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: Alex Yuan explores how the 'discovery' was really a clash of cultures. The European concepts of politics, religion, and economics did not correspond to those of Amerindians, which led to continual conflict -- CoChese Anderson explains how Native American youths are going back and studying their culture. One such tradition is the flute -- Dr. John Henrik Clarke, an African historian at Hunter College, compares European-tribal relations around the globe to the hallocaust -- Gustavo Raven Silva, a Chilian artist, warns against the commercialization of what is Native American, while the people remain the poorest in the hemisphere. RECORDED: American Indian Community House, New York City. BROADCAST: Satellite, 30 Sept. 1992.
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