Weaving Worlds - Navajo Rug Documentary Trailer

WEAVING WORLDS highlights the untold stories of the personalities and characters involved in the making and selling of Navajo rugs. The film presents a compelling and intimate portrait of economic and cultural survival through the art of weaving in the face of increased globalization. Director BENNIE KLAIN has a keen and compassionate eye, and he allows viewers into the world of indigenous artists and their struggle to maintain pride and cultural vitality through creating their textiles and "reweaving the world." The result is a poignant digital portrait of Navajo artisans and their unique—and often controversial—relationship with white Reservation traders.

Weaving Worlds is a co-production of TricksterFilms, LLC and the Independent Television Service (ITVS) in association with Native American Public Telecommunications (NAPT), with major funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Navajo
• Rugs
• Traders
• Bennie
• Klain
• Trickster
• NAPT
• ITVS
• APT
• Indians
• Globalization
• Native
• American
• Art

[Alstomus]

Page Arizona, PART of the res.

[BlackSeranna]

I watched some of this on my PBS station and it made me angry that the coal people are taking away your water. I wish there were something I could do for you. Perhaps if the west adopts sunlight technology, there will be no more need for coal being shipped to California.

[gipper086]

buy their rugs and "listen" to what they have to say. they speak truth

[lmollot]

"whippings on weaker children" "women have 7 or more kids"?-thats taught by whte mans schools-so many ethnic women overwork her paycheck goes to father/brother/sons booze/drugs- natives kids in schools battered & end up drunk/drug on streets-how different from the IROQUOIS MATRIARCHY LONGHOUSES - see iroquois women by spittal- no money needed/dependence on clients- if grow food/make clothes/shoes

[lmollot]

WHY  need money?

[lmollot]

HIC INDIA 2005- recommended that religious excess lands be transferred to womens collectives-to prevent sex assauls/marital prostitution/rape of women & children & joblessness &homelessness

NATIVE IN INDIA- would be better to BUY LANDS than to WAIT for gov etc to ACT- while waiting, natives are abused by teachers,shelters, & landless ,JOBLESS school graduates are forced into drug/sex slaves city ghettos

FARM EDUCATION & LAND MORE USEFUL THAN EDUCATION ( SEX ABUSe BY TEACHERS,KILLS FORESTS 4 BOOK

[lmollot]

tactic to finally break down power of natives- women farm communes turned to becomeslaves 2 one man like christian women-ACT was patriarchy christian women against power native women whose large grandmothers clans were INVINCIBLE against the white man conquerers-split up the women cd be attacked by whites-indian men were told they cd own women s labor/lands/her children-to this day thats what native men expects-so isolated men shipped to war by gov who take his farm-buy lands 4 farming for food

[lmollot]

tactic to finally break down power of natives- women farm communes turned to becomeslaves 2 one man like christian women-ACT was patriarchy christian women against power native women whose large grandmothers clans were INVINCIBLE against the white man conquerers-split up the women cd be attacked by whites-indian men were told they cd own women s labor/lands/her children-to this day thats what native men expects-so isolated men shipped to war by gov who take his farm

[83169]

@Alstomus You can tell more about a man from what he says about others, than from what others say about him.

[clyazzie87]

page, arizona is definately part of the navajo (dine')...

[Patdlaca]

Does anyone know what external forces are causing cutlural change for the navajo people?

[BlackSeranna]

I wish I could go out west and have a weaving class and learn how to do it from the pros.