Needs Review by Navajo/Diné Community

Needs Review by Navajo/Diné Community
The films in this collection have not yet been reviewed by a community member.
Items in Collection:
Digital Heritage
Community
Navajo/Diné CommunityCategory
Sponsored and Educational FilmsSummary
Film showcases three ceremonial dances performed at night: Great Feathered Arrow Dance, Feather Dance, and Fire Dance. Also features the arrivals of families to the event, making fry breads, and more.Digital Heritage
Community
Navajo/Diné Community, Hopi Community, Intertribal/Mixed CommunityCategory
DocumentarySummary
Documentary about the history of the forced relocation of thousands of Navajo people from Black Mesa in Arizona after the 1974 Navajo-Hopi Land Settlement Act.Digital Heritage
Community
Intertribal/Mixed Community, Navajo/Diné Community, Hopi Community, Apache/Inde Community, Pueblo/Puebloan Community Category
Sponsored and Educational FilmsSummary
*Culturally insensitive content.* Various Native communities perform ceremonial dances and compete in games in festivals at various locations like Tesuque Pueblo. Also features a Wampanoag marriage ceremony.Digital Heritage
Community
Navajo/Diné CommunityCategory
Sponsored and Educational FilmsSummary
Theme: leasing land to oil companies is depicted as providing social and financial benefit. Calvin Clauschee and his uncle Bill Draper visit oil rigs, Areth (Utah) Trading Post, Window Rock, the Navajo Tribal Fair, the Clauschee family home, and more. Digital Heritage
Community
Navajo/Diné CommunityCategory
Sponsored and Educational FilmsSummary
Overview of Navajo/Diné living conditions, amenities, boarding schools, women working in an Indian hospital, spinning wool and weaving, men building an irrigation system, silversmithing, sand painting, and more.Digital Heritage
Community
Navajo/Diné CommunityCategory
Home MoviesSummary
Home movie footage of a Navajo woman weaving under a sun shade as a toddler girl learns/plays alongside, exterior of Monument Valley Tour jeep and driver, Navajos and tourists entering a hogan, talking to a woman, a group lining up for a photo, horses...Digital Heritage
Community
Hopi CommunityCategory
Educational Film StripSummary
Educational film strip for children about a young widower, Talayesva, from Oraibi (Third Mesa) who follows his recently deceased wife, Moki, to the land of the afterlife: Moska.