Summary of The film "Seasons of Navajo" - Mrs. LE

Dr. KIP REDICK
RSTD 335
LE, KIM-CHI
Date: September 27, 2007

SUMMARY of
The film “Seasons of the Navajo”
The film “Seasons of the Navajo” was built from 20th century as rituals of the family story. Their lives were very simple.
The family has to work together and have to have the rule and divide the function for each person such as: Lady works in the house, man work outside, and children go to school then can help to parent, brother and sister some light jobs. They focus in the health, if they have a good heath, they can do many things and enjoy life together. The film describe as a family who live on the vast Navajo Reservation. They grew corns along the riverbank. They guided their sheep down sheer rock cliffs. They were quite patience and a touching love for animals. They have a kinship, descent systems, gender and age roles, ecology, philosophy, religions domestic space, child life, and economics. There are Non-Navajo people surround the area. Young people don’t wake up at dawn like tradition dictated. For example of transhumance:
Traditional shifting of herbs that come with the changing seasons and shifting between the urban and reservation life that comes with kinship obligations and economic necessities.
Navajo pray in the sweat lodge, which is believed to be the place of creation. Navajo live in a harmony with the spirit world. Rituals and prayers using sacred substances, such as pollen, are essential to social and spiritual well-being.
Navajo family tie together very strong and tradition bring a sense of great heart. The grandparents teach children, and impart the ancient “blessings of kindness,” they are preserving a unique culture.