I'm glad I get to learn about the history that our schools don't even know. When I was in the army my roommate had a code talker blanket with the words and symbols and your videos remind me of him. This knowledge is great and it saddens me to think it may be lost unless it is recorded, because my generation and younger are less interested in cultural things than before. Thanks for the videos brothers!!
TO EVERYONE- THIS MAN IS A SACRED TREASURE TO US AND TO GENERATIONS THAT WILL FOLLOW. *PLEASE* keep him and his loved ones, in your prayers, share his wisdom, and please support him in any way you can.
don't look up to anyone and don't look down to anyone,... Wally is a sacred treasure, but you are too! We all are! Even the ones who do not believe that they are. What a great person Wally is, and what a great person you and I are.
so can anyone disagree with anything he says? my understanding is the Navajo came into the 4 corners area in c1450 and most experts say the so called Anasazi were gone by c1300
@@TheHypnotstCollector I believe him because he said in an early video that they had lost many of the stories,... and if you read two pages of a book, you can assume what the beginning and end is but if pieces of the story are missing then the story shall be rewritten.... or lost forever... The rewriting of the story is not believable or unbelievable, but intent seems well aimed! SEEMS!!!! if ego drives a man, the man is an ego, if money drives a man then the man is money, if truth drives a man then he is honest... The money, and ego cannot be believed! Is Wally selling something? or is someone selling Wally? We won't know...
As always, very blessed to have Mr Wally’s teachings about the the Navajos and the interactions with the peoples they encountered as they headed east. Always interesting to hear these stories about who built the great sites in the Southwest and how the Dine fit into its history. The subject of this video, everything being wrongly attributed to the “Anasazi” could also apply to the archaeology of central and South America, with the Aztecs and Incas taking the limelight for many of the sites in their respective cultural areas yet failing to take into account the numerous cultures that preceded them and were contemporary to them as well. Very insightful that the same occurs in the Southwest with the Anasazi.
@@standingbear998 It is regrettable that truth seems to cause you problems, but though regrettable, it is not uncommon among certain politically inclined groups of people. Just sad. I doubt that you wold want to read anything that might distress your viewpoint but even white people who studied this have a documentary about the Anasazi, including their cannibalism. ruclips.net/video/7BLKttn_cS8/видео.html
The Bering land bridge was a mere 13,000 years ago yet recent footprints discovered at White Sands are 23,000 years old. We still have much to understand about the emergence of humans in North America.
Coast-hopping would allow people to travel long distances quickly (compared to land travel). Rising sea levels after the last Ice Age would have submerged many sites. It's not impossible, IMO, for there to have been ocean-going peoples similar to the later Polynesians. For whatever reason, they didn't last long on their islands, but did reach the western coast of the Americas. And perhaps some land-hopping by proto-Europeans (who were not the Aryans fantasized by white supremacists).
Okay, I think you misunderstood what they meant when they said the land bridge was 13,000 years ago. The land bridge did not appear and then disappear 13,000 years ago. That’s just when it began to fade, meaning that it was there for tens of thousands of years before that and could’ve been traversed for tens of thousands of years, so it’s completely plausible that those footprints belonged to the descendants of people who traversed it.
One day, we'll wish we had remembered how to live in a tight community. As it was. That's the trouble. The tribes and factions that have developed today. Many of them practise very harmful rituals. I'm so glad your channel is available. Wealth not available anywhere else. Thank you.
I’ve lived in the southwest many years now. I’ve been to Chaco, Mesa Verde and so many other that I couldn’t begin to count. I’ve also spent time on the res with my grandmother trying to help the kids and poor. But I’m white and we were always on the outside trying to look in. Always looking at wonder at all the ruins, petroglyphs, pictographs, arrowheads, art but never understanding any of it. I’ve listened to so many tour guides try to explain the meaning of these things, why there’s that strange rectangular ditch in the Kivas, what the various nooks and notches and features meant. The only thing I’m sure, is that 95% of the things we think we know are nothing but pure speculation and guesses. I don’t think that necessarily a bad thing. There’s nothing wrong with trying to make an educated guess. However, many times there is no humility and they are not honest enough to say we don’t know and this is just what we think. That’s where they lose me. Your teachings hit me as very honest. You say with no apology, “this is what we are told” These are the words we have had passed down for many years. Your words ring true to me, and even when you mention things you can not possibly know for sure like whether ancestors came across a land bridge or not, you just state the facts as you have been told and what you have seen and what makes sense. I just want to thank you for sharing these stories so we can all learn. Just as there is profound truth and wisdom behind Plato all these thousands of years later. So too, there is profound wisdom in your culture and ceremonies and stories and words. I hope for all our sakes you do everything you can to pass it down and make a record of it for all of our grandchildren to learn from and to cherish their legacy. Be well :)
Well, let's not be mistaken, when he says, this is what we have been told.....that saying goes for ANYTHING. when you govto the university, you are "told" that these sre the tools you use to analyze English grammar, and these are the rules the language follows. In math you are "told" that math had rules according to very precise principles of logic. Anything you learn, you are merely told that this and that ks true without really KNOWING what truly is TRUE and what is merely a justified belief but still lacking the criteria of knowledge. Yku are told that this shape is a square....but until you are able to gain proof outside of our mere ability to project shadows of knowledge on a cave wall, everyone is just TOLD what's true and what's not.
