Home » All Products "A Man Called Horse" Details  R Rated; (DVD); 114 minutes; American Indians were a "cool" factor in 1970 cinema, the year A Man Called Horse made its vigorous, feverishly real, and occasionally shocking debut alongside Little Big Man and Soldier Blue. Unlike the latter two films, however, Horse is less an allegory for Vietnam-era America and more of a vision quest for historical identity. In one of his defining roles, Richard Harris plays an English aristocrat captured by Dakota Sioux in 1825. Over time, he adopts their way of life and eventually becomes tribal leader--but not before undergoing traditional initiation rituals, the most famous of which involves being suspended by blades inserted beneath Harris's pectoral muscles. Horse looks clunky, quaint, and inadvertently demeaning in some respects today, but the film's Native American milieu is at least defined on its own terms, i.e., whole cloth and apart from familiar Western conventions. The real draw is Harris, whose performance has a soulful integrity. --Tom Keogh Price: $20.00 "A Thief of Time" Details  Not Rated; (DVD); 95 minutes; A noted anthropologist vanishes at a moonlit Indian ruin where "thieves of time" ravage sacred ground for profit. When two corpses appear amid stolen goods and bones at an ancient burial site, Navajo Tribal Policeman Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee must plunge into the past to unearth the astonishing truth behind a mystifying series of horrific murders. Price: $30.00 "Billy Jack" Details  PG Rated; (DVD); 114 minutes; This time-capsule film from 1971 is a perfect example of having one's cake and eating it, too. Written and directed by filmmaker Tom Laughlin--and starring him in the title role--Billy Jack concerns a half-white, half-Indian karate expert who protects a free school built on principles of pacifism by kicking hell out of pesky rednecks. The story actually embraces that tension between Billy Jack's way of doing things and that of the school's founder (Delores Taylor). Tom Keogh Price: $14.00 "Black Cloud" Details  Black Cloud; (DVD); ‘PG-13’ Rating; 97 minutes; Black Cloud is the impressive directorial debut of veteran actor Rick Schroder, who also wrote the drama's insightful script and takes a small part as an unrepentant villain. The story concerns a Navajo boxer named Black Cloud (Eddie Spears), an angry young man from a violent, chaotic family and a proud warrior burdened by a general grudge against white people. Invited to compete for a slot in the U.S. Olympic boxing team, Black Cloud initially rebuffs the idea but is encouraged to reconsider by his manager and mentor (Russell Means). Meanwhile, Black Cloud delivers a well-deserved beating to a rodeo circuit creep (Schroder), which gets him into hot water with the law, and the Navajo woman he loves (Julia Jones) puts distance between them until he can figure out his priorities. As coming-of-age stories go, Black Cloud is persuasive and moving, yet it should be no surprise that Schroder's greatest strength as a filmmaker is drawing very fine performances from his cast. Means, so wonderful in Michael Mann's The Last of the Mohicans, is again a solid figure of strength and love, while Spears does a beautiful job of capturing a man ready to trade rage for wisdom. Schroder delivers on tough action sequences--rodeo riding, boxing--like a pro who's seen it all, too. --Tom Keogh Price: $14.00 "Black Robe" Details  Black Robe; (DVD); ‘R’ Rating; 101 minutes; From acclaimed director Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy, Tender Mercies) and adapted by screenwriter Brian Moore from his novel of the same name, Black Robe is "amazing an adventure film that is as intelligent as it is enthralling" (US)! French Jesuit missionary Father Laforgue travels to the magnificently austere Canadian wilderness to save the souls of a "savage and godless" people the native tribes of the Huron and Algonquin. But the natives, who have their own spiritual value system that differs drastically from Christianity, are immediately suspicious, resentful and openly hostile toward the intrusive "Black Robe." And when Laforgue hires a reluctant group of Algonquin to escort him on a harrowing 1500-mile journey up the broad and sinuous St. Lawrence River, a devastating chain of events not only causes him to question his deeply held beliefs but also forever changes the course of history for the natives' way of life. Price: $30.00 "Chiefs" Details  Chiefs; (DVD); Not Rated; 87 minutes; Comparisons to Hoop Dreams are inevitable, but Chiefs can claim its own unique perspective on a neglected chapter in the history of high school basketball. Filmed over the course of two years and originally broadcast on the PBS series Independent Lens, this 90-minute documentary chronicles the trials and triumphs of Wyoming Indian High School's championship-seeking boy's basketball team, a source of great community pride among the 5,000 Native American citizens (mostly Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho) of the Wind River Reservation in west-central Wyoming. As the Chiefs survive key-player injuries and other unexpected setbacks in their quest for the state championship, filmmaker Daniel Junge focuses on several players whose lives provide a broad-spectrum profile of life "on the rez," where dire conditions (poverty, alcoholism, racism, youth suicide) turn desperate young men into a close-knit team of title-worthy hoop stars. The combination of tribal tradition and typical high-school peer pressure give the film a compelling subtext of real-life dramatic suspense; even as the Chiefs (a team name that's refreshingly liberated from concerns of political correctness) get closer to state-finals victory, we're left wondering if any of these boys will conquer the many obstacles that block them from a promising future. Particularly involving is the story of Beaver C'Bearing, a star player facing his last chance at a state championship, sidetracked by injury, pot-smoking, and his own uncertainty about where his life is going. Without sentiment or phony cheerleading, Junge follows Beaver and other young men, and Chiefs subtly evolves into a multifaceted portrait of life on the edge, where personal initiative and sheer chance play equal roles in forming young men who've earned, and deserve, their opportunities for success. Junge's choice of subject matter also qualifies Chiefs as one of the most revealing and authentic portraits of modern life on the reservation, where hardship and sociopolitical disadvantage is a harsh daily reality. --Jeff Shannon Price: $25.00 "Clearcut" Details  Clearcut; (DVD) R Rated; 98 minutes; A story of rage--a harrowing action adventure set in the wilderness in which one man tortures another as punishment for his crimes against the invironment. Price: $20.00 "Colleen's Chokecherry Jelly" Details  12 ounce jar Price: $8.95 "Colleen's Fry Bread Mix" Details  Colleen's Fry Bread Mix Price: $7.95 "Copal-incense of the Aztec" Details  Incense of the Aztec, "Copal". One ounce. 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