Brian Kennedy (gallery director)
Brian Patrick Kennedy( born 5 November 1961) is an Irish- born art museum director who has worked in Ireland and Australia, and now lives and works in the United States.
He is currently the director of the Peabody Essex Museum.
He was the director of the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio from 2010 to 2019.
He was the director of the Hood Museum of Art from 2005 to 2010, and the National Gallery of Australia( Canberra) from 1997- 2004.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Ellavina Perkins
Ellavina Tsosie Perkins is an independent linguist and scholar of the Navajo language.
She was a student of the late MIT linguistics professor Ken Hale.
She received her Ph.D. from the University of Arizona; her dissertation dealt with word order and lexical scope in Navajo.
Perkins is on the board of directors of the Navajo Language Academy, under the auspices of which she is currently collaborating with Theodore B. Fernald on the Navajo Grammar Project, which aims to produce a reference grammar of the Navajo Language.
The project received a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
The Navajo Boy
The Navajo Boy( 1950s) was a silent film that portrayed the Cly family on the Navajo Nation in Monument Valley, Utah.
The director, Robert J. Kennedy, narrated the film live at each showing.
In addition, he provided little written information about the context or the identities of the Navajo people featured in the film.
( The original spelling of the film is" The Navaho Boy", as was customary at the time.)
He featured Happy and Willie Cly.
Happy Cly is considered to be the most photographed Native American person in the United States.
Their nephew Jimmy Cly was the" Navajo Boy" for whom the original film was named.
At the turn of the twenty- first century, the director's son Bill Kennedy, a film producer, decided he wanted to revisit the Cly family for a documentary about their lives.
But he wanted to involve them and the Navajo people in the production and let them speak for themselves.
He produced the documentary," The Return of Navajo Boy"( 2000).
The Navajo believed the earlier film had treated them as voiceless stereotypes, and they wanted to express their own story.
They especially wanted to tell of the health damage and deaths in countless families due to the uranium mining on the reservation, which was unregulated for decades.
Ben Shelly
Ben Shelly( born July 6, 1947) was the 7th one term President of the Navajo Nation.
Shelly was the first President to have been elected both President and Vice President of the Navajo Nation.
He is also the first New Mexican Navajo to hold the Navajo Presidency.
On November 2, 2010, Shelly was voted in as the Navajo Nation's President- elect during the 2010 Navajo Nation Presidential Elections, defeating opponent New Mexico State Senator Lynda Lovejoy of the Navajo Nation.
On August 16, 2014 Shelly lost the Navajo Nation Primaries to former Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley Jr and newcomer Christopher Deschene.
Thomas Dodge
Thomas(" Tom") Dodge( 1900- 1987) was an American lawyer.
Dodge ws the son of Henry Chee Dodge and half- brother of Annie Dodge Wauneka.
He earned a law degree from St. Louis University Law School after which he took up a private practice in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
He was elected to the Navajo Tribal Council in 1933 and served as the chairman of the Council between 1933 and 1936.
He presided over the Council during introduction of the Navajo Livestock Reduction.
Dodge respected the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, John Collier, who was recognized as a strong advocate for Native Americans.
In 1933, in advance of initiating the program, the Tribal Council met to discuss the plan.
Dodge introduced Collier to the Tribal Council as" the' Plumed Knight' of the Indian cause".
The program was widely opposed by the Navajo people who depended on their livestock for a livelihood.
The Navajo also measured their wealth by the size of their herds.
In 1935 Dodge was appointed assistant superintendent of the Navajo Agency, a division of the Bureau of Indian Affairs( BIA).
This put him in a position between representing the people of the Navajo Nation who opposed the program and the BIA which initiated it.
In May, 1936, he resigned his position as chairman of the Council to work exclusively for the BIA.
He spent the rest of his life working in various positions for the BIA.
In 1965, he was awarded a Distinguished Service Award of the Department of the Interior for his accomplishments during his career with the BIA.
Along the Navajo Trail (film)
Along the Navajo Trail is a 1945 American western film directed by Frank McDonald and starring Roy Rogers, Gabby Hayes and Dale Evans.
The film's story was based on a William Colt MacDonald novel.
The film marked the debut of the Cuban actress Estelita Rodriguez, who Republic Pictures then began to build up into a star.
Its title song is "Along the Navajo Trail", an instrumental version of which appears with the opening credits, with a brief vocal version during the last twenty seconds of the film.
The first few bars of the song are used as background music in several chase scenes.
The film was part of the long-running series of Roy Rogers films produced by the studio.
Frank McDonald (director)
Frank McDonald (November 9, 1899 Baltimore, Maryland – March 8, 1980 Oxnard, California) was an American film and television director, active from 1935 to 1966.
He directed more than 100 films, including many Westerns starring Gene Autry and Roy Rogers, and numerous TV show episodes.
He is interred at Conejo Mountain Memorial Park in Camarillo, California.
Barboncito
Barboncito( 1821–1871) was a famous Navajo political and spiritual leader.
His name means bearded in Spanish(" barbón"= bearded and"- cito"= conjucated to add a little flair).
He also was known as Hástiin Dághá( Man with the Whiskers),,( The Orator), and( Blessing Speaker).
Barboncito was born into the" Ma'íí deeshgíízhiní í"( Coyote Pass People) clan at Cañon de Chelly in 1820 and was a brother to Delgadito.
He was a signatory of several treaties between the United States and Navajos, including the Doniphan Treaty of 1846( Also known as the Bear Springs Treaty), which was an attempt to establish peace between the Navajo and whites during the Mexican War.
This treaty proved to be unsuccessful, as not all of the Navajo Chiefs were willing to become signatory to it.
