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Spirit of the Dawn
"Education is your most powerful weapon. With it, you are the whiteman's equal, without it, you are his victim."
Chief Plentycoups, last Crow Chief
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"Brief, sweet, and affirming...this film's quiet message, reversing the notion that Native Americans need to be 'made over' to be accepted in a white world, is of value to students of both education and cultural diversity."
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"This video challenges racist stereotypes prevalent in mainstream U.S. culture. It is a valuable resource for teaching race/ethnic relations, education as a social institution, and sociology of culture."
Marcia Hood-Brown, Brandeis University
Teaching Sociology
"A sensitive depiction of the struggle of Native American youth...invaluable and helpful to all Indian and non-lndian people."
Simon Ortiz
Acoma poet, storyteller
"The great love of the Crow people for their cultural heritage shows brightly in this film. The emergence of this video is especially important now...our country needs to find its way to appreciation of cultural diversity, an attitude that is vital to our future."
Leanne Hinton, Chair, Department of Linguistics
University of California at Berkeley
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About Heidi Emberling |
Heidi Schmidt Emberling is a filmmaker, freelance editor, and educator living in the Bay Area. She received an Emmy nomination for editing San Francisco: Birth of a City, the first documentary in a 12-part series about the history of San Francisco for KRON-TV, San Francisco's NBC affiliate.
Other projects include editing seven short documentaries for Green Means, an environmental series for KQED-TV, San Francisco's PBS affiliate. She also produced and directed two short magazine style television pieces; Forgotten Children, about Guatemalan street kids, and Mystery Disease, about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
In addition to her documentary work, she also edits for corporate video, news, and cable channels including HGTV (The Home and Garden Channel). She also edited for Lucasfilm's Industrial Light & Magic in both features and commercials. She has a Master's degree in Journalism from the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, a Master's degree in Education from San Francisco State University, and a B.A. in Language Studies from UC Santa Cruz. |
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