No joke. Watching your videos has become part of my kids homeschool lessons. This Tuesday we will be making your fry bread tacos. My four year old twins adores you. My 11 and 8 year olds are fascinated and love your lessons.
That is awesome! It takes an awfully wonderful mother who opens the virtuous doors of learning to her precious little ones too. Tell them “Happy Valentines Day and NAVAJO Grandma sends her hugs and thumbs way up for being teachable.” Love you all. Navajo Grandma
Rebecca, thanks for the idea! I think I'll add grandma's videos and recipes to our homeschool lessons too! Great job teaching your children and instilling important values in them.
@@NavajoGrandma I had share this video and a few others with a friend of mine that is American Native. She doesn't know about her ancestors because she is adopted but still she wants to gain knowledge. Thank you Grandma for being the knowledge keeper😍🙋🏼 I love you too grandma!
Now we know why our ancestors spent the majority of their time grinding corn. My great grandmother still ground her corn this way. I have her metate now. In Mexico the grinding stone (metate) was the center of the home and the center of life so they would bury the umbilical cords of the children born in the home under the place where they kept the stone.
How beautiful to learn this from you. We all don't know each other's cultures and we are so much a like as we all are one family under God. I would like to hear some of these songs. I will look forward to searching online. Thank you for subscribing to Navajo Grandma, grandma sends her hugs to your beautiful far away Scotland. Navajo Grandma
The corn & grinding stones originates from natives in what is now known as Mexico. Our ancestors are connected. Unfortunately the borders separated us.
I am thankful we have these millstones handed down from our ancestors. What wonderful people they are and why we too are wonderful like them. Navajo Grandma
As you were singing, I felt a soft touch on my head, like someone was stroking my hair. I know it was an Ancestor looking in from Spirit. Such a feeling of love.
How awesome and tender. That shows how your spirit has clarity, goodness, filled with love and your ancestors can't help but come near to you and allow you to feel them. How precious. Navajo Grandma
I thought you sang beautifully! I got chills listening. I was not taught any of the Shawnee ways growing up so watching your videos I feel a connection to some of what they did even though we are a different tribe. Blessings!
Shana, thank you for that comment of Hozho. As we learn other cultures we come to appreciate and learn our own and start to implement them into our lives. Looking forward to hearing you do that. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
My ancestors in Scotland had working songs as well. The women of the family or community would get together and sing 'waulking' songs to keep the timing as well as to entertain while working the wool. My respect to you and the ancestors.
This is what I am hearing, how beautiful as we are really one family under God. There are similarities more that we will admit. Thank you for subscribing and pray grandma's teachings will help you in your life somehow. Love you. Navajo Grandma
Wonderful video. I'm a small farmer and I specialize in growing Heirloom corn. Bloody Butcher, Blue Hopi and many others. I harvest by hand, store and grind as I need it. I am so happy to see you show and explain your traditional method of grinding. People rarely know real work now at days and looking at the stones I can tell your ancestors had good upper body strength and were tough. Beutiful lesson thank you.
Are you serious! Grandma is looking for Blue Hopi corn on the husk, kind of like the thanksgiving decor, plus the bloody butcher and heirloom. I have tried Amazon, down home, just came home empty handed. My last blue Hopi corn is what I husked, and will show how to husk the dried corn as another teaching video. Do you realize these generations know nothing, ashamed my children only remember what I taught them, but not enough. if you gave two dried corn on a husk and asked if the person could husk the corn off the cob, they start banging the corn on rocks, using the fingernails, their teeth, smacking the corn together. I should have recorded it. Wish you had seen it. Thus, simple things like this are unknown to our tech, couch potato world folks now. Enough said. If you agree, here is my email, could I purchase some of the above but more Blue Hopi from you. I don’t want to offend you, but you are a Godsend believe it or not. I prayed and prayed that somehow I could get help finding what I have needed. Now, it is ok if you do not sell your corn. Be honest with grandma, I am a very understanding woman. My email is nativepreservation@gmail.com. Hope I hear from you. Big Hugs. Navajo Grandma
I will be happy to send you some corn on the cob as long as I can get through my seed orders. People pre-pay me for the heirloom seeds and I ship them. Let me see what I can do. I'm happy to just give them to you.
And I do understand about the lack of young generations not being able to process crops. I have ran Homestead and self sufficient classes at a local school. To be honest I am highly concerned for this younger generation. If this counry hits a couple road bumps they are really not prepared at all.
