‘We feel pride’: old Western gets new life dubbed in Navajo language

Clint Eastwood's A Fistful of Dollars is the latest to be dubbed in the Indigenous language set to premiere on 16 November

Manuelito Wheeler isn't sure exactly why Navajo elders admire Western films.

It could be that decades ago, many of them were treated to the films in boarding schools off the reservation decades ago. Or, like his father, they told stories of growing up gathered around a television to watch gunslingers in a battle against good and evil on familiar-looking landscapes.