I'm Diné And my grandpa also shared this knowledge with me also. It's very fascinating trying to compare and contrast archeological evidence with that of old spoken historical account.
@@GeriatricPimp I’ve listened to more than a few of Wally’s videos now and no, I don’t think you quite appreciate my point. When he adds “and this is what we are told” that (to my ears) comes from a very humble place. It’s more than just a saying and he repeats it quite a bit and I’m convinced more and more that there is a deep reason and purpose he chooses those words. It’s not just “and that’s the way it is” or “that’s a fact”it tells me that these are things that aren’t just thrown out there to make quick answers to questions but they have been considered, thought about, and consulted and then handed down. At least…that is what I hear in those words. But I only speak for myself and I really value humility so I have to be true to that and also admit I’ve been wrong myself many times and perhaps I’m wrong again (but I don’t think so).
@@GeriatricPimp you have me at a disadvantage there. I’m not Diné. So I have no place to disagree on much of anything. I am up there in years though and it warms my heart to hear you say that you listened to your grandfathers stories closely. I worry for your people that your history is so terribly fragile because it’s all oral. I look at my extended family and I don’t think the kids give a rats patoot what grandma and grandpa say…they can’t look up from their cell phones long enough for anyone to finish a sentence let alone tell a story.
Living here in Denetah, I appreciate the grandfathers stories because he gives us so much more insight to the peoples history of this land. Archaeology is great but does not give us the story from the decedents of the land, but their own interpretation that misses so much more.
I share this knowledge with anyone who will listen ( my circles are small these days, as I am almost ancient...) but often, a group of people ( entertainment, movies, writers ) will seize on some idea that tickles their fancy and- whether true or not - they will angrily defend it as it it was some sacred thing! So it is that the mass media , years ago, learned the name "anasazi" and since that time, treated the myth like holy legend. Thank you, good sir, for speaking truth!!!
@@shiverarts8284 a great reply which has nothing to do with anything but does seem to support the fact that the world is real. That is a relief to everyone who thought that it was just a dream.
I greatly appreciate your knowledge and information that you are explaining to help us understand the different tribal clans. I send much thanks to you and your family!
Thank you for giving us this ancient knowledge and taking the time to tell it to us .We are grateful and humbled that you do!! Thank you Grandfather Wally!
Thank you for correcting the land bridge theory and labeling it as a guess. Knowing what the oral history of a people is about their own origins should be understood before publishing science books with guesses and passing it off to school children as truth.
Um...we have the archaeological evidence. It's one of several ways in which the new world was first inhabited. No one says it was the only or "right" way. Just one of several ways that people got here. Science is real.
Thanks for clarification on who was who. And thank you for another enlightening video. I'm curious about how far in the east the dine originated. Might be a great topic of discussion.
One teacher asked me, where did you guys come from?? Look at this Greek word for grass, how is it spelled? How do you pronounce it ? The word was "Chloe," grass, Dineh, Navajo say Clo', grass. The teacher, a white guy asked again, Where did you guys come from?
The same with the word "BilaGhaan," different interpretation. White, but white is ligaii , But Bilighaan, " Much fighting, always fighting," A Jewish man said the the same word fir fighting
I'm well studied in the traditional current thoughts on history of the SW. It doesn't add up. Everything Wally says matches the archaeological record at least as much as any lore can. Thank you so much. This will not be forgotten.
Brilliant. I love learning about your ways and your beliefs. It just makes so much sense to me. Thank you so much for being one of the very few who decided to come forward and share among the rest of us who can really benefit from your teachings. I am enjoying you passing on your wisdom and stories in the traditional way. By speaking to us. Thank you so very much. I am sorry for the way your people have been treated, especially when your morals are so good and all you have ever wanted to be is kind and generous thoughtful and to fit right in with nature being respectful of all living things. I hope more people can become more like you. Then we could one day live in peace with one another.
Thank you for this information. I'm happy to hear more information on that Tribe, which is no more. I have appreciated hearing the stories of this tribe. It's time for the truth to get out, and be known to the world at large.
Hi Wally! I appreciate all you and Navajo Traditional Teachings share on this platform. I will watch every video you post multiple times because there is so much to learn and cherish. Do the Navajo share or teach anything about the area in Colorado (currently Manitou Springs) in the foothills of what is called Pikes Peak and The Garden of the Gods. I have spent so much time researching this area but it’s like it’s native history is stripped from history. There are beautiful cliff dwellings, crystal caves, unique mineralized spring waters, a gorgeous mountain range, and red rock structures. Its filled with tourists now and hard to know it’s true history other than the tribes that were known to live there. I would love to hear if there’s anything you know 💖 Thank you for all you do!!!
I appreciate you great elders for educating us about this mysterious tribe ….. i’m very peculiarly attach to the subject, because of the ancient arrow project in chaco canyon ruins New Mexico ….. I wish to visit this location in the near future. I hope that day comes. ❤🏹🔥
Thank you for sharing your history. I'm not Dine, but two of my friends are, and I try my best to get them to listen to your stories. I am in utah and am curious about the true story about the history between the Navajo and Utes. Our schools here don't teach us much, unfortunately. Thank you again for sharing.
