The second annual festival of contemporary video by and about Native Americans, ranging from animation to documentary. This program, cosponsored by the Chicago American Indian Health Services, originated at the National Museum of the American Indian. Screenings, which run from Friday, May 31, through Tuesday, June 4, will be held at Chicago Filmmakers, 1229 W. Belmont; admission is $4, $2 for Filmmakers members. For further information call 2818788)
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TIDES OF HISTORY A program of shorts, including Edgar Heap of Birds’s In Our Language (1982), Jeff Bear’s Beyond the Robin’s Song (1982), Sandra Osawa’s In the Heart of the Big Mountain (t988), and Edin and Ethel Velez’s Meta Mayan (1981). (8:00)
WALKING WITH GRANDFATHER A 90 minute program for children that includes six shorts by Phil Lucas dramatizing traditional Native American lesson stories and legends. (4:00)
NATIVE TELEVISION The Inuvialuit Communications Society’s Whaling at Nulguggiak (1990) is part of a weekly broadcast to seven villages in the Canadian arctic; Nedaa (1988) is an excerpt from the weekly newsmagazine of Northern Native Broadcast Yukon; and Eyes of the Spirit (1984), a documentary about making masks, was produced by Yup’ik director Alexie Isaac for KYUK TV in Bethel, Alaska. (8:00)
