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Edgar Perry interview on Fort Apache and Apache/Ndee history, interview with Bill O'Keene, and beginning of a Sunrise Dance/Na’íí’ee, a puberty ceremony performed by a girl accompanied by and older dancer (cont. on 2nd and 3rd videos in this series).

Two young Apache/Ndee women perform the Sunrise Dance/Na’íí’ees, a puberty ceremony (a continuation from "White Mountain Apache Culture Center and Museum 1").

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.

*SENSITIVE MATERIAL (see note young viewers). Kachina doll artisan Hubert Honanie (Water Clan), discusses his craft and the meaning of the kachina/katsina/tithu doll and its significance in Hopi culture.

Virginia Gutierrez (Nambé/Pojoaque Pueblo) demonstrates her Nambé pottery-making techniques.

Footage includes images of a white and Tiwa woman walking through Taos Pueblo plaza; various Tiwa people posing; dogs, children playing in the plaza, laundry on lines, a bit of Rio Pueblo and surrounding mountains, etc.

Short interview with a student, Debbie Salas, on her experience at the school, why she chose to go there, etc.

School Superintendent, Joe Abeyta, discusses future plans, then sign contract transfering school to control of All Indian Pueblo Council.

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.

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