Student to weave the history of ‘Big Sister’ into a film
Charlie C. Billy, former council delegate for Chilchinbeto, stands with the completed “Big Sister Rug.” Billy was the mastermind behind the rug. (Courtesy photo)
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Dwayne Joe from Shiprock, N.M. will be the one shooting the “Big Sister Rug” documentary this summer. Joe is a student at the Institute of American Indian Arts. (Courtesy photo)
To preserve the history that went into making the world’s largest Navajo rug, a documentary is in the works with a Navajo film student from the Institute of American Indian Arts to make it happen.
Shooting for the “Big Sister Rug” documentary will begin this summer, and IAIA student Dwayne Joe will be working with the people directly associated with the rug’s creation to document its history.
“There is a story to be told. There is a story to be preserved, and there is a story to be fulfilled,” said Eugene Badonie, member of the committee that cares for the “Big Sister Rug.”
Badonie approached Joe last November on the possibility of shooting a documentary about Big Sister, which was created and resides in Chilchinbeto, Ariz.
“I didn’t know about the rug,” Joe said, other than seeing it as a backdrop for various occasions on the Navajo Nation.
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