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

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)

Trailer

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