A TALE FOR ALL NATIONS

"A Tale for All Nations" is a documentary of the 1998 Native American Summer Institute held at the University of Arizona. The institute brings together students from the Pascua Yaqui Tribe and the Wa:k O'odham Community, teachers from the University of Arizona and a variety of Tucson area high schools, and researchers from the Carl Hayden Bee Research Center. The film consists of four conversations on youth, culture, vision, and empowerment.

As these conversations proceed, we see the students working in the classroom, setting up the Wa:k Apiary at the San Xavier Farm Cooperative, visiting the Bee Research Center, and participating in a saguaro harvest.

Between each of these conversations, we experience the transition from life on tribal communities to the institute's activities at the university through the bus rides and the poetry of a Tohono O'odham boy and a Pascua Yaqui girl.

This film runs approximately 28 minutes and is intended for noncommercial, nonprofit use. Access Tucson contributed its resources to the making of this film in exchange for viewing on its public-access television channels.

Tradition music for the film was provided by Canyon Record Productions.

This documentary was supported by the National Science Foundation through a grant to the University of Arizona Department of Mathematics, DMS 94-12873 and University of Arizona College of Science.