This weekend the Social Media Workgroup traveled to Window Rock, Farmington and Shiprock to document interviews, record sounds, check out potential project sites, and record gps data for android development. Our collaborator Venaya Yazzie joined us on one leg of the journey.
Venaya, Estevan, Russ, Eric and Ryan at a market near Shiprock
Russ documenting a potential site along the infamous former ‘Route 666′
The view from the other side, the APS/Four Corners Power Plant
During our trip, we had the incredible good fortune to visit with and interview Navajo artist, author and teacher Blackhorse Mitchell and his apprentice Damien Jones. Blackhorse’s book Miracle Hill: The Story of a Navajo Boy has been highly popular continuously since its first publication in the 1960′s, and made Blackhorse the first Navajo author on the New York Times Bestseller List.
Blackhorse in his home where he played piano and sang ‘Blueberry Hill’ with us
Damien showed us many sacred objects used by Navajo Medicine Men.
Both Damien and Blackhorse have spent a significant amount of time in the Czech Republic, and here’s Damien on youtube singing the Czech footballer chant ‘Banik Pico’ (it’s a long story…)
