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Native American Indians reenact a tribal ceremony around campfire and discuss problem of combating tuberculosis.

Large group of Native Americans chant and dance as they reenact old tribal ceremonial activities. Several discuss deaths of their parents from disease (tuberculosis) and ponder competing views for combating it. One thinks old ways are better but another thinks more modern methods might be called for. A young Native American man sitting alone with with a young Native American woman, speaks about his decision to attend a White man's boarding school.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078231
Enactment showing Native American Indian youth leaving a reservation and attending a boarding school

Native American actors portraying story of youth who leaves a reservation in the United States to attend a boarding school. A man saddles his horse and brings another with him as he crosses a fenced area, past a man chopping wood. He stops near a young woman, named Nema, standing in front of a low log shelter. A young man, named Robert, says goodbye to her and to an older man named, Slow Talker, standing near a buckboard wagon. Robert climbs on the empty horse and canters away with the other rider. As they watch the riders depart, Slow Talker tells Nema, that Robert is forsaking the ways of his people. The riders continue across the desert landscape and then are seen walking up to a substantial building housing the boarding school. Robert enters as his companion bids him good luck. Robert is seen inside the school with text book open as he writes. Another scene shows him practicing in a forge, as part of his training. He cleans up in a lavatory.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078232
Physician giving physical examination to Native American Indian youth at a boarding school

Native American actors portraying boys at a boarding school. They play volley ball on a school field. A school supervisor calls them together and introduces a physician, who tells them they look strong but could harbor germs. Doctor examines one of the boys, by tapping on parts of his upper body, as he explains what he is doing. He uses a stethoscope. He takes a chest Xray of the boy. The doctor removes the film and tells the boy he'll show it to him after it is developed.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078233
Enactment: Physician tells Native American Indian youth that he has tuberculosis (TB) and must visit sanitorium to recover

Native American Indian actor, playing role of a youth at a boarding school, reviews his chest X-ray with the physician who points out a spot on his long due to tuberculosis. The boy objects, stating that he feels well. The doctor tells him he should go to a sanitorium to recover. The next scene shows the boy sitting in a bed at the sanitorium, having his dinner tray brought by a nurse.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1941
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078234
Actors play role of doctor and Native American patient in a sanitorium. The doctor explains nature and cause of TB

Native American Indian youth recovering from TB at a sanitorium, is seated on a bench outdoors, when his doctor joins him. In hope that the Native American youth can be helpful to members of his tribe, who are suffering from epidemic of tuberculosis, the doctor explains the disease to the boy. He shows sketch of the lungs and describes them and the progression of TB and its accompanying symptoms. The boy asks about medicine for TB. The doctor says none exists, but nature can heal a lung if it rests, just as a broken leg can heal if rested. The boy asks about his operation. The doctor tells him it is pneumothorax, and explains it with help of illustrations how a lung is collapsed so it can rest and heal and then reflated. Asked about the cause of TB, the doctor tells the boy it is caused by a living organism, and invites to see it in the laboratory. In the lab, the doctor show the boy two test tubes, one of which contains cultured organisms from a TB patient. The boy sits in bed with hands behind his head pondering the role of social hygiene in the spread of TB.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1941
Duration: 4 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078236
Sheep of Native American Indians are dipped in chemical solution under Federal Government supervision

Views of sheep dipping of herds owned by Native American Indians. Stockade-type pens erected to hold and control sheep. Workers guide the sheep into a channel where they are immersed in a solution (insecticide and fungicide) under direction of U.S. Government experts. Stong young Native American men are seen picking sheep up and placing them into the liquid-filled channel, where others, including women, prod them along through the bath. One of the men (acting) appears in distress, and companions help him to a car, which drives away with him. Scene shifts to young Native American woman and her Grandfather (named Slow Talker), outside a building as physician comes out to tell them their friend, is very sick with tuberculosis. He says the heavy work at the sheep dip caused his lungs to bleed.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078237
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