Excerpt from film on life of Native American Indian children in the United States. An Indian man cuts a watermelon and gives the pieces to children. The children eat the watermelon.
Life of Native American Indian children in the United States. Indian children enter a government school. The children play American football and jump on a springboard in the playground at the school. Somersaults are performed by the children. The children attend Sunday religious church services in the school (presumably boarding school).
Native American Indian children demonstrate skills in the United States. An American Boy Scout in uniform kneels to prepare a fire lay and then light the fire using flint and steel. A Native American Indian boy shows rope and lasso skills, twirling a rope around himself and in the air. A boy stretches threads across a frame and shows beading skills as he makes a Native American Indian beaded band or sash. A Native American Indian Boy Scout in uniform braids and splices a lanyard. A Boy Scout in uniform shows the making of a cord belt from 28 strands of twine.
Life of Native American Indian children in the United States. An Indian girl on a mule holds two lambs. Lambs move around on the ground. A young boy feeds chickens. Indian girls paint designs on small pots.
A film surveys federal provisions for the education of the Native American Indian students in the United States during the Great Depression, and cultural integration of Native Americans into white cultures. An Indian woman holds her baby. An Indian man talks to a woman. Two women in traditional dress pose. Exteriors of a church. A picture depicting increase in grants for Indian education and decrease in appropriations for military control in the United States from 1886 to 1932.
U.S. Federal provisions for the education of the North American Indians in the United States during the Great Depression era. Native American Indian students come out of Chemawa Indian School boarding school in Oregon. An elementary school in Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota. Indian children on the grounds of Shiprock Reservation in New Mexico. Animated map depicts Indian schools in the United States. Cloth lines on the grounds of a school. A man walks out of a government school building.