Sisnaajini: A Navajo Story

Blanca Peak (14,345 feet/4,372m), located just south of Great Sand Dunes, is one of four sacred mountains to the Navajo (Dine') people. In this 8-minute video podcast, Park Ranger Ravis Henry sings and tells their story of Sisnaajini - the White Shell Mountain, as well as the importance of Great Sand Dunes to his people.
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Special thanks to Timothy Begay and Tamara Billie of the Navajo Nation for their ongoing input and consultation with Great Sand Dunes staff.
Production/Videography: NPS/Patrick Myers

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  • @gailbrown4124
    @gailbrown412429 күн бұрын

    Thank you for telling us all about your beginnings.The land, your tribe the animals and the mountains. How sacred these all are to your people. It’s beautiful.

  • @pamelasellers5980
    @pamelasellers59802 жыл бұрын

    It is an incredible honor to hear account of your heritage and your homeland. Thank you so much for upholding this history and sharing it with us. May all Americans come to value you, your people and your home. Thank you.

  • @sierramountainspirit6343
    @sierramountainspirit6343Ай бұрын

    The great spirit has called me to serve the people and land of The Great Sand Dune, and my heart and spirit are smiling so much to know that I will be near Sisnaajini. Thank you for sharing these beautiful stories and words. All people no matter their upbringing or homeland benefit from being reminded that the land and the mountains are living beings like the animals and our fellow human beings. This wisdom and its embodiment is the path forward for mending our collective relationship to the land. Im so grateful for you sharing this with the people.

  • @forcesightknight
    @forcesightknight3 жыл бұрын

    You come from an honorable people, Semper fi brother. My people owe a great debt to your people.

  • @williampenatac9832

    @williampenatac9832

    13 күн бұрын

    Repay by telling your white veterans brothers to act right and stop being over entitled assholes. And if they want to act like that, to go back to their ancestral homelands, to show their ancestral people how they treat people. And if you or anyone you know say that trump stuff of we have immigration problem. Know us Navajos agree and we ask you and then when are you all leaving? Oh you don’t want to leave? At least honor our treaties and get the fuck across the Mississippi!

  • @williampenatac9832

    @williampenatac9832

    13 күн бұрын

    And don’t come back

  • @elaineroddy9958
    @elaineroddy9958Ай бұрын

    Beautiful land, beautiful message 😊. Thank you so much. May all that was stolen from Native Americans be restored.

  • @fabiancurto6484
    @fabiancurto64843 жыл бұрын

    We have to preserve nature , is our sacred duty

  • @maori_fairy_smiling_nz
    @maori_fairy_smiling_nz3 жыл бұрын

    💗💗💗🌎🌿Kia ora, Good health n wellbeing....thank you for your sharing stories of the mountain....truly a gift to recieve on KZread..Well done👍👍👍✌✌✌ ....Alot will benefit from your talking stories very educational with great wisdom. Deeply honoured. Arohanui....lots of love from Aotearoa, nz.

  • @susanhanna940
    @susanhanna9403 жыл бұрын

    Loved the song❤️

  • @davidhydro9558
    @davidhydro95584 жыл бұрын

    I love our people we need more stories like this to be told

  • @lotuspod17axemaster93
    @lotuspod17axemaster9328 күн бұрын

    Lived in flagstaff bellemont and parks Arizona for quite some time been up on the san Francisco pks many many times and liked most of my life in the desert, my opinion it is the best place on earth 🌎

  • @elisecody84
    @elisecody842 жыл бұрын

    Awesome video.

  • @byrondegroat5575
    @byrondegroat55753 жыл бұрын

    your intro and exit songs make me cry... i need to go back home soon😎👍❤

  • @LiveInTheWilderness
    @LiveInTheWilderness3 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful! 💚

  • @wolfganggugelweith8760
    @wolfganggugelweith87603 жыл бұрын

    Thank You for this Info! Greetings from Austria 🇦🇹🏔⛷🍺🥨🛶😎👍Europe!

  • @mojorising1
    @mojorising13 жыл бұрын

    Pretty area of the country and nice turquoise 🙏😇

  • @GEGE-bx3fj
    @GEGE-bx3fj4 жыл бұрын

    I enjoy d that. Tradition needs 2 B preserved in ALL cultures.

