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Community
Apache/N'dee/Ndé Community
Category
Video Footage
Summary
Two young White Mountain Apache/Ndee women performing the Sun Dance ceremony/Na’íí’ees (continues from "White Mountain Apache Culture Center and Museum 2"), the crowd, and women prepare fry bread.
Community
Intertribal/Pan-Indian Community
Category
Video Footage
Summary
Cook and member of Many Trails Indian Club of Los Angeles demonstrates all the steps to making fry bread according to her community's tradition.
Community
Yokut Community
Category
Sponsored and Educational Films
Summary
An overview of Yokut culture and daily practices including crafting arrows, hunting and cooking practices, and storytelling.
Community
Cahuilla Community
Category
Sponsored and Educational Films
Summary
History and culture of the Cahuilla, reenactment of typical days in the lives of the Cahuilla narrator's grandparents, hunting and gathering, also her family's diet, initiation rituals, games.
Community
Akimel O'odham/Pima Community & Tohono O'odham/Papago Community
Category
Sponsored and Educational Films
Summary
TV program visits the Santa Rosa Ranch School and Tohono O'odham village of Sil Nakya. The host interviews and performs for local school children, and also a prominent family in the village and women cooking, and features a ceremonial wine dance.
Community
Navajo/Diné Community
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.
Community
Apache/N'dee/Ndé Community
Category
Sponsored and Educational Films
Summary
A brief summary of Apache/Nde/Ndee everyday activities (particularly women's roles) and ceremonies including the Sunrise Ceremony/Girls’ Puberty Ceremony.
Community
Navajo/Diné Community
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
Akimel O'odham/Pima Community & Tohono O'odham/Papago Community
Category
Sponsored and Educational Films
Summary
The narrative follows the daily routines of two Tohono O’odham children, their family and their community. Includes cooking, tending their fields, water gathering, picking prickly pairs and attending bible study and church.
Community
Akimel O'odham/Pima Community & Tohono O'odham/Papago Community
Category
Sponsored and Educational Films
Summary
This film follows the plight of Akimel O'odham farmers and how local irrigation efforts, San Carlos Irrigation Project, and the Coolidge Dam factor into their modern practices. Also covers food preservation practices and basket weaving.