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Navajo/Diné Community
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Needs Review by Navajo/Diné Community
Category
Sponsored and Educational Films
Summary
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.
Community
Navajo/Diné Community
Collections
Needs Review by Navajo/Diné Community
Category
Home Movies
Summary
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...
Community
Navajo/Diné Community
Collections
Needs Review by Navajo/Diné Community
Category
Sponsored and Educational Films
Summary
Journey travelogue film on leasing land to oil companies as a social and financial benefit. Calvin Clauschee and his uncle Bill Draper visit oil rigs, Areth (Utah) Trading Post, Window Rock, the Navajo Tribal Fair, the Clauschee family home, and more.
Community
Puebloan (Several Villages) Community , Navajo/Diné Community
Collections
Needs Review by Puebloan (Several Villages) Community, Needs Review by Navajo/Diné Community
Category
Home Movies
Summary
Edited home movie footage of Tesuque Pueblo/Tetsʼúgéh Ówîngeh, Taos Pueblo/ȉałopháymųp’ȍhə́othə̀olbo dancers (incl. Pat Goodnight) performing for cameraman, and Navajo/Diné (Joe Whitehoop) dancers performing.
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
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, 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
Needs Review by Navajo/Diné Community
Category
Sponsored and Educational Films
Summary
Film showcases three ceremonial dances performed at night: Great Feathered Arrow Dance, Feather Dance, and Fire Dance. Also features the arrivals of families to the event, making fry breads, and more.
Community
Hopi Community
Collections
Needs Review by Navajo/Diné Community, Needs Review by Hopi Community
Category
Educational Film Strip
Summary
Educational film strip for children about a young widower, Talayesva, from Oraibi (Third Mesa) who follows his recently deceased wife, Moki, to the land of the afterlife: Moska.
Community
Navajo/Diné Community
Collections
Needs Review by Navajo/Diné Community
Category
Sponsored and Educational Films
Summary
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.
Community
Navajo/Diné Community
Collections
Needs Review by Navajo/Diné Community
Category
Documentary
Summary
St. Louis area television program (sponsored by PBS's predecessor National Educational Television and Radio Center) episode focussing on the Navajo/Diné people. Further description forthcoming.
Community
Navajo/Diné Community
Collections
Needs Review by Navajo/Diné Community
Category
Sponsored and Educational Films
Summary
The film discusses the rise of mining in the West and recycles footage from other films to include commentary on the Navajo/Diné peoples. Further description forthcoming.

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