A Thousand Roads (2005)

A Thousand Roads

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.

A Thousand Roads

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John Trudell
John Trudell
as Narrator (voice)
Alex Rice
Alex Rice
as Amanda Cook
Jeremiah Bitsui
Jeremiah Bitsui
as Johnny Chee
Candice Costello
Candice Costello
as Johnny Chee's Girlfriend
Geraldine Keams
Geraldine Keams
as
Riana Malabed
Riana Malabed
as Dawn
Honorato Nanatay
Honorato Nanatay
as

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Claudio Miranda
Claudio Miranda
Director of Photography
Chris Eyre
Chris Eyre
Director
Scott Garen
Scott Garen
Screenplay
Joy Harjo
Joy Harjo
Screenplay

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