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(flute music)

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(eagle screeching)

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My family has lived
here in Monument Valley

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for a long time.

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(flute music)

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I am from the (speaking
foreign language) clan,

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which means red-streaked bottom clan.

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My name is Lorenzo Begay.

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I am a Navajo.

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A few years ago a man showed up

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with old pictures of my family.

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The pictures were from a
movie that we had never seen.

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I never thought that pictures
would change anyone's life.

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But that was before the
return of the Navajo Boy.

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(singing in foreign language)

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I had no way of knowing

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where the road was going to take us.

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All I was doing was taking
this guy to different places,

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to different people's homes,

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to show them the movie of the Navajo Boy.

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(singing in foreign language)

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(speaking in foreign language)

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[Bill] Hi, I'm Bill Kennedy.

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[Translator] This is Jimmy.

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Nice to meet you, Jimmy.

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My father did a movie of you
when you were a young boy,

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called Navajo Boy.

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I thought I was never
going to see that movie.

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It's about 29 minutes, the movie,

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there is no sound to it.

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It's a silent movie.

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My father would narrate it when
he would show it to people,

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and explain what was happening.

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I asked him to give me

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all of the information about this movie,

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and he never did.

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And he died suddenly.

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I didn't understand anything about it,

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but I wanted to learn from your voice.

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What you think of that?

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(speaking in foreign language)

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(all laughing)

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[Bill] That was you.

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Cannot go back younger.

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I don't know, maybe we both can, huh?

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(all laughing)

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Remember, we're the same age.

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That's you Jimmy, right there.

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[Jimmy] Slow motion.

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Had a really hard time to
make a movie out there.

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At that time it was hot, just crying.

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Both my tear was coming down.

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Keep going with the donkey.

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I was earning only about 25 cents.

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Just little bit, I remember it.

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[Bill] Then you find out

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that some of your relatives are ill.

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You get on a little burro,

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and ride to the medicine man.

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(speaking in foreign language)

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And you bring the medicine
man back to your hogan,

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and they perform a ritual.

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How long did the movie take?

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(speaking in foreign language)

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[Translator] About one whole week.

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[Jimmy] It was hard work.

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(singing in foreign language)

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[Bill] We could go over to see your hogan,

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yes?

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[Jimmy] Hogan.

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Can you say Hogan?

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-Hogan?
-Yeah.

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This is my number one hogan we made.

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Do you ever stay in here?

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Yeah, we used to stay all the winter.

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My father usually told,

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always the door is out the east way.

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So when you get out in the morning,

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get up and run into it,

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as far as you can.

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So when you get old, you get stronger.

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That's what he told me, when I was young.

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[Bill] Do you mind if we
take a look at your sheep?

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[Jimmy] Yeah.

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When I was 10 years old, I used to have

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-about 340.
-(bells clanging)

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Now it's really small, only about 33,

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but now I'm just taking it easy.

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It's all that I've got left here,

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taking care of the sheep.

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(gate rattling)

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(bells clanging)

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One day he was herding sheep.

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He said if something
happens with the sheep,

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they all die, somehow can he survive.

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So he sneaked out to work

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as a uranium mine worker over there.

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He told the boss he was 15 years old.

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He was only 14.

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So he started working
there for two months,

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and on his payday, he bought
his clothes and a suitcase,

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and he took off to school.

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(flute music)

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[Lorenzo] After leaving Jimmy's house,

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I took Bill to meet my mom.

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My mom was the oldest

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of all the children in "Navajo Boy."

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She remembers the most.

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My name is Bill Kennedy.

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Nice to meet you.

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-This is Elsie Begay.
-Elsie May Begay.

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Nice to meet you, Elsie.

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This is Bill.

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My maiden name was Cly, C-L-Y.

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-Your maiden name, Cly?
-Cly, C-L-Y.

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[Bill] Okay, so I remember

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that you were in the movie you'll see.

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[Lorenzo] This was the first time

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that anyone brought
pictures back to the family.

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[Elsie] I haven't seen that.

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(speaking in foreign language)

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[Lorenzo] We discussed
using the old footage

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to make a different kind of film.

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Our own documentary.

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(speaking in foreign language)

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(children laughing and shouting)

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(speaking in foreign language)

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And that's my grandma, fixing my hair.

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[Bill] And that's your hair, that's you,

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-isn't it?
-Yeah, that's me.

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My grandma used to comb my hair

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and put up my hair like this,

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and used to say that if we have long hair,

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that's how the rain comes.

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But right now today, they cut their hair.

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Maybe that's why we don't have the rain.

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(Elsie laughing)

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[Bill] Now who is this?

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That's my mom, that's holding the baby.

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My brother, his name is John Wayne Cly.

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He was two years old when they adopt him.

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I haven't seen him.

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No, I haven't seen him.

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[Bill] Oh.

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I think he was the baby at that time.

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And his name is John Wayne?

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John Wayne Cly, C-L-Y.

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[Bill] He never came back?

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He never came back.

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[Lorenzo] The old film
brought back memories.

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We were in so many pictures.

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In the 1920s,

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a white man came here and
began trading with the Navajos.

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To build his business
and to attract tourists,

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Harry Goulding began taking pictures

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of my great-grandparents,
Happy and Willie Cly.

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(singing in foreign language)

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Goulding brought lots of camera
people to meet my family.

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Goulding even brought John Ford,

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the director who made
all the famous westerns

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with John Wayne.

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When other Navajos didn't trust Goulding,

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it was my family that accepted him.

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My family helped him learn
the language and the culture.

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Goulding called us Cly.

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He was just trying to say

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(speaking in foreign language)

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our family name, which means lefthanded.

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The Navajo call him the

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(speaking in foreign language)

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He got a lot of sheep, he's told me.

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When the Navajo needs some grocery,

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they give some sheep to Harry Goulding.

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That's how Harry Goulding
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maybe about 5,000 head.

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Every day, Harry Goulding
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and bring tours,

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and we'd do some weaving, and carting,

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and spin wool, and ground corn.

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And my grandma used to make
a fry bread for them too.

