Walking in Two Worlds
The effects of urbanization on the Native American population have long been a concern. It has impacted generations of Indigenous peoples even today, where youth struggle with the mental and emotional effects urbanization has had on their own identity since birth. I want to show how the pueblo youth in my communities are struggling to exist between cultural life and more urban or Western life as they make their way through today’s world.
Filmmaker: Kaydence Tapia – 12th grade, Santa Fe Indian School (Santa Fe, New Mexico)
Published June 2023
Produced by What’s the Story? The Young Filmmakers’ Social Action Team
Supported and funded by Middlebury Bread Loaf School of English
with Additional Support from The Kathryn Wasserman Davis Collaborative in Conflict Transformation and
the SNAVE Foundation