Independent Lens : The Return of Navajo Boy (2000)

Sub-Genres - Biography, Film & Television History, Interpersonal Relationships, Social History  |   Run Time - 60 min.  |   Countries - United States  |  
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"Return of the Navajo Boy," an update of a 1952 documentary about Navajo life in Utah's Monument Valley, follows the first filmmaker's son as he visits the family his father profiled. One highlight: the family's reunion with a brother (named for John Wayne) who was separated from the family when he was a baby. The hour also explores the effect of uranium mining on the family. Lorenzo Begay narrates.

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Navajo, family-reunion, Indian (Native-American)-reservation, photograph, reminiscence, silent-film, matriarch, family, film, mining-town