Synopsis
Documentary > Ethnology
Native renaissance 1x52'
- Theme(s):
- Ethnology
- Producer(s):
- Anako
- Director(s):
- Patrick Bernard & Ken Ung
- Year:
- 2009
- Versions:
- French
- Nationality:
- France
- Available rights:
- Worldwide
Anako
Since the 500th anniversary of the discovery of America in the early 1990s, first nations people have been organizing into native groups and using international organizations like the UN. In 1992, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Rigoberta Menchú Tum, a Mayan from Guatemala. 1993 was then declared International Year of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. That was then followed by the Decade of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. And so dawned a veritable native renaissance...