Colliding Worlds

Due to original recording and/or condition when digitized: spots and veritcal lines throughout
faded color.

Colliding Worlds

Circa 1980

1980

A documentary about the Mono Indians of Central California, and their attempt to maintain their cultural traditions made by Orie Medicinebull, previously known as Orie Hugaitha Sherman. This documentary includes shots and discussion of acorn collecting, food preparation, music, dance, as well as the shots of the Mono Hand Game Team playing Hand Game, a popular gambling game. This award-winning documentary includes the Bass Lake Ranger District, located in the Sierra National Forest and North Fork Mono Tribal members in Eastern Madera County. The filmmaker received a production grant from The American Film Institute in association with The National Endowment for the Arts. Orie Medicinebull is an unprecedented figure: according to Ohoyo One Thousand: A Resource Guide of American Indian/Alaska Native Women, Orie Medicinebull is the first American Indian woman of the Mono tribe to earn an MFA in Motion Pictures and Television Production at UCLA and the first American Indian woman to make a film about the Indian people of California. Orie Medicinebull has made distinguished contributions to American Indian cultural understanding through the medium of film, has had a partnership with Sierra Mono Museum, participated in the initial development of Mono language project at UCLA, proficient in Mono language, developed media packages for projects of Indian Centers, Inc. of Los Angeles, has skills in Indian health care delivery, including traditional medicine and family crisis programs. Expertise in educational equity, family planning, non-traditional job training, and women's health advocacy.
Research: Bernice C. LeNoir, Paula Starr, Harold White.
Linguistic consultants: Rosalie Bethel and Lorraine Bishop.

Creator: Medicinebull, Orie
Director: Medicinebull, Orie
Writer: Medicinebull, Orie
Contributor: Bishop, Ida
Contributor: Lee, Donna
Contributor: Sherman, Francys
Editor: Medicinebull, Orie
Editor: Mellinkoff, Dan
Editor: Wade, Bryan
Editor: Mindel, Stan
Camera operator: Medicinebull, Orie
Camera operator: Yetasook, Udom
Camera operator: Riesenfeld, Dan
Camera operator: Mohanna, Christine
Camera operator: Pooyah, Rafigh
Narrator: Medicinebull, Orie
Sound designer: McPartland, Ladd
Sound designer: Lillian, Wu
Sound designer: Shannin, Jeannie
Sound designer: Yetasook, Udom
Copyright holder: Medicinebull, Orie

Ritual
Religious dance
Rock and roll dancing
Folk music
Rock music
Harvesting
Acorns as food
Manners and customs
Hand games
Powwows
Powwow songs
Indians of North America--Colonization
California--History
Genocide
Genocide survivors

Mono Indians
Native Americans

Documentary films

Madera County (Calif.)

English