  • @AshleyLebedev

    @AshleyLebedev

    3 жыл бұрын

    Right on 🙏🏻

  • @anacleta424
    @anacleta4242 жыл бұрын

    Just beautiful Thank you

  • @mylan6221
    @mylan62213 жыл бұрын

    Thank you

  • @ReneeWeaver-rh7qj
    @ReneeWeaver-rh7qj11 күн бұрын

    I love this , thank you ! Beautiful ❤️

  • @dsplunker
    @dsplunker2 жыл бұрын

    Please continue to learn and pass on your knowledge to people like myself. I want to learn too! Nothing but respect for you and all your people! @Sisnaajini

  • @amyyazzie249
    @amyyazzie249 Жыл бұрын

    Thank You very much for sharing your story

  • @nivanelson3129
    @nivanelson3129 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for sharing your story with us awesome job

  • @markvianen2282
    @markvianen22822 жыл бұрын

    Mountain made by rainbow colored beam, sounds pretty advanced and makes perfect sense to me

  • @kathmandu1575
    @kathmandu15753 жыл бұрын

    Great video, thanks for all you do.

  • @updownstate
    @updownstate3 жыл бұрын

    I didn't know Sand Dunes has so many species of animals. Thank you for this trip.

  • @StephanieWilsonxoxo
    @StephanieWilsonxoxo3 жыл бұрын

    What a beautiful story. Thank u for sharing it.

  • @kylewood8327
    @kylewood8327Ай бұрын

    Wonderful story and video.

  • @mizzougrad001
    @mizzougrad0016 жыл бұрын

    Thanks. We'd love to see more park ranger backgrounds, stories, etc.

  • @andreacharlie2226
    @andreacharlie22263 жыл бұрын

    Excellent Shicheii! Nizhoni - I would like to use this video to supplement my instruction, if that's ok.

  • @greatsanddunesnpp

    @greatsanddunesnpp

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes, all Great Sand Dunes videos are public domain. Feel free to use as you wish!

  • @rosaliaoliver-qv3gr
    @rosaliaoliver-qv3grАй бұрын

    ❤I will always ❤treasure❤in my ❤mine,and Heart ❤this ❤Beautiful ❤story ❤

  • @daydreamerprod
    @daydreamerprod3 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful, rich in culture and warm feelings of history of an enlivened peoples. Thanks for time and share.

  • @joao2837
    @joao28373 жыл бұрын

    aluhahaluha for all. Bless.

  • @frankbedonie3571
    @frankbedonie35712 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for sharing your knowledge Mr Henry.

  • @silviabraggio4551
    @silviabraggio4551 Жыл бұрын

    Amazing! When I was in New Mexico during the eighties I Knew many of them. I had two school Navajo (DINÉ) mates.. I went to an Anarizonan School "Rock Point"....Hello, Luisa, do you have some sweet memories of me? I do! 🥰😃😃

  • @davesmilingcoyote
    @davesmilingcoyote3 жыл бұрын

    Hey, @6:33 that's a hummingbird moth!

  • @janelliot5643

    @janelliot5643

    Жыл бұрын

    Wow! Thanks for pointing that out

  • @GRD64

    @GRD64

    25 күн бұрын

    We have them here down under in Australia as well

  • @T3860ifyDubstep
    @T3860ifyDubstep2 жыл бұрын

    Aye my mom's family is also from Alamo NM! small world.

  • @crazysusanaita619
    @crazysusanaita6194 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful

  • @amyyazzie249
    @amyyazzie249 Жыл бұрын

    Let me just say this was the best Navajo legacy I’ve ever heard even the songs from the beginning and at the end was a true Navajo songs the way I remember. There are stories told out there on videos I’ve seen are more made up and songs are not by Navajos

  • @lunatraveler7007
    @lunatraveler70075 жыл бұрын

    So very interesting...thanks ever so much.

  • @beedubb7755
    @beedubb77553 жыл бұрын

    Great presentation!

