Our Story : Rethinking The Past, Confronting The Present, Shaping The Future / hosted by Kurtis Harris and Ingrid Washinawatok. Three hours of talks which trace the realities of the Native American experience, from contact with Europeans through plans for maintaining independence into the future. CONTENT: Tonya Gonnella Frichmen, Snid clan of the Onendaga and legal council to the Iroquois Nation, discusses the relationship between the United States and over 400 sovereign nations with separate treaties. She discusses concepts of civilized vs. savagry, the Great Tree of Peace, and recent legal battles fought by Native Americans -- Asiba Tupahache, a Matinnecock, explores how conflicts among indigenous people often come from the acceptance of outside values and culture -- Dr. Andrea McDufflin, Humanities Professor from Medgar Edgers College, points to the importance of cross-cultural exhcange in order for the world to be remade and saved. After 500 years of Euramerican dominance, new systems must be developed. RECORDED: American Indian Community House, New York City. BROADCAST: Satellite, 30 Sept. 1992.
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