Native American (Navajo) Important Lessons From Many Grandmothers
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- Опубликовано: 17 мар 2024
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In Native American (Navajo) culture… history, ceremony, and education are passed down from generation to generation.
These are passed down in stories and ceremonies. There is not a written language. Things must be spoken to and heard to be shared.
But, when the white settlers came they brought written language. Some of our old people saw the value of a written language.
In this video, Navajo Historian, Wally Brown shares about how his grandma learned to read and thought it important to pass that information along to him.
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I miss my Shema. She was so beautiful. She walks in beauty now with the spirits and her family. Thank you.
Amazing.
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Very sad that our generations no longer respect the elders and look to their grandparents for wisdom. Not in the new age.
And the handicap people as well 😢 I'm considered a cash cow and get mentally abused, but they don't realize that it's going to be their mistake in doing so.
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Indeed
The time is coming when young people will learn from the elderly. They will have no other choice. True the roughly 27-42 year olds have become a bunch if fake smiling faces while backstabbing. But people younger than that are different. They want to know, want to respect age and learn as much as they can. I am around many young people and have been for years. This new generation will be the newest Greatest Generation.
That is so true and equally heartbreaking
I love these stories and how you tell them. Your respect for your elders is beautiful ❤.
Thank you for sharing these stories with us.
I love the way you speak. So gracious. I'm so grateful. ThankYou 💙 🦅 🙂
So many Elders placed their knowledge with this man, and he honors them with these teachings. We are grateful for this.
Thank you Wally Brown, for sharing the history and teachings of the Dineh!
it takes a village
to raise a child.!
what a beautiful series of bonds you created with all elders.
very fortunate to have rubbed shoulders / hearts / minds.
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another beautiful tale.
thank you for sharing.!
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Raspect! Your grandmother reading to you I see as beautiful. I appreciate everything Elder Wally.
I learned a lot from my GreatGrandmother.
What a privilege to hear this. Thank you.
My paternal grandmother raised me for first 8 yrs or so of my life till 2nd grade . She was instrumental in my grounding in nature and seeing things as they are ‘were . She was very wise and without her and my paternal aunt and cousins showing me what real love was idk if i wouldve had a good example after moving in with my step mother . After 2nd grade . Im so grateful for those years with her . ❤❤❤❤
Thank you Grand Father for sharing the wisdom.
👵🏼📖📚Thank you for sharing your sweet memories! 🧒🏻🐑🐑🐑
Thank you.. 😊
Thank you for that story. It made me feel better to know some cultures don't write off their elderly, but learn fron them. Be happy, safe and stay healthy. 😊
I was fortunate enough to be raised by grandmother who was ¼ Cherokee and grandfather who was ⅛. I miss them greatly.
I AM A GRAND MOTHER. I MISS MY GRAND CHILDREN. THE STATE IS ENABELING SEPARATION. THE TRAIL OF TEARS CONTINUES IN AMERICA. IT NEVER ENDED. MR BROWN WE NEED TO REMEMBER. THANK YOU FOR SHARING THE PLANET. WE NEED YOU.
Dear GrammaMello, please write letter to and for your grandchildren. They need you and your wisdom 🕯️🌱✨
I was adopted in 1955 and taken away from my people so I did not know my blood family. I will dance for you my Grandmother in my heart. Suzi in Idaho.
Thank you so much for your teaching.🦌.
Thanks, Wally.
I had a good grandmother, too.
Walk in beauty.
Many thanks to you Grandfather Wally and Shane for bringing this important message to us this week..Thank you both!!
Blessings to all grandmothers from the Caribbean 🌴
All the good in me came from my parents and grandparents. Thank you Ella for raising Wally in such a way that he can teach us today.
ThankYou, You are Honoured, sharing Your Wisdom with me. 🙂 🦅 💙
Thank you Mr. Brown AND Shane...
I also had a Gramma named Ella. Used to skip the bus so I could see her!❤😊Thankyou for your video!
My grandmother is losing her memory. The core of her is still there, but she's lost remembering even her children and sometimes her husband (much less us grandkids and great grands and all). We're all clustering around her because of how important she is, and how many lessons she taught us, even if she doesn't remember doing it.