  • @henderlenwilson3950
    @henderlenwilson39504 жыл бұрын

    Beauty Way Prayer

  • @forcesightknight
    @forcesightknight3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for sharing. Any stories about the ant people ive heard put all that sand there? So much knowledge that I would like to hear about. There are supposed to be caves that sheltered people in the past somewhere? Or were they covered up when they were discovered by the pioneers? Just stuff I heard somewhere.

  • @devasadhvi
    @devasadhvi2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @fernwebb5568
    @fernwebb55682 жыл бұрын

    Thank you.

  • @JH-en1iu
    @JH-en1iu Жыл бұрын

    I’m from the towering house clan as well❤️

  • @caleblauber1441
    @caleblauber14413 жыл бұрын

    Nice!

  • @rezboy6878
    @rezboy68782 жыл бұрын

    Nicely put...thank u

  • @herself50
    @herself503 жыл бұрын

    beautiful scenery. .

  • @jonmacdonald5345
    @jonmacdonald53455 жыл бұрын

    Yaahtahee!

  • @kinteel2551
    @kinteel25513 жыл бұрын

    Nizhoni shiisili'. Ahe'hehee nisaa'go

  • @johndusak8147
    @johndusak81474 жыл бұрын

    God's altar is in this region,we're the offering is too be made by man at end of the trail of tears love one another and good luck for now the rooster.

  • @anidiquaojala1804
    @anidiquaojala18043 жыл бұрын

    Excellent, Aho

  • @watupchief5889
    @watupchief58895 жыл бұрын

    Aho nizhoni 👍🏽

  • @josephwood499
    @josephwood4994 жыл бұрын

    Where is this park located? Never heard of this beautiful place.

  • @bonnerin0

    @bonnerin0

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'm willing to bet somewhere in the 4 corners region of the U.S. (Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico)

  • @forcesightknight

    @forcesightknight

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@bonnerin0 nope, it's in Colorado

  • @stephenlantrip697

    @stephenlantrip697

    3 жыл бұрын

    Blanca Peak is just north of ft. Garland, CO. Great sand dunes national park is north of Blanca, about half way from ft. Garland to Alamosa, west of ft. Garland. Ft. Garland is near south border of CO. Just no. of Taos & Amgel Fire NM. Alamosa is no. of Santa Fe, NM. I'm not sure this location of story tef. But I've been there. Sounds like perfect match. Yeah te hee!

  • @forcesightknight

    @forcesightknight

    3 жыл бұрын

    TBH, I think this is either the lake west of the dunes, or in the actual mountains that feeds the creek from the East and North slopes. I would call the parks department and ask them the best places to visit are, some may be blooming with flowers, others may be just dead and hot. Good luck.

  • @John-M.

    @John-M.

    8 ай бұрын

    San Luis Valley Co.

  • @larrygrimaldi1400
    @larrygrimaldi14004 жыл бұрын

    Like the history, read something about this in Tony Hilllerman and James D Doss books

  • @ajdixon926
    @ajdixon9264 жыл бұрын

    ❤️❣️

  • @a.walters123
    @a.walters1233 жыл бұрын

    I feel America will always be troubled until it is rightfully back in the hands of the Native. Whether that means a Native American president or just the people returning to their natural place and glory. This land is there’s, and we aren’t abiding by their teachings and respecting nature.

  • @skindianu
    @skindianu4 жыл бұрын

    Dahgo teh! Wassup cousins?

  • @ajwood172
    @ajwood1723 жыл бұрын

    Chizzzzz says hi. LOL

  • @rthawknatanabah1759
    @rthawknatanabah17596 жыл бұрын

    NIZOHNII'..

  • @redwolf6950
    @redwolf69503 жыл бұрын

    Nizhoni hey

  • @tomcat505
    @tomcat5056 жыл бұрын

    Hózhó, hózhó

  • @tyhouston2750
    @tyhouston2750Ай бұрын

    In what year was the emergence?

  • @theend.55
    @theend.552 жыл бұрын

    Coo

  • @CHIEFRAENKLOWESHTE
    @CHIEFRAENKLOWESHTE2 жыл бұрын

    IHÉHE ASÉ

  • @user-jf5xk5ey6i
    @user-jf5xk5ey6i5 ай бұрын

    🎉

  • @gamerfish900
    @gamerfish9003 жыл бұрын

    "Aho"

  • @cindybarton8562
    @cindybarton85622 жыл бұрын

    ❤!!~*

  • @richardcarew4708
    @richardcarew47083 жыл бұрын

    ya ta hey... ;;☆》.. ???

