Embera : The End of the Road / ITV Global Entertainment.

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At first sight, the peaceful Embera people of Colombia live what seems an idyllic life. Four centuries ago, the Spaniards went to Colombia for gold - and found that the Indians wouldn't work for them. In the clashes that followed, many Embera were massacred, and the invaders were forced to import sl...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Films on Demand.
Disappearing world.
Corporate Authors: Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase
ITV Global Entertainment
Language:English
Language and/or Writing System:
Closed-captioned.
Published: New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2012], ©1971.
Series:Films on Demand.
Disappearing world.
Subjects:
Assimilation (Sociology)
Cultural geography.
Embera people.
Population.
Rural-urban migration.
Social ecology.
Social evolution.
Social structure.
Tribes.
Urbanization.
Latin America.
South America.
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Genre:
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Online Access:
Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Films On Demand @ Infobase)
Physical Description:1 online resource (50 min.) : sound, color.
Variant Title:
End of Road
Other Uniform Title:Disappearing world (Television program)
Format: Electronic Video
Description
Summary:
At first sight, the peaceful Embera people of Colombia live what seems an idyllic life. Four centuries ago, the Spaniards went to Colombia for gold - and found that the Indians wouldn't work for them. In the clashes that followed, many Embera were massacred, and the invaders were forced to import slaves from Africa. Those former slaves, or libres, remain poor and largely without rights themselves, yet they have pushed the Embera into the remote jungle headwaters - while, as if to seal their fate, the Colombian government drives the last section of the Pan-American highway straight across the territory. The Embera tell how they want both legal rights over the land they now inhabit and protection from the physical attacks of the libres with whom they trade. This film shows them in their plight, caught between the government's bulldozers and the libres' banknotes.
Note:Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on August 17, 2012.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
Electronic resource.
Interest Grade Level:
10 & up.
System Details:Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Source of Description:
Title from distributor's description.