Navajos of the 70s

Year Published: 1970

Complete Record: Deals with the customs, history, economics, current problems and future prospects of the Navajo Indians. Specific sequences deal with the clothing, housing, transportation, water shortages, farming, schooling, medical care, coal and lumbering industries, and language problmes of today’s Navajos. In addtion, the film explores the Navajos’ myths regarding the beginning of mankind, the dislocation of the tribe from their land by the US Army in 1864, and the “Long Walk” back to the old homeland. One rare photographic sequence shows the puberty rite of a 14 year old Navajo girl.