  • @richardcarew4708

    @richardcarew4708

    3 жыл бұрын

    the leading edge has a weapon, someone tried to take out.. Eureka mesa is flat because of this.. 55km northwest of Los Alamos.. my father helped build the scaffolding for the first weapon tested.. trying to get inside

  • @richardcarew4708

    @richardcarew4708

    3 жыл бұрын

    the leading edge has a weapon, someone tried to take out.. Eureka mesa is flat because of this.. 55km northwest of Los Alamos.. my father helped build the scaffolding for the first weapon tested.. trying to get inside the shot passes through Mt Taylor and ends in Mt Blanca... the KT extinction event was an act of war... the end of the straw or reed is probably Tohatchi.. at the highest point.. Navajo word friend Noonie tells me... To Hatch i.... the escape hatch

  • @richardcarew4708

    @richardcarew4708

    3 жыл бұрын

    it's said the Anasazi called the Dińe "Navajo".. like navy jos.. maybe.. lots of stuff I don't know.. but I would like to find out

  • @UnacknowledgedUnknown
    @UnacknowledgedUnknown4 жыл бұрын

    Hozho

  • @BrazyN8V
    @BrazyN8V3 жыл бұрын

    Ahòò

  • @NiiNeeWarrior
    @NiiNeeWarrior2 жыл бұрын

    Ahehe

  • @Dovid2000
    @Dovid200010 ай бұрын

    Perhaps the oldest recollection of this park's history.

  • @misterpolytech
    @misterpolytech3 жыл бұрын

    Four worlds to come to One...Think of these other worlds as parallel dimensions; to the one that we usually consider as 'reality'... Navajo Holy people & Brujo's can connect to these other 'dimensions', or worlds through 'portals' which manifest in all worlds (including parallel dimensions); not just Navajo, but other native peoples have understood this for eons.. At one time; these worlds were thought to be illusory at best; but particle theory string physics proves this primitive scientific assumption to be another untruth held among academic physicists of the past....In fact; the the latest understanding is that these parallel dimensions & portals are much more numerous in our galaxy than the numbers of star's; giving advanced extra terrestrial biological entities the abilities to manipulate both time & space for the exploration of worlds other than their own....The ability to transcend the time/ space continuum . All it takes is the technology or organic understanding to do so. To manifest one of these 'portals'. Actually often seen in Navajo country. Don't believe me? The evidence is here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/oYGcq8OFps_dYag.html

  • @fidelcastillo7815
    @fidelcastillo78152 жыл бұрын

    Ma' Deeshgiizhnii

  • @jegesbubu
    @jegesbubu11 күн бұрын

    Navajo teach earth is flat period thats right though

  • @BradPitbull
    @BradPitbull5 жыл бұрын

    MY NIGGA

  • @Muhammaddavid-sl9qg
    @Muhammaddavid-sl9qg16 күн бұрын

    Belom ada Islam adil 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

  • @ProudUteGirl
    @ProudUteGirlАй бұрын

    These lands you claim that are your people is false. The northern area Colorado/ Utah is Ute land, and the south is pueblo/hopi land. I spoke once to a Navajo medicine man and he told me your people never went into the mountains and I know your people never came into colorado because my people, the Utes fought, killed and enslaved them for trespassing onto their lands which also included Northern New Mexico and Northern Arizona. So you don't know what your talking about. I believe the Apache were on that southern part you claim.

  • @BradPitbull
    @BradPitbull3 жыл бұрын

    My NIGGA

  • @SixHundredandThirteen
    @SixHundredandThirteen2 жыл бұрын

    You know all natives are from the ancient bloodline of the hebrew Israelites , the Tribe of Gad. Your people need to find there way bak to YAHWEH !!

  • @ieatbum7770
    @ieatbum777012 күн бұрын

    We’re are your sacred places before your people got moved off

  • @eileensickel
    @eileensickel3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you

  • @mojavebohemian814
    @mojavebohemian814Ай бұрын

    Thank you