What Was Ours (2016)
Like millions of indigenous people, many Native American tribes do not control their own material history and culture. For the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes living on the isolated Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming, new contact with lost artifacts risks opening old wounds but also offers the possibility for healing. What Was Ours is the story of how a young journalist and a teenage powwow princess, both of the Arapaho tribe, travelled together with a Shoshone elder in search of missing artifacts in the vast archives of Chicago’s Field Museum. There they discover a treasure trove of ancestral objects, setting them on a journey to recover what has been lost and build hope for the future.
Director: Mat Hames
https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/what-was-ours
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Jordan Dresser as Self |
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Philbert McLeod as Self |
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Mikala SunRhodes as Self |
| Production | Mat Hames | Producer |
| Production | Lois Vossen | Executive Producer |
| Camera | Wilson Waggoner | Director of Photography |
| Camera | David Layton | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Greg Wright | Editor |
| Editing | Ginny Patrick | Editor |
| Editing | Sandra Guardado | Editor |
| Editing | Mat Hames | Editor |
| Directing | Mat Hames | Director |
| Production | Sally Jo Fifer | Executive Producer |
| Production | Jordan Dresser | Co-Producer |
| Sound | Chris Ruggiero | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Nathan Halpern | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Shirley K. Sneve | Executive Producer |
| Production | Beth Hames | Executive Producer |
