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Texas panhandle, Palo Duro Canyon, Adobe walls battlefield 14:00:35 Palo Duro Canyon, nice pans and WS 14:01:25 slightly hilly landscape with prairie grass, then just flat, dry plains 14:03:54 mesa 14:04:26 more endless, boring steppe, then mesas 14:05:22 Adobe Walls Battlefield Site: dry yellow ground, blue blue sky 14:07:02 memorial to Indians who died in the battle 14:07:59 CU Indian head on memorial 14:08:52 pan across ground, prairie grass, area of Adobe Walls Site, distant mesa 14:10:30 nice scenic shot of tree and tall grass swaying in the wind 14:11:49 New Mexico: Gorgeous shot of prairie land, mesa in background, evening sky with golden clouds 14:12:27 beautiful, romantic shots of sky at sunset, deep orange, cloud formations, silhuettes of mesas... 14:14:02 back to prairie WS 14:14:36 end
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Virgil, Crazy Horse 16:00:31 WS plain, tree in foreground 16:01:44 CU of Native American Virgil 16:02:00 Interview begins, Virgil talks about Crazy Horse, Virgil admires him, talks about Crazy Horse's fame, that his grandfather used to ride with him, Crazy Horse was very quiet and reserved, brave and courageous. At young age, CH had vision in dream, received his feathers. V explains traditional Native American meanings of stones and feathers. Elaborates on importance of the Black Hills (=center of universe, says that quantumphysics measured the sacredness of the Balck Hills). On CH's vision: you see both physical and metaphysical world and what is sacred. V ends interview rather abruptly, he seems aggravated and irritated. 16:07:37 landscape shot, pan across prairie, several takes 16:09:54 section ends BREAK IN TBC 17:00:30 beautiful landscape, very intense, bright light between thick layer of black clouds and hills, steppe, tree 17:01:45 steppe with mountain range in background, cloudy sky, looks like rain 17:02:15 interview with an elderly Native American woman about her tribe, the Chiricahua Apaches (in New Mexico and Arizona) before they went into reservations, she is sad and has a hard time talking about her tribe's destiny, talks very slowly, talks about the hard life Native Americans are leading, her great-grandfather was Chief Victorio, talks about how Native Americans were killed off. At 17:13:20 Interviewer asks her about Geronimo (medicine man), she refuses to give much information regarding his remedies and rituals because it is the tribe's secret. Her stories about her tribe's surrender are very disjointed.
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Chiricahua Mountains at dawn; traditional homeland of Chiricahua Apaches, Geronimo's people 22:00:31 Chiricahua Mountains: bushes in FG, mountain range in BG; closer shot of mountains & foothills 22:02:32 canyon in Alomoso River area, framed by two steep hills 22:06:00 different view of canyon, CUs of rocks, grass, cactus 22:11:38 beautiful sunset: WS mountain range; orange & turquoise sky, silhouettes of mountains, grey clouds 22:15:43 more Chiricahua Mountains, sun setting 22:17:02 hill covered with little bushes and some snow 22:17:53 nice WS of flat winter landscape at sunset, fog between mountains 22:19:51 nice CU of grass in front of sunset 22:21:02 prairie grass, pan up to mountain range in background 22:21:29 huge evening clouds close to the ground 22:23:21 rock formation in Chiricahua national monument 22:24:40 top of Chiricahua Mountains, mountains, grass, trees, some snow 22:26:20 MS of bushes and grass in snow 22:27:44 very cool shot looking down from mountain tops onto fog, like from an airplane 22:30:32 small rock formations
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Chiricahua Mountains, some snow, rock formations, trees 23:13:14 cemetery with shots of individual tombstones 23:15:33 camp, straw hut, a fort 23:21:34 Inside the fort, looking out, nice shot, huge smooth rocks 23:27:59 old barracks of the fort
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Arizona 01:01:10 sunset
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Arizona - Canyon de Chelly 02:01:30 petroglyphs - horses 02:06:30 cliff dwellings 02:11:30 horses 02:13:40 cliff dwelling 02:23:14 fortress rock 02:25:50 petroglyphs - circles 02:27:00 peach trees
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Arizona - Canyon de Chelly 03:01:25 horse 03:02:20 dead horse 03:06:00 cliff dwelling 03:10:00 cloudy sunset
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Arizona - Canyon de Chelly 04:00:30 sunrise 04:14:00 horses 04:26:00 horses 04:28:30 horses
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Arizona - Canyon de Chelly 05:00:30 horses 05:08:24 cactus 05:09:21 horses
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Arizona - Canyon de Chelly 06:04:30 cliff dwelling 06:12:20 petroglyphs 06:17:25 canyon WS 06:26:18 sunset (clear)
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Arizona - Chuska Mountains 08:00:30 sunrise 08:12:05 mountains
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Arizona - Canyon de Chelly: snowy mountains, Monument Valley, NM
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New Mexico; Monument Valley 10:14:27 herd of sheep or goats
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New Mexico - Monument Valley; scenic
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New Mexico - Monument Valley 12:00:30 Old hogan 12:02:15 rug weaver 12:13:26 sheep canyon 12:22:45 scenery 12:25:50 petroglyphs
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New Mexico - Monument Valley 13:12:00 scenic 13:15:00 hogan 13:15:29 sun prayer 13:17:20 woman long walk
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New Mexico - Monument Valley 14:00:30 sunrise 14:02:05 Albequerque Mountains
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New Mexico 16:00:30 Bosque Redundo land 16:11:30 river shots 16:18:40 redundo land 16:25:20 sunset on plains
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Navajo Reenactments (letterboxed?) 01:00:09:- MS of a Navajo man sitting on dry grass and watching another Navajo make a sand mandala. 01:00:57:- MS of the other man drawing the sand mandala. 01:01:30:- CU of his hand as he draws a man and a thunderbird. Cut to more MS's. 01:02:55:- CU of dry colored pigments on a piece of bark fashioned into a palette. More MS's & CU's of man drawing. 01:07:09:- great MS's and CU's of a small cornfield (good angle, nice DOF). 01:13:54:- END OF TAPE
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Navajo Reenactments (letterboxed?) 02:00:06:- low angle LS of two large birds circling in the blue sky. 02:00:58:- dark wide MS of two Navajo men walking through a dry creek area. 02:01:48:- LS's and MS's of 2 Navajo men walking through a SW valley, through a dry creekbed area. Scenic. 02:22:32:- END OF TAPE
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Navajo Reenactments (letterboxed?) 03:00:11:- MS's of a Navajo man petting a horse in a dry gultch, then walking it away from the camera. 03:01:38:- LS's of the man riding the horse through the scenic creekbed valley. 03:09:47:- CU's, MS's and tight LS's of trees (peach trees?). 03:15:36:- END OF TAPE
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Montana 18:00:30 Devil s Tower 18:08:23 horses at sunset 18:12:24 sunset in Montana
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Montana 19:00:30 Little Bighorn 19:14:05 grave markers 19:21:30 monument 19:22:42 Custer Hill Grave 19:28:00 large cemetery Ends at 19.30.14
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Montana - Little Bighorn 20:02:24 horses in river 20:02:51 reenactment