I'm not in Utah but I've noticed for decades that certain tribes are hard to find out anything about. I think it primarily has to do with the arrogance and ignorance of the Anglos mainly from Europe. This isn't racist just fact. Imagine how different life could be if we were raised with more NA culture and history along with other American history. So we end up cheated out of pockets of history like the Utes. I've read decades ago that they were cannibals. Now I wonder did they associate hugely with the Anasazi. Maybe you could research n ask Elders like Wally to tell you what they know and publish your findings. Don't forget the maps. Many blessings.
@@lorinapetranova2607 I am from Utah…Moab and I’m suspect from just knowing the land that all the various clans were quite fragile. The land is harsh. It won’t support huge populations in the first place. Drought, disease, famine, rivalry’s, and then comes the Europeans and it’s not hard to understand how easily smaller scattered clans and tribes can be wiped out without barely a few traces. I wish it weren’t so, but wishes never changed the past so they aren’t much help.
Thank you for sharing your story with us it’s very important that we understand the truth about your history and your people what was passed down from your ancestors your culture is different from other and you took nothing away from other religions culture and traditions ❤
Im glad so long ago i started my research, so much the smart ppl say makes no sense. There is proof Egypt all middle east, Africa south America they were traveling and trading around the world. Glad your putting out truth
Thank you for sharing this valuable information I appreciate it very much I knew nothing but I wandered the hills and seen the pottery charge and had my own ideas about things I hope you can fill us in on even more details about common life hunting traveling the Frontiers and things like this
*Wally knows whose thinking patterns he likes, so it is up to him who he accepts questions from. Yes, it is true people would like to ask questions on a channel like this one*
Namisté 🙏 the school system is a joke and children are too smart not to see right through THIER boring BS. But without a source of truth to place their natural reverence for real authority/history/culture it makes things that much harder-- you’re teachings are just that, real!
Thank you grandfather! I have tried the relations of these people for a very long time now, do you have put together the missing pieces of the puzzle for me, I am grateful
Thank you so very much for sharing this with us. I've traveled to many places around the four corners area. You have been able to piece together many of the answers I have ask and could not get an answers for from park rangers. Why are we not speaking with the elders and saving this wealth of knowledge? I believe the di'ne will still be here after our civilization has pasted.
New subscriber here👋🏼 I have traveled your area many times. I feel the Spirits every time. Very beautiful feeling❤ Also I love the echo sound @ the end of the of the music🎼🎶🎵🪈 reminded me of the canyons❤
Yaateeh shi ke! I am Juliet, I am Honagaahnii born for bilagaana (basically). Our family is from AZ + NM. I appreciate all your knowledge + your stories + accounts. I just followed!! I see that some of your knowledge overlaps w the knowledge + teachings of my grandmother. I am so pleased to see this. There is much more to say. But I have intro videos up on this account The Goldencanes. That explain to my knowledge. How our last name came to be, as well as some theories of mine. So far I have not found anyone who knows of our ancestral last name in the 4 corners. So idk if you know maybe if you know? Anyway. Thank you for being the last of the elders teaching. Hozhonigo!!
I have been enjoying your series on the Anasazi. I remember reading in the 60's that the Anasazi were the ancestors of the Puebloan peoples and that they lived in the cliff dwellings because of the "raiding" Navahos. I also read that the Navahos migrated from the far north to the south. It's good to hear another side of the story. Looking back the assumptions made by the archaeologists, were just that - assumptions. Narratives made up out of whole cloth to fit their theories. More recently there were suggestions that the Anasazi of Chaco engaged in cannibalism. Is that in the Dime traditions?
Wally did a vid earlier this summer about Anasazi were cannibals. I hope only out of dire need. I've heard that for a time the SW was in severe drought and it's around the time the Anasazi allegedly vanished. I reckon eating each other is also vanished. Many blessings.
@@lorinapetranova2607- I remember watching a television show that suggested the Anasazi did this to terrorize subject peoples. Which would fit in with the conflicts that Wally described.
The ancestral puebloans far predate the navajo in the southwest. Tjey would have been raided by other tribes, not the navajo, because they were not in the area yet. They apparently found bones with butcher marks and i believe a human coprolite that contained human myoglobin, so apparently some canabalism took place amongst the anasazi.
Super grateful for the information you tell. I'm Navajo myself. My dad once told me of a tribe long ago that practiced evil with magic and they traveled the southwest. They were destroyed for their misuse of this magic. This story fills in the gaps. While it may anger people to hear this, I feel the story teller is only helping. Thankfully, the truth of the Anasazi is coming to light especially with their practice of cannibalism. My opinion is they were a tribe that came from Mexico. And like Wally says, the Pueblos were a different people all together who were already here. Keep up the great work! 😊 Love it.
I have so enjoyed your videos. I've lived in Aztec,NM for many years running the Vanilla Moose for my mom. Now I rent from a Navajo woman in Santa Fe whose family are in Chinle. Her mother and auntie were "adopted" by Mormons at birth. A few summers ago I volunteered at the Aztec National Ruins and lived on site for 3 months. I spent many midnights in the Kiva. So I have a question. Did the people who lived there consciously vibrate out of there because they "knew" the Spanish were coming? I was raised by a Healer so I "know" it is possible. Do you sense that the People are still in that Space but like hummingbird wings are invisible? Thank You...
Many Pueblo groups and Hopi have ties to villages on the Rez other then Chaco tho. Many clans that are used in Hopi and in some Pueblo villages still carry those specific clans.