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(fry bread sizzling)

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(bells clanging)

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Sometimes we'd herd the
sheep too, for them.

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And take the sheep up
there to the sand dune,

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and bring them down to the water.

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That's what we'd do, almost every day.

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Sometime he say these peoples come

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from California, or Chicago,

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like that, far away.

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One time I was riding a
horse on the sand dune.

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They take a movie out of that.

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[Lorenzo] All of the boys in "Navajo Boy"

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went to work mining uranium.

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My uncle Bernie was one of them.

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(pastoral orchestra music)

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Our history with uranium
is in the movies too,

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but they didn't tell anyone
how it would change our lives.

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[Narrator] The Navajos love the soil

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from which they earn their livelihood,

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and the various animals,

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the horses, sheep, and goats
they raise on the land.

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Their hearts are as big as
the area in which they live.

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Recently, vast deposits of uranium

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have been discovered in the Navajo Hills.

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This rare natural resource is becoming

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increasingly important in the
development of atomic power.

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[Lorenzo] My mom and my uncle
Bernie were just little kids

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when their mom and their
grandma both got lung disease.

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(speaking in foreign language)

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[Narrator] Today's people
are living on ground

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hallowed by their ancestors,

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looking forward to the future
of many brilliant tomorrows.

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(pastoral orchestra music)

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[Lorenzo] When nobody could
take care of John Wayne Cly,

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white missionaries took
him away from home.

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My mom passed away when he
was about maybe two years old.

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White men came,

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and took him.

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They told my grandma and my grandpa

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that they going to take away the baby.

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My grandpa told me

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that he's gonna be back,

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And that he's gonna be back
when he's six years old.

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And they took him.

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They didn't bring him back
when he was six years old.

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That's why my grandpa told me.

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[Lorenzo] Pictures and movies

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of my great-grandma Happy Clyde

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were taken every day
in the 1940s and '50s.

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One magazine called Happy Cly

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the most photographed woman in America.

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But in most pictures she's only identified

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as the Navajo woman.

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(singing in foreign language)

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[Narrator] This land is barely touched

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by the civilization around it,

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almost untouched by time itself.

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For this is the whole of the Navajo,

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the largest Indian reservation in America.

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Here the people live almost precisely

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as their ancestors did 100 years ago.

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Into this land that time forgot,

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John Ford brought men and
equipment to film the searchers,

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to capture the color, tradition,
and echoes of the past.

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The danger and excitement of the days

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when the fierce Comanche Indians

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cut a bloody trail through the rest.

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The now peaceful Navajo

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have a war-like history of their own,

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and even today are considered

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the finest horsemen in the world.

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So all it took was a little war paint

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to convert them into hard
riding, bloodthirsty Comanches.

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My grandfather Herbert Clyde Sr.

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told us what it was like

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being in the movies.

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(speaking in foreign language)

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[Narrator] Hollywood bulldozes its way

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into Arizona wastelands,

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to film one of the screen's
greatest Western dramas,

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"The Searchers."

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(speaking in foreign language)

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[Narrator] Just as
there was a century ago,

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the staff of life of the
Navajo is still corn,

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00:17:52,830 --> 00:17:55,410
still being ground into
meal by the same process

266
00:17:55,410 --> 00:17:57,393
that has been used for generations.

267
00:17:58,500 --> 00:18:02,190
Nor has the Navajo accepted the
advances of modern medicine.

268
00:18:02,190 --> 00:18:05,070
The Navajo still puts his
faith in the healing powers

269
00:18:05,070 --> 00:18:07,140
of these mystic symbols.

270
00:18:07,140 --> 00:18:11,373
Do you feel that this
ceremony is authentic,

271
00:18:12,690 --> 00:18:14,880
or do you feel it's not authentic?

272
00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:16,278
How do you feel about that?

273
00:18:16,278 --> 00:18:17,147
[Lorenzo] It's authentic.

274
00:18:17,147 --> 00:18:21,044
(speaking in foreign language)

275
00:18:21,044 --> 00:18:23,433
[Elsie] Yes, the ceremony is real.

276
00:18:24,300 --> 00:18:27,060
My grandma is not breathing right,

277
00:18:27,060 --> 00:18:29,850
or the little boy's not breathing right.

278
00:18:29,850 --> 00:18:34,850
Then you had the medicine man
singing or praying for you,

279
00:18:35,790 --> 00:18:40,790
and then you had to believe
that that song or that prayer

280
00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:43,170
are gonna heal you.

281
00:18:43,170 --> 00:18:46,020
That's what my grandma's thinking,

282
00:18:46,020 --> 00:18:48,720
that he's going to get well.

283
00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:51,926
But some morning in Navajo, we say,

284
00:18:51,926 --> 00:18:55,988
(speaking in foreign language)

285
00:18:55,988 --> 00:18:58,410
Some of the medicine men,

286
00:18:58,410 --> 00:19:01,530
they don't want to be
filmed, or take a picture.

287
00:19:01,530 --> 00:19:03,030
They don't want it.

288
00:19:03,030 --> 00:19:05,360
But this one said it's okay,

289
00:19:05,360 --> 00:19:07,890
-so they film.
-(dog barking)

290
00:19:07,890 --> 00:19:10,680
That's my grandma's kids here.

291
00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:12,090
[Bill] Now, is this Happy Cly?

292
00:19:12,090 --> 00:19:13,500
[Elsie] Yeah, this is Happy Cly.

293
00:19:13,500 --> 00:19:15,317
[Bill] And it's the same lady,

294
00:19:15,317 --> 00:19:17,517
[Elsie] That's the same lady in the movie.

295
00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:22,203
And this is me doing the carting again.

296
00:19:23,070 --> 00:19:25,683
The hogan is right here,
it was sitting here,

297
00:19:29,580 --> 00:19:32,103
after your grandma was doing the spinning.

298
00:19:34,470 --> 00:19:38,220
And then she used to cook here,

299
00:19:38,220 --> 00:19:43,220
make a fire, and cook on top of it.

