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The return of Navajo boy & epilogue / Jeff Spitz Productions ; directed by Jeff Spitz ; co-producers, Jeff Spitz & Bennie Klain.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Navajo
- Subjects (All):
- Navajo Indians--Monument Valley (Ariz. and Utah)--Social conditions.
- Navajo Indians.
- 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.
- Uranium mines and mining.
- Radioactivity--Physiological effect--Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah.
- Radioactivity.
- Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (73 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, IL : Groundswell Educational Films, 2008.
- Language Note:
- In English and Navajo with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- video file
- 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. Ironically, the US EPA's Comprehensive Five-Year Plan did not include Ms Begay's backyard, until she traveled with this film to Washington, DC and screened it on Capitol Hill in September, 2008. Together we are building a groundswell for environmental justice.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed September 28, 2018).
- OCLC:
- 1065194001
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