It will be screened for free later this month at other places on or near the Navajo Nation, which extends into Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. Limited seats are available to members of the public who are vaccinated against COVID-19 and consent to a rapid test on site. 16 at the movie theater in Window Rock, Arizona - the first showing since the venue shut down in March 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic. “That just eliminated that aspect for me.”Ī premiere for the crew and all-Navajo cast of voice actors is scheduled Nov. “Usually in Westerns, there are inaccurate if not offensive depictions of Native people, so this one had no Natives, period,” Wheeler said. That appealed to Wheeler, the director of the Navajo Nation Museum. Unlike many other Westerns produced in the U.S., it has no Native Americans in it. The 1964 flick is the first in a trilogy of spaghetti Westerns produced and directed by Italians.

The result? “Béeso Dah Yiníłjaa’” or “A Fistful of Dollars,” an iconic Western starring Clint Eastwood who plays a stranger - known as “The Man With No Name” - entering a Mexican village among a power struggle between families. Whatever the reason, Navajo elders have been asking Wheeler to dub a Western in the Navajo language ever since “Star Wars IV: A New Hope” was translated into Navajo and released in 2013. Or, like his father, they told stories of gathering around a television growing up to watch gunslingers in a battle against good and evil on familiar-looking landscapes.

It could be that many of them were treated to the films in boarding schools off the reservation decades ago. (AP) - Manuelito Wheeler isn’t sure exactly why Navajo elders admire Western films.

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