300
00:19:43,410 --> 00:19:46,233
And then there's, the stove pot was here,

301
00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:50,493
and the stove is still waiting for her.

302
00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:53,970
[Lorenzo] My mom still uses postcards

303
00:19:53,970 --> 00:19:55,623
to show our family history.

304
00:19:58,230 --> 00:19:59,386
How about this one?

305
00:19:59,386 --> 00:20:01,140
-I haven't seen this one.
-This one has a donkey.

306
00:20:01,140 --> 00:20:01,973
The sheep herding.

307
00:20:01,973 --> 00:20:03,630
[Elsie] This is our sheep,

308
00:20:03,630 --> 00:20:04,463
[Family Member] Yours?

309
00:20:04,463 --> 00:20:05,296
[Elsie] Mm hm.

310
00:20:05,296 --> 00:20:06,180
[Family Member] Your grandpa's?

311
00:20:06,180 --> 00:20:08,933
[Elsie] My grandpa, grandma, my mom.

312
00:20:08,933 --> 00:20:11,370
Everybody in the family.

313
00:20:11,370 --> 00:20:13,113
Four or five sheep each.

314
00:20:14,266 --> 00:20:18,183
(speaking in foreign language)

315
00:20:24,810 --> 00:20:26,250
[Narrator] Perhaps the most desperate

316
00:20:26,250 --> 00:20:28,920
physical need of the country is water.

317
00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:30,780
The annual rainfall is meager,

318
00:20:30,780 --> 00:20:34,472
and little provision has
been made for conserving it.

319
00:20:34,472 --> 00:20:38,389
(speaking in foreign language)

320
00:20:54,180 --> 00:20:55,083
I can see it.

321
00:20:56,787 --> 00:20:59,223
Did you always had to
put your hair in a bun?

322
00:21:03,477 --> 00:21:04,310
Yeah.

323
00:21:05,407 --> 00:21:07,824
What'd you do for a friend?

324
00:21:08,871 --> 00:21:12,788
(speaking in foreign language)

325
00:21:14,938 --> 00:21:17,688
(Elsie laughing)

326
00:21:19,159 --> 00:21:22,992
(singing in foreign language)

327
00:21:31,397 --> 00:21:35,314
(speaking in foreign language)

328
00:21:56,828 --> 00:21:59,328
(flute music)

329
00:22:03,299 --> 00:22:07,216
(speaking in foreign language)

330
00:22:22,769 --> 00:22:27,269
[Elsie] I used to do that,
when I was a little girl.

331
00:22:32,862 --> 00:22:36,779
(speaking in foreign language)

332
00:22:56,340 --> 00:22:59,790
[Lorenzo] My parents
separated when I was 16.

333
00:22:59,790 --> 00:23:01,953
My mom raised us by herself.

334
00:23:04,770 --> 00:23:08,070
In wintertime, she
worked as a housekeeper.

335
00:23:08,070 --> 00:23:11,269
In the summer, she worked as a tour guide.

336
00:23:11,269 --> 00:23:14,102
(water splashing)

337
00:23:19,110 --> 00:23:21,423
Now she sells jewelry with us at the mall.

338
00:23:24,128 --> 00:23:26,628
(flute music)

339
00:23:30,105 --> 00:23:32,438
We all make our own jewelry.

340
00:23:45,463 --> 00:23:47,105
Look at that necklace right there.

341
00:23:47,105 --> 00:23:48,322
The big one?

342
00:23:48,322 --> 00:23:49,739
-Yeah.
-Oh wow.

343
00:23:51,982 --> 00:23:54,682
-That's pretty.
-Everything from Navajo.

344
00:23:54,682 --> 00:23:55,973
So where are you guys from?

345
00:23:55,973 --> 00:23:58,291
I'm from Kansas, and then Missouri.

346
00:23:58,291 --> 00:23:59,208
Missouri.

347
00:24:00,750 --> 00:24:01,860
And we're studying the Indians,

348
00:24:01,860 --> 00:24:03,637
'cause we just got finished reading

349
00:24:03,637 --> 00:24:05,130
"Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee."

350
00:24:05,130 --> 00:24:06,000
[Lorenzo] Oh really?

351
00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:07,680
That's, that's good.

352
00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:10,740
People from all over the
world come through my shop,

353
00:24:10,740 --> 00:24:14,730
and I like to find out what
they do in their country.

354
00:24:14,730 --> 00:24:16,025
Yeah, that's the only place.

355
00:24:16,025 --> 00:24:18,153
-It's unbelievable.
-Did you make most of these?

356
00:24:18,153 --> 00:24:19,440
My son Lorenzo did.

357
00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:21,510
[Lorenzo] It's like
playing down in Phoenix.

358
00:24:21,510 --> 00:24:25,020
A lot of them come back because
of the spiritual feelings

359
00:24:25,020 --> 00:24:26,850
in this valley.

360
00:24:26,850 --> 00:24:28,893
People just come back year after year.

361
00:24:34,470 --> 00:24:36,750
There's a lot of Navajo tour guides.

362
00:24:36,750 --> 00:24:39,330
Everybody has their
own story about things,

363
00:24:39,330 --> 00:24:41,730
the rock formation, the landscape,

364
00:24:41,730 --> 00:24:43,803
and the tradition around it.

365
00:24:44,790 --> 00:24:48,251
Everybody has their own
way of looking at things.

366
00:24:48,251 --> 00:24:50,340
(singing in foreign language)

367
00:24:50,340 --> 00:24:53,580
People call this the
Three Sisters, but Navajo,

368
00:24:53,580 --> 00:24:54,498
we just call it

369
00:24:54,498 --> 00:24:55,590
(speaking in foreign language)

370
00:24:55,590 --> 00:24:57,962
which means many rocks.

371
00:24:57,962 --> 00:25:01,350
(singing in foreign language)

372
00:25:01,350 --> 00:25:03,690
And this is Cly Butte,

373
00:25:03,690 --> 00:25:06,123
which was named after
my great-grandfather.

