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🤔🤔 Born in the sky 😱WOW!! Beautiful story and encouraging messages. 🫶🫶 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Nizhoniyee’, ahxéhee’
After you have that ceremony, you are not allowed to go to funerals, it erases the ceremony that was done for you. That’s why traditional Navajos don’t attend funerals or go to cemeteries or touch deceased people’s property and some won’t hug the family members of the deceased. Can’t bury them in any red colors. Many don’t follow or refuse to understand what the old ones did. Grandparents would tell you not buy 2nd hand stuff or other people possessions bc “many white people sell their dead’s possessions”. If I remember correctly, they make tiny cuts at the openings of the clothing. No pregnant woman or children should be attending funerals bc “the dead will attach themselves to the young and innocent”
Loving and learning in retirement. To quote Mother "better late than never" ✌️💕
Tiny man ego and pretentious. A tiny horse to fit him. Don’t add liquor
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but rather test the spirits to see which are of God, do not give your attention or worship or fear or love to any other than the Lord God Almighty, Creator of the Heavens and Earth, who so loved the whole world, that He gave His only Begotten Son, so that whosoever will believe, shall not die but shall have eternal life. There are many deceiving and seducing spirits, let no man deceive you and never pray or worship to creation, but to the Creator Himself, and accept salvation offered freely to you by Christ Jesus - for even if an angel of light shall come down and give you another doctrine or teach you another Jesus than the one that you have been told (in the scriptures), believe it not and marvel not after them, neither bow down to them, but let them be accursed. God bless you all, but the time is short, we must come out of this creation worship and ancestor worship - Worship the God of all Creation, for He is the God of the Living.
Ahéhee díí ch’í’iilkeed. I remember hearing this back in 96. I had a memory and told my wife last year about this because she is Shoshone and she loves hearing about our stories. A couple nights ago I was watching this episode and I heard Clayton mention it and I was shocked. Ahéhee ni ałdó Clayton also for mentioning Haschogan.
Everyday is prayer day , three/four times a day I don't think they think of doing that these days. thank you for sharing
THEYRE SURVIVAL PEOPLE LIVE OUT THEY HORSEMAN
"Respect starts with ourselves. It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior. Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need. There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity. Feel deeply to think clearly. How do we keep our inner fire alive? Two things, at minimum, are needed: an ability to appreciate the positives in our life - and a commitment to action. Every day, it's important to ask and answer these questions: ‘What's good in my life?’ and ‘What needs to be done? A productive purpose to which you give yourself fully and joyfully is one of the great adventures of life. It is a uniquely human source of happiness. To live consciously means to seek to be aware of everything that bears on our actions, purposes, values, and goals-to the best of our ability, whatever that ability may be-and to behave in accordance with that which we see and know. Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do. To accept struggle as part of life, to accept all of it, even the darkest moments of anguish; to be motivated by love rather than fear, by confidence rather than insecurity: these are the benchmarks of high self-esteem. The wish to avoid fear and pain is not the motive that drives the lives of highly evolved men and women; rather, it is the life force within them, thrusting toward its unique form of expression-the actualization of personal values. The world belongs to those who persevere. Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. When man rejects reason as his standard of judgement, only one alternative standard remains to him: his feelings. A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition. Faith is the equation of feelings with knowledge Innovators and creators are persons who can to a higher degree than average accept the condition of aloneness. They are more willing to follow their own vision, even when it takes them far from the mainland of the human community. Unexplored places do not frighten them- or not, at any rate, as much as they frighten those around them. This is one of the secrets of their power. That which we call genius has a great deal to do with courage and daring, a great deal to do with nerve. Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do." Nathaniel Branden "Integrity is not something that grownups have and adolescents can aspire to. Integrity is something that all of us, at all ages, are constantly striving for. Integrity means being whole, unbroken, undivided. It describes a person who has united the different parts of his or her personality, so there is no longer a split in the soul ... For the person of integrity, life may not be easy but it is simple: Figure out what is right and do it. All other considerations come in second. If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world. We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough. When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel. Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are. The purpose in life is not to win. The purpose in life is to grow and to share. "When you come to look back on all that you have done in life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasure you have brought into other people's lives than you will from the times that you outdid and defeated them You don't become happy by pursuing happiness. You become happy by living a life that means something. I suspect that the happiest people you know are the ones who work at being kind, helpful and reliable - and happiness sneaks into their lives while they are busy doing those things. It is a by-product, never a primary goal. The happiest people I know are people who don't even think about being happy. They just think about being good neighbors, good people. And then happiness sort of sneaks in the back window while they are busy doing good. The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution. And if