The Return of Navajo Boy (2000)
56 min
An official selection of the Sundance Film Festival and PBS, The Return of Navajo Boy is an internationally acclaimed documentary that reunited a Navajo family and triggered a federal investigation into uranium contamination. It tells the story of Elsie Mae Begay, whose history in pictures reveals an incredible and ongoing struggle for environmental justice. A powerful new epilogue (produced in 2008) shows how the film and Groundswell Educational Films outreach campaign create news and rally supporters including Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA). The Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform mandated a clean-up plan by the five agencies responsible for uranium contamination. Ironically, the US EPA's Comprehensive Five-Year Plan did not include Ms. Begay's backyard, until she travelled with this film to Washington, DC and screened it on Capitol Hill in September, 2008.
- Release date
- January 28, 2000
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Douglas Spotted Eagle
Trailer
Cast
- Lorenzo Begay as Narrator
Crew
- Jeff Spitz · Director
- Bennie Klain · Producer
- Jeff Spitz · Producer
- Douglas Spotted Eagle · Composer
- Mark Eveslage · Cinematographer
- Sharon Karp · Editor