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Broken Rainbow
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on 12-6-2008
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Actors: Laura Nyro, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Martin Sheen, Ruby Askie, Grandfather Semu Haute
Directors: Maria Florio, Victoria Mudd
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Language: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
Rating: 
Studio: Docurama
DVD Release Date: June 27, 2006
Run Time: 70 minutes
Average Customer Review:
  (5 customer reviews)
Reader Reviews
This should be a film that every American should see. (You might recall it won the Oscar for best documentary in 1985). It documents the impact of a law signed by President Ford (on a ski vacation) that forced relocation of thousands of Navajo from their tribal land. The reason? There was hundreds of millions of dollars of coal, natural gas, and oil in that land and therefore the needs of the Navajo were irrelevant in light of the outrageous profits that could be made. As the film develops there appears to be no crime vicious enough (short of deliberate murder of native americans) that was not committed against hese Indians to force them off their land and more importantly, their livelihood. The Indians needed this land to raise sheep for food, clothes, and making rugs for sale to outsiders. It gave them a sense of dignity and self-worth. When the law was signed, forcing them off their reservation, the goverment slaughtered their sheep knowing that this would put the Indians "out of business." If that was not enough, they took bulldozers and removed the vegetation, so that the land was no longer of any use to the Indian. In light of all the other injustices practiced on Native Americans, this was the last straw. It reduced many of the Indians to poverty, hunger, and in rare cases, premature death. The insensitivity of the white politicians to the plight of the Indians is truly a shameful chapter in our history...as depicted in the film, one of the congressmen from Arizona argued that relocation of the Indian was "routine...plenty of Americans have to relocate." The issue was not merely relocation, but the deliberate and violent destruction of the Indians' way of life. I apologize to all Native Americans who suffered as a result of these mean-spirited policies.
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Broken Rainbow
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