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Navajo Star Wars

Season 2 Episode 4 | 5m 50s

May the Fourth is a special night at the West Winds Drive-In in Glendale Arizona where Manny Wheeler is screening Star Wars, dubbed into Navajo. It's one of many innovative ways of preserving Native languages.

Funding is provided by Partnership with Native Americans.
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