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Community
Navajo/Diné Community
Collections
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
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
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
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
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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