In addition, he provided little written information about the context or the identities of the Navajo people featured in the film.
Happy Cly is considered to be the most photographed Native American person in the United States.
[1] At the turn of the twenty-first century, the director's son Bill Kennedy, a film producer, decided he wanted to revisit the Cly family for a documentary about their lives.
The Navajo believed the earlier film had treated them as voiceless stereotypes, and they wanted to express their own story.
They especially wanted to tell of the health damage and deaths in countless families due to the uranium mining on the reservation, which was unregulated for decades.