Native American Life: Old Ways
Native American Life: Old Ways
Collection of footage regarding the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma, 1970s.
Native American Life: Old Ways
Illustration of unidentfied Caucasian man. Map depicting Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, North & South Carolina. H/a TLSs spotlit stage on which two Native Americans dance in rather ballet-style. MSs raging campfire, night. TLSs small-town parade and marching bands. MS old Cherokee man wearing cowboy hat walking through field. TLS oil wells & pumps in oil field.
Native American Life: Old Ways
Historical reenactment of Spanish explorers or conquistadors in the New World: MSs four conquistadors, armed with swords and muskets, walking by camera; TLSs Native American village; MS Indian boys playing in pond; MS American Indian woman wearing buckskin fringe & bandana working at wooden pots (no idea what she's doing); CU arrowhead being fashioned; MS/CU woman pounding seeds in bowl with rock; cute MCU native baby poking head out of basket; MS/CUs young native woman making clay pot. MS/CUs native women making beads out of clay; MSs native children swimming in swimming hole; TLS/MSs natives playing traditional game similar to lacrosse. CU Cherokee Phoenix newspaper (transferred backwards). TLS camp inside fort-- native or colonial? TLS graveyard. MS Caucasian man (1800s colonial re-enactor) plowing field; MSs colonial man sawing log with old saw; MS colonial with oxen in field.
Native American Life: Old Ways
TLSs of scenes from Trail of Tears historical pageant performed on stage: Cherokee Indians being forcibly moved by soldiers.
Native American Life: Old Ways
President Andrew Jackson and aides in office; two Caucasian men shaking hands, walking, being adorned with capes by American Indians. Cut to TLSs numerous tall brick chimneys in shady park. TLS plantation house. Cut to more scenes from Trail of Tears historical pageant (many dim shots of US soldiers running about stage with flags and rifles).
Native American Life: Old Ways
American Civil War re-enactment: MS US soldier (Yankee) and Confederate soldier (rebel) charging each other in woods, the Yank clocking the Reb with stock of musket, knocking him to ground, so he stabs him with bayonet & charges on; MS Yankee soldier behind thrush of brush, a puff of smoke going off behind him so he falls over as though injured; MS wounded Yank (bloody bandage on head) shooting charging Reb; MS Yank crouched by felled tree, loading rifle & then shooting a charging Rebel dead; MS Yank shooting Reb charging from behind him. NOTE: most if not all of this particular section can also be found on master 109.
Native American Life: Old Ways
MS Cherokee male wearing feather cape making grand bows on stage at Trail of Tears historical pageant. Cut to TLS rustic log cabin. Cut to re-enactment of Oklahoma Land Rush: MSs Caucasian settlers riding horses and pulling wagons through field (NOTE: this can be found on master 3, cat # 312,033). Cut back to historical pageant, male & female American Indians wearing white colonial outfits dancing a jig on stage -- banner in BG reads "November Tahlequah, Oklahoma".
Native American Life: Old Ways
MSs group of Caucasian people gathered in park, listenign to band perfom in gazebo. CU bronze portrait of unidentified white colonial man. CUs irrigiation ditch being dug by tilling machine, two men watching on. MS sign on door of red pickup truck: "Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma Maintenance & Utilities Dept., Tahlequah, OK". CU map of Tennessee. MS women working with large rugs in factory. MCUs two Cherokee men wearing white staw cowboy hats working in field. MS/MCUs Cherokee women working with rugs in factory. TLS sign on building: "Cherokee Nation Industries". MS/CUs Cherokee women cutting electrical wiring and operating and threading manufacturing equipment in factory. TLS Cherokee man operating tractor shovel. WLS of manufacturing plant. MS/CUs two women using microscopes. More shots inside & outside Cherokee Nation Industries. MS old Cherokee man wearing straw cowboy hat talking at ranch.
Native American Life: Old Ways
MSs company picnic, people standing in lines at picnic tables; MSs archery contest, man shooting bow & arrow at pile of cut wood; more shot people in food line, being served grub. Silly TLS clowns riding tiny cars in small town parade.
Native American Life: Old Ways
Cherokee historical pageant-- MSs Cherokee men doing old timey jig w/ fingers under suspenders; MS three Caucasian politicians in Presidential office. MS native woman shaping clay pot in reenactment of old village; MSs natives recreating game involving net-sticks and ball in village; MCU small child poking head from wicker basket; MS old woman pounding seeds in bowl; MS native boys swimming in swimming hole. More of historical pageant, Cherokees dancing on stage.
Native American Life: Old Ways
Panning TLS creek. TLS river. H/a TLS two Cherokees in canoe on river. L/a MS water wheel spinning (water power), pan right to creek. Panning TLS misty valley. MS shirtless white man measuring ground, lowering large drill bit on back of tractor. More historical pageant, Cherokee men in feather costumes dancing on stage.
Native American Life: Old Ways
TLS lobby of unidentified building. MS/CUs wooden sculpture depicting Cherokee woman kneeling & child holdig her hip. MS/CU old Caucasian man sitting in woodshop, chewing on smoking pipe while fashioning wooden sculpture. CUs handcrafted wooden bust of Cherokee men & women being turned towards cam. More shots of man working in wood shop. MS Cherokee baby in bassinet. MS elderly people eating in restaurant. TLS man sitting in operator booth of crane, tossing out cigarette butt. MS construction worker wearing yellow hard hat, white t-shirt & blue jeans, directing crane atop building. Traveling shot of ranch homes, apartment buildings & duplexes in new suburban area. MS sign: "The cherokee Foundation Cherokee Village Housing Project Aided by 13 Mil Federally Insured Loans".
Native American Life: Old Ways
CU newspaper headline: "Cherokee National Holiday September 6 th & 7th, 1974, Tahlequah, Oklahoma". MS Cherokee men wearing straw cowboy hats and red chamois shirts riding horses and carrying American flag in parade. MSs high school marching band in parade, pan right to TLS Boy Scout troop carrying American flag. MSs crowd gathering in park. MSs Cherokee men playing game of horseshoes; MCU ringer, horseshoe hitting stake! MSs Cherokee men in archery contest, men pulling back compound bows & arrows hitting stack of wood. MS/CUs large group of people at outdoor picnic, food being served. TLS/MSs Cherokee powwow, night, many in traditional ceremonial dress. MCU Seal of the Cherokee Nation. MS old Cherokee man wearing straw cowboy hat talking at ranch.