Hello Mr. Brown. Thank you so much for your contributions to my learning process. I am enjoying a study of several archaeological textbooks. They clearly avoid details about the Navajo, but simply say that we and the Apache share the same language and we came from the north. I don’t believe it. But can you comment on where the old people say where the Anasazi come from? Thank you.
Bravo. Im tired of hearing that thousands of ruins were from 1000 years ago around the 4 Corners. The people came and went. These lands weren't totally abandoned .🙏
Thank you. That's why the possibility the Hoover dam was made . To find and research the revealed living places along the canyon. Some think it's natural disaster more than structure. The point is some was, but also formed by those occupying and trades . I truly believe even before blocking there was shipping route . That's my take toward the primitive view . It was even thought the pyramids were cut from some of the region. Most cannot figure out the technique.
We? You are just you and science differs, is debatable, and changes every few years. Your traditions are about as old as a PS2, and just about as meaningful.
Anthropology is merely a soft science. Because it's more difficult to establish measurable criteria when working on the analysis of how the mind works, these are less rigidly required to follow the scientific method, making them “soft” subjects. This category includes fields of study like sociology, psychology, political science, and anthropology. Therefor no more valid than oral history and specifically regarding the Anasazi, no older than the 1920s. So older than a PS2 but considerably post dating Diné oral history.
There is value in archeological study even if it's a soft science. It can't reveal the answer itself, but it can give you a piece of it. With a bigger picture realized when matching oral history and cross referencing it. I do understand frustration though when academia acts like we know everything or just slings together a guess and makes it curriculum. Like, Gobleki Tepei digsite. No serious archaeologist is gonna pretend to know what it really is, the whole "ritual gathering center" is a bit of a joke and a way of saying we don't know. Another way of recording as much as possible even if it doesn't fit neatly In a category.
The history of the arrowheads called Clovis points show that it’s creators were at the east land of America in early days and there were younger yet still ancient Clovis points found in the American Southwest, in Navajo and Pueblo and other related Nations there.
Interesting, I have a few arrow heads points I found years ago ( 70's - 80's) and a few my father gave me that he found on his early years ( 1940-1949) that were in SW united states' area New Mexico,. Very intricate details on each.
I'm glad I get to learn about the history that our schools don't even know. When I was in the army my roommate had a code talker blanket with the words and symbols and your videos remind me of him. This knowledge is great and it saddens me to think it may be lost unless it is recorded, because my generation and younger are less interested in cultural things than before. Thanks for the videos brothers!!
It makes me sad mainstream science won't listen and only want to publish their fantasies.
@@budsak7771 💯 can't agree more!
Thank you for ensuring that your history and culture are preserved. I'm finding your teachings very interesting and informative. Thank you.😊
I am glad that you are sharing with us. I was honored to meet one of the original Code Talkers, and what he shared made me want to learn more.
Thank you báʼóltaʼí
TO EVERYONE- THIS MAN IS A SACRED TREASURE TO US AND TO GENERATIONS THAT WILL FOLLOW. *PLEASE* keep him and his loved ones, in your prayers, share his wisdom, and please support him in any way you can.
Amen 🙏🏻 I stand with this young man
don't look up to anyone and don't look down to anyone,... Wally is a sacred treasure, but you are too! We all are! Even the ones who do not believe that they are. What a great person Wally is, and what a great person you and I are.
so can anyone disagree with anything he says? my understanding is the Navajo came into the 4 corners area in c1450 and most experts say the so called Anasazi were gone by c1300
AMEN ❤️🙏💞
@@TheHypnotstCollector I believe him because he said in an early video that they had lost many of the stories,... and if you read two pages of a book, you can assume what the beginning and end is but if pieces of the story are missing then the story shall be rewritten.... or lost forever... The rewriting of the story is not believable or unbelievable, but intent seems well aimed! SEEMS!!!! if ego drives a man, the man is an ego, if money drives a man then the man is money, if truth drives a man then he is honest... The money, and ego cannot be believed! Is Wally selling something? or is someone selling Wally? We won't know...
Wally Brown is a Sage of Olde passing the Dineh Wisdom though spoken word as it is meant to be. Huge respect for this Man and his teaching
I love history, and I very much appreciate Grandfather Wally's sharing the Diné history.
Grandfather Wally works for Beijing-backed interests who do not want North Americans to know how much older we are than them.
As always, very blessed to have Mr Wally’s teachings about the the Navajos and the interactions with the peoples they encountered as they headed east. Always interesting to hear these stories about who built the great sites in the Southwest and how the Dine fit into its history.
The subject of this video, everything being wrongly attributed to the “Anasazi” could also apply to the archaeology of central and South America, with the Aztecs and Incas taking the limelight for many of the sites in their respective cultural areas yet failing to take into account the numerous cultures that preceded them and were contemporary to them as well.
Very insightful that the same occurs in the Southwest with the Anasazi.
I think he is intentionally misleading his "people."
(and he knows it...)
#GreatGOOD
the people who where here before them. they were colonizers not indigenous or first.
@@standingbear998 It is regrettable that truth seems to cause you problems, but though regrettable, it is not uncommon among certain politically inclined groups of people. Just sad. I doubt that you wold want to read anything that might distress your viewpoint but even white people who studied this have a documentary about the Anasazi, including their cannibalism. ruclips.net/video/7BLKttn_cS8/видео.html
@@joelmichaeleo I am certain that your thoughts are of incredible importance to you. No one else seems interested.
