The Return of Navajo Boy (2000)
- Directed by
- Jeff Spitz
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 52 min
- Rating
- 8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This documentary follows the Cly family, who are Navajo living on their reservation. It looks at issues like environmental damage from uranium mining and the adoption of Navajo children away from their families.
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What happens
The Return of Navajo Boy (released in 2000) is a documentary film produced by Jeff Spitz and Bennie Klain about the Cly family, Navajo who live on their reservation. Through them, the film explores several longstanding issues among the Navajo and their relations with the United States government and corporations: environmental racism, media and political representation, off-reservation adoption, and denial of reparations for environmental illnesses due to uranium mining in Monument Valley, Utah, which was unregulated for decades. Bill Kennedy served as the film's executive producer; his father had produced and directed the earlier silent film The Navajo Boy (1950s), which featured the Cly family. In 2000, the film was an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival. It has won numerous awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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