I just bought some of your corn on Etsy. ❤💙🤍 My roommate and I are growing Native Hawaiian plants on my rather steep slope. Most of the plants you see on Hawaii in tourist spots are not Native. But I really love corn and miss the Southwest and parts of California, so I am going to try to grow some here.
Kurt Thank you for being teachable, I know grandma doesn't sing very well, but trying to teach the culture to my posterity and you included. Grandma loves your kind comments. Love you always. Navajo Grandma
Same here, when I hear the old songs, I always tear up. So beautiful and I can almost hear my dear mother and grandmother's singing the songs. I miss them so much. Its humbling. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
What gracious thoughts of strength and wisdom. Thank you for blessing me and remember without you, I would not be Navajo Grandma, you are thus so important and grandma prays for you and that she is teaching you correct principles. Hugs always. Navajo Grandma
Thank you Lisa, it’s an honor to dress as such to represent our ancestors in this setting. It was an honor to grind the corn for sustenance. Thus I wore my jewelry and amazing how the women dressed when the ground corn. But thank you for your admiration. So kind. Navajo Grandma
Your heart ached because you miss and love her to this very minute. What a wonderful soul she must’ve been. Glad to teach you, so keep watching and learning. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
Bless the Diné people! Thank you Grandma! I am very appreciative to hear and learn from you! You're wisdom is a true blessing. I think everyone should learn these cultural teachings. So many of us have lost our community and family bonds and love for each other...
Words spoken with pure wisdom. I pray I can bless us all with the wonderful cultural knowledge of my grandparents, my NALI and Bizhi. Ahehee shi yazhi.
Thank You so much Navajo Grandma. My Grandma was Cherokee and I love and miss her so much. You have taught me so much about my own ancestry on both sides of my family. Cherokee & Choctaw. My Grandma raised four little girls in my family.
Grandma’s are the best. Thank God for grandmothers. My Bizhi taught me so much. Your grandma sounds like a super woman to care for her four little girls. Thank you Grandma for loving and caring for Clarice n sisters. Happy thoughts. Navajo Grandma
Thank you so so so much for these teachings. It is truly incredible what your family taught you. I am so grateful you put this out there for everyone. ❤️
I love to hear my Navajo Grandma sing! This episode is so interesting. I love that the women would sing to ease the burden of labor. I have never seen blue corn flour raw. It is such a pretty color! ❤🙏🏻
If we had to do work like that just to make flour I guarantee we would have more repect for the food we eat . It is so important for people of your culture to keep these teachings alive but I also think for those of is who are not native American it is also important for all of us to learn to appreciate these teachings. I am of Japanese heritage but I feel like so much of what I learn about my own culture has echos i Native American beliefs and teachings too. I recently saw they discovered an asian link in Siberia to native americans in the US. So maybe that is why I feel a kinship to your culture. Thank you again for another interesting video Navajo Grandma and BTW I love your jewelry!!! You should do a video on your skin care routine because your skin is amazing!
More love and hugs back from you dearest Elsie. I am happy to see you are watching grandma's videos and learning about our Dine' culture. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
Thank you so much! And I miss my Dine' grandmothers and Bizhi's who sang while there was corn grinding. It was a special affair that is not done anymore. Sad. Navajo Grandma
My mom and two grandmas used to can cucumber pickles and peaches every year. I was finally allowed to join them. My mom was convinced I was going to cut myself with the knife as I cut the peaches. My grandma (dad's mom) told her that it was going to be just fine. She was right. My mom's best friend made red chili and sweet tamales every year. It was so much fun to be part of it. There were all the stories and news to share among the adults. Of course, even when I was little, I would be talking too.
Oh TJ the best part was cut off. I was so interested and wow what wonderful memories. Remember these times as you just wrote to me. Keep them in a special book and how you felt, what you learned, who you shared this time with, anything else. Its for posterity and for yourself even on days we don't like. You will be surprised the joy your memories will give you. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
You are so welcome and yes, I hope you have your grinding stones for times that are coming when walmart won't be available for flour and other conveniences. Be prepared. Hugs from Navajo Grandma
OK now you have done it, grandma's tears are welling up and thanks to you I can't see my screen too well. Love you so much for your kindness and supporting grandma with her videos. Not Hollywood but plain old grandma.