Agreed. The "Anasazi" are just ONE of thousands of Indigenous Mesoamerican Native groups which coalesced in and migrated from Mesoamerica.
Thank you for taking the time to give this knowledge. I hope more people will see and hear this.
Thats why we share and spread the word!
The Bering land bridge was a mere 13,000 years ago yet recent footprints discovered at White Sands are 23,000 years old. We still have much to understand about the emergence of humans in North America.
Bering strait was just 1 wave.
Coast-hopping would allow people to travel long distances quickly (compared to land travel). Rising sea levels after the last Ice Age would have submerged many sites.
It's not impossible, IMO, for there to have been ocean-going peoples similar to the later Polynesians. For whatever reason, they didn't last long on their islands, but did reach the western coast of the Americas. And perhaps some land-hopping by proto-Europeans (who were not the Aryans fantasized by white supremacists).
The Bering land bridge occurred during the last glacial maximum (between 26k and 19k years ago)
Okay, I think you misunderstood what they meant when they said the land bridge was 13,000 years ago. The land bridge did not appear and then disappear 13,000 years ago. That’s just when it began to fade, meaning that it was there for tens of thousands of years before that and could’ve been traversed for tens of thousands of years, so it’s completely plausible that those footprints belonged to the descendants of people who traversed it.
We do?
One day, we'll wish we had remembered how to live in a tight community. As it was.
That's the trouble. The tribes and factions that have developed today. Many of them practise very harmful rituals.
I'm so glad your channel is available.
Wealth not available anywhere else.
Thank you.
Grateful to be alive to finally listen to and learn real history. ❤
I’ve lived in the southwest many years now. I’ve been to Chaco, Mesa Verde and so many other that I couldn’t begin to count. I’ve also spent time on the res with my grandmother trying to help the kids and poor. But I’m white and we were always on the outside trying to look in. Always looking at wonder at all the ruins, petroglyphs, pictographs, arrowheads, art but never understanding any of it. I’ve listened to so many tour guides try to explain the meaning of these things, why there’s that strange rectangular ditch in the Kivas, what the various nooks and notches and features meant.
The only thing I’m sure, is that 95% of the things we think we know are nothing but pure speculation and guesses. I don’t think that necessarily a bad thing. There’s nothing wrong with trying to make an educated guess. However, many times there is no humility and they are not honest enough to say we don’t know and this is just what we think. That’s where they lose me.
Your teachings hit me as very honest. You say with no apology, “this is what we are told” These are the words we have had passed down for many years. Your words ring true to me, and even when you mention things you can not possibly know for sure like whether ancestors came across a land bridge or not, you just state the facts as you have been told and what you have seen and what makes sense.
I just want to thank you for sharing these stories so we can all learn. Just as there is profound truth and wisdom behind Plato all these thousands of years later. So too, there is profound wisdom in your culture and ceremonies and stories and words. I hope for all our sakes you do everything you can to pass it down and make a record of it for all of our grandchildren to learn from and to cherish their legacy.
Be well :)
I could not have said it better…….thank you for your comment!
Well, let's not be mistaken, when he says, this is what we have been told.....that saying goes for ANYTHING. when you govto the university, you are "told" that these sre the tools you use to analyze English grammar, and these are the rules the language follows. In math you are "told" that math had rules according to very precise principles of logic. Anything you learn, you are merely told that this and that ks true without really KNOWING what truly is TRUE and what is merely a justified belief but still lacking the criteria of knowledge. Yku are told that this shape is a square....but until you are able to gain proof outside of our mere ability to project shadows of knowledge on a cave wall, everyone is just TOLD what's true and what's not.
I'm Diné And my grandpa also shared this knowledge with me also. It's very fascinating trying to compare and contrast archeological evidence with that of old spoken historical account.
@@GeriatricPimp I’ve listened to more than a few of Wally’s videos now and no, I don’t think you quite appreciate my point.
When he adds “and this is what we are told” that (to my ears) comes from a very humble place. It’s more than just a saying and he repeats it quite a bit and I’m convinced more and more that there is a deep reason and purpose he chooses those words. It’s not just “and that’s the way it is” or “that’s a fact”it tells me that these are things that aren’t just thrown out there to make quick answers to questions but they have been considered, thought about, and consulted and then handed down.
At least…that is what I hear in those words.
But I only speak for myself and I really value humility so I have to be true to that and also admit I’ve been wrong myself many times and perhaps I’m wrong again (but I don’t think so).
@@GeriatricPimp you have me at a disadvantage there. I’m not Diné. So I have no place to disagree on much of anything. I am up there in years though and it warms my heart to hear you say that you listened to your grandfathers stories closely. I worry for your people that your history is so terribly fragile because it’s all oral. I look at my extended family and I don’t think the kids give a rats patoot what grandma and grandpa say…they can’t look up from their cell phones long enough for anyone to finish a sentence let alone tell a story.
Respect to the elders.
Thank you for sharing.
Wally you are so blessed to be able to share this wonderful history of the Dine'...thank you...
Living here in Denetah, I appreciate the grandfathers stories because he gives us so much more insight to the peoples history of this land. Archaeology is great but does not give us the story from the decedents of the land, but their own interpretation that misses so much more.
I share this knowledge with anyone who will listen ( my circles are small these days, as I am almost ancient...) but often, a group of people ( entertainment, movies, writers ) will seize on some idea that tickles their fancy and- whether true or not - they will angrily defend it as it it was some sacred thing! So it is that the mass media , years ago, learned the name "anasazi" and since that time, treated the myth like holy legend. Thank you, good sir, for speaking truth!!!
