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October 2007
 Dustinn
Craig (White Mountain Apache/Navajo) grew up in Arizona,
living in White River on the Fort Apache reservation and later
in Window Rock on the Navajo Reservation. As a teenager, Craig
began making skateboarding videos of himself and his friends.
But with fatherhood at age nineteen, Craig's desire to create
"something I hoped my kids would see and watch some day,"
resulted in a production reflecting on family and tribal ties,
for the national PBS series Matters of Race (Executive Producer;
Orlando Bagwell). His documentary Home has been shown as
part of the Heard Museum exhibit "HOME: Native People in
the Southwest" since May 22, 2005, and will continue to screen
until 2010. Craig has worked on film projects for the John Hopkins
Center for American Indian Health in Baltimore, Maryland, and
the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee. He is
a producer, director of episode four of We Shall Remain: A
Native History of America, a PBS American Experience
production that will air in 2009. In the future, he would like
to collaborate with other young Native filmmakers to produce self-defined
representations of Indian identity. He is pictured here with his
wife and co-writer, Velma Craig.
"I want to point out all the disparities and all of the
injustices that we are still living with. As young Native people
in the twenty-first century, we are really in a position to take
charge of our image. We need to speak out, we have real ethical
and moral obligations."
Screened by NMAI
Image credit:
Dustinn Craig - courtesy of PBS; Dustin Craig and Velma Craig
- courtesy of POV
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