Jed Riffe, Pamela Roberts in Person Itam Hakim, Hopiit (Victor Masayesva, Jr., USA, 1985): Celebrating the Hopi Tricentennial, this is a poetic visualization of Hopi philosophy and prophesy. The myths, religion, legends and history of the Hopi people, articulated through the ancient oral tradition, are translated by Masayesva to video in an attempt to present his cultural heritage through observation rather than ethnographic interpretation. The title translates as "We, someone, the Hopi." (58 mins, Color, 3/4" video, From Electronic Arts Intermix) Ishi, the Last Yahi (Jed Riffe, Pamela Roberts, USA, 1992): On an August morning in 1911, the "last wild Indian in North America" walked out of the California wilderness into the maw of civilization. Called Ishi (the word for man in the Yahi language), he was the last survivor of his tribe, which was decimated by white settlers in the 1860s and '70s. Alfred Kroeber, an ambitious young anthropologist at UC Berkeley, arranged for Ishi to come to the Museum of Anthropology in San Francisco, where he lived for the rest of his life. Although Ishi lived only four more years before his death from pneumonia, he transformed the lives of people with whom he came in contact. This documentary by Jed Riffe and Pamela Roberts uses recordings and photographs of Ishi's life in San Francisco to examine how Native Americans have adapted and survived.-Peter Moore, Mill Valley Film Festival '92. (Written by Anne Makepeace. Photographed by Stephen Lighthill. Narrated by Linda Hunt. 60 mins, Color, 35mm, From Roxie Releasing)