Yeah, well my these people are real and make up the real world.
@@shiverarts8284 a great reply which has nothing to do with anything but does seem to support the fact that the world is real. That is a relief to everyone who thought that it was just a dream.
@@Julian-bq9qv you need help ma'am?
@@Julian-bq9qv shit us day one Indians will always be right there. White people just learning now is a travesty
thank you so much
No matter time or place I can sit and have a lesson. Thank you
It's good to be when you're in a good headspace, like I listen to these on breaks.
Much ❤️ to you sir thank YOU
I enjoy listening to your native language you begin the episode with, the inflections and rhythm. This was a good story.
Thank you sir. 💖💖💖
Gratidão pelo seu conhecimento 🌷
I greatly appreciate your knowledge and information that you are explaining to help us understand the different tribal clans. I send much thanks to you and your family!
I love learning from you, it's so important. thank you.
Thank you for giving us this ancient knowledge and taking the time to tell it to us .We are grateful and humbled that you do!! Thank you Grandfather Wally!
He's not, though.
He is gatekeeping for (his) "Greater Good."
Thank you Wally! I love your teachings. May the voice of the Dine always be heard!
Thank you for correcting the land bridge theory and labeling it as a guess. Knowing what the oral history of a people is about their own origins should be understood before publishing science books with guesses and passing it off to school children as truth.
😮Africa is theory origin of human kind. Every continent like a jigsaw was once connected. Example, Africa and South America pattern.
Where would the Navajo say they came from? I’d be interested in a video that goes deeper into that subject.
Um...we have the archaeological evidence. It's one of several ways in which the new world was first inhabited. No one says it was the only or "right" way. Just one of several ways that people got here. Science is real.
@@tylerrobinson4422 There is. Wally has one video which isn't on this channel. Wally says Navajo 4,000 years ago came from the east.
Agree
Sir. Your language is beautiful and I pray that one of your descendants has learned it as you know it. Thank you for sharing your wisdom.
I always love these presentations. Cheers and thanks for sharing
Thank you elder, I agree
Blessings ❤
Ty for your teaching 💓
Thanks Wally, that makes sense to us Navajos still living here at Pueblo Pintado.👍✊✌️🙏💯
Thankyou, rather believe it from the oral history❤
Thank you for keeping this history alive.
Thank you for sharing true history.
Thank you
Thank you kindly, Elder
thank you for this ancient wisdom and history. Do you think the anasazi were from what is now known as Mexico i.e an ofshoot from the Maya?
I suggest Aztec who moved north from Mexico. Beautiful culture. But ruthless with their enemies and human sacrifices.
Beyond maize, beans and squash
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@@carolthomas770yeah I’m thinking they were from Aztec origin but ended up coming north
Thank you Elder Brown for uploading all of your valuable history knowledge wisdom❤
I'm grateful for your teaching.
Thank You…….I never knew…..even though I should’ve!
I hope the morning birds give you an extra special song tomorrow!
Thank you both very much!!
I love this! It seems like the entire human collective is waking up to our actual truth and breaking through the lies of history we've been told.
Thank you Mr. Brown AND Shane...
I'm very grateful for your words of wisdom and for teaching us about the true history✨️👣
Do you have any published books on native history? I’d love to study it and pass it onto my children while they are young.
Thanks for clarification on who was who. And thank you for another enlightening video. I'm curious about how far in the east the dine originated. Might be a great topic of discussion.
One teacher asked me, where did you guys come from?? Look at this Greek word for grass, how is it spelled? How do you pronounce it ? The word was "Chloe," grass, Dineh, Navajo say Clo', grass.
The teacher, a white guy asked again, Where did you guys come from?
The same with the word "BilaGhaan," different interpretation.
White, but white is ligaii ,
But Bilighaan, " Much fighting, always fighting,"
A Jewish man said the the same word fir fighting
I'm well studied in the traditional current thoughts on history of the SW. It doesn't add up. Everything Wally says matches the archaeological record at least as much as any lore can. Thank you so much. This will not be forgotten.
Are you familiar with Marta Weigle's work? If so, what do you think of it?
then please share this true wisdom with others, pass it down to those who will follow- do what you can to prevent the true knowledge from dying out!!!
Any books you recommend?
Beyond maize, beans and squash
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Thankyou for your persoective
Brilliant. I love learning about your ways and your beliefs. It just makes so much sense to me. Thank you so much for being one of the very few who decided to come forward and share among the rest of us who can really benefit from your teachings. I am enjoying you passing on your wisdom and stories in the traditional way. By speaking to us. Thank you so very much. I am sorry for the way your people have been treated, especially when your morals are so good and all you have ever wanted to be is kind and generous thoughtful and to fit right in with nature being respectful of all living things. I hope more people can become more like you. Then we could one day live in peace with one another.
I enjoy hearing the history from its source!❤
Thank you for sharing your information with me. Its helpful and i appreciate the contribution to perspective
Thsnk you for your Wisdom and correction, Elder. 🤲🏿
i dont speak a word of the Diné language, but I do have Diné blood, and when he was speaking the language i felt like i could still understand him
I'm from the red bottom clan,I did not knew my clan had a Pueblo influence
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Thank you Wally. ♥
The history this man has is fascinating. Thankfully he is being recorded.
