{"id":2290,"date":"2013-11-20T11:36:49","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T16:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/?p=2290"},"modified":"2013-11-20T11:36:49","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T16:36:49","slug":"navajo-coyote-tales-from-legend-to-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/navajo-coyote-tales-from-legend-to-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Navajo Coyote Tales: From Legend to Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not only are the Navajo Coyote Collection stories a humorous venue for learning language, stories, and for understanding a fragment of the cultural fabric, but the DVD collection also represents a significant slice of animation history.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z_06nbVtzzk\" height=\"480\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>During the early 1970s, Kent Tibbetts, the first director of the San Juan School District Media Center, and Don Mose, Jr., who was a cultural consultant, had the opportunity to work with a firm named Computer Image Corporation. The Denver-based firm was pioneering computer animation. They offered to work with the Coyote stories in an experimental capacity to create 16 mm animated films. The Coyote film animation project became a collaborative effort involving the art students and cultural consultants of San Juan School District, technicians from Computer Image Corporation, and funding from the Utah Navajo oil royalties.<\/p>\n<p>San Juan High School students drafted the artwork, imaginatively drawing the characters of Coyote and his companions upon which Computer Image Corporations would base their animation. Coyote and the Horned Toad was the first experiment, followed by Coyote and Beaver, Skunk, Rabbit, and finally, Coyote and the Lizards. Each character personification was permitted only six moving body parts, or &#8220;bones&#8221; as they were called. Each &#8220;bone&#8221; or part was a separate image that was assembled into one complete figure with the computer program. Irving Toledo became the still-familiar voice of Coyote; Jim Dandy Sr. narrated the stories; and the voices of Don Mose, Jr. and Herbert Frazier filled in the other animal dialogue.<\/p>\n<h3>These Coyote Stories have been converted from the original filmstrips to DVDs in Color<\/h3>\n<h3>Navajo Language Only<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Choose from Five Titles! $5.00 Each<\/strong><br \/>\nCoyote and the Lizards<br \/>\nCoyote and the Beavers<br \/>\nCoyote and Skunk<br \/>\nCoyote and Rabbit<br \/>\nCoyote and Horned Toad<\/p>\n<h3>Get the entire collection of five for $25.00<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/navajo-coyote-stories-collection\/coyote-stories-collection\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2263\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Navajo Coyote Stories Collection\" src=\"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Coyote-Stories-Collection.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"588\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Coyote Stories were made from student drawings directly into animated films via the technological expertise of the Computer Image Corporation. The VHS\/VCR versions came from a later conversion and the DVDs from the VCR version. The DVD conversion occurred in the late 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>Kent and Don Mose made weekly trips to Denver to work with the Computer Image folks to produce the videos. So, the DVDs really represent a little piece of film history, in addition to the cultural content.<\/p>\n<p>*Please remember that the telling of Coyote Stories is restricted to the winter storytelling months, October through February<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Ordering Information<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>San Juan School District<\/strong><br \/>\nHeritage Language Resource Center<br \/>\n28 West 200 North<br \/>\nPhone: 435-678-1230<br \/>\nFAX: 435-678-1283<br \/>\nStore Hours: 9:00 \u2013 4:30<br \/>\nMonday through Thursday<br \/>\nEmail: rstoneman@sjsd.org<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Online order at this Website:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/media.sjsd.org\/\">media.sjsd.org<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0173\/0422\/files\/Heritage_Language_Catalog_2013_FALL.pdf?204\">Click here for New Fall 2013 \u00a0Catalog<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We accept purchase orders, credit cards, and checks.<br \/>\nWe bill only for items shipped and actual cost of shipping.<br \/>\nPersonal orders ship after payment is received.<br \/>\nPlease estimate 10% of purchase total for shipping cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only are the Navajo Coyote Collection stories a humorous venue for learning language, stories, and for understanding a fragment of the cultural fabric, but the DVD collection also represents a significant slice of animation history. 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