374
00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:10,884
In Navajo, we call Monument Valley

375
00:25:10,884 --> 00:25:12,240
(speaking in foreign language)

376
00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:15,933
meaning sand dunes around
the rock formation.

377
00:25:20,010 --> 00:25:21,390
I wonder what it would be like

378
00:25:21,390 --> 00:25:24,783
if there was no tours around.

379
00:25:31,339 --> 00:25:32,400
(tourists chatting)

380
00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:33,960
Now that there's a lot of people,

381
00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:35,913
there's always noise wherever you go.

382
00:25:38,576 --> 00:25:41,010
I always wonder how many
people go through here.

383
00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:45,810
I feel like they're not invading,

384
00:25:45,810 --> 00:25:48,360
I travel all over different countries,

385
00:25:48,360 --> 00:25:51,277
and I wanna know what their life is like.

386
00:25:52,710 --> 00:25:54,720
So you lived on the
reservation all your life?

387
00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:56,010
Yeah, in the Monument Valley,

388
00:25:56,010 --> 00:25:57,090
-here.
-In Monument Valley.

389
00:25:57,090 --> 00:26:01,260
Yeah, I was born here, near
Totem Pole on Sand Dune.

390
00:26:01,260 --> 00:26:03,780
I was born there.

391
00:26:03,780 --> 00:26:04,620
And your name is?

392
00:26:04,620 --> 00:26:06,300
I'm Elsie May Begay.

393
00:26:06,300 --> 00:26:07,710
[Tourist] Ah, Begay, okay.

394
00:26:07,710 --> 00:26:09,210
-Elsie May Cly Begay.
-Yeah.

395
00:26:09,210 --> 00:26:11,387
I'm a movie star with John Wayne.

396
00:26:11,387 --> 00:26:14,660
(all laughing)

397
00:26:14,660 --> 00:26:16,276
[Tourist] She's a movie
star with John Wayne.

398
00:26:16,276 --> 00:26:18,943
(all laughing)

399
00:26:23,490 --> 00:26:24,960
[Lorenzo] Like all Navajo women,

400
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:27,093
my mom is strong and independent.

401
00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:32,370
The community water
pump is about five miles

402
00:26:32,370 --> 00:26:33,603
from my mom's house.

403
00:26:36,570 --> 00:26:40,680
We all get our drinking
water from the same place.

404
00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:43,263
There's about 200 people
who live in this area.

405
00:26:44,820 --> 00:26:47,253
It takes about 10 minutes
to fill one barrel.

406
00:26:50,567 --> 00:26:53,400
(valve squeaking)

407
00:26:55,980 --> 00:26:59,913
My niece Sherry learns to be
patient filling the barrels.

408
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:06,930
The government came here a few years ago

409
00:27:06,930 --> 00:27:09,450
to check the safety of our drinking water,

410
00:27:09,450 --> 00:27:11,703
but they never came back with the results.

411
00:27:22,794 --> 00:27:23,627
Stop!

412
00:27:28,493 --> 00:27:31,713
Dealing with water, it
takes a lot of time.

413
00:27:36,750 --> 00:27:38,283
It does take hours.

414
00:27:39,290 --> 00:27:41,511
It's kind of hard.

415
00:27:41,511 --> 00:27:43,863
This one right there,
the blue one probably.

416
00:27:51,302 --> 00:27:54,302
Look right there, it's coming out!

417
00:27:57,515 --> 00:28:00,182
(water pouring)

418
00:28:04,429 --> 00:28:07,620
(flute music)

419
00:28:07,620 --> 00:28:10,860
My grandma and my grandpa used to say

420
00:28:10,860 --> 00:28:14,790
that this is our mom here, the land.

421
00:28:14,790 --> 00:28:16,503
And the sun is our father.

422
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:21,573
This has to be carried on
generation to generation.

423
00:28:24,120 --> 00:28:26,051
Like our clan,

424
00:28:26,051 --> 00:28:29,968
(speaking in foreign language)

425
00:28:44,458 --> 00:28:48,375
(speaking in foreign language)

426
00:28:50,053 --> 00:28:53,970
(speaking in foreign language)

427
00:28:55,867 --> 00:28:59,700
(singing in foreign language)

428
00:29:07,530 --> 00:29:10,170
[Lorenzo] The Navajo Nation
Museum invited my family

429
00:29:10,170 --> 00:29:11,820
to come to its grand opening,

430
00:29:11,820 --> 00:29:13,950
and show the highlights
of our documentary.

431
00:29:13,950 --> 00:29:15,000
Hi.

432
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:15,833
How are you?

433
00:29:15,833 --> 00:29:16,670
Nice to see you again.

434
00:29:18,071 --> 00:29:19,560
(speaking in foreign language)

435
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:20,393
[Lorenzo] We were excited

436
00:29:20,393 --> 00:29:22,710
to tell our story for the first time.

437
00:29:22,710 --> 00:29:26,340
And Bill was happy to see his
father's film was helping us.

438
00:29:26,340 --> 00:29:27,603
Nice to see you.

439
00:29:31,050 --> 00:29:31,920
[Bill] When you're 10 years old,

440
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:33,690
you don't know what your father's doing.

441
00:29:33,690 --> 00:29:37,680
You only look at him as a
man, and you're a young boy.

442
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,350
And by me going back and looking at this,

443
00:29:40,350 --> 00:29:41,220
and figuring it out,

444
00:29:41,220 --> 00:29:43,440
I understood a lot about my father

445
00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:45,076
that I didn't know before.

446
00:29:45,076 --> 00:29:47,326
(applause)

447
00:29:50,851 --> 00:29:51,684
(speaking in foreign language)

448
00:29:51,684 --> 00:29:55,684
(speaking in foreign language)

449
00:30:37,639 --> 00:30:39,889
(applause)

450
00:30:44,953 --> 00:30:48,870
(speaking in foreign language)

451
00:31:37,368 --> 00:31:39,618
(applause)

452
00:31:41,961 --> 00:31:45,794
(singing in foreign language)

453
00:32:35,257 --> 00:32:39,257
(speaking in foreign language)

454
00:33:09,610 --> 00:33:11,940
[Narrator] Royalties
from the uranium mines

455
00:33:11,940 --> 00:33:13,860
are providing much needed cash

456
00:33:13,860 --> 00:33:16,713
for the Navajo prospector,
and for the tribe.

