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Sponsored and Educational Films
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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.Digital Heritage
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Navajo/Diné CommunityCollections
Completed Alternate Audio Narrations -- Navajo/Diné
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Sponsored and Educational Films
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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.Digital Heritage
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Navajo/Diné CommunityCollections
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Home Movies
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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
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Navajo/Diné CommunityCollections
Completed Alternate Audio Narrations -- Navajo/Diné
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Sponsored and Educational Films
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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 CommunityCollections
Completed Alternate Audio Narrations -- Navajo/Diné
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Sponsored and Educational Films
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Major themes briefly covered: Daily life, rug weaving, social life, courtship, wedding customs, sheepherding, preparing food, harvesting corn, carding and spinning wool, rug weaving, trade, silversmithing, social dances, and constructing a hogan.Digital Heritage
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Navajo/Diné CommunityCategory
Home Movies
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A caravan of tourists encounter a Diné group of women, children, and sheep herders on horseback, visit a hogan, and have lunch in Monument Valley. Digital Heritage
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Navajo/Diné CommunityCollections
Completed Alternate Audio Narrations -- Navajo/Diné
Category
Sponsored and Educational Films
Summary
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.