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Navajo/Diné Community
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Needs Review by Navajo/Diné Community
Category
Sponsored and Educational Films
Summary
Story includes a sympathetic, if patronizing, profile of the family life of Navajo people in Northeastern Arizona in the mid-1950s. Focuses mainly on poverty.
Community
Hopi Community
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Needs Review by Hopi Community
Category
Video Footage
Summary
*SENSITIVE MATERIAL (see note young viewers). Kachina doll artisan Hubert Honanie (Water Clan), discusses his craft and the meaning of the kachina/katsina/tithu doll and its significance in Hopi culture.
Community
Navajo/Diné Community
Collections
Completed Alternate Audio Narrations -- Navajo/Diné
Category
Sponsored and Educational Films
Summary
Navajo activities depicted include silversmithing jewelry and bow guard, grinding corn meal and baking bread, eating a meal, ploughing and planting, family life, and wrapping a baby into a cradleboard. Views of Monument Valley and Canyon de Chelly.
Community
Navajo/Diné Community
Collections
Needs Review by Navajo/Diné Community
Category
Home Movies
Summary
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...
Community
Navajo/Diné Community
Collections
Completed Alternate Audio Narrations -- Navajo/Diné
Category
Sponsored and Educational Films
Summary
A profile of Navajo/Diné social life, family structure, and culture. Activities shown: farming corn, sheep herding, preparing corn bread, children and family pets, weaving wool and yarn preparation, loom building, silversmithing, trading goods, and more.
Community
Navajo/Diné Community
Collections
Completed Alternate Audio Narrations -- Navajo/Diné
Category
Sponsored and Educational Films, B-Roll and Outtakes
Summary
A young Navajo/Diné boy, Son of the Hunter, must grapple with death, abondonment by his father, his family's limited resources, and being forcibly moved to an indian boarding school. Plus other footage shot during production.
Community
Navajo/Diné Community
Collections
Completed Alternate Audio Narrations -- Navajo/Diné
Category
Sponsored and Educational Films
Summary
Film features primarily Tom Burnsides' silversmithing of a buckle, trading at the post, and close-ups of his wares. Also, striking views of Monument Valley and family herding their flock across the landscape.
Community
Navajo/Diné Community
Collections
Completed Alternate Audio Narrations -- Navajo/Diné
Category
Sponsored and Educational Films
Summary
Fictional (and questionable) narrative about a 12-year-old boy who captures a Great Horned Owl and attempts to tame it. He brings it home to his parents and grandparents. Some images of daily life.
Community
Navajo/Diné Community
Collections
Needs Review by Navajo/Diné Community
Category
Sponsored and Educational Films
Summary
Journey travelogue film on leasing land to oil companies as a 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.
Community
Puebloan (Several Villages) Community , Navajo/Diné Community
Collections
Needs Review by Puebloan (Several Villages) Community, Needs Review by Navajo/Diné Community
Category
Home Movies
Summary
Edited home movie footage of Tesuque Pueblo/Tetsʼúgéh Ówîngeh, Taos Pueblo/ȉałopháymųp’ȍhə́othə̀olbo dancers (incl. Pat Goodnight) performing for cameraman, and Navajo/Diné (Joe Whitehoop) dancers performing.
Community
Navajo/Diné Community
Collections
Completed Alternate Audio Narrations -- Navajo/Diné
Category
Sponsored and Educational Films
Summary
This film follows the Navajo/Diné Carillo family and Boja artisan couple through a variety of activities including silversmithing, jewelry making, preparing wool, weaving, brushing hair, and more.
Community
Navajo/Diné Community
Collections
Completed Alternate Audio Narrations -- Navajo/Diné
Category
Sponsored and Educational Films
Summary
Brief history of the Navajo's relationship to the Canyon de Chelly and its formation over time; other topics: construction of hogans; sheep sheering; cliff dwellings; and prayer piles.

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