457
00:33:17,580 --> 00:33:21,070
Many of the Navajo men are
employed in the uranium mines,

458
00:33:21,070 --> 00:33:24,420
where they are valued as
conscientious workers.

459
00:33:24,420 --> 00:33:25,350
[Lorenzo] The mining company

460
00:33:25,350 --> 00:33:27,210
didn't tell our fathers and uncles

461
00:33:27,210 --> 00:33:28,530
that uranium could kill them,

462
00:33:28,530 --> 00:33:31,713
or that it would be used
to make atomic bombs.

463
00:33:32,614 --> 00:33:35,364
(bomb exploding)

464
00:33:39,402 --> 00:33:42,737
Radiation, they've got
lots of radiation in there,

465
00:33:42,737 --> 00:33:47,397
they shut the mind down.

466
00:33:47,397 --> 00:33:52,397
'Cause this radiation is
really danger for the people

467
00:33:52,470 --> 00:33:53,730
that live down below.

468
00:33:53,730 --> 00:33:57,030
You know, my whole
family lived down there.

469
00:33:57,030 --> 00:34:02,030
My sister Elsie, my uncle,
and all is my family here.

470
00:34:05,070 --> 00:34:06,378
[Lorenzo] The company that was involved

471
00:34:06,378 --> 00:34:09,330
with these uranium mines,

472
00:34:09,330 --> 00:34:11,583
they should come back
and clean up the area.

473
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:14,910
They weren't thinking about the people,

474
00:34:14,910 --> 00:34:19,148
the Navajos and what my
family's going through.

475
00:34:19,148 --> 00:34:22,950
(speaking in foreign language)

476
00:34:22,950 --> 00:34:25,680
Two months ago, these people that came,

477
00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:29,760
they told us to do a
testing on the radiation

478
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:31,290
on the uranium mine.

479
00:34:31,290 --> 00:34:33,570
They said the radiation is too high

480
00:34:33,570 --> 00:34:38,040
for us to live around here,
so we might have to relocate.

481
00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:42,990
What you're seeing here is
the backdrop of the area

482
00:34:42,990 --> 00:34:47,250
where the Cly family lives.

483
00:34:47,250 --> 00:34:49,740
It's now a contaminated area,

484
00:34:49,740 --> 00:34:51,990
by the tailings out of the mines.

485
00:34:51,990 --> 00:34:55,020
And the children are still playing there,

486
00:34:55,020 --> 00:34:56,610
and still being exposed.

487
00:34:56,610 --> 00:34:59,913
This is part of the horror
of this whole tragedy.

488
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:03,510
[Lorenzo] The government apologized

489
00:35:03,510 --> 00:35:05,280
to the Navajo uranium miners,

490
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:08,373
and promised compensation to
everyone who got lung cancer.

491
00:35:12,300 --> 00:35:15,093
My uncle Bernie wanted to
make his case in person.

492
00:35:17,580 --> 00:35:21,210
Uranium would change my
family's future, once again.

493
00:35:21,210 --> 00:35:22,773
I got a surgery right here,

494
00:35:25,283 --> 00:35:27,486
here, all over my belly here.

495
00:35:27,486 --> 00:35:32,486
And they put all my rib up,
and then they work on my lung.

496
00:35:32,721 --> 00:35:34,020
They cut my lung in half.

497
00:35:34,020 --> 00:35:36,113
[Journalist] So did you
try to file a claim?

498
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:37,913
What is that?

499
00:35:37,913 --> 00:35:39,420
Did you try to get your money?

500
00:35:39,420 --> 00:35:41,493
Yeah, I tried to get my money, yeah.

501
00:35:42,447 --> 00:35:43,440
Have you gotten any compensation?

502
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:44,280
Have you gotten any money

503
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:45,780
for that lung they took out of you?

504
00:35:45,780 --> 00:35:46,950
[Bernie] No.

505
00:35:46,950 --> 00:35:47,783
[Journalist] Nothing?

506
00:35:47,783 --> 00:35:50,430
[Bernie] No, not yet.

507
00:35:50,430 --> 00:35:52,080
Because of this?

508
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:54,753
Because the cigarette is
right here in front of me.

509
00:35:55,590 --> 00:35:57,243
This is not true, you know.

510
00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:02,223
I don't smoke white man's
tobacco or cigarette.

511
00:36:03,630 --> 00:36:06,120
He said he wasn't smoking
white man's cigarettes,

512
00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:07,243
-but it was
-Traditional tobacco.

513
00:36:07,243 --> 00:36:08,610
traditional tobacco.

514
00:36:08,610 --> 00:36:10,800
And, but yet scientifically,

515
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:12,480
we should be able to determine

516
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:15,509
that this is not a factor
in the prog, right.

517
00:36:15,509 --> 00:36:17,610
[Bernie] It's right here.

518
00:36:17,610 --> 00:36:19,973
[Official] All the way back,
all the way through here.

519
00:36:21,870 --> 00:36:24,060
Bernie ought to qualify,

520
00:36:24,060 --> 00:36:25,770
but he doesn't,

521
00:36:25,770 --> 00:36:27,960
because they will not recognize

522
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:30,363
or accept any direct evidence from him.

523
00:36:31,837 --> 00:36:34,770
And that's where the real injustice comes,

524
00:36:34,770 --> 00:36:36,060
in a case like this.

525
00:36:37,453 --> 00:36:41,370
(speaking in foreign language)

526
00:37:26,100 --> 00:37:28,600
(flute music)

527
00:37:43,203 --> 00:37:47,403
When I was little kid,
my mom got lung trouble.

528
00:37:48,540 --> 00:37:50,820
She passed away in Tucson.

529
00:37:50,820 --> 00:37:52,503
I think the same problem.

530
00:37:52,503 --> 00:37:54,003
-From the radiation.
-Yeah.