Thank you all, love your videos. So important in this world . Much respect and love to your people.
👍🙏>>>💚~~~ THANK YOU
Beautiful. My wife and I have our 20-month-old grandson with us for around eight hours each day Monday through Friday and what a blessing it is to everyone. When I work in the greenhouse or bake bread (we do this for a living) he’s right by my side mirroring my every move. He already knows how to properly form loaves, sow seeds and fill pots with growing medium. He loves working. No vegetating in front of a screen.
It is God’s will for me to pass on to him the hundreds of life-skills that I have and mold his soul into an honorable, upright man. There is no higher calling. He’s such a blessing to his great-grand mother (my mother-in-law) who lives with us. She’s at the end of her timeline, worn down, but when she sees him, the transformation is astounding. This is life.
That sounds amazing. ❤
This is beautiful. I was raised by my paternal grandparents and had my great grandmother living with us. It was a wonderful time for us. I can still envision her sitting on the porch swing, peeling grapes for the three of us. We were like little birds sitting at her feet, waiting for a bite.
Paternal grandma didn't like me, because she favorited boys. No matter, she only made the feeling mutual. Maternal grandmother I loved, but seldom seen. Spry 80 year old widow down the road from me taught me a lot about the old days. Mom and Mrs. Smoke taught me how to cook old school, from scratch. R.I.P. both of you, your knowledge lives on.
I just became a grandmother..I will never meet her..but I understand this meaning well..😊
Thank you for the wisdom once again..
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My son is coming up on this Earth again and it will be 3 weeks if you believe in my creator you will be saved
I've been learning about your culture and so much more from your videos for years. Just want to say how much I appreciate you creating these videos and sharing stories of your life and culture. I've always been ashamed of what the white man has done to native peoples. To quote George Carlin.."only a nation of half wits would take this pristine, beautiful country and turn it into what it is today. A shopping mall."
Think of all the wisdom and knowledge that has been lost since the arrival of the Spanish, so much
The awesome thing is how nothing is never really lost, but ignored, forgotten or suppressed, until it emerges again from " the ashes"!!
Another awesome video. ❤
This is something we are short of today..I was lucky to have a very strong woman as Grand mother and another as an aunt that played a huge role in my youth..Thank you for this.
Thank you 🙏
I just wanted to say that Your Faith Tradition is Beautiful, and your Dilligence in Preserving these Traditional Teachings have increased my Faith, and Belief in the Work, and Glory of The Holy People. The Speaker of Peace is Real. His Plan is True. I had a Dream once where I was in absolute Darkness, and I came to a place that was a little Brighter, and a Little Brighter, Until I stood upon the Rocks where The Children awaited me with the Sun Above. I have since seen this Pattern elsewhere when I was given an Endowment of understanding as to where we are From, and where we are Going. Trust in The Speaker of Peace he Knows the Way. The Clown does not know the way. The Speaker of Peace will bring us Home.
Thank you Mr Wally, we love you very much. A'HO! ALL GOOD BLESSINGS TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY 🙏🦅☝️
My great-granny's name was Ella!!!❤❤❤
I had a dream during the day while napping, in a pool hall I have never been ( yet) with people I don’t recognize ( yet) near the end talking to a native man introducing three native women with turquoise jewelry. I was smiling and quiet ( I could see myself from above and knew my thoughts and emotions and I am shy that way) one of three dreams in four years I am fond of ( the others not so much) .🙏
This kind of predictive dreaming also happens to me! I often used to dream of being in huge crowds of people. Later, I became a powwow vendor and experience contact with hundreds of people, if not thousands!
hopefully people began to start respecting our older people and really listen to them
Its important that older people avoid viewing younger generations in a disfavorable way! Its a huge mistake and also self-serving to feel superior.
You sir are a very,very lucky man to have been by chance the vessel that all the old knowledge was poured into! In saying that , i must also thank you for upholding your responsibility to those of us that you pass this on to. There are not enough people doing what you do these days, in most cultures so much is being lost to time. It is truly shameful 😢
Be glad that we are receiving and sharing all the traditions of knowledge and reason that Mr. Wally was entrusted with, long before digital platforms even were conceived of!!😂
The spirit is like a child, and as such is comforting to be near feminine energy. No fight or flight dis ease.
