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Recommended for: Grades 6-12

Resource: Miss Navajo

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Length: 5m 51s
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This video segment from Independent Lens documents a young woman’s experiences as she competes in the Miss Navajo Nation beauty pageant. This pageant is unique because instead of concentrating on a young woman’s outer beauty, the focus is on her knowledge and understanding of the Navajo culture and her ability to spread this culture as an ambassador of the Navajo Nation. One of the main requirements to become Miss Navajo is the ability to speak and understand Navajo, a language spoken by less than 200,000 people. In this portion of the competition, contestants respond to questions that are asked, and must be answered, in Navajo.

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Teachers' Domain, Miss Navajo, published August 25, 2008, retrieved on ,
http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/vtl07.la.ws.research.navajotest/

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The following Frame, Focus and Follow-up suggestions are best suited for middle school students using this video in an English language arts or social studies lesson. Be sure to modify the questions to meet your students' instructional needs.

What is Frame, Focus and Follow-up?

Frame (ELA) What is the traditional purpose of beauty pageants? Based on your background knowledge, what criteria would you assume is used to select the winner of the Miss Navajo Nation beauty pageant?

Focus (ELA) As you watch the video, try to determine the reason why speaking Navajo is a requirement for the contestants of this beauty pageant.

Frame (SS) In what area of the United States does the Navajo Nation reside? What is your first or native language? Do you speak a language other than English? How did you or your family members learn another language?

Focus (SS) As Navajo children were forced to attend schools run by missionaries and the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, what happened to the Navajo language? How and why did this occur?