Thank you for this information.
I'm happy to hear more information on that Tribe, which is no more.
I have appreciated hearing the stories of this tribe.
It's time for the truth to get out, and be known to the world at large.
Thank you. From the northwest of Spain, on the other side of the Athlantic ocean, my deepest gratitude !
Thank you.
Hi Wally! I appreciate all you and Navajo Traditional Teachings share on this platform. I will watch every video you post multiple times because there is so much to learn and cherish.
Do the Navajo share or teach anything about the area in Colorado (currently Manitou Springs) in the foothills of what is called Pikes Peak and The Garden of the Gods. I have spent so much time researching this area but it’s like it’s native history is stripped from history. There are beautiful cliff dwellings, crystal caves, unique mineralized spring waters, a gorgeous mountain range, and red rock structures. Its filled with tourists now and hard to know it’s true history other than the tribes that were known to live there. I would love to hear if there’s anything you know 💖
Thank you for all you do!!!
I wish more people would put the old stories up on YT.
I appreciate you great elders for educating us about this mysterious tribe ….. i’m very peculiarly attach to the subject, because of the ancient arrow project in chaco canyon ruins New Mexico ….. I wish to visit this location in the near future. I hope that day comes. ❤🏹🔥
Thank you very much.
For descendants of Eastern tribes lost as clans, such teachings provide food for the spirit. Thank You. ❤️🙏💞🪶
Thank you 🕊
Thank you for sharing your history. I'm not Dine, but two of my friends are, and I try my best to get them to listen to your stories.
I am in utah and am curious about the true story about the history between the Navajo and Utes. Our schools here don't teach us much, unfortunately.
Thank you again for sharing.
I'm not in Utah but I've noticed for decades that certain tribes are hard to find out anything about. I think it primarily has to do with the arrogance and ignorance of the Anglos mainly from Europe. This isn't racist just fact. Imagine how different life could be if we were raised with more NA culture and history along with other American history. So we end up cheated out of pockets of history like the Utes. I've read decades ago that they were cannibals. Now I wonder did they associate hugely with the Anasazi. Maybe you could research n ask Elders like Wally to tell you what they know and publish your findings. Don't forget the maps. Many blessings.
@@lorinapetranova2607 I am from Utah…Moab and I’m suspect from just knowing the land that all the various clans were quite fragile. The land is harsh. It won’t support huge populations in the first place. Drought, disease, famine, rivalry’s, and then comes the Europeans and it’s not hard to understand how easily smaller scattered clans and tribes can be wiped out without barely a few traces.
I wish it weren’t so, but wishes never changed the past so they aren’t much help.
Thank you!! I appreciate the lessons. May we all grow into awareness.
Thank you. 🌼
All good blessings to you and your family
Shalom, this is a great video of truth! Thank you, LADD’s
I love this podcast
Thank you for sharing your story with us it’s very important that we understand the truth about your history and your people what was passed down from your ancestors your culture is different from other and you took nothing away from other religions culture and traditions ❤
Im glad so long ago i started my research, so much the smart ppl say makes no sense. There is proof Egypt all middle east, Africa south America they were traveling and trading around the world. Glad your putting out truth
Thank you for sharing this valuable information I appreciate it very much I knew nothing but I wandered the hills and seen the pottery charge and had my own ideas about things I hope you can fill us in on even more details about common life hunting traveling the Frontiers and things like this
Keep the info alive.
Thank you so much 🖤
*Wally knows whose thinking patterns he likes, so it is up to him who he accepts questions from. Yes, it is true people would like to ask questions on a channel like this one*
I love this channel. Great stuff. It would be amazing to hear the Navajo teachings about the destruction of Awatovi, the singing house.
This segment extremely important information on the early people 👍
i must say thank you!! i would love to hear about the sinagwa of the area and the history involved with the dine.
Namisté 🙏 the school system is a joke and children are too smart not to see right through THIER boring BS. But without a source of truth to place their natural reverence for real authority/history/culture it makes things that much harder-- you’re teachings are just that, real!
We love you Mr Wally
Thank you grandfather! I have tried the relations of these people for a very long time now, do you have put together the missing pieces of the puzzle for me, I am grateful
Thanks. you my dear🌏 🙏❤❤❤God Bless you my dears🥰🥰Salvation only in Christ Jesus💞
I have I vision in my head from a past life walking around with my family in the the cliffs.
Thank you so very much for sharing this with us. I've traveled to many places around the four corners area. You have been able to piece together many of the answers I have ask and could not get an answers for from park rangers. Why are we not speaking with the elders and saving this wealth of knowledge? I believe the di'ne will still be here after our civilization has pasted.
Thank you
New subscriber here👋🏼
I have traveled your area many times. I feel the Spirits every time. Very beautiful feeling❤
Also I love the echo sound @ the end of the of the music🎼🎶🎵🪈 reminded me of the canyons❤
It's very interesting to hear from you about such history.
Yaateeh shi ke! I am Juliet, I am Honagaahnii born for bilagaana (basically). Our family is from AZ + NM. I appreciate all your knowledge + your stories + accounts. I just followed!! I see that some of your knowledge overlaps w the knowledge + teachings of my grandmother. I am so pleased to see this. There is much more to say. But I have intro videos up on this account The Goldencanes. That explain to my knowledge. How our last name came to be, as well as some theories of mine. So far I have not found anyone who knows of our ancestral last name in the 4 corners. So idk if you know maybe if you know? Anyway. Thank you for being the last of the elders teaching. Hozhonigo!!
