More than 100 audition for Navajo language ‘Finding Nemo’
Nezbahe Williams of Flagstaff practices her lines with her mother, Katherine, on Saturday at the Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock, Ariz. before auditioning for a part in the Finding Nemo film, which will be dubbed into Navajo. (Times photo – Terry Bowman)
WINDOW ROCK
Sister and brother, Mikayla and Shawn Hongeva of Flagstaff, help each other practice their Navajo before auditioning for a part in the Finding Nemo movie, which will be dubbed into the Navajo language. Shawn auditioned for the role of Crush while his sister Mikayla audition for Dori. (Times photo – Terry Bowman)
It was time for people to channel their inner fish during the Navajo Nation Museum’s “Finding Nemo” auditions this past Saturday and more than 100 people showed up for the challenge.
For instance, eight-year-old Folashade Akinyemi, from Vanderwagon, N.M., went to the auditions last Saturday with her grandmother G. Seaton. Akinyemi said she wanted to audition because Dory was up for grabs.
“She’s very friendly to Nemo,” Akinyemi said.
Seaton said her granddaughter is growing up with Navajo because she and her grandfather are teaching her how to read, write and speak it. Reading is what they’ve been working on lately and Seaton said her granddaughter could get a few of the syllables down.
Nezbahe Williams of Flagstaff practices her lines with her mother, Katherine, on Saturday at the Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock, Ariz. before auditioning for a part in the Finding Nemo film, which will be dubbed into Navajo. (Times photo – Terry Bowman)
Seaton said she brought Akinyemi out to audition “just to encourage her that she can do it, that she can read Navajo.”
“She’s making herself do it and she has an ambition to learn how to read (Navajo),” Seaton added.
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