531
00:37:54,919 --> 00:37:57,923
We was little kids.

532
00:37:57,923 --> 00:38:00,270
My little brother, white guys took away

533
00:38:00,270 --> 00:38:02,310
because nobody took care of him.

534
00:38:02,310 --> 00:38:04,300
So we didn't see him yet.

535
00:38:04,300 --> 00:38:05,558
Maybe he's a man now.

536
00:38:05,558 --> 00:38:07,290
(flute music)

537
00:38:07,290 --> 00:38:08,490
[Lorenzo] A couple of weeks later,

538
00:38:08,490 --> 00:38:10,770
a newspaper article came out with a story

539
00:38:10,770 --> 00:38:14,283
about Uncle Bernie and
the return of Navajo Boy.

540
00:38:20,580 --> 00:38:23,553
What happened next was totally unexpected.

541
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:29,070
I called the editor of the newspaper,

542
00:38:29,070 --> 00:38:33,180
and he found out it was about my family.

543
00:38:33,180 --> 00:38:38,163
He gave me a name of Violet,
who I found out to be my niece.

544
00:38:39,060 --> 00:38:43,080
And she told me that her
grandfather and grandmother

545
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:44,373
were Happy and Willie.

546
00:38:45,690 --> 00:38:47,940
When I was small, I was told about them.

547
00:38:47,940 --> 00:38:51,390
Happy and Willie were your
grandmother and grandfather.

548
00:38:51,390 --> 00:38:53,460
And when I saw their name in the article,

549
00:38:53,460 --> 00:38:56,110
I kind of knew that maybe this was

550
00:38:58,230 --> 00:38:59,553
the right road to follow.

551
00:39:01,110 --> 00:39:05,790
I live in Zuni, with my wife and kids.

552
00:39:05,790 --> 00:39:08,882
My name is John Wayne Cly.

553
00:39:08,882 --> 00:39:10,710
I'm 43 years old,

554
00:39:10,710 --> 00:39:12,090
I think.

555
00:39:12,090 --> 00:39:13,990
I never could get a birth certificate.

556
00:39:16,590 --> 00:39:19,440
[Elsie] John Wayne came to our house,

557
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:21,810
and what's the name of the baby, he said,

558
00:39:21,810 --> 00:39:25,563
and he said he don't
have any name made yet.

559
00:39:26,550 --> 00:39:29,583
So he said, I'll make the name,

560
00:39:30,837 --> 00:39:34,263
and his name gonna be John Wayne Cly.

561
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:37,053
So we call him John Wayne.

562
00:39:39,870 --> 00:39:41,430
[Lorenzo] We were surprised to find out

563
00:39:41,430 --> 00:39:44,730
that my uncle John lived
in Zuni, New Mexico,

564
00:39:44,730 --> 00:39:46,803
a four hour drive from Monument Valley.

565
00:39:48,270 --> 00:39:51,183
We were anxious to meet
him, and hear his story.

566
00:39:53,610 --> 00:39:56,550
After I was picked up in Monument Valley

567
00:39:56,550 --> 00:39:57,900
by the missionaries,

568
00:39:57,900 --> 00:40:00,360
I was taken to a mission home.

569
00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:03,723
It's in New Mexico, in
the Continental Divide.

570
00:40:05,190 --> 00:40:07,590
I was raised with two foster brothers

571
00:40:07,590 --> 00:40:09,900
and two foster sisters.

572
00:40:09,900 --> 00:40:13,350
My foster brother's name was Ron Hudson,

573
00:40:13,350 --> 00:40:15,783
and my best friend's
name was Robert Goulet.

574
00:40:16,950 --> 00:40:19,080
So there was three of us.

575
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:21,903
Robert Goulet, Rock
Hudson, and John Wayne.

576
00:40:23,310 --> 00:40:26,340
The reason I never had a
handle on Indian culture

577
00:40:26,340 --> 00:40:28,863
was because I never was introduced to it

578
00:40:28,863 --> 00:40:30,300
when I was young,

579
00:40:30,300 --> 00:40:33,273
and nobody around me
knew anything about it.

580
00:40:34,414 --> 00:40:35,760
The people I lived with,

581
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:39,420
they didn't even want me speaking Navajo,

582
00:40:39,420 --> 00:40:40,607
for some reason, they didn't want

583
00:40:40,607 --> 00:40:43,893
me and my foster brothers
and sisters talking it.

584
00:40:45,180 --> 00:40:48,387
This is a place I used
to live when I was small.

585
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:52,233
The building has changed.

586
00:40:53,490 --> 00:40:55,170
The people I lived with told me

587
00:40:55,170 --> 00:40:57,900
I could call them mom and dad,

588
00:40:57,900 --> 00:41:00,210
or you know, and it didn't work.

589
00:41:00,210 --> 00:41:01,143
It didn't fit.

590
00:41:02,100 --> 00:41:04,923
All my life, I never was
really attached to anyone.

591
00:41:06,630 --> 00:41:09,930
I fell out of this tree
once when I was small.

592
00:41:09,930 --> 00:41:10,860
I lost my footing,

593
00:41:10,860 --> 00:41:12,930
and there used to be a barbed wire fence

594
00:41:12,930 --> 00:41:17,013
that ran acrossed here to this tree,

595
00:41:18,990 --> 00:41:22,200
and I fell on it and I
gashed my arm pretty deep,

596
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:23,103
acrossed here.

597
00:41:24,660 --> 00:41:26,043
And I got spanked for that.

598
00:41:27,660 --> 00:41:29,013
Even though I was injured.

599
00:41:31,830 --> 00:41:32,670
When I was small,

600
00:41:32,670 --> 00:41:35,100
I used to come out to this tree.

601
00:41:35,100 --> 00:41:36,513
But the tree grew some.

602
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:40,383
We would sit here and count cars.

603
00:41:41,310 --> 00:41:45,720
I would wonder if my
family or any relatives

604
00:41:45,720 --> 00:41:49,560
would go cruising by and
see me sitting there.