This would later lead to armed rebellion against the United States where Barboncito worked together with another Navajo, Manuelito, in order to try and stop the forced relocation of Navajo tribe members to Bosque Redando.
Barboncito was the Head Chief of the Navajo when the Bosque Redondo Treaty of 1868 was signed.
This treaty contained articles which would end hostilities between the United States and the Navajo people, as well as allowing them to return to their ancestral land at Cañon de Chelly in Arizona and having a reservation established there.
The impact of this aspect of the treaty was the end of the Long Walk of the Navajo which had claimed the lives of thousands of Navajo people.
Of all the Navajos of his time, Barboncito is probably most responsible for the long- term success of the Navajo culture and relations with non-Navajos.
As well as being established as a skillful negotiator and leader of the Navajo people.
Shortly after the enactment of the Bosque Redando Treaty, Barboncito died in 1871 at Cañon de Chelly.
Barboncito was also known as “ The Orator ” and “ Blessing Speaker ”, and did not participate in skirmishes amongst the Navajo and White people.
In the 1850s, Barboncito was considered a mediator between the two conflicting groups, and proposed peace between them in order to prevent escalating warfare.
Despite this, problems reigned on between the White people and the Navajo people.
Navajos and whites fought over the grazing lands of Canyon Bonito near Fort Defiance, located in what is now the eastern part of the state of Arizona.
The Navajos had let their horses graze in these pastures for centuries, but the newcomers also wanted the lands for their horses.
In 1860, U.S. soldiers slaughtered a number of Navajo horses, leading the Navajos to raid army herds in order to replenish their losses.
The White attack on Navajo horses forced Barboncito to take action.
Barboncito led one- thousand men to Fort Defiance.
Barboncito ’s great efforts nearly won the Navajo the fort, but he and his team of warriors were driven off by the US Army into the Chuska Mountains, but there the United States ’ forces could not withstand the Navajo hit and run attacks.
Stalemated, Indians and whites sat down at a peace- council once again.
Barboncito, Manuelito, Delgadito, Armijo, Herrero Grande, and 17 other chiefs met Colonel Edward R. S. Canby at Fort Fauntleroy, 35 miles south of Fort Defiance.
They all agreed to the terms of a treaty in 1861.
For a time, the Navajos and the whites tried to forge the bonds of friendship.
Despite the treaty, an undercurrent of distrust caused conflict between the two groups to continue.
The United States led an extensive campaign to" burn- and- imprison" the Navajos, administered by Colonel Christopher" Kit" Carson and Ute mercenaries, traditional enemies of the Navajos.
Barboncito made peaceful overtures to General James H. Carleton, Carson's commanding officer, in 1862, but the assault against the Navajo people dragged on.
Carson destroyed fields, orchards, and hogans—an earth- covered Navajo dwelling —and he confiscated cattle from the Continental Divide to the Colorado River.
Though only 78 of the 12,000 Navajo people were killed, Carson's efforts crushed the Navajo spirit.
By 1864, he had devastated Cañon de Chelly, hacking down thousands of peach trees and obliterating acres of corn fields.
Eventually, a shortage of food and supplies forced the Navajos to surrender their sacred stronghold.
In 1864 Barboncito was captured in his hometown of Cañon de Chelly by troops under the command of Colonel Christopher “ Kit ” Carson.
After experiencing the terrible conditions under Colonel Christopher “ Kit ” Carson, Barboncito escaped with about 500 followers in June 1865.
That same year, the" Long Walk" began, in which 8,000 Navajo people — two- thirds of the entire tribe—were escorted by 2,400 soldiers across 300 miles to Bosque Redondo, New Mexico.
Almost 200 of the Indians died en route.
The remaining 4,000 Navajos escaped west with Manuelito, who eventually surrendered in 1866( two months before Barboncito).
Barboncito was the last Navajo chief to be captured and led to Bosque Redondo.
Once he found conditions there worse than imagined, he escaped and returned to Cañon de Chelly, but he was recaptured.
In 1868, Barboncito, Manuelito, and a delegation of chiefs traveled to Washington, D.C., after General Carleton had been transferred from Fort Sumner at Bosque Redondo and could no longer inflict his policies on the Navajo.
Barboncito was granted great status by the whites —more authority than would have been accorded him by tribal custom.
He played a leading role in negotiations with General William T. Sherman and Colonel Samuel F. Tappan, telling them that the creator of the Navajo people had warned the tribe never to go east of the Rio Grande River.
However, the U.S. government was not inclined to return all their land to the Navajos.
Sherman provided Barboncito and the other chiefs with three choices: go east to Oklahoma( then known as Indian Territory), relocate in New Mexico and be governed by the laws of that territory, or return to a diminished portion of their original lands.
The Navajos chose the last option.
On June 1, 1868, the Navajo leaders, including Barboncito, signed the Treaty of Bosque Redondo with the U.S. government.
As reprinted in Wilcombe Washburn's American Indian and the United States: A Documentary History, the agreement begins:" From this day forward all war between the parties to this agreement shall forever cease."
He is thought to have been buried with a handwritten copy of the treaty.
Barboncito was a gifted negotiator, as well as talented ceremonial singer.
Despite some setbacks, he ultimately saw more success than anyone when it came to Navajo affairs with other non-Navajos.
Shortly after the Bosque Redondo treaty was enacted, Barboncito died in 1871, at the age of 50 in his home village of Cañon de Chelly.
Jonathan Nez
Jonathan Nez is the 9th and current president of the Navajo Nation.
He was elected President of the Navajo Nation on November 6, 2018.
Before his election, Nez served as Vice President from 2015 until his inauguration in early January 2019.
At 43 years of age, Nez is the youngest person to have ever been elected President of the Navajo Nation.

Question: Where did the director of film Along The Navajo Trail (Film) die?
Answer: Oxnard