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 Miss
Navajo
(2006, 60 min.) US
Director: William Luther (Navajo/Hopi/Laguna Pueblo)
No ordinary beauty pageant, the Miss Navajo Nation competition
requires contestants to answer tough historical questions in the
Navajo language and showcase traditional knowledge. The filmmaker,
whose mother was crowned Miss Navajo in 1966, goes along on one
contender's journey and interviews winners from the past five
decades. The event's sacred dimension also emerges—young
women are joining a matriarchal continuum that goes back to creation
and the first Diné life-giving ancestor, Changing Woman.
Image
credit: Miss Navajo - Idris Rheubottom;
Miss Navajo - Idris Rheubottom
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