A Thousand Roads

A Thousand Roads

Though we journey down a thousand roads, all our roads lead home.

2005 en 40 minutes

Rating: 7

Plot

The film threads together four stories, taking us into the life of a stressed-out Mohawk stockbroker in Manhattan; a young Inupiat girl sent to live with her grandmother in Barrow, Alaska; a Navajo gang member who must find his core values in his reservation on the mesas of New Mexico; and a Quechua healer in Peru, attempting to save a sick child. Each story explores what it means to belong to a specific community. A Thousand Roads is a fictional work, produced by National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) to explore the human context of the NMAI’s collections. The film is striking visually, and presents through its beauty and its stories an imaginative entry into knowing about Native people living in the vast indigenous geography that comprises the Americas. Rather than presenting a conventional historical perspective, the film is composed of short contemporary fictions about individuals, grounding them in emotional truths to which an audience can easily relate.

Trailer

Cast

John Trudell

John Trudell

Narrator (voice)

Alex Rice

Alex Rice

Amanda Cook

Jeremiah Bitsui

Jeremiah Bitsui

Johnny Chee

Candice Costello

Candice Costello

Johnny Chee's Girlfriend

Geraldine Keams

Geraldine Keams

Riana Malabed

Riana Malabed

Dawn

Honorato Nanatay

Honorato Nanatay

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