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mdehnersI enjoyed this Indie documentary following an introverted young Dineh woman who decides to run in the Miss Navaho Nation pageant. What made watching this more interesting is that I discovered it three days after the Miss America pageant had been on the TV;>!
This isn't your usual beauty pageant. Applicants are disqualified if they don't at least have a conversational level in Dineh/Navaho. Requirements IN the pageant include a traditional craft, firestarting(without matches or lighter) and killing,dressing and butchering a sheep! The no-nonsense way MOST of the contestants made "booties" of grocery bags to prevent blood, feces and other body fluids damaging their bleached white boots and leggings was great. I tried to imagine a Miss America contestant forced to speak their Ancestral language, practice an Ancestral craft and butcher, let alone kill and dress an animal and couldn't;>....
Personally, I though the young lady about the contest was the most Attractive but she lost because she wasn't fluent enough in Dineh. Still, she made 1st Runner Up....
Cheers,
Pat
This isn't your usual beauty pageant. Applicants are disqualified if they don't at least have a conversational level in Dineh/Navaho. Requirements IN the pageant include a traditional craft, firestarting(without matches or lighter) and killing,dressing and butchering a sheep! The no-nonsense way MOST of the contestants made "booties" of grocery bags to prevent blood, feces and other body fluids damaging their bleached white boots and leggings was great. I tried to imagine a Miss America contestant forced to speak their Ancestral language, practice an Ancestral craft and butcher, let alone kill and dress an animal and couldn't;>....
Personally, I though the young lady about the contest was the most Attractive but she lost because she wasn't fluent enough in Dineh. Still, she made 1st Runner Up....
Cheers,
Pat