you don't make that contribution, nobody else can make it. We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared. Life is not a resource to be used up, so that the older we get, the less life we have left. Life is the accumulation of wisdom, love and experience of people encountered and obstacles overcome. The longer we live, the more life we possess. Prayer is simply coming into the presence of God. Because when you come into the presence of God, even the things you don't have matter a lot less.. . .We are here to finish God's labors. . .so that we could be His partners in completing the work of creation." Harold S. Kushner "Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing." Rollo May “Human communication, 'as the saying goes, is a clash of symbols' it covers a multitude of signs. But it is more than media and messages, information and persuasion; it also meets a deeper need and serves a higher purpose. Whether clear or garbled, tumultuous or silent, deliberate or fatally inadvertent, communication is the ground of meeting and the foundation of community. It is, in short, the essential human connection. Love is the supreme form of communication. In the hierarchy of needs, love stands as the supreme developing agent of the humanity of the person. As such, the teaching of love should be the central core of all early childhood curriculum with all other subjects growing naturally out of such teaching. All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all living things whatsoever. In our society the elderly are regarded as biodegradable and superfluous, instead of what they really represent: a biological elite who, with weathered wisom, have much to offer the world. The behavioral trait most frequently associated with the long-lived is placidity. The whole of life is a journey toward youthful old age, toward self-contemplation, love, gaiety, and, in a fundamental sense, the most gratifying time of our lives. . . . "Old age" should be a harvest time when the riches of life are reaped and enjoyed, while it continues to be a special period for self-development and expansion. ... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love." Ashley Montagu, The Human Connection
I know mr long me and my family’s he have worked in in San Juan school district so long, and he retired Ahe’hee nizhoneeh 🪶
Are you from the Montezuma / Aneth area as well? I found out he's known my family for a while as well. We appreciate your support! Ahe' hee
@@Spagoshi I lived in Blanding Utah my kids graduate from there . I know everyone in Blanding. Bee’yah mr long nizhonii 🪶
❤praise God Amen
You should have a sit down with Wally Brown too, he has a YT channel named Navajo Traditional Teachings… He has great insights as well, I’ve learned a lot more than what I’ve been taught from his videos! Seems like Mr. Long should run for NN Prez, well versed in Navajo and in English and in his Teachings!!
We appreciate your insight and Wally would be a great interview. We've definitely considered that, time will tell. His videos area great. Ahe' hee for your support!
A touching episode love it ,Thank you for sharing
Ahe' hee for watching! Much appreciate your support
I have been Traveling to Pinon monthly since 2007, i love the Navajo People. The Pinon Community will always hold a special place in my Heart
What tribe are you affiliated with? The community is tucked away in a beautiful area that is calm and quiet. Ahe' hee for checking out Harlan's series
@@Spagoshi No tribe my friend, just a vendor to the schools
How the hell would you know that?
Clear that you do not. Why does it matter to you?
In the full episode, there is an explanation behind this snippet. Check it out and let us know what you think.
Beautiful ❤
I remember the story/incident @ 27:30 It was the early mid 90s if i remember correctly, might be the same one or another. Another cool video 💯
That's great to get somewhat of a time line when that event happened. Something similar happened around our family's farm but instead our relatives saw lights leave the area into the sky and we have a crop circle up to this day. Always great stories from the motherland.
Yá'át'ééh 🙏🏽🌎 ❤️ Hózhó …. 🤲🏽 …. Great 👍🏽 Video 👍🏽
Ahe' hee!
A very educational episode I like Clayton Long talk ✊🏽 I learned a long from listening to his channels he has 💯
Agreed, he and many others I have met helped fill in those missing pieces that I had questions about. We appreciate your support and watching Mr. Long's series!
Loved this episode. Thank you! I'm heading to Dine College in Tsaile, AZ this Fall Semester. I recently enrolled in their Dine Studies AA program. To preserve, we must first start living and speaking the Dine language. again Ahehee'
Great job! Keep up the good work. Much appreciate your support and sharing a bit of your personal life. Have a great week!
How/Where do we get the mug? Outstanding and meaningful content as always! Thanks for bringing these topics to the forefront!
You can watch out to them via email: mailto:[email protected] and they'll get you squared away. Ahe' hee for your support! 🤙🏾
@@Spagoshi AWESOME! Thank you!
Love this episode! 👊🏽🙏🏽
Ahe' hee brother for your support! Glad you enjoyed the video 🙌🏾🤙🏾
I visited seboyeta often growing up my grandfather Lucero’s and cousins Molinas lived there. . This was a great collaboration thank you both for your time
That's interesting, I've been planning on going to Seboyeta for a while now. Do you still have family there?
Where are you selling the wool?
Are you looking for raw or processed? I believe they have some leftover down in Alamo
❤good story
Ahe' hee for watching Rita's video!
My mom was adopted. Ive often thought how much she resembled native americans and not the italian ancestry she claims. She is gone now but i still resonate with these slower more natural ways of living. Its truly a blessings to have a family tree and to live more in tune with nature. Videos like this are a blessing for us who cabbot afgprd travel. May youre journeys be blessed.
Ahe' hee for your comment and sharing a bit of your personal history. What area was your mom adopted? Glad you enjoy our content and we appreciate your support!
So nice to see nabaho! Cheii used to say it like that! Not all smooth like! Navajo! I'm glad to be that. Both! Lol! Rough& smooth. ❤
Agreed, our language is rough and conversational. It was a great time to spend with Mr. Lee. I'll hopefully meeting up with him again soon. Stay tuned!
