Indigenous Narratives, by hambo77

Unique story of a village's attempts to solve drought by appealing to the powers of a mysterious mountain-dwelling diviner.

While her husband is on his way to the market, a peasant woman is raped and murdered. Her widower carefully plans his revenge.

The story of Princess Eréndira of the Tarascan, who, at the beginning of the sixteenth century, led her people in a fight against the Spanish conquerors in the region of the Aztec Empire.

On the slopes of an active volcano in Guatemala, a marriage is arranged for seventeen-year-old María by her Kaqchikel parents.

The story of the relationship between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his people, and two scientists who work together over the course of forty years to search the Amazon for a sacred healing plant.

A very hard drought devastates an ancient Mexican empire. Warriors and priests fight for power while people are dying. A group of priests return to Aztlan, the mythological place where Mexican culture was born, to pray to the goddess Coatlicue and stop the drought.

Sebastian Mamani returns to his Aymara community from which he was expelled long ago. He is carrying the great mask of death, he must dance 'til death.

Gonawindua is the Most Important peak of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. For the Kogi, is the center of the planet, the Origin of all Things. Because of it, the mission of the Kogi as 'Older Brothers' is to Protect it from the ignorance of the 'Younger Brothers'-The non-natives - Whose irresponsibility with mother Nature has Provoked the rage of Sezhankwa, the Creator. Kankuemaku, and old Mamo (Kogi Shaman), entrusts His young apprentice Cenkui to make a Payment (Spiritual Work) in one of Their sacred territories. In the future, a couple years beyond 2088, The Consequences of our Acts are evident caps of the landscapes of the Sierra Nevada. Nevertheless, historical Makes Payment Cenkui.

Evaristo and Luis Antonio - indigenous brothers from the SierraTarahumara in northwest Mexico - have just graduated from boarding elementary school. Evaristo desires to continue his education, leading a bicultural life, where the Tarahumara, or Raramuri as they call themselves, have the opportunity to keep learning to speak, read and write in Spanish, the Mexican official language. Meanwhile Luis Antonio "Tony" is very happy to be done with school. Even though he is a smart kid and has won a grant to move on to high school, he prefers to live life in the ranch, where the kids grow up at a very young age. One morning the brothers are sent to deliver some medicine to a far away community. Tony asks their grandfather for permission to take his horse but the answer is no. Nevertheless, he decides to take it, even if Evaristo is not convinced. They take a wrong path that leads them to a narrow and deep canyon. The horse cannot go on so the boys tie it around a tree. When they come back for it the horse is no longer there. Both, angry and worried, walk in the forest looking for it; Tony thinks the horse was stolen while Evaristo is worried about the assignment. Arguing about this, they suddenly lose each other. Now each on their own continue the journey separately; Tony looks for the horse and ends up at an amusing party, while Evaristo is lonely in the canyons looking for the place to deliver the medicine. The trip becomes longer than expected. They can't go back without the horse.

A young Rapa Nui woman is kidnapped by a turtle-shaped spirit who takes her to another island. There a family gives her shelter, and she falls in love with the son.

Two groups of Mapuches settle a dispute over a stolen cow.

Akun, a Pehuenche boy who lives with his grandparents in the middle of the mountains of Alto Bio Bio. As he and his grandfather walks in the summer with the family's animals toward the Kallaquen volcano, the grandfather tells the story of Chaw Genechen who rode on his horse to the summit of the volcano, called Konün Wenu, or the entrance to heaven. Akun becomes lost in the woods when he decides that he is going to search for this Konün Wenu to find his mother, who died several years ago.

Kunturi is a 13-year old boy living a traditional life with his family near Uyuni, a salt lake. They cut bricks of salt by hand, which they use to exchange for other products of the the Andes. One spring, his father takes him on his first caravan. That travel will teach him who he is as a young boy and a Quechua. By the end, he discovers what his grandfather means by "the gift of Pachamama".

Shake is a powerful shaman of the Yanomami people. He wields his power to heal and to protect his people against their enemies in this world and beyond. Tracing his life and the life of his community over 40 years of their history, Shake tells how he and his people grapple with new ideas that come from the outside world and the challenging decisions they make in order to maintain their identity and survive as a people.

After their family is killed in a government massacre, siblings Enrique and Rosa flee Guatemala and embark on a perilous journey to "El Norte": the United States.

The Toba tribe is one of the few tribes that was not conquered by the Inca empire; The Spanish conquest could not change the beliefs nor traditions of their strong people.

A Mapuche descendant facing the misunderstanding of the white man and the loss of identity.

It is May 1520 in the vast Aztec Empire one year after the Spanish Conqueror Hernán Cortés' arrival in Mexico. "The Other Conquest" opens with the infamous massacre of the Aztecs at the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan [what is now called Mexico City]. The sacred grounds are covered with the countless bodies of priests and nobility slaughtered by the Spanish Armies under Cortés' command. The lone Aztec survivor of the massacre is a young Indian scribe named Topiltzin [Damián Delgado]. Topiltzin, who is the illegitimate son of the Aztec Emperor Moctezuma, survives the onslaught by burying himself under a stack of bodies. As if awakening from a dream, the young man rises from among the dead to find his mother murdered, the Spanish in power and the dawn of a new era in his native land. A New World with new leaders, language, customs... and God. Representing the New Order is the Spanish Friar Diego [José Carlos Rodríguez]. His mission is to convert the "savage" natives into civilised Christians; to replace their human sacrifices and feathered deities with public Christenings and fealty to the Blessed Virgin Mary. With Topiltzin, Friar Diego faces his most difficult spiritual and personal challenge, for when Topiltzin is captured by Spanish troops and presented to Cortés [Iñaki Aierra], the Spanish Conqueror places Topiltzin's conversion under Friar Diego's care. Old world confronts the New as Topiltzin struggles to preserve his own beliefs, whilst Friar Diego attempts to impose his own. All the while, the question remains: who is converting who?

Before entering the road to Wirikuta, sacred land of peyote, Jatumari, a young huichol woman must ritualistically confess to the community that she has been with her husband, and also with his brother.

An elderly Guajira man, who lives in the forest in the Sierra de Perija mountain range with his grandson, embarks on a journey to the city to obtain food. However, upon his return, he discovers that his home and the entire neighborhood have been devastated by a mining company. The film points to the devastation of the Venezuelan forests, which are the home of the indigenous people.

The reaction of an indigenous community against a group of foreigners who under the guise of development assistance are forcibly sterilizing the peasant women.

The Ticuna are an indigenous people of Brazil, Colombia, and Peru. This film tells the Ticuna myth of creation.

Initially, it's the recreation of what the American territory would have been like before the arrival of the Spaniards: we see the indigenous people who dedicate themselves to art, fishing, children who play and the community that celebrates its rituals, dances and beliefs. With the arrival of Christopher Columbus everything changes.

Little Indian boy survives his tribe massacre, growing up together with his wish for revenge and his quest for his own identity. Based on a true story.

Tutu, an indigenous Kuna, works without any success as a fashion designer in Panama City. Her father went to die in his hometown on the Caribbean island Ukub Seni. Tutu follows him without knowing that he already died. On the island she begins to isolate herself by using IPod, Cellphone and TV. She does not understand Kuna and hates all indigenous residents and their primitive lifestyle. Just for fun she seduces IGUA, the fiancee of her cousin OLEANDA. Now the complete village is against her. As she urgently needs help from the Kuna for a huge order to design clothes, the drama starts.