Shot by an unknown American tourist, this silent, color home movie (with title cards) shows a trip to Chimayo, Tesuque, San Ildefonso Pueblo, Taos Pueblo, and Gallup, New Mexico, including the Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial. The film includes footage of Pat Goodnight dancing a war dance, Joe Whitehoop doing the hoop dance and This is circa the late 1960s or early 1970s.

Title: Chimayo, in the state of New Mexico, the name derives from a Tewa name for a local landmark, the hill of Tsi Mayoh (:21-:26). A car pulls into a parking spot in front of Ortega’s Weaving Shop. A worker inside weaves. Another person weaves using a loom machine. A person, a tourist, looks at the weaved rugs that are available. A man and a woman spread out a rug. People outside hold up rugs. Close on one of the rugs (:27-2:22). Title card: Tesuque Pueblo, New Mexico, near Santa Fe. Little houses of the Pueblo people. They are from the Tewa ethnic group of Native Americans and speak the Tewa language. A Native American child, a man (possibly the filmmaker) kneels near him. The tourists look at a woman’s wares. Native Americans get dressed and a tourist sets up a film camera to film them. The Natives start dancing. Natives are paired into sets of two, they seem ready to strike one another but do not. The cameraman films another standing on a rock (2:23-5:44). A Native American stands on a rock, smiles at the camera. As one man beats a drum, the others dance around him (5:45-6:35). Title: San Ildefonso Pueblo. It’s a census-designated place in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, and a federally recognized tribe, established c. 1300 C.E. The Pueblo is self-governing and is part of the Santa Fe, New Mexico area. The little homes of the tribesman. A person stands in their adobe. A woman smiles. A Native American man joins the woman. A woman carries a vase on her head. A car leaves. Adobe homes, a car pulls in. A man speaks to the tourist filming. He shows off a tiny vase. The tourist shakes hands with a woman. A woman sits with children (6:36-10:02). Title: Taos Pueblo, about 1 mile north of the modern city of Taos, New Mexico. These pueblos are considered to be one of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in the United States. Water in a lake, adobe homes. A woman holds a stick. A cameraman films two women, one climbs a ladder. A young boy performs tricks with rings. Pat Goodnight, a young Taos dancer, does a war dance. An older Native American beats a drum and Goodnight continues to dance using rings to do tricks (10:03-14:11). Goodnight dances. Another younger Native American. A man shows off his wares for sale (spoons, belt buckles, etc). A man stands next to a woman (14:12-16:29). A woman smiles. A man and a woman stand outside. Inside, the two of them make jewelry (16:30-17:51). Sign for the Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial in Gallup, New Mexico. Created in 1921, the Gallup Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial is the longest-running, Native American Art Show in the country. The event features parades, dances, demonstrations, native foods, rodeos, pow-wow, song and dance, pageants, and folk art. Tourists wait with cameras. A Native American parade. Horses, drums, marching, dancing. Woman stand as men dance around them in the parade. Men dance in a row. (17:52-20:04). Arena for the Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial rodeo. Artist Harrison Begay presents his work and smiles. Begay was a renowned Diné (Navajo) painter, printmaker, and illustrator. He shows off a picture of deer and birds, then women weaving. Native Americans dance on the dirt in the center of the grounds. Two boys dressed as birds dance near a larger group. Men dance. A rodeo begins, men fall off bulls. A man rides horse who bucks wildly. Another man rides a wild horse (20:05-23:21). A Native American bangs a drum while another man dressed as a bird dances nearby. Title: Presenting the Navajo Dancer Joe Whitehoop in the Hoop Dance. The hoop represents the never-ending circle of life. Joe Whitehoop dances around as another individual bangs a drum. He puts hoops around himself and he goes through them (23:21-27:22). A Native American beats a drum, two children dance nearby in costume (27:23-28:10).

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