Title The return of Navajo Boy / Groundswell Educational Films presents ; directed by Jeff Spitz ; co-produced by Jeff Spitz & Bennie Klain

Published [Chicago, IL] : Groundswell Educational Films, 2000 [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 57 min.)) : sound, color with black and white sequences Summary The Return of Navajo Boy, an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival and PBS, is an internationally acclaimed documentary that reunited a Navajo family and triggered a federal investigation into uranium contamination. It tells the story of Elsie Mae Begay, whose history in pictures reveals an incredible and ongoing struggle for environmental justice. A powerful new epilogue (produced in 2008) shows how the film and Groundswell Educational Films' outreach campaign create news and rally supporters including Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA). The Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform mandated a clean-up plan by the five agencies that are responsible for uranium contamination. This film is a valuable resource for Native American and indigenous studies Credits Director of photography, Mark Eveslage ; edited by Sharon Karp ; music by Douglas Spotted Eagle ; advisors, Francis Mike [and others] ; Navajo translations & subtitles, Bennie Klain Performer Narrator, Lorenzo Begay Event Originally produced by Groundswell Educational Films in 2000; DVD released in 2011 Notes English and Navajo; closed-captioned in English Description based on online resource; title from title screen (Kanopy, viewed December 19, 2018) Subject Begay, Elsie Mae. SUBJECT Cly family Begay family Subject Navajo Indians -- Monument Valley (Ariz. and Utah) -- Social conditions Navajo Indians -- Monument Valley (Ariz. and Utah) -- Social life and customs Navajo Indians -- Monument Valley (Ariz. and Utah) -- Claims Navajo Indians -- Monument Valley (Ariz. and Utah) -- Government relations Uranium mines and mining -- Environmental aspects -- Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah Radioactivity -- Physiological effect -- Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah Uranium mines and mining -- Environmental aspects. Radioactivity -- Physiological effect. Navajo Indians -- Social life and customs. Navajo Indians -- Social conditions. Navajo Indians -- Government relations. Navajo Indians. United States -- Monument Valley. Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah. Genre/Form documentary film. Feature films. Ethnographic films. Environmental films. Claims. Documentary films. Documentary films. Documentaires. Form Streaming video Author Spitz, Jeff, film director, film producer. Klain, Bennie, film producer. Begay, Lorenzo, narrator. Eveslage, Mark, director of photography. Karp, Sharon, editor of moving image work. Spotted Eagle, Douglas, composer (expression) Groundswell Educational Films, production company. Kanopy (Firm), film distributor.

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