Students received instruction for English as a second language, Navajo, and cultural teachings resulting in increased involvement, improved reading, math and science skills.
World Literature Today, vol. 83, no. 3, May/June 2009, pp. 47-49
Description
Discusses how American Indians employ visual methods of storytelling to comment on their world. Content based on exhibit from the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture entitled, Comic Art Indigène:Where Comics and the Indigenous Meet
Speaker discusses her curatorial practices with special reference to developing the exhibition Through Their Eyes: Paintings from the Santa Fe Indian School.
Film depicts the family’s progress from a proud Chiricahua Apache family of storytellers in Oklahoma to a multi-talented artistic family in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Duration: 32:17.