicated to media production, distribution and promotion, will be airing Native Nations: Standing Together for Civil Rights on Odyssey Networks Presents, a series of select one-hour programs dealing with issues of social justice and reconciliation. Native Nations was produced by B&B Productions for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and funded in part by a grant from Odyssey Networks.

Native Nations is hosted by Peter Coyote, and it chronicles the American Indians' struggle for civil rights, and the creation of the National Indian Lutheran Board to raise funds for and awareness of that struggle. From the controversy surrounding the 1862 trial when 38 Dakota Sioux were executed in the largest single-day mass hanging in United States history, to the confrontation of the 1960s where many Indian tribes joined together to speak out with a unified voice. Native Nations tells the story of standing together for sovereignty, justice and civil rights.

For more details, here is a link to the ELCA site about the program--Native Nations.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Best,
Scott

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Scott Rosenblum
Account DirectorComment:  Nice form letter, Scott, but my name isn't xx!

Alas, the documentary's appearance on one cable channel wasn't enough to interest me. But since you took the time to e-mail me, I thought I'd mention Native Nations again.

You can see a promotional video of Native Nations on the website above. That should tell you whether you want to watch the whole documentary.

Interesting that Vine Deloria Jr. told us Indians had no use for the civil rights movement. Yet Native Nations is all about their participation in the movement. Too bad Deloria didn't live long enough to watch it.

For more on Native Nations, see The Making of Native Nations: Standing Together and Review of Native Nations: Standing Together. For more on documentaries in general, see Native Documentaries and News.