Ohkay Owingeh/San Juan Pueblo 5 (1977)

Close-up of Tewa instructor Marie Abeyta as she beads and speaks Tewa with a small girl seated next to her at a craft table; camera pans over for close-ups of three other boys seated at the table who are beading; NEW SCENE at minute 7: close-up of a boy reading Tewa from a workbook, then the camera widens to show other students at the table and instructor Wilfred Garcia (see "Ohkay Owingeh/San Juan Pueblo 3" for his interview; various close-ups of the book they’re reading, and group shots as the students practice; NEW SCENE around 9-1/2 minutes in a different room where five women (including Bertha Burke, Esther Martinez/P’oe Tsawa, Gertrude Calvert, Frances Harney and Abeyta — see “Ohkay Owingeh/San Juan Pueblo 2” for their interviews.) work around a table full of books, booklets and papers, and Garcia passes in and out, the camera varies from close-ups to group shots: some close-ups include a hand translating words on a page and of a sign that reads “Tewa Alphabet, San Juan Téwa Bi-Lingual San Juan Day School” and letters with Tewa accent marks in the middle; close-ups of various materials they’re making and the women’s faces; NEW SCENE at almost 19 minutes in, two girls (on the far left Mary Rose Tapia and then Vanessa Harney next to her?) and two boys (on the right John Atencio and Sonny Montoya?) seated at a table covered in a Native-design rug before a mic; camera shoots them individually and as a group; at about 34 minutes in the camera switches to close-ups of illustrations of fruits and vegetables with their Tewa translations, then a close-up of a photograph of students in a Christmas performance in traditional dress; then another picture from a performance with the kids and Garcia in the foreground; then another of the kids doing a Nativity scene; then close-ups of a decorative willow basket with the rug as background.