605
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:53,070
And one time I wondered if
maybe John Wayne himself

606
00:41:53,070 --> 00:41:54,243
would come cruising by,

607
00:41:58,836 --> 00:42:00,330
so that I could ask him, you know,

608
00:42:00,330 --> 00:42:01,163
take me back,

609
00:42:01,163 --> 00:42:03,910
'cause you're the only guy
that knows the way back home.

610
00:42:05,635 --> 00:42:08,400
(soft piano music)

611
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:11,730
After I graduated, the
people at the mission home,

612
00:42:11,730 --> 00:42:14,460
they told me that I was
old enough to be on my own,

613
00:42:14,460 --> 00:42:18,360
and told me to take off and not look back.

614
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:20,340
So that's when I was on my own.

615
00:42:20,340 --> 00:42:22,800
And I think things became
a little tougher for me,

616
00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:25,080
and I had to find out how
to do things on my own,

617
00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:28,330
because they really never showed me

618
00:42:34,620 --> 00:42:37,590
how life is beyond high school,

619
00:42:37,590 --> 00:42:39,723
or being alone, being on your own.

620
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:42,360
So I had to do all this by myself,

621
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:45,663
and I think all this really worked on me,

622
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:50,350
and that's when I started

623
00:42:51,270 --> 00:42:53,043
hitting the bottle a little harder.

624
00:42:54,307 --> 00:42:56,807
(flute music)

625
00:42:58,020 --> 00:42:59,400
After I got out high school,

626
00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:04,400
I came here to work in this uranium mine.

627
00:43:09,660 --> 00:43:11,160
I knew I had to find my family,

628
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:16,160
and make amends with my life and theirs,

629
00:43:19,230 --> 00:43:23,610
but I really didn't know if
they would accept me back

630
00:43:23,610 --> 00:43:25,560
as being part of them,

631
00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:30,213
or had I been gone too
long to be remembered,

632
00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:35,477
there was just all kind of
thoughts in my mind, yeah.

633
00:43:37,783 --> 00:43:40,700
(melancholy music)

634
00:43:51,202 --> 00:43:53,310
Then I go into Richardson's,
it's a big store,

635
00:43:53,310 --> 00:43:56,580
and on their walls they
have these pictures

636
00:43:56,580 --> 00:43:59,883
of elderly Navajo couples.

637
00:44:01,110 --> 00:44:02,730
And when I first saw those,

638
00:44:02,730 --> 00:44:06,300
I would look around and see
if I could identify any,

639
00:44:06,300 --> 00:44:09,633
or if there was any names
on them that I might know.

640
00:44:12,236 --> 00:44:13,069
But, no.

641
00:44:15,903 --> 00:44:18,403
(flute music)

642
00:44:20,648 --> 00:44:23,205
I've been telling all
my kids and my grandkids

643
00:44:23,205 --> 00:44:25,743
that I had a brother somewhere.

644
00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:28,679
In the ceremony, when I pray,

645
00:44:28,679 --> 00:44:32,100
I always say that my
brother's gonna come home.

646
00:44:32,100 --> 00:44:33,720
That's what I said.

647
00:44:33,720 --> 00:44:36,550
And even in church, I always pray

648
00:44:37,500 --> 00:44:40,083
that he's going be home
some of these days,

649
00:44:41,130 --> 00:44:44,253
and he's coming back today.

650
00:44:45,210 --> 00:44:49,530
I'm very happy about it.

651
00:44:49,530 --> 00:44:52,653
[Bernie] And I have dinner
for my brother John,

652
00:44:54,330 --> 00:44:58,923
all the family come around
to see him in person again.

653
00:45:00,498 --> 00:45:03,180
We've haven't seen him in a long time,

654
00:45:03,180 --> 00:45:05,613
since he was a year old.

655
00:45:07,530 --> 00:45:10,343
People come around, and
we're going to talk to him

656
00:45:11,947 --> 00:45:14,163
about some of our
background and everything.

657
00:45:15,270 --> 00:45:16,923
We really love him.

658
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:20,010
That's what I lost, I guess,

659
00:45:20,010 --> 00:45:22,680
my culture, my language,

660
00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:26,250
the way of life that
the Navajo people live.

661
00:45:26,250 --> 00:45:28,350
The things that are taught to people

662
00:45:28,350 --> 00:45:32,490
by their grandparents and
parents, sisters and brothers,

663
00:45:32,490 --> 00:45:33,453
they all help out.

664
00:45:34,365 --> 00:45:35,746
(fry bread sizzling)

665
00:45:35,746 --> 00:45:38,996
(Elsie flipping dough)

666
00:45:48,750 --> 00:45:51,750
The missionaries who took
me from the reservation

667
00:45:51,750 --> 00:45:53,640
had some letters.

668
00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:55,387
I've read all of 'em.

669
00:45:57,810 --> 00:45:59,310
Happy Cly wrote,

670
00:45:59,310 --> 00:46:00,930
I don't know if she wrote this herself,

671
00:46:00,930 --> 00:46:02,497
or had somebody write it, but it says,

672
00:46:02,497 --> 00:46:05,877
"When I get real well,
I want John Wayne back."

673
00:46:07,950 --> 00:46:09,723
This is a letter from John Wayne.

674
00:46:10,957 --> 00:46:15,877
"Thank you for writing me about
my little Navajo namesake.

675
00:46:15,877 --> 00:46:18,787
"I'm glad to know that
he is being cared for

676
00:46:18,787 --> 00:46:21,153
"along with other Navajo children.

677
00:46:22,387 --> 00:46:24,667
"I hope the check and
clothes will be of help.

678
00:46:24,667 --> 00:46:25,500
"Best of luck.

679
00:46:25,500 --> 00:46:27,087
"Sincerely, John Wayne."

680
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:32,940
It made me feel like these
people told a lie to me,

681
00:46:32,940 --> 00:46:36,063
and told my family a lie,

682
00:46:38,460 --> 00:46:40,050
it kind of angered me a little bit.

683
00:46:40,050 --> 00:46:43,743
Maybe I could have went
back and lived there.

