Iconic Western starring Clint Eastwood dubbed in Navajo by US museum

The classic Western 'A Fistful Of Dollars' is the third major film dubbed in Navajo, an effort financed by the tribe to preserve the language. Photo: Handout

Manuelito Wheeler isn't sure exactly why Navajo elders admire Western films.

It could be that many of them were treated to the films in boarding schools off the reservation decades ago. Or, like his father, they told stories of gathering around a television growing up to watch gunslingers in a battle against good and evil on familiar-looking landscapes.