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Navajo/Diné CommunityCollections
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.Digital Heritage
Community
Navajo/Diné CommunityCollections
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.Digital Heritage
Community
Navajo/Diné CommunityCollections
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.Digital Heritage
Community
Navajo/Diné CommunityCollections
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. Digital Heritage
Community
Navajo/Diné CommunityCollections
Completed Alternate Audio Narrations -- Navajo/Diné
Category
Sponsored and Educational Films
Summary
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
Community
Navajo/Diné Community, Puebloan (Several Villages) Community , Hopi Community, Intertribal/Pan-Indian CommunityCollections
Needs Review by Hopi Community, Needs Review by Puebloan (Several Villages) Community, Completed Alternate Audio Narrations -- Navajo/Diné
Category
Sponsored and Educational Films
Summary
Part 1: Navajo activities include: silversmithing, rug weaving, trading post activity. Part 2: Hopi and Zuni artisans make pottery and jewelry, also visit an Indian Fair. Part II begins at 11:20.Digital Heritage
Community
Navajo/Diné CommunityCollections
Completed Alternate Audio Narrations -- Navajo/Diné
Category
Sponsored and Educational Films
Summary
Survey of modern conveniences and amenities to be found on the reservation, including Navajo/Diné-owned businesses, boarding schools, soldiers and Boy Scouts, art classes, public ceremonies, and the newly opened General Dynamics Navajo Facility.Digital Heritage
Community
Navajo/Diné CommunityCollections
Completed Alternate Audio Narrations -- Navajo/Diné
Category
Sponsored and Educational Films
Summary
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
Community
Navajo/Diné CommunityCollections
Completed Alternate Audio Narrations -- Navajo/Diné
Category
Sponsored and Educational Films
Summary
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 CommunityCollections
Completed Alternate Audio Narrations -- Navajo/Diné
Category
Sponsored and Educational Films
Summary
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.