684
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:51,360
I never thought that I
would see a family reunion,

685
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:52,623
with my family, you know,

686
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:55,713
because I thought all was lost.

687
00:46:57,600 --> 00:47:01,177
I felt like there was
nothing left to look for.

688
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:05,260
(flute music)

689
00:47:16,369 --> 00:47:20,452
(children shouting and laughing)

690
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:38,490
The return of the Navajo boy,

691
00:47:38,490 --> 00:47:42,423
me returning back to my family
on the Navajo reservation,

692
00:47:44,370 --> 00:47:48,603
you know, I haven't seen
them for 40 years, or more.

693
00:47:50,629 --> 00:47:53,046
(cow mooing)

694
00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:56,361
[Elsie] Grandpa, the relatives,

695
00:47:56,361 --> 00:47:58,807
(speaking in foreign language)

696
00:47:58,807 --> 00:48:00,210
[John] My family was worried

697
00:48:00,210 --> 00:48:02,760
that it may not be the right person,

698
00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:04,650
but I was just anxious to meet them.

699
00:48:04,650 --> 00:48:06,599
[Family Member] Here's Johnny!

700
00:48:06,599 --> 00:48:08,456
[Elsie] Welcome home!

701
00:48:08,456 --> 00:48:09,731
-Welcome home!
-(applause)

702
00:48:09,731 --> 00:48:11,493
Oh yeah, oh yeah.

703
00:48:12,475 --> 00:48:13,808
I'm your sister.

704
00:48:18,462 --> 00:48:21,045
(Elsie crying)

705
00:48:40,700 --> 00:48:44,660
I knew that someday I would reach you.

706
00:48:44,660 --> 00:48:48,255
And you were out there, on your own.

707
00:48:48,255 --> 00:48:50,672
(indistinct)

708
00:48:54,357 --> 00:48:57,119
[John] For the first time
I could hold my sister,

709
00:48:57,119 --> 00:49:00,087
you know, my blood sister,

710
00:49:00,087 --> 00:49:02,695
the sister that came
from the same home I did.

711
00:49:02,695 --> 00:49:05,112
(indistinct)

712
00:49:10,520 --> 00:49:13,345
[Elsie] I always prayed
for you to come home.

713
00:49:13,345 --> 00:49:15,928
(Elsie crying)

714
00:49:34,753 --> 00:49:38,670
(speaking in foreign language)

715
00:49:51,535 --> 00:49:53,952
And that's your sister, Ruth.

716
00:50:10,773 --> 00:50:12,856
Here's your brother, too.

717
00:50:22,161 --> 00:50:24,161
And this is my daughter.

718
00:50:25,072 --> 00:50:27,239
-Do you remember me?
-Hi.

719
00:50:28,086 --> 00:50:29,967
My oldest daughter.

720
00:50:29,967 --> 00:50:30,800
It's nice to meet you.

721
00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:31,781
This is my daughter too,

722
00:50:31,781 --> 00:50:33,114
My youngest one.

723
00:50:34,513 --> 00:50:35,346
[Family Member] Lorenzo?

724
00:50:35,346 --> 00:50:36,179
Lorenzo,

725
00:50:38,646 --> 00:50:40,513
this is my son, too.

726
00:50:40,513 --> 00:50:42,600
[Lorenzo] I never thought I'd see myself

727
00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:44,640
in the same picture with my uncle John.

728
00:50:47,633 --> 00:50:50,377
(all laughing)

729
00:50:50,377 --> 00:50:54,294
(speaking in foreign language)

730
00:51:15,086 --> 00:51:19,003
(speaking in foreign language)

731
00:51:27,862 --> 00:51:30,612
(cheerful music)

732
00:51:36,467 --> 00:51:39,967
(family members chatting)

733
00:51:49,413 --> 00:51:52,003
[Lorenzo] Let's all give him a good hand.

734
00:51:52,003 --> 00:51:54,253
(applause)

735
00:51:56,325 --> 00:51:59,075
(cheerful music)

736
00:52:19,620 --> 00:52:22,470
I never thought that pictures
would change anyone's life,

737
00:52:23,490 --> 00:52:25,983
but that was before the
return of the Navajo boy.

738
00:52:31,743 --> 00:52:34,410
(all laughing)

739
00:52:36,623 --> 00:52:38,430
I just wanted to tell you all as a family

740
00:52:38,430 --> 00:52:43,430
that it's really nice to
be back where I came from.

741
00:52:44,220 --> 00:52:46,593
It's really nice to see all of you,

742
00:52:47,550 --> 00:52:51,026
knowing that you belong to
me, instead of somebody else.

743
00:52:51,026 --> 00:52:53,693
(all laughing)

744
00:52:54,750 --> 00:52:56,100
The gifts are great.

745
00:52:56,100 --> 00:52:57,213
Thank you, thank you.

746
00:53:01,002 --> 00:53:05,853
I hope I wasn't a disappointment
to you in any way.

747
00:53:07,440 --> 00:53:11,790
All this time, I have been
looking for a way to get home,

748
00:53:11,790 --> 00:53:15,900
and I needed to meet my sisters.

749
00:53:15,900 --> 00:53:18,273
They were like the ones
I really wanted to see.

750
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:22,440
There was something missing
in my life all the time,

751
00:53:23,616 --> 00:53:25,699
and I knew that was this.

752
00:53:28,151 --> 00:53:31,984
(singing in foreign language)

753
00:54:48,131 --> 00:54:51,964
(singing in foreign language)

754
00:55:09,660 --> 00:55:10,867
[Announcer] For more information on

755
00:55:10,867 --> 00:55:12,690
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756
00:55:12,690 --> 00:55:15,030
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757
00:55:15,030 --> 00:55:18,523
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758
00:55:18,523 --> 00:55:20,910
(uplifting music)

759
00:55:20,910 --> 00:55:24,390
To order a video cassette of
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760
00:55:24,390 --> 00:55:28,537
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761
00:55:33,264 --> 00:55:35,573
(flute music)

762
00:55:35,573 --> 00:55:38,490
(eagle screeching)