Dustinn Craig
{{Short description|Native American filmmaker and skateboarder from Arizona, U.S.}}
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| citizenship = White Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation, United States
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| known_for = filmmaking, skateboarding
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Dustinn Craig is a Native American filmmaker and skateboarder from Arizona.{{cite web|last1=Guzman|first1=René A.|date=11 November 2013|title=Exhibit highlights skateboard culture of American Indians|url=https://www.mysanantonio.com/lifestyle/article/Exhibit-highlights-skateboard-culture-of-American-4975035.php|website=San Antonio Express-News}}{{Cite web|title=Native American Film + Video Festival - Dustinn Craig|url=https://americanindian.si.edu/nafvf/filmmakers_craig_d.aspx|access-date=2020-09-05|website=americanindian.si.edu}}{{Cite web|last=Reporter|first=Sarah Pitts, Life & Arts|title=Contemporary Apache filmmaker to screen films at OU|url=http://www.oudaily.com/l_and_a/contemporary-apache-filmmaker-to-screen-films-at-ou/article_e73f4e82-b2de-11e3-bca2-0017a43b2370.html|access-date=2020-09-05|website=OU Daily|date=24 March 2014 |language=en}}{{Cite journal|last=HEARNE|first=JOANNA|date=2014|title="This Is Our Playground": Skateboarding, DIY Aesthetics, and Apache Sovereignty in Dustinn Craig's "4wheelwarpony"|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43025408|journal=Western American Literature|volume=49|issue=1|pages=47–69|jstor=43025408 |issn=0043-3462}} Craig is an enrolled citizen of the White Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation{{Cite web|title=Artist {{!}} Vtape|url=https://www.vtape.org/artist?ai=1106|access-date=2021-02-13|website=www.vtape.org}} and Navajo descendant.{{cite news |last1=Campagna |first1=Jeff |title=“Ramp It Up: Skateboard Culture in Native America” Opens Friday |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/ramp-it-up-skateboard-culture-in-native-america-opens-friday-8959696/ |access-date=25 November 2024 |work=Smithsonian Magazine |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |date=11 June 2009}}
Early life
Dustinn Craig was born in Mesa, Arizona, in 1975.{{cite web |title=Remix: New Modernities in a Post-Indian World |url=https://ago.ca/exhibitions/remix-new-modernities-post-indian-world |website=Art Gallery of Ontario |access-date=25 November 2024 |date=2009}} His father was the comedian, comic artist, and musician Vincent Craig (Navajo Nation, 1950–2010), whose parents were Nancy Mariano Etsitty and Bob Etsitty Craig, a Navajo code talker.{{cite news |last1=Patterson |first1=Jan-Mikael |title=A humble man |url=https://navajotimes.com/news/2010/0510/052710craigfuneral.php |access-date=25 November 2024 |work=Navajo Times |date=27 May 2010}} Dustinn's mother was Mariddie J. Craig (White Mountain Apache).
Dustinn grew up on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona and later at Window Rock, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation.
Skateboarding
As of 2020, Craig is leader of the White Mountain skate team.{{Cite web|title=Skateboarding On The Reservation|url=https://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2014/08/02/skateboarding-indian-reservation|access-date=2020-09-05|website=www.wbur.org|date=2 August 2014 |language=en}} Craig began filmmaking when, as a teenager, he started making skateboard videos.
Filmmaking
Craig's filmmaking career often focuses on topics that explore his identity as a White Mountain Apache person who grew up on Indian reservations.{{Cite web|title=Class of '27 {{!}} A Conversation with Dustinn Craig|url=https://www.wgbh.org/program/america-reframed/clip/class-of-27-5|access-date=2021-02-13|website=Org|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Heard Museum Videos|url=https://heard.org/videos/|access-date=2020-09-05|website=Heard Museum|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|title=Ramp it Up: Skateboard Culture in Native America, NY {{!}} National Museum of the American Indian|url=https://americanindian.si.edu/explore/exhibitions/item?id=571|access-date=2020-09-05|website=americanindian.si.edu}}{{Cite journal|last1=HEARNE|first1=JOANNA|last2=CRAIG|first2=DUSTINN|date=2014|title="Just by Doing It, We Made It Appear": Dustinn Craig on "We Shall Remain: Geronimo, 4wheelwarpony", and the "Apache Scouts" Project|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43025409|journal=Western American Literature|volume=49|issue=1|pages=71–88|jstor=43025409 |issn=0043-3462}}
Craig wrote, directed, and produced I Belong to This, a personal documentary that is part of the 2003 PBS documentary series Matters of Race. In 2005 the National Video Resources Media Artists Fellowship awarded Craig for his documentary on skateboarding at Fort Apache: Ride through Genocide.{{Cite web|title=A TALK BY DUSTINN CRAIG|url=https://www.redscreenfilmfestival.org/a-talk-by-dustinn-craig|access-date=2021-02-13|website=Redscreen|language=en}} In 2005, the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona hired Craig to produce and direct three films, two about the Havasupai Tribe and the Colorado River Indian Tribes in Arizona and one entitled “HOME”, a multi-screen half hour documentary that features the imagery of the Native Southwest and first hand perspectives of Native People. Craig is also a recipient of the 2005 Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship.
In 2008, Craig released a film about Geronimo, the fourth episode in the 5 part documentary series “We Shall Remain” produced by American Experience.{{Cite journal|last1=Hearne|first1=Joanna|last2=Craig|first2=Dustinn|date=2014|title="Just by Doing It, We Made It Appear": Dustinn Craig on We Shall Remain: Geronimo, 4wheelwarpony, and the Apache Scouts Project|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/wal.2014.0003|journal=Western American Literature|volume=49|issue=1|pages=71–88|doi=10.1353/wal.2014.0003|issn=1948-7142|url-access=subscription}} The film premiered at the 2008 Native Cinema Showcase. In 2009, Craig released Our Home, Our Stories: Short Films by Dustinn Craig, a compilation broadcast on Arizona Public Television.{{Cite web|title=Native American filmmaker|url=https://azpbs.org/horizon/2009/04/native-american-filmmaker/|access-date=2021-02-13|website=Arizona PBS|language=en-US}}
References
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External links
- [https://vimeo.com/betterones Dustinn Craig - Vimeo]
Category:Native American filmmakers
Category:Native American skateboarders