by Anura Guruge
on August 10, 2024
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This is about (my beloved) ‘Navajo‘ & set in Navajo country (i.e., Arizona & New Mexico).
I think I had tried to watch this 2 years ago and had given up in disgust.
Well, this time around, a couple of days ago, I could only stomach 40 minutes.
It is SO UNREAL, inauthentic that it is sickening. Disgusting.
I have spent a lot of time with Navajo, on their reservations (multiple days at a time), since 1983.
This is supposed to be set in Navajo land in the 1970s. COME ON.
All the Navajo are so well dressed and all their dwellings are so spick-and-span! Come on. This is what Hollywood thinks. This is not reality.
We still have a lot of poverty and hardship among Navajo.
This is a very poor and bad representation.
THEN THE LAST STRAW!
They had a supposed Navajo referring to their sacred canyon as ‘Canyon de CHELLY‘. Chelly is how it is SPELLED. It is called Canyon de-SHAY. de-Shay. de-Shay.
Never, never, never Chelly.
That was it. I was LIVID.
Don’t watch this garbage.