I have been enjoying your series on the Anasazi. I remember reading in the 60's that the Anasazi were the ancestors of the Puebloan peoples and that they lived in the cliff dwellings because of the "raiding" Navahos. I also read that the Navahos migrated from the far north to the south. It's good to hear another side of the story. Looking back the assumptions made by the archaeologists, were just that - assumptions. Narratives made up out of whole cloth to fit their theories. More recently there were suggestions that the Anasazi of Chaco engaged in cannibalism. Is that in the Dime traditions?
Wally did a vid earlier this summer about Anasazi were cannibals. I hope only out of dire need. I've heard that for a time the SW was in severe drought and it's around the time the Anasazi allegedly vanished. I reckon eating each other is also vanished. Many blessings.
@@lorinapetranova2607 I guess I missed that one. I'll try to find it and watch. Thanks
@@lorinapetranova2607- I remember watching a television show that suggested the Anasazi did this to terrorize subject peoples. Which would fit in with the conflicts that Wally described.
The ancestral puebloans far predate the navajo in the southwest. Tjey would have been raided by other tribes, not the navajo, because they were not in the area yet. They apparently found bones with butcher marks and i believe a human coprolite that contained human myoglobin, so apparently some canabalism took place amongst the anasazi.
Nope the drought happened bc the anasazi were eating and killing ppl, they were punished.
Thank you grandfather ❤
Super grateful for the information you tell. I'm Navajo myself. My dad once told me of a tribe long ago that practiced evil with magic and they traveled the southwest. They were destroyed for their misuse of this magic. This story fills in the gaps. While it may anger people to hear this, I feel the story teller is only helping. Thankfully, the truth of the Anasazi is coming to light especially with their practice of cannibalism. My opinion is they were a tribe that came from Mexico. And like Wally says, the Pueblos were a different people all together who were already here. Keep up the great work! 😊 Love it.
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I have so enjoyed your videos. I've lived in Aztec,NM for many years running the Vanilla Moose for my mom. Now I rent from a Navajo woman in Santa Fe whose family are in Chinle. Her mother and auntie were "adopted" by Mormons at birth. A few summers ago I volunteered at the Aztec National Ruins and lived on site for 3 months. I spent many midnights in the Kiva. So I have a question. Did the people who lived there consciously vibrate out of there because they "knew" the Spanish were coming? I was raised by a Healer so I "know" it is possible. Do you sense that the People are still in that Space but like hummingbird wings are invisible? Thank You...
Many Pueblo groups and Hopi have ties to villages on the Rez other then Chaco tho. Many clans that are used in Hopi and in some Pueblo villages still carry those specific clans.
Hello Mr. Brown. Thank you so much for your contributions to my learning process.
I am enjoying a study of several archaeological textbooks. They clearly avoid details about the Navajo, but simply say that we and the Apache share the same language and we came from the north.
I don’t believe it. But can you comment on where the old people say where the Anasazi come from?
Thank you.
Bravo. Im tired of hearing that thousands of ruins were from 1000 years ago around the 4 Corners. The people came and went. These lands weren't totally abandoned .🙏
Thank you Mr. Brown! Please discuss the relationship between the Ute people and the Dene. Ancient and present.
Thank you. That's why the possibility the Hoover dam was made . To find and research the revealed living places along the canyon. Some think it's natural disaster more than structure. The point is some was, but also formed by those occupying and trades . I truly believe even before blocking there was shipping route . That's my take toward the primitive view . It was even thought the pyramids were cut from some of the region. Most cannot figure out the technique.
Wally is an amazing teacher, elder. Great production, you guys! So much taught in only 11 minutes.
I really appreciate your correction of this western anthropologist' fallacy.
We have science, this guy has claims yet no evidence.
We? You are just you and science differs, is debatable, and changes every few years.
Your traditions are about as old as a PS2, and just about as meaningful.
Anthropology is merely a soft science. Because it's more difficult to establish measurable criteria when working on the analysis of how the mind works, these are less rigidly required to follow the scientific method, making them “soft” subjects. This category includes fields of study like sociology, psychology, political science, and anthropology.
Therefor no more valid than oral history and specifically regarding the Anasazi, no older than the 1920s. So older than a PS2 but considerably post dating Diné oral history.
Beyond maize, beans and squash
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There is value in archeological study even if it's a soft science. It can't reveal the answer itself, but it can give you a piece of it. With a bigger picture realized when matching oral history and cross referencing it. I do understand frustration though when academia acts like we know everything or just slings together a guess and makes it curriculum.
Like, Gobleki Tepei digsite. No serious archaeologist is gonna pretend to know what it really is, the whole "ritual gathering center" is a bit of a joke and a way of saying we don't know.
Another way of recording as much as possible even if it doesn't fit neatly In a category.
The history of the arrowheads called Clovis points show that it’s creators were at the east land of America in early days and there were younger yet still ancient Clovis points found in the American Southwest, in Navajo and Pueblo and other related Nations there.
Trade. Proof of extensive trade routes!
Interesting, I have a few arrow heads points I found years ago ( 70's - 80's) and a few my father gave me that he found on his early years ( 1940-1949) that were in SW united states' area New Mexico,. Very intricate details on each.