Last week a Navajo student in my senior seminar on contemporary film presented her work on "where the spirit lives." Her response was primarily autobiographical, but she was tremendously moved by the film. She had attended boarding school on the Rez in the 60s and 70s and part of the reason for her intense emotional response was the realization that this experience wasn't confined to Navajos or even to American Indians living in the United States.She only screened a few clips from the film, but according to her this was the closest approximation she had ever seen of what the boarding school experience had been for her. She had attended as a monolingual Navajo speaker and argued that the denial of linguistic and religious heritage were the most damaging things about the experience. I don't want to take up too much list time with this, but I'd be happy to expand in a private posting. Larry Hartsfield Fort Lewis College