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Walks in Beauty

1997
Fifteen-year-old Anita Whiterock, a Navajo teenager living on a New Mexico reservation, struggles with conflicting forces as she tries to reconcile traditional Navajo ways with her desires for progress.

Peter MacDonald

former Chairman of the Navajo Nation
1995
Chronicles the life of controversial Native American leader Peter MacDonald.

A celebration of being

photographs of the Hopi and Navajo
1989

Crossroads

1994
Hobart Slim lives an uneventful life helping his mother and uncle run a shabby hotel, and the biggest thing in his life is coping with the school bully. Then Lettie Mendoza comes to town and teaches him to stand up for himself.

Seasons of the Navajo

A sensitive portrait of a traditional Navajo family and their season cycles of life that is in partnership with their surroundings.

America's secret weapon

the Navajo code talkers of World War II
2004
Contains a history of the Navajo code talkers, Native Americans who devised codes using their native langauges that were used by the United States military in World War II and never broken.

Code talkers

2008
Two Navajo brothers use their native language that they've been forbidden to speak to help in winning World War II.

Navajo bird tales told by Hosteen Clah Chee

1970
Sixteen Navajo bird tales told by an old medicine man to a shepherd boy and his friends.

Grandfather's story of Navajo monsters

1988
The story of two brave Navajo warriors who defeated two monsters, the Monster Who Kicked People Off the Cliff and the Horned Monster.

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