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The First Frybread Western

Season 2 | 3m 59s

Manny Wheeler fights to preserve his people's language by dubbing popular movies like "Star Wars" into Navajo. In looking for their next project, he and his partners turn to westerns, a genre that has a history of misrepresenting Native peoples as primitive, vicious, and violent. "A Fistful of Dollars," the film that launched the Spaghetti Western is about to become the first Frybread Western.

Funding is provided by Partnership with Native Americans.
Extras
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Manny Wheeler dubs Star Wars into Navajo to help keep the Navajo language alive.
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Celebrate the Native women drawing upon deep traditions to transform our modern world.
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Celebrate the spirit empowering combat, games and athleticism.
Designer Jamie Okuma breaks down barriers between Indigenous and mainstream art.
Language expert Tom Belt translates some of the earliest evidence of Cherokee writing.
Producer Dan Golding is surprised with 100-year-old recordings of his great-grandfather.
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Experience the fight of Native Americans to keep their languages and ways of life alive.
Celebrate the Native women drawing upon deep traditions to transform our modern world.
Celebrate the spirit empowering combat, games and athleticism.
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Discover how resistance, survival and revival are revealed.
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