Native American School
Native American School
Raw footage of Native American & Caucasian students of elementary & high school age, 1970s.
Native American School
MSs of Cherokee High School sign. Est shots of modern school building w/ American flag flying out front-- concrete bunker style, high fence & tennis courts make it look like a minimum security prison. MS moustachioed white male teacher sitting at desk with two female high school students; pan to a white female teacher helping a white male student. Quick CUs female Native American (American Indian) student in language lab with headphones. Cut to more MSs female teacher working one-on-one w/ male student wearing red & blue striped rugby shirt. MSs high school girls (teenagers) working in class; white male teacher helps out.
Native American School
MS/MCUs white female teachers working with Native American high school students. MS/MCUs three American Indian teenage girls smiling & joking & working in classroom. H/a LSs modern high school, students playing in recess yard.
Native American School
TLSs of One Feather Trading Post building. TLS sign for Redskin Motel with drawing of chief. High angle shots of tourist trap area: Texaco gas station & store w/ teepees on roof, offering moccasins & leather for sale. TLSs tourist trap, sign for Cherokee Brave craft shop in FG. MS/TLS sign & building for The Cherokee Trader-- note that the sign features drawing of a scantily clan Caucasian woman dancing with war bonnet. MS sign for Straight Arrow Craft store, which sells cigarettes, Indian crafts & jewelry. Commercialization and tourist industry capitalizing on Indian culture.
Native American School
TLSs high school classroom w/ Native American students at desks, teachers working with them. MSs young Caucasian woman monitoring American Indian girls as they work. MS American Indian woman working one-on-one with students.
Native American School
MCUs Native American & Caucasian teenage girls working in classroom with aid of Caucasian & American Indian teachers. Great TLSs line of yellow school buses pulling from school, passing camera; many buses, a vertitable bus parade.
Native American School
MS/CUs Native American woman teaching five Caucasian & American Indian kids of kindergarten-age; seems as though she's teaching rudimentary sign language. MS/MCUs children coloring with crayons. Great CUs kids listening to teacher-- expressions of awe bordering on confusion. MS/CUs Caucasian & American Indian female teachers working with kindergarten kids in classroom; the kids take their seats.
Native American School
MS class of cute kindergarten kids taking seats in classroom; the kids then stand and do some sort of stretching exercises mimicing windmills & swimming; note the decorations of ABCs & cartoon of "My Dog has Fleas"; the kids take their seats again, one girl all too literally as she hoists her plastic chair over her head.
Native American School
More of kindergarten kids in classroom. MS/CU boys fondling & smelling crayons. MS Caucasian woman teacher passing out sheets of drawing paper to the kids. Great MS boy picking his nose, jamming his finger in there & rooting around for a spell. MS/CUs kids drawing & coloring with crayons. MS/CUs American Indian woman teaching groups of kids.