Clans Documentary

FAIN: TR-287744-24

Museum of Contemporary Art Flagstaff, Inc. (Flagstaff, AZ 86002-1254)
Sarah Del Seronde (Project Director: January 2022 to present)

A film examining the relationship between the Diné and Dene clans and the role of language and oral tradition in the formation of Indigenous identity.

CLANS is a feature-length documentary exploring the origins of the Diné clans through the oral traditions of the Dene in the Canadian Subarctic and the Diné (Navajo) in the American Southwest. This project centers on traditional Dene and Diné storytellers of the largest Indigenous linguistic families in North America, the Athabascan language family, who weave into our identity language and relationships to land with sacred stories and cultural teachings.