Media Library Special Events

Academy Award Winner, Best Documentary Feature

The Academy Award-winning Broken Rainbow is the heartbreaking tale of the industry-led and government-enforced relocation of 12,000 Navajos from their ancestral homeland in Arizona to open up the region for oil, gas, coal, and uranium exploitation. This forced relocation began in the 1970s and continues to this day. The film follows displaced Native Americans as they take their protest to Congress and join with the American Indian Movement, turning their tragedy into acts of heroic resistance.

"There is no word for 'relocation' in the Navajo language; to 'relocate' is to disappear and never be seen again."

Guest Speaker: Louise Benally, a Native American activist who appears in the film and served as a translator for the film crew, will speak and answer questions following  the film screening. 

Food and beverages will be provided.

Sponsored by: The University Libraries, The Multicultural Center, Equity & Diversity Center and UNT's One Book, One Community