As I was listening to your video, I had my headphones on as I’m so busy today, but was so excited to watch/listen to your video. When you started your song I was standing in my driveway.... it’s snowing heavy here.... it was the combination of your beautiful voice, the trees blowing in the wind and the snow falling upon me..... just a flood of tears.... very emotional. Thank you grandma for another beautiful video 💕❤️🙏
Trina, I don't know which of us are more emotional. You are such a good soul. Your gift is listening, which few people ever do anymore and the spirit does move you as you are allowing it. Its wonderful and real. Love your virtues. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
I love this video, and especially the way it links the hard manual labour of grinding corn with specific working songs, which helped keep the rhythm while working. The coming together of the entire family is found in many traditions: for example, I remember participating in the making of tomato puree every summer with my parents, sisters, grandparents, uncles and aunts. Also, in Irish tradition people from the community came together in what was known as a 'meitheal', to complete major agricultural work, for example when harvesting crops. To me, the sense of community, of helping each other, and of not leaving anyone out, is what really matters.
A Beautiful comment, that is the essence of our lives, living together, caring for one another, respecting each other, and more. I lived in the days, thank goodness, when this was common everyday and what joy it brought to all households. Their desire to serve each other was foremost and gave so freely with love. Miss those days. Your awareness of this and what your community did too is Godly. Blessings to you with hugs. Navajo Grandma
Absolutely!! I pray that we shall sing and take care of our families with joy that we are alive, that our lives depend upon God and we desire to do what is best daily, serving and showing our gratitude through choosing wisdom in all things we choose to do. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
I appreciate your comment as Grandma again is saying " I am far from being an IT Geek. But my daughter in law helped make this video with me. She is Raschel and is so talented but is more into mothering than with my videos. Which is excellent so I continue to do what I can to present my culture, traditions, etc. Thank you for being receptive as the other day a person named Christa something cussed me out for having lousy content that was awfully done so badly re: my videos, and how I am not a Grandma but just want to hear myself and into myself not others. In response to some private things I would not share with her. I pushed delete after trying to help the situation. So you see, tho she is not right, I needed to hear and read your kind comment. It's so appreciated. Hugs from Navajo Grandma
I am wondering as I answered this question a few days ago. Strange. But thank you again for watching grandma and hope you smile and enjoy and do things to create constructive things to do to get your mind off of home for the while. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
Oh my! Grandma you look like a beautiful earthy goddess sitting out on mama's ground with your gorgeous jewelry like that ☺❤ Your videos and lessons bring me such warmth and joy :) thank you so much for sharing your loving presence and wisdom with us, it is of inmeasurable value, truly ❤ And this video was so cool to me because I'm a latina, and like most latinos we are a mix of genetics with a strong native american lineage, in my case from south america and the grinding stones you are using are exactly the same as the ones our abuelas/grandmas still use to make corn tortillas or casabe (ground yuca/manioc flatbread) the traditional way in Latin America. We call those 2 stones a Metáte and it's a beautiful tool/tradition we inherited from our native ancestors. May God continue to always bless our beautiful abuelas/grandmas like you who keep the grinding going and feed us all with your loving nurturing nature. Hugs ❤❤❤
My Nali spoke spanish like no one's business. I had learned the Metate and mano when I was younger. Great comment and remain by my side and watch and learn more. Navajo Grandma
Thank you Kuuipo, I am happy to see you are receptive and teachable. Like your Polynesian ways huh? We all had to grind and work our backs for our food. Good ONO food yeah? My children are Japanese, Hawaiian and Navajo Indian. I know they love to watch but not too much learning. LOL!! Hugs wth aloha. Navajo Grandma
Oh Euphonia you are so kind. I wanted you to hear what the song was that was sung and it made me cry to remember my mother and grandmother's singing these songs. So precious. Remember your songs. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
Well I'll never complaint about the corn meal costing almost $4.00 again! My tortillas are always a hit or a miss. (they) don't come out perfect because I roll it by hand I don't have a Mexican presser. And for some reason blue corn takes longer to cook than yellow corn.
Wow, you sound like a wonderful cook. Just a tidbit, the blue corn is very dry and drier than regular corn, it just takes longer to cook but not much longer. Waiting makes it taste better. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
I really like that song I could fall a sleep to it if I could not sleep a very soothing sound. And I see why it helped the women grinding the corn into flour😊❤️
Thank you for appreciating and watching and learning. Thank you for subscribing as it is a blessing for me to share what culture I learned from my grandparents. I always pray each of you learn something each time. They are not perfect but its the teachings that I desire not perfection. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
Let's all turn off the news & tune into Navajo Grandma's channel! Thanks for all your teachings Navajo Grandma 😘 ( Your juniper berry video helped me save an old busted necklace. Now I know how to add new berries to this piece of special jewelry thanks to you!)
