California's Lost Tribes

MID-LENGTH DOC

California's 'Lost' Tribes

Director: Jed Riffe
Filmmaker in person
California's indigenous people have been forced to adjust to many shifts since "first contact". For the past generation, they have undergone yet another shift, this time of their own choosing. Plummy-voiced Linda Hunt's narration at the beginning of this documentary characterizes this shift:  "In a few short years, they have gone from being the poorest people in the state to among the richest, from being virtually invisible to being the most powerful political lobby in the sixth largest economy in the world."  CALIFORNIA'S "LOST" TRIBES examines clearly and incisively this dramatic transformation, caused by the rise of Indian Gaming. (2006, 56 min.)
Showing: May 19, 10am, Matheson