Warning: Depressing in the Depression

This video and article totally compelled me. The way that they talk about losing Navajo culture, the way that they blame each other for loss, but also definitively identify whiteness and white America, once again reminds me how sharply people feel personal responsibility for things that are widely systematic, and how deeply people internalize this. But the futility that I palpably comprehend from the film seems too dark for me. Can we ever really compensate for what people feel is a loss of culture? What is at stake in its loss? From an anthropological perspective, how and what kind of documentation and understanding is required to stave off or even restore this loss? What does it mean to lose culture to whiteness, emotionally, socially, economically? How can this attitude of futility be combated? The reporter doesn't ask these questions so much. He just seems to present it as a pitiable human interest story without really reflecting on his place in presenting this narrative.

Yes, I am gearing up for the school year. Classes start Tuesday. Determination to find many more ways that scholarship can still mean something real.