JONATHAN NEZ (over speaker): The Navajo language is on a comeback.

(speaking Navajo): NARRATOR: Manny Wheeler has dubbed "Star Wars" into Navajo... (Navajo film dialogue playing) ...a milestone that has energized his community around language revitalization.

The question is, what'’’s next?

MANNY WHEELER: Hey.

MEN: Hey!

(greeting each other in Navajo) NARRATOR: He confers with a trusted group of friends.

WHEELER: I just got back from, um, watching, uh, "Star Wars" last night, so we screened that down, down in, Phoenix, yeah.

MAN: Oh, cool.

ANDY HARVEY (in Navajo): You know what?

I really started to, um, get a lot of, uh, thing-- uh, our elders saying, "You should do a Western."

I thought about my own dad.

You know?

And my dad... MAN: Oh, yeah.

I mean, he's glued to the TV when, when he's not working.

But what he's watching is most likely Westerns, those old Westerns.

MAN: Yeah.

So, why do you think our older generation-- why do you think they like Westerns?

SHAWN JIM: If you look at Westerns, yeah, you'’’ll see a wagon either pulled by a team of mules or horses, and they'll-- and they think back to that time.

"Oh yeah, I used to do that (speaks Navajo)."

MAN: Mm-hmm.

JIM: "That used to be me."

Those are some of the things that our elders grew up with.

MAN: Hmm.

MAN: Yeah.

JAMES BILAGODY: And those tricks that you always see in Hollywood where the guy falls off and holds onto the tail and gets dragged along, those are some of the things that these elders did when they were young.

And they mention that, "Yeah, eh, (speaks Navajo), I did that."

WHEELER: That's a real good point.

BILAGODY: Yeah.

Yeah.

WHEELER: That's a really good point.

HARVEY: I remember my grandpa, he used to travel from Many Farms to Monument Valley just to make, you know, be in the movie with, uh, John Wayne, you know?

(Wheeler chuckles) I grew up on Roy Rogers, uh, John Wayne, Paladin, "Have Gun - Will Travel," uh, "The Rifleman."

That, that was a certain vintage of the Western.

HARVEY (in Navajo): a lot of us, um, we don't see our elderlies.

We don't visit with them.

But through your help, with the movies and everything, it's gonna bring people or the family together.

WHEELER: Mmm.

WHEELER (voiceover): I knew that a Western was the topic that we needed to go.

So then we needed to choose, out of those thousands of Westerns that were done, which one would we do?

HARVEY: My dad's favorite movie Western is, uh, Clint Eastwood movie.

- Oh.

- All the Clint Eastwood movies.

- Oh, man.

(chuckling) - I mean, he doesn't mind if he's just finish it and then watch it again right after.

You know, so.

BILAGODY: They had that old, uh, Clint Eastwood dripping humor that just kind of came out the corner of his-- I have a uncle like that.

- Hmm.

WHEELER (voiceover): Clint Eastwood Westerns, they're great films, and they're great stories.

But another big factor that that drew me to them was there were no Native people in it.

(movie soundtrack playing) (gunshot fires) Native people and Westerns, we have a history with Hollywood about being misrepresented either by portraying us as primitive... MAN IN MOVIE: See what I told you?

WHEELER: ...or as being vicious and violent.

(gunshot) (shouts) To choose, um, a Western that didn't have that characteristic in it, that really helped us narrow it down to "A Fistful of Dollars."

("Fistful of Dollars" whistle theme playing) NARRATOR: "A Fistful of Dollars," the film that launched the Spaghetti Western genre... (gunshot fires) is about to become the first Frybread Western.

(whistle theme playing, gunshot fires)