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The film received its TV premiere in spring The film narrates that when in Pete Harjo, the director's grandfather, mysteriously went missing after his car crashed on a rural bridge in Sasakwa, Oklahoma, members of his Seminole and Muscogee community searched for him while singing songs of faith and hope that had been passed on for generations, with roots in both Scottish hymn lining and African American music.
Harjo interviews family members and locals, as well as academic experts on the subject including the Yale professor Willie Ruff and Rogers State University's Hugh Foley. A unique style of singing that may have gotten its start in Europe. Told from a first person VO by directer Sterlin Harjo, we travel through rural southeastern Oklahoma to uncover the stories of these songs. We talk to the few people that keep this singing alive, as well as tell the history of the songs through oral histories.
It's a personal film about songs that is all woven together by a mystery. The death of the filmmakers grandfather. It's a very exclusive world that the viewer is let in on, and by the end they will realize that these songs have shaped the modern world as we know it. In he was selected as one of the inaugural recipients the youngest and the first Native American recipient of the prestigious United States Artists Fellowship, which is supported by a consortium of major foundations.
Eugene Harjo Self as Self. Jesse Harjo Self as Self. Nelson Harjo Self as Self. Sterlin Harjo. Belinda Harjoche Self as Self. George Harjoche Self as Self. Harry Long Self as Self. Wotko Long Self as Self. Joy Nelson Self as Self. Joanna Palmer Self as Self. James Stafford Self as Self. Houston Tiger Self as Self. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. A unique style of singing that may have gotten its start in Europe. Told from a first person VO by directer Sterlin Harjo, we travel through rural southeastern Oklahoma to uncover the stories of these songs.
We talk to the few people that keep this singing alive, as well as tell the history of the songs through oral histories. It's a personal film about songs that is all woven together by a mystery.
The death of the filmmakers grandfather.
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