Nicely! Worked their, lived their, kids live their. Guess thats how it goes? Mini-rez. Love it! Carry guns though!
It became my home away from home. I've explored many areas there and it's a great community. Ahe' hee for your comment and support!
remember KISS best way! With respect, thank you.
Thank you. Love and light from Tucson Arizona. I would love to go to school there.
They accept anyone who wants to go to school at Dine College. Get the app in! ha
Nizhoni ahehee 💚
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"Right, Alex?! ..." 😂😂
Rayon can go off script sometimes, ha
@@Spagoshi Dude needs to do stand up 😏 He's got that flare.
Love your mug , where can I purchase one , and I love how Clayton explains
Email them and get more details. [email protected] Ahe' hee for your support!
#ReleaseLeonardPeltier #MMIR "When I go around in America and I see the bulk of the white people, they do not feel oppressed; they feel powerless... and we understand the psychological genocide that they have already inflicted upon their own people. The past is more than a memory. Historically speaking, we went from being Indians to pagans to savages to hostiles to militants to activists to Native Americans. Its five hundred years later and they still cant see us. We are still invisible. We’re not Indians and we’re not Native Americans. We’re older than both concepts. We’re the people, we’re the human beings. We're all human beings and we all have feelings. And we all live in this industrial meat grinder where we don't really understand love anymore. We must go beyond the arrogance of human rights. We must go beyond the ignorance of civil rights. We must step into the reality of natural rights because all of the natural world has a right to existence and we are only a small part of it. There can be no trade-off. Our bones, flesh and blood are made up of the metals, liquids and minerals of the earth and everything on this planet is made up of the same things. As humans we have being, so everything on the earth does too in our culture, because we are made of the same thing. The great lie is that it is civilization. It's not civilized. It has been literally the most blood thirsty brutalizing system ever imposed upon this planet. That is not civilization. That's the great lie, is that it represents civilization. Because you look at it, you know, and there's basically one set of rules that protect that industrial ruling class. That's what the governments do, that's what the religions do. They protect the interests of that industrial ruling class. I think we live in an industrial dimensional reality where we're programmed to believe what we're told. We're programmed to believe them. We're programmed to believe what that ruling class wants us to believe. It’s like there is this predator energy on this planet, and this predator energy feeds on the essence of the spirit. When we're believing, we're not really thinking, because the belief has walls: "This is what I believe." So what I believe is like a box, and we're taking the energy of our thinking and putting into a box of beliefs, pretending that we're thinking. But we're really stifling our own energy. We create these mental stresses and frustrations, because we're blocking our spirit, so to speak. The thing is, it has to do with heart - we have to understand what hearts are for before we can get back to heaven or paradise or the power in our minds. We have power... Our power isn’t in a political system, or a religious system, or in an economic system, or in a military system; these are authoritarian systems... they have power... but it’s not reality. The power of our intelligence, individually or collectively IS the power; this is the power that any industrial ruling class truly fears: clear coherent human beings. Every human being is a raindrop. And when enough of the raindrops become clear and coherent they then become the power of the storm. Sometimes when it rains, it's not that simple, when the sky has reasons to cry." John Trudell
Yah ta hey from Central California .... Just to let you know I enjoy your Facebook postings ...I am Grandma Marietta Originally from Black Mesa/Chilchinbeto Beautiful Navajoland Family, Relatives and Facebook Friends & Nature's Animals. I Extend my hand in Friendship and 💞. I am Natoh Dine Tachiinii, Born for Bitter Water, My Cheii is Ashihii and My Nali is Yucca Fruit Plant. I was raised in Central Calif for my tightly woven Dine Family, education, training, employment, Urban resource/advocacy and I have made a million trips 🦓🦄to Beautiful Navajoland to learn my Traditional Family of my Biological History. This is little story of me, my Beautiful GrandChildren and Great GrandChildren As Grandma Begay I am still learning and evolving .... Thank you for Sharing Beautiful Life Lessons
yah at teh bimasini, Ahe' hee for sharing part of your story. Glad to read your family continues to hold onto traditions. Shoot us an email at [email protected] Ahe' hee
Yeah. Also learning that I’m part Chishii ❤
OMG! Did you know my father? He left before I was born. I wish I had gotten to know him more. A great loss. Kee Bahe?
I'll ask Mr. Sheppard and see if they know him.
Clayton Long right ✊🏽
USA. 🤔👍👍👍👍👍👍😊
B ro your in territory of.
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Much love and light. She right. Everything is part of tuning ourselves to live and be in harmony
that is also called Hozho. In Clayton's video, he explains how that balance is created. Appreciate your support
Thank you so many much. Much love and light from Tucson Arizona. I feel the cure to the new world order is the native American way of life. Im mexican and serching for my tribe.
Ahe' hee for your comment and insight. Tribes in the SW area have a lot in common and have supported each other during the early days of America. Learning from my interviews, Dine', Apache and Pueblo would assist with the Mexicans during the Mexican American War and help with supplies and take the wounded back home. Hope you find your tribe one day. Take care