That rhythym of the corn grinding reminds me of watching mochi being pounded. The rhythym of the song with the grinding I'm sure helps create a better flour.
My next videos will involve defining myself, a sober one, then excitedly moving towards Grandma shearing a sheep for you all. This is an opener with videos on the weaving loom, rugs, carding and spinning dowel with weaving accessories. Its getting exciting to learn more about Dine' textile. Please watch and learn. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
You are right, and as neighbors I am pretty sure your culture helped mine and we shared recipes too even long ago. Of course our ancestors did. They found cacao in the ruins in New Mexico that proved many Conquistadors also brought chocolate from Spain. Interesting history. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
@@NavajoGrandma cacao is not from spain. If anything cacao is indigenous to the western hemisphere specifically Mexico, central america which used to be México and south america as well. The European Spaniards added sugar to it. Our ancestors drank it bitter or with chillis . So if they found it in new México it's because the indigenous people shared it with each other and it made its way north just like 🌽 Maize. Or after the conquest it was taken there. But spaniards didn't know what it was until they saw the Indigenous People using it. Just like potatoes, xocolatl again , tomatoes . Europeans never had it until the Conquest of what is now Mexico central america and South America and of course including the Taino brothers and sisters out east near the Caribbean. All those foods were cultivated in Mexico and southward before any where else in the world. Imagine italy with no tomatoes or Ireland with no potatoes.
I like your song. Our people in the mountains still use this to grind 🌽 in northern mexico its from volcanic rock. A labor of love to feed family. Happy valentines Day ❤
This is a great comment and yes I hear this same thing and I can't see how anyone can go wrong with the great food derived from such hard work. Wonderful cultures we have. Navajo Grandma
What do you mean, grandma could do a series on you beautiful women, so precious and dear and so learned in your culture. Tho I am Dine’ I love my Hopi cousins. Always. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
Laura, I am still at awe when I grind corn just the physical labor by my Bizhi who did grind every other day with my aunties. Then the finished product was placed in a washed clean dried flour bag for later use and hung in the shade. The singing did bring joy, plus the stories told, the laughter, while the women worked together which felt so healing and made me feel safe and cared for. Wonderful memories. Thank you for your lovely comment. Hugs, Navajo Grandma
Thank you for those goosebumps, I hope that meant it was good. Grandma is not a great singer but tries, Thank you for subscribing, watching and learning. Thank you always. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
It is so sad today, families do not do things together. That is why we have the problems today. My grandma taught me a lot,I wish I had paid more attention.
Well what's to stop you now. If family is close, have one, two or even have tea with your son & teach them something. A mini lesson about waking up as a child & what happened everyday in simplicity. Have them record you. That's a legacy right there adding your voice. A great start. Or write a letter to all of your posterity. One paragraph of your life certain times, food, worship. God, family prayers, trouble & how your parents handled it, or how they loved & cared for you. Be wildly creative & DO IT YOUR WAY, like Burger King. LOL! Love you. Navajo Grandma (never give up)
🎶🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🎶☝🌍....🌴 Thank You Grandma you brought beautiful memories from back home in Angola... 🙏 Our gratitude gift to you is the Muzika by Taboo.... "Zumbao"...😘
Simply Hozho, the ways forgotten by so many. Yes, I miss living in that community with my Bizhi and NALI the leaders who cared for everyone, brought the community together, we built Hogans for the newly weds, the elderly, patched up the hogans, foraged together, cooked, baked seasonal foods celebrated together, so much goodness together, none was left out. If old man or old woman so and so could not come, everyone brought food, fires there in their wagons, the smell of cooking, the conversations, the laughter included them, none was left out. The community was a big family. So much we experienced together. Happy memories. Those were the days my friend. Navajo Grandma
You think about how you just run to the store an buy a loaf of bread for a few dollars, then it's gone and eaten in a short period of time and it's no big deal. I can imagine working like this to make flour, the foundation for the food, and it having a different meaning. So important ❤. Thank you ❤
You got it. Appreciation, hard work and being grateful Walmart or the markets are close by. Nothing like it use to be. You just taught wisdom there. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
Thank you so much!! I loved hearing the women singing for each other. Then for their singing they brought their basket which was filled as payment. Simple lives, simple kindnesses, simple songs, simply strengthened the grinders. Community strengths. Life was simple then, we survived with Hozho together. Happy thoughts. Navajo Grandma
Do you know what a person looks like who bears an incredible gift and virtue being teachable? Well get a mirror and see for yourself what that person looks like. Awesome. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
I am amazed by the wealth of knowledge that you have, thank you for sharing your knowledge and culture with everyone and helping us learn too! Some aspects really remind me of my family (I am half Mexican), my grandma was super into her culture and would share it with me, I learned so much about art and food from her. I got sunburned almost everytime I would visit her because I am so pale, and she would make me go collect this plant from the beach and grind it up with some water and put the paste on me to soothe it. Aloe vera works too, and she did have that and we would use that sometimes too, but this was some vine type beach plant with purple flowers and worked so much better. Supposedly it works for jellyfish stings too though I never had to try that out, thank goodness!
