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The Long Walk: Tears of the Navajo
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Program Title:

THE LONG WALK: TEARS OF THE NAVAJO

Episodes/Length: 1/60
Closed Captioned: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Suggested TV Rating: TV-G
   
Description: In 1864 eight thousand Navajo men, women and children were marched at gunpoint to a barren reservation along the Texas border. This forced relocation was aimed at crushing American Indian resistance in the Southwest.  Hundreds of Navajo died during the march and the four years of forced isolation.  The Navajo remember this tragedy as “The Long Walk." Narrated by Peter Coyote.
   
Tag: To order “The Long Walk: Tears of the Navajo” on DVD call KUED Home Video at 1-800-477-KUED.  $19.95 plus shipping and handling.
   
Producer: KUED/Salt Lake City John Howe Producer
Date Produced: 2007
Funding: George S. & Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation, Pacific Mountain Network
   
Program Web Site: www.kued.org/productions/thelongwalk
   
Viewer Contact: KUED Viewer Services 801-581-3064; askkued@kued.org
   
Production Credits: Producer-Director-Writer
John Howe

Associate Producer
Jeff Elstad
                                                
Production Assistants
Davina Spotted Elk
Lenora Tsosie
Carol Dalrymple
Colby Tueller
Michelle Ashton

Original Music Score
Vincent Frates

HD Cinematography
John Howe

Location Sound
William Gordon
Kevin Sweet

Post-Production Audio
William Gordon
William Montoya

Editor
John Howe

Online Editor
Bill Lauer

Director of Production
Ken Verdoia

Special thanks to The Navajo Nation

Pacific Mountain Network NNAD George S. and Delores Dore Eccles

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