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Amá

Documentary
0.0·2018·1h 14m

Amá is a feature length documentary which tells an important and untold story: the abuses committed against Native American women by the United States...

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Reimert Ravenholt

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Jean Whitehorse

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DIRECTOR

Lorna Tucker

OVERVIEW

Amá is a feature length documentary which tells an important and untold story: the abuses committed against Native American women by the United States Government during the 1960’s and 70’s: removed from their families and sent to boarding schools, forced relocation away from their traditional lands and involuntary sterilization. ​The result of nine years painstaking and sensitive work by filmmaker Lorna Tucker, the film features the testimony of many Native Americans, including three remarkable women who tell their stories - Jean Whitehorse, Yvonne Swan and Charon Aseytoyer - as well as a revealing and rare interview with Dr. Reimart Ravenholt whose population control ideas were the framework for some of the government policies directed at Native American women.