Pueblo Boyis a Ford Moto

Year Published: 1947

Creator: Ford Motor Company.

Format: 16mm

Description: Made in 1947, "Pueblo Boy" is a Ford Motor Co. film about the Pueblo people that was directed by Lawrence Madison and edited by Raymond Spottiswoode. The film tells the story of a young boy who is learning ancient ways in a modern world. His family includes Tony White, who performs a hoop dance in the film at 3:44. This film was part of a series of films produced by Ford entitled "Americans at Home". The film is notable for including imagery from the annual Indian pow-wow in Gallup, New Mexico. Pueblo Indians are American Indians who live in pueblos and have a long tradition of farming. Pueblo Indians who lived long ago are sometimes called the "ancestral Pueblo" because they are the ancestors of today's Pueblo people. Another name for the ancestral Pueblo people is Anasazi. The Puebloans or Pueblo peoples are Native Americans in the Southwestern United States, lived in the time period of 100 - 1600 AD. Made their style of living in towns constructed of adobe, stone and other local materials. Their buildings are constructed as complex apartments with numerous rooms, often built in strategic defensive positions. The Pueblo peoples speak languages from several different groups and are also divided culturally by their kinship systems and agricultural practices, although all cultivate varieties of maize.

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