Beautiful name, and a beautiful soul your Grandma helped teach. Wonderful memories you shared, I hope you wrote down. Grandma’s are wonderful. You live a long life, you learn a lot. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
Thank you for your kind comment. Its wonderful to know that life wasn't easy but through song we did the grinding and prepared the food for family not alone but together. It did bring joy to have the women come together to sing to each other and share the load of grinding with these mill stones. Happy times. Navajo Grandma
You are so welcome and thank you for taking your time to subscribe, to watch, listen and learn. Corn grinding is an art and when we don't do this as a daily practice you realize it wasn't easy for our ancestors. So appreciate those who have walked and prepared us the paths we now enjoy. Looking back is like saluting the dignities of all our ancestors. They were and still are amazing. Hugs to you Linda. Navajo Grandma
Thank you so much for sharing your song Navajo Grandma! It reminds me of my Apache Grandma and Auntie. I don't know my band because the Band Office was burned down. I think I am either Chirichua or Mescalero. My great grandma left New Mexico as a kid. But when my grandma and great auntie sings to me, it warms my heart. Thank you for choosing to share you voice Grandma, it warms my heart. Sending virtual hugs and kisses your way 💗😘
You certainly do grind the corn in Beauty. Your dress and turquoise are exquisite. Okay now Jan, focus on on the corn.......🌽🌽🌽 Thank you so much for the grinding vocabulary, and I so appreciate your singing this song. Modern woman are not used to this work but grinding makes our food sacred along with the song. I have never forgotten a blue corn cake I ate once because it tasted divine. I think about our modern world and how everything is wrapped in plastic, and we have no connection with our food and Mother Earth so it is easier to forget to be thankful. The only way to protect our planet is to rethink how we do things. Learning this gives me hope for our grandchildren. I so appreciate the warmth and love everyone is expressing here...❤ I am grateful for you....
Jan thank you and glad you were able to watch this video. Grandma is not an opera singer and it is funny to try to sing into a video whereas, in the reservation its a full vocal song that is open and meant. Making it here is okay but not the real on the spot singing to alleviate the hard work and the joy of being with other women, laughing, grinding away and sharing what is ground. Oh the joy and the delight in sharing is worth every back breaking grind. Happy memories. Navajo Grandma
@@NavajoGrandma I once bought a Navajo chant cassette tape. Now I am starting to be able to hear the words. Anyway you did a fantastic job. It is not easy to sing when you know you are being recorded. You are so natural and relaxed when you talk to us. I was in a hula group here on Hawaii and have learned Hawaiian songs to honor the island here. to sing when I go in the forest. I love learning chants.....
Another fine video! These are skills that must not be forgotten and I Thank You for helping to keep them alive. I hope it makes all of us more thankful to God for the blessing of the bounty our nation has.
I've lived everything you've told, I've seen everything you've said, I felt all fragrances too, the corn, the stone, the juniper! Grandma you're just amazing, you puting us inside up in your stories and that's great!❣️🌾 Thank you for one More Wonderful time❣️ I love you my lovely Grandma❣️🌈🌞🌺❤️😘
Johanna we need more wonderful souls like you. You are absolutely a good spirit willing to be teachable and taught correct principles and you absorb it. Ahehee. Your grandparents and your parents should be so very proud of you. Grandma sends her hugs to you sweetheart. Good night.
@@NavajