Little Singer

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K'é is the shortest word and so simple... but it is the seedling of who we are. Relationship and kinship, love, belonging.

— Albert Brent Chase, Language teacher at Little Singer School

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Available in the following languages: English, Czech, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian.

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The Vision

Our vision for the 12-film The Eternal Song documentary series is to honor Indigenous resilience, illuminate sacred wisdom held for humanity and Earth, and invite healing across communities facing trauma and colonial erasure.

About the film

Amidst the wide horizons of Diné land, the legacy of historical trauma echoes through generations. At the center, a medicine man and a small school, where grief and resilience meet in song, teaching, and k’é (kinship). Little Singer is rooted in the land; carrying the vision and medicine of k’é for those yet to come.

The Guardians

The Eternal Song

12 FILM SERIES

Over the next two years, we will release a total of 12 full-length films featuring different indigenous traditions. Each film opens a portal into the ancestral wisdom of these cultures, calling us to remember, grieve, heal, and act.

The Eternal Song

LAND: EARTH

92 Minutes • WATCH NOW

Mauri

LAND: AOTEAROA (NEW ZEALAND)

70 Minutes • WATCH NOW

If an Owl
Calls Your Name

LAND: Esk’etemc, Gitxsan, and Wet’suwet’en (CANADA)

92 MINUTES • WATCH NOW

In the Circle
of Life

LAND: BUNDJALUNG & WIRADJURI (AUSTRALIA)

75 Minutes • WATCH NOW

Katô: Dreams
of Dark Earth

LAND: DAJE KAPAP EYPI (BRAZIL)

76 MINUTES • WATCH NOW

LAND: DINÉ BIKÉYAH (ARIZONA)

81 MINUTES • WATCH NOW

Sila

LAND: KALAALLIT NUNAAT (GREENLAND)

COMING 2026

Kupuna ʻĀina

LAND: MOKUPUNI HAWAI’I

COMING 2026

Flowers of The Earth

LAND: MATO GROSSO DO SUL (BRAZIL)

COMING 2026

Maasai

LAND: OLOSHO LE MAA (KENYA)

COMING 2027

Haida

LAND: HAIDA GWAII (CANADA)

COMING 2027

Ifá

LAND: TSENACOMOCO (VIRGINIA)

COMING 2027

See other films from SAND:

The Eternal Song

Where Olive Trees Weep

LAND: Palestine

104 Minutes • WATCH NOW

The Wisdom of Trauma

LAND: Turtle Island

87 MINUTES • WATCH NOW

In the Circle
of Life

The Eternal Song

LAND: EARTH

Mauri

LAND: AOTEAROA (NEW ZEALAND)

If an Owl Calls
Your Name

LAND: UNIST’OT’EN YIN’TAH (CANADA)

In the
Circle of Life

LAND: BUNDJALUNG & WIRADJURI (AUSTRALIA)

Katô:
Dreams of Dark Earth

LAND: DAJE KAPAP EYPI (BRAZIL)

Little Singer

LAND: DINÉ BIKÉYAH (ARIZONA)

Sila

LAND: KALAALLIT NUNAAT (GREENLAND)

Kupuna ʻĀina

LAND: MOKUPUNI HAWAI’I

Flowers of The Earth

LAND: MATO GROSSO DO SUL (BRAZIL)

Maasai

LAND: OLOSHO LE MAA (KENYA)

Haida

LAND: HAIDA GWAII (CANADA)

Ifá

LAND: TSENACOMOCO (VIRGINIA)

See other films from SAND:

Where Olive Trees Weep

LAND: Palestine

The Wisdom of Trauma

LAND: Turtle Island

Show us the truth. Show us what real love is and may all of the stories serve to show us the way forward.

Pat McCabe, Activist, Ceremonial leader

A Navajo child, they're not born to just parents, they're born into a family. They're born into a community, and they all have a role in bringing up a child.

Byrde Nez, Diné Trauma Trainer Great Granddaughter of Little Singer

By the standards of value in American society... you have nothing. But for me, it felt like we had everything—that we were maybe the richest people in the world.

Clayson Benally, Diné musician, horse trainer & traditional healer

What's really important is how we reframe our traditional life ways, because so many people see it in this colonized sense as being poverty. When in fact it is not poverty.

Jeneda Benally, Diné musician & activist

The rhythm of those songs that I grew up with, they still echo around here. You can hear it, you know, in the wind.

Byrde Nez, Diné Trauma Trainer Great Granddaughter of Little Singer

Our language evolved from spiritual beings... That's where our language developed. That's where it caught a spirit.

Albert Brent Chase, Language teacher at Little Singer School

Reaching out to the ancestors to come, I just ask you to, to call out to us and to sing to us because we're headed your way. Walking that beauty way pathway. Let this storytelling be a part of that.

Pat McCabe, Activist, Ceremonial leader

Why can't the new generations of Americans learn the truth so they can better understand their history?

Albert Brent Chase, Language teacher at Little Singer School

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SAND is a nonprofit organization under section 501.c.3 of the US tax code. Its headquarters are on the unceded ancestral territories of Coastal Miwok and Southern Pomo Land in Sebastopol, CA. We thank the past, current, and future Indigenous stewards of this territory.

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