Ohkay Owingeh/San Juan Pueblo 1 (1977)

Summary: 
Tribal leaders and San Juan Day School representatives discuss Tewa-English bilingual education, community opinion, and its importance to the survival of Indian culture.
Description: 

Close-up of an elder Ohkay Owingeh man speaking Tewa and looking directly at camera; camera then zooms out to show he’s seated at a table covered in a Native-design rug before a mic and with two other younger men and younger women (they seem to be in a museum or library space); the man at far right (Anthony Archuleta) addresses the cameraperson (off-camera), next to address the camera is the woman third from left (Edith Peatinco), next to her is a slightly older woman (Pauline Antoine), and finally next to the elderly man is a middle-aged man (Juan Aquino), and the elder man speaks again in Tewa; then the camera switches back and forth from the group to the individual speakers. Around 25 minutes in, the cameraperson zooms in on a younger man who has sat down on the far right of the table (Herman Agoyo) to speak; camera returns to previous pattern of capturing the group and individuals; around 38 minutes in the camera rests on a close up of the tribal council’s logo on a banner with an illustration of a Native man’s head wearing traditional headdress and the ring around him reads “First Capitol of New Mexico — San Juan Pueblo Tribal Council.”


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