Navajo Tales Part Two

A severe drought threatens Navajo herdsmen living on the parched 1949 Utah-Arizona border. But two intrepid friends - one Navajo, one the son of a white trader - hear of hidden pastureland offering abundant water somewhere beyond the red cliffs. Jimmie, the trader's son, is Ziki's best friend. When Ziki remembers that his grandfather knew about a pasture far away in the mountains, the two boys seek his guidance. Ziki's grandfather, who is waiting to participate in a healing ceremony, tells the boys the following story that happened to him years earlier: He travels with two friends in search of a rich land above red cliffs, which can only be reached through a rainbow of stone. They find a cache of sacred turquoise near the home of the "mystic people," an ancient tribe of cliff dwellers. Because they know that the spirits of the dead, or chindi, haunt the stones, they leave them behind. After grandfather's two friends fall to their death, he leaves without discovering the mountain pasture. His story finished, grandfather advises the boys that they should make the journey in reverence, being careful not to disturb the spirits of the dead. He then gives them an eagle feather to guide their journey. Navajo Tales is a 1949 American documentary film written by Harry Chandlee and John A. Haeseler. The film was released on March 3, 1949 Edwin Jerome ... Narrator