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Named locations: The Tuolumne Reservation/Rancheria, Sonora, CA
Major themes covered: Life on the Rancheria/Reservation, Sovereignty, Youth Life and Culture on the Reservation, Assimilation, Contemporary Miwok Values, Miwok Family Life, Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians.
The second half of the film records an interview with a young man from the tribe.
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Named locations: Lake Mendocino, California State University, East Bay.
Major themes covered: Native American Senior Day at Mendo Lake; Pomo chanting and dancing; Pomo ceremonial dress; Mendo Lake Pomo Council; Elsie Allen; cultural revitalization within the Pomo community; Nelson Hopper; shamanism; Pomo diet; Pomo subsistence and language; academic interest in Pomo culture and language.
Native activities shown:
Establishing shot: San Franciso Peaks near Flagstaff, in northern Arizona
Named locations: San Francisco Peaks, Flagstaff
Major themes covered: gathering of Southwestern Indian tribes for annual dance festival in Flagstaff, Arizona
Native activities shown: Social and fancy dancing
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Native language spoken:
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Edited by: Ann Busch
Photographed by: Toge Fujihira
Establishing shot: A kachina figure dissolves over clouds and the camera vertically descends, revealing a large canyon. In the base of the canyon water can be seen flowing. A tree in the left foreground provides depth to the shot.
Named locations: The Painted Desert; the towering Mesas of Arizona; Keams Canyon, headquarters of the Hopi Indian Agency; Pinon Junction (sign); Oraibi (sign); Tuba City (sign);