Completed Alternate Audio Narrations -- Navajo/Diné

Completed Alternate Audio Narrations -- Navajo/Diné

These films are accompanied by one or more alternative audio narrations contributed by members of the broader Navajo/Diné community.

How to Play the Video and Audio Recordings at the Same Time

  1. For best results, play the video first and turn down the volume completely by clicking and dragging the blue lines on the right-hand side to the left until the bars all turn gray. Wait for the black screen with text to disappear...
  2. Next, click on the audio player's play button. The volumne control is on the right-hand side. Quickly return to the video.
  3. Note: Narrators have approached discussing the videos in their own way. Some speak directly to the footage on the screen, other narrators are more conversational, or a combination of both.

If you would like to narrate a film, email us at the address at the bottom of your screen.

Items in Collection: 
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.]
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.
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.
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.
A young Navajo/Diné boy, Son of the Hunter, must grapple with death, abondonment by his father, his family's limited resources, and being forcibly moved to an indian boarding school. Plus other footage shot during production.

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