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Navajo/Diné CommunityCategory
Completed Alternate Audio Narration, Sponsored and Educational FilmsSummary
A medicine man and assistants conduct a sandpainting ceremony to cure an ill man. Story includes the family coming to him for help, the creation of the painting, and the healing ceremony.Digital Heritage
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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
Completed Alternate Audio Narration, Sponsored and Educational FilmsSummary
Scenes of Navajo life include: sheepherding and animal husbandry; rug weaving; moccasin making; preparing food; visiting the trading post; farming; a marriage, silversmithing; conducting a sweat; performing a men’s Shooting Way Chant and sandpainting. Digital Heritage
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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
Completed Alternate Audio Narration, Sponsored and Educational FilmsSummary
Major themes covered: Daily life; rug weaving; social life; courtship; wedding customs; sheepherding; preparing food; harvesting corn; carding and spinning wool; rug weaving; trade; silverwork; social dances; constructing a hogan.Digital Heritage
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Navajo/Diné CommunityCategory
Completed Alternate Audio Narration, Sponsored and Educational FilmsSummary
Episode of the TV show Vagabond about Monument Valley and the Navajo people. Navajo-related activities include a cross-cultural exchange with YMCA/YWCA, selling rugs, weaving, sheepherding, cooking, doctor visit.Digital Heritage
Community
Navajo/Diné CommunityCategory
Completed Alternate Audio Narration, Sponsored and Educational FilmsSummary
Theme: overview of Navajo/Diné agricultural practices, moving from winter to summer hogans and other seasonal activities. Story: follows a family including two children, Little Bow and Dark Eyes.Digital Heritage
Community
Navajo/Diné CommunityCategory
Completed Alternate Audio Narration, Sponsored and Educational FilmsSummary
Follows Navajo/Diné Carillo family and Boja artisan couple through a variety of activities including silversmithing, jewelry making, preparing wool, weaving, brushing hair, and more. Digital Heritage
Community
Navajo/Diné CommunityCategory
B-Roll and Outtakes, Completed Alternate Audio Narration, Sponsored and Educational FilmsSummary
About a young Navajo/Diné boy, Son of the Hunter, who must grapple with death, abondonment by his father, his family's limited resources, and being forcibly moved to an indian boarding school.Digital Heritage
Community
Navajo/Diné CommunityCategory
Completed Alternate Audio Narration, Sponsored and Educational FilmsSummary
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.Digital Heritage
Community
Navajo/Diné CommunityCategory
Completed Alternate Audio Narration, Sponsored and Educational FilmsSummary
Story about a Navajo family and their battle with tuberculosis as two members must heal in a sanatorium. Storyline includes generational differences regarding Western medicine, and a young Navajo man's decision to attend an Indian boarding school.Digital Heritage
Community
Navajo/Diné CommunityCategory
Completed Alternate Audio Narration, Sponsored and Educational FilmsSummary
Navajo activities include: silversmithing jewelry and bow guard; grinding corn meal and baking bread; eating a meal; ploughing and planting; children and elders; wrapping a baby into a cradleboard. Views of Monument Valley and Canyon de Chelly.