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Navajo/Diné Community
Collections
Completed Alternate Audio Narrations -- Navajo/Diné
Category
Sponsored and Educational Films
Summary
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.
Community
Navajo/Diné Community
Collections
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.
Community
Navajo/Diné Community, Puebloan (Several Villages) Community , Hopi Community, Intertribal/Pan-Indian Community
Collections
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.
Community
Navajo/Diné Community
Collections
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.
Community
Puebloan (Several Villages) Community
Collections
Needs Review by Puebloan (Several Villages) Community
Category
Sponsored and Educational Films
Summary
Jemez Pueblo father, Vivian Fragua, instructs his son, Moses, on their cultural practices and heritage including agriculture and food making, adobe building, and ceremonial dances. They also visit the Gallup Indian Ceremonial and perform in the parade.
Community
Navajo/Diné Community, Hopi Community, Intertribal/Pan-Indian Community
Collections
Needs Review by Navajo/Diné Community, Needs Review by Hopi Community
Category
Documentary
Summary
Documentary about the history of the forced relocation of thousands of Navajo people from Black Mesa in Arizona after the 1974 Navajo-Hopi Land Settlement Act.
Community
Intertribal/Pan-Indian Community, Navajo/Diné Community, Puebloan (Several Villages) Community
Collections
Completed Alternate Audio Narrations -- Navajo/Diné
Category
Sponsored and Educational Films
Summary
Shot at the Albuquerque Indian Sanitarium. On the topic of Tuberculosis symptoms, early detection, and healthcare in American Indian communities. [Note: there is a short section of the original film (5:04-6:12) that is audio only due to film decay.]
Community
Navajo/Diné Community, Puebloan (Several Villages) Community
Collections
Needs Review by Navajo/Diné Community
Category
Newsreel
Summary
An episode of YESTERDAY'S NEWSREEL television program recounting the 1931 New Mexico blizzard where Zuni/A:shiwi and Navajo/Diné individuals and families were rescued or their bodies recovered.
Community
Intertribal/Pan-Indian Community, Puebloan (Several Villages) Community , Apache/N'dee/Ndé Community
Collections
Needs Review by Puebloan (Several Villages) Community, Needs Review by Apache/Ndee Community, Needs Review by Pan-Indian Community
Category
Sponsored and Educational Films
Summary
This film features dancers, rodeo performers, and a parade of various tribes (including Kiowa/Ka'igwu, Jemez Pueblo/Walatowa, Apache/Nde/Ndee and Zuni/A:shiwi) at the annual The Inter-Tribal Ceremonials in Gallup, New Mexico.
Community
Puebloan (Several Villages) Community
Collections
Needs Review by Puebloan (Several Villages) Community
Category
Sponsored and Educational Films
Summary
Pueblo Indians historically through contemporary era with emphasis on Taos, Acoma, and Zuni communities. Includes footage of Mesa Verde, Santa Fe Indian School, Gallup Inter-Tribal Gallup Indian Ceremonial, and Tony Reyna Indian Arts and Crafts store.
Community
Intertribal/Pan-Indian Community, Navajo/Diné Community, Hopi Community, Apache/N'dee/Ndé Community, Puebloan (Several Villages) Community
Collections
Needs Review by Navajo/Diné Community, Needs Review by Hopi Community, Needs Review by Puebloan (Several Villages) Community, Needs Review by Apache/Ndee Community
Category
Sponsored and Educational Films
Summary
*Culturally insensitive content.* Various Native communities perform ceremonial dances and compete in games in festivals at various locations like Tesuque Pueblo/Tetsʼúgéh Ówîngeh. Also features a Wampanoag marriage ceremony.
Community
Navajo/Diné Community
Collections
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.

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