The American Indian: Child Life (1933, silent)
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Description: Content warning: This film contains racist depictions and descriptions of Indigenous people, with title cards narrating a white settler colonialist and paternalistic point of view.
"Documentary: Shows Hopi and Sioux children playing, dancing, working, and attending Protestant mission church and Government schools. Sioux children play with animals. White and Indian boy scouts learn each other's ways." (from National Archives catalog record: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/94817 accessed 6/12/23)
Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit http://www.prelinger.com.
Subjects: 1930s; Youth; Children; Indigenous people; Animals; Crafts; Indigenous history and culture; Settler Colonialism; Racism
Tags: horseback riding; tipis; Indigenous dancing; babies in cradleboards; baby carriers; toddlers; children playing with toy trucks; jackknives; doll cradles; mesa dwellings; Indigenous architecture; drumming; children dancing; prairie dogs; domesticating wild animals; wagons; corn husks; watermelons; children lined up in schoolyard; children entering school; football; tumbling; fire making; flint; fire striker; lassoing; lariat; beadwork; braiding lanyard; children studying catechism; children praying in church pews; religion; child with a burro and baby goats; child feeding chickens; children working; child labor; coil pots; painting pottery; assimilation; puppy; kitten; skunk; beading; crafts;
Film Sponsor:
Creator: Harmon Foundation
Credits:
Distributor:
Contributor: Prelinger Archives
Source Collection: Mogull Bros.
Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive
Production Date:
Release Date: 1933
Geographical Location: USA; Arizona
Genre/Form: educational, documentary
Language:
Rights:
Film Format: 16mm film
Element: reduction print
Color: b&w
Color Process:
Sound or Silent: silent
Film Soundtrack Type: mos
Edge Code: circle circle
Frame Rate: 16 fps
Length (feet): 393
Complete catalog record
Description: Content warning: This film contains racist depictions and descriptions of Indigenous people, with title cards narrating a white settler colonialist and paternalistic point of view.
"Documentary: Shows Hopi and Sioux children playing, dancing, working, and attending Protestant mission church and Government schools. Sioux children play with animals. White and Indian boy scouts learn each other's ways." (from National Archives catalog record: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/94817 accessed 6/12/23)
Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit http://www.prelinger.com.
Subjects: 1930s; Youth; Children; Indigenous people; Animals; Crafts; Indigenous history and culture; Settler Colonialism; Racism
Tags: horseback riding; tipis; Indigenous dancing; babies in cradleboards; baby carriers; toddlers; children playing with toy trucks; jackknives; doll cradles; mesa dwellings; Indigenous architecture; drumming; children dancing; prairie dogs; domesticating wild animals; wagons; corn husks; watermelons; children lined up in schoolyard; children entering school; football; tumbling; fire making; flint; fire striker; lassoing; lariat; beadwork; braiding lanyard; children studying catechism; children praying in church pews; religion; child with a burro and baby goats; child feeding chickens; children working; child labor; coil pots; painting pottery; assimilation; puppy; kitten; skunk; beading; crafts;
Film Sponsor:
Creator: Harmon Foundation
Credits:
Distributor:
Contributor: Prelinger Archives
Source Collection: Mogull Bros.
Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive
Production Date:
Release Date: 1933
Geographical Location: USA; Arizona
Genre/Form: educational, documentary
Language:
Rights:
Film Format: 16mm film
Element: reduction print
Color: b&w
Color Process:
Sound or Silent: silent
Film Soundtrack Type: mos
Edge Code: circle circle
Frame Rate: 16 fps
Length (feet): 393
Sources
- 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, description, catalog record, video
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