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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>Miss Navajo – A Documentary by Billy
Luther<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>Tonight on PBS – 11pm EST local <st1:City
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<p><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:windowtext'>For the past 50 years, the Miss Navajo Nation pageant
has celebrated Navajo women and traditional values, language and inner beauty.
Held over a five-day period at the annual Navajo Nation Fair, contestants are
required to showcase skills that are crucial to Navajo daily life, including
sheep butchering, fry-bread making and rug weaving. Through interviews with new
and previous pageant contestants, MISS NAVAJO reveals the importance of
cultural preservation and the meaning of being a woman in Navajo culture. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:windowtext'>Crystal Frazier, a twenty-one-year-old Navajo woman,
lives on the reservation in Table Mesa, New Mexico. Living in a house without
running water, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Crystal</st1:place></st1:City>
helps care for her family’s livestock, makes a weekly trip to the well
for water and does a share of the cooking. A tomboy and former high school
basketball champ, Crystal is confronted with a new set of challenges when she
decides to compete in the 2005–06 Miss Navajo pageant. She acknowledges
her own shyness and says that participating in the Miss Navajo contest would
probably be a good experience. MISS NAVAJO follows <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Crystal</st1:place></st1:City>’s journey leading up to the
competition, while former Miss Navajos share their own memories of the pageant
and what it meant to them. Each previously crowned “queen” also
experienced life on the reservation and faced the challenges of working as a
leader in the preservation of their culture.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:windowtext'>Conceived as a “celebration of womanhood”
by filmmaker Billy Luther—whose mother, Sarah Johnson Luther, was Miss
Navajo Nation 1966–67—MISS NAVAJO offers a different take on what
it means to be beautiful, exploring tradition in Diné, or Navajo,
culture through one woman’s quest for the Miss Navajo Nation crown. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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