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| ACTORS: | Wisdom of the Tribes |
| CATEGORY: | Video |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 1996 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Simitar Video |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Black & White, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Documentary |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 2 |
| UPC: | 082551339938 |
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A great disappointment: Poorly conceived and worse achieved WISDOM OF THE TRIBES promises to to reveal "Native American ritual, synonymous with mystical ceremonies, prayers, songs, sweat lodges, peyote, tribal dances, and medicine societies." However, what WISDOM OF THE TRIBES really reveals is just how bad a low budget, poorly produced and edited video can be.
This video consists of old black and white western footage, footage borrowed from Native American film, home video quality footage of "fancy-dancing" at a pow-wow(apparently in a high school gym, and some incredibly poorly lit(either it was bad lighting or they were striving for an artistic cliche)interviews with two Native Americans...all so poorly mish-mashed and strung together as to make one lose interest in the first five minutes.
My partner and I, however, sat through both videos clinging to the hope that there might be some dramatic improvement...much the way someone on a sinking ship might hope help arrives before all is lost. No such luck here. The narration, when it doesn't borrow from comments made by Sitting Bull, Chief Joseph, or other Native leaders, is mediochre at best. The fact that some of the quotes are read with that awful stereotypical pseudo-Native American(the kind that sounds like, "You bring wampum. Me go teepee.")is profoundly irritating and offensive. Finally, the video does not even track particularly well.
If you are looking to gain instruction or greater understanding of Native American rituals, you won't find it in this video. You'd be better off getting a copy of "A Man Called Horse" rather than waste your money on this stinker.