[NYTr] TV: Miniseries Planned on Modern Native History
 
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 09:30:07 -0600 (CST)

 
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Native Times - Jan 21, 2005
http://www.nativetimes.com/index.asp?action=3Ddisplayarticle&article_id=5842

Eyre plans four-part miniseries Project is follow-up to 1995 work

Chris Eyre, the award-winning American Indian director know for such films
as "Smoke Signals" and "Skins", has signed on to direct an intensive look at
recent Native history.

Eyre, 35, will direct "Indian Country: Native Americans in the 20th
Century," a four-part series to air on PBS television stations nationwide.
The "Indian Country" series is the follow-up to the acclaimed 1995
miniseries "500 Nations." The new series will chronicle the history of
Native American nations over the past 114 years, from the 1890 massacre of
300 Lakota at Wounded Knee to the present.

Eyre, born in Portland, Oregon in 1969 and a member of the Concho-based
Cheyenne -Arapaho Tribes, stormed onto the national scene with "Smoke
Signals", the first feature film directed by a Native American to receive a
national theatrical release and it won the Audience Award and the
Filmmaker's Trophy at the Sundance Film Festival.

His other films include 2002's "Skins," starring Graham Greene and Eric
Schweig; the TV movies "Skinwalkers" (2002), "Edge of America" (2003) and "A
Thief of Time" (2004); and 2005's "A Thousand Roads," a forty-minute
widescreen film shown exclusively at the Smithsonian Institution's National
Museum of the American Indian.

Now in the research and development stage, "Indian Country" is a Katahdin
Foundation production that will make extensive use of oral histories,
research archives, and outreach to Native American scholars and community
leaders. The series will tell the story of how this land's original nations
have survived and maintained their identities as sovereign peoples against
all odds, and in the face of generations of loss and injustice. While the
common perception holds that Native peoples and their cultures were crushed
in the bloody Indian Wars culminating in Wounded Knee in 1890, "Indian
Country" will tell another story. The series will show how Native American
populations have grown eight-fold since Wounded Knee, how they are in the
process of reviving their cultural traditions, preserving their languages,
prospering in new enterprises and even occasionally forcing the U.S.
government to uphold its treaties.

The series, designed as a tribute to the strength and persistence of the
Native American nations, is aimed for national broadcast on public
television, and for subsequent DVD and video distribution. A companion book
and soundtrack CD are also planned, as are extensive educational materials
and teaching guides to support and accompany non-theatrical distribution.

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