I'm so grateful for you sharing this with all of us! Do many young people today know these stories and traditions?
😂if they watch RUclips, they will!
It is such a blessing to have this knowledge on RUclips.
Thank you for sharing how you grew up with your family, much love and respect 🤲♥️
❤Thank you
TY so much Elder Wally. I’ve always been intrigued by the 1st American’s ways. I love hearing your stories and I so appreciate you for telling them.
Ty for reminding the world of our grandmothers importance 🙏🏼💞🫶🏽
Beautiful artwork of Grandmother reading to grandchild and woodwork by Wally's grounding words.
Thank you for sharing ✌️💖🤟✨️🧚♂️
You were definitely blessed by have so many grandmothers. I feel the same way. My parents decided to do their own thing so my brothers and I were raised by my father's parents. My grandma had 7 sisters and they were all grandmothers to me. We are Cajun and Creole. I was equally blessed learning the old ways of my ancestors. I also had my grandmother's mother with us. She spoke only French and I would sometimes say something in French at school. It was a problem until my teacher was told about my great grandmother.
it's vital everyone teaches each new generation to value & keep their ancestors' traditions, culture, language, belief systems alive and well. Particularly for our First Nation peoples. THIS is your homeland, the birthplace of your culture etc.
The rest of us have an ancestral homeland far from here. There is a country full of our peoples still living our culture daily, keeping our language, traditions, culture alive.
I hope every First Nation in the USA has been recording their great grandparents, grandparents' life stories, traditions, belief systems, crafts, skills so it's not lost to your younger generations.
Our ancestry makes us who we are today.
We love your teachings ❤😢❤❤😊❤
I think grandmother's know best. Thanks Wally.😎👍
Thank you for your teachings! Semper Fidelis!
I love the story you shard about your grandmother. It is unfortunate that more people do not respect their elders. I think were are loosing a lot of culture when their teaching and wisdoms are not being shared with young people. In addition, just even communicating with children has been lost. I notice a lot of parents who take their kids to restaurants for example, are very quick to hand the an electronic device! Please keep sharing your wisdom. Thank you.
I greatly appreciate your sharing this knowledge with the rest of us.
Thanks Mr Wally Your Channel Is One Of My Favorites The Holy Man Of The Wise Teachings 🌟🖤🙏
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Your reaching are valuable for me. Thank you with much appreciated gratitude ❤
Semper Fi Brother.
Hello
Los Angeles, California
Grandfather
She was a great woman
Intelligent, and hard worker
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GOD BLESS YOU
As always I so appreciate you sharing your beautiful language and culture with your young people and letting us listen in. I often listen to educational and cultural RUclips while working in my garden so I don’t interact as much as I’d like, but I make sure to hear your videos when I have a moment to sit and like and comment on your video so I might lend your wisdom one inch of reach. Your reminiscence of your grandmother reminded me of my own grandmother, fiercely proud of her hard-won literacy and eager to share that love of reading and understanding for yourself, with others. She wasn’t Navajo but born and bred for the southwest desert; she read me Shakespeare and the manual to her truck and taught me to cook and do home repair and read poetry and find out information on anything I wanted to know in the library. She loved every single one of her grandchildren and adopted grandchildren, and all their children, as joyfully and readily as she did me. Our grandmothers would have gotten along.
My father's grandma Udah. She came down the trail of tears from Montana in the 1800s. She got with the Strange family in Oklahoma and ended up in Arkansas.
I am a son son of Odin I am Ulfhednar we trace our lineage through our fathers but my great grandma Mili Cook and she was very important to me. She was my mother's grandmother she taught me my family history on both sides, she remembered times even before this place how we got here and why we came. Nobody my age or even my parents age remember or care about these things. I have two sons and a daughter now and surprisingly they care too hear the stories of the past. We are few but we are strong, the tribes with the strongest ties Will Survive.
Thank You Inifnity 🙂
I understand uncle Wally. Thank you so much for your wisdom.🙏
I LISTEN TO YOUR CHANNEL ALL THE TIME! YOU ARE WISDOM ON FEET SIR! MANY BLESSINGS TO YOU AND YOUR PEOPLE IN THE NAME OF OUR CREATOR YAHUAH THE GREAT KING AND HIS CHOSEN SON YAHUSHA HAMASCHIACH AND THE RUACH HA QODESH!
"Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning. In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present.
The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather."
Margaret Mead
My grandma was half Cherokee and lived in Washington state, near the Olympic peninsula in federal way. She had converted her swimming pool into a pond to keep fish, and some were huge, as the pond was over 20 years old. A fence kept the patio area separate from the pool, and one day I caught a baby bunny that had came through the links in the fence. I was 3 or 4 years old. I took it and showed grandma in the kitchen. She was surprised but quickly said to take it back to where I found it, because it's momma was probably looking for it. So, we went back to the fence that was about 5 feet from the swimming pool pond outside of it and I let the baby bunny go. It immediately went straight into the pond, and with 2 seconds of kicking, a huge fish came up and swallowed it. There were alot of rabbits on grandma's property too. It probably happened so often those fish who'd been in that pond for 20 years consume then alot.
Thanks again. I can relate as my grandmothers i was mostly raised by and as a wild child, i probably wouldnt know what love is without them. The reason im always respectful and loving of the females i meet and know. And who i go to when i need advice nowadays..again thanks for sharing💞
My Grandmother's names are Mary and Margarite. Great Spirit, Rest their Souls.🙏🙏🙏🙏
thank you
Thank you again, Uncle Wally. Wonderful history lesson.
❤❤❤❤❤❤ always a good lesson, Hastiin Brown.
I visit my garndpa regular he is 96 still going alsays respect him
Thank you for the video.
ThankYou ThankYou ThankYou. It is the same in my culture the Matriarchial heratige, and i beleaf in every culuture (secretly). May I share this with my Sister, my Soulmate ? Thank You. Wouldnt it be nice, to hear that you have taken Your Worth and Wisdom. 🙂 Grand Uncle 🙂.
Thank you
Thank you for sharing this. It is too bad that the whole world doesn't practices the smart and beautiful ways of the Native People's of North America &/or Navajo.
Thank goodness for family
New Mexico has a lot of humble and very respectful dine' and also pueblo people. Try to learn as much as I can ✊
Those are very nice memories.
Ultimately it would be so nice to get the land back and rebuild a cultural accurate village with schools for my descendants as well as others
You have to get to a point in your life where you are ready to listen…and learn.
Thank you. 🪶😊
Respect is love,respect the love.The love your elders and holy ones gave you.Respect the eath and each other.Nnnoo Too late??? Exactly why it is all manifesting by the frequency given from your hearts,minds now spirit.❤
❤My daughter has a Cherokee great or great great grandmother. This daughter went to Arizona and it was dark. She saw Indians dressed in white waiving to her on the way greeting her. On the way home they waved goodbye. She also saw a white cougar. She has had prophetic visions which I heard some Cherokee women have.
It breaks my heart I wasn’t able to teach my kids as I was taught, I’ve no doubt their lives would be much different now if I had.
Thank You. Growing up in the city desert it is hard to find the waters of wisdom but there is a flood of sewer vice.
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I can count back 7 generations of grandmothers in my family, including me. My Nana owned a sheep ranch, and my Granny used to drive me out to Suisun Valley, where many crops are grown to feed the Nation, to dig up flowers, plants, and wild herbs to put in her garden. She taught me their names and uses, which I use to this day. I dug up 3 Mullein [Cowboy toilet paper] the other day that are now thriving in my planter box. Ahéhee, Grandfather Wally, for bringing back a few minutes of sacred memories. Much respect~🙏🤎🏹🪶
Wonderful.
Thanks for the video
🌊🕊️🌎🌏🌍🌏🌎🕊️🌊NEW EARTH, GRANDMOTHER'S WILL HAVE THE LAST WORDS IN COUNCIL MEETING!!
THANK YOU VERY MUCH,🙏🙏🙏🙏
CHI MEGWECH, FOR YOUR DIVINE SERVICE TO DIVINE LOVE!!🕊️🖤💛♥️🩵🦅🙏
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Wowww. 🥲 The layers of 'meant to be' are profound here. You are teaching generations now as your grandmother(s) taught generations through you. My goodness. Such Beauty, this.
I love you so much 😘
Osiyo
Namaste