New York : Women Make Movies, [2000?]
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Notes:

• DVD.
• In English and Navajo.
• Arlene Bowman, Ann Ruth Biah.
• Photographed and edited by Arlene Bowman and James Mulryan Navajo/English translations, Geraldine Keams.
• Originally produced in 1986.
• Documents the life of Arlene Bowman’s grandmother on the Navajo Reservation in Lower Greasewood, Arizona then, documents the filming of her granddaughter, who does not know Navajo, as she tries to get help interpreting for another film that she’ll be in along with her grandmother. Looks at the contrasting attitudes of her grandmother, living and thinking in traditional ways, to being filmed and granddaughter as the urbanized filmmaker who grew up speaking English among white people.

Subjects:

• Navajo Indians — Social life and customs.
• Navajo women — Arizona — Attitudes.
• Culture conflict — United States.
• Conflict of generations — United States.
• Documentary films. lcgft
• Ethnographic films. lcgft
• Biographical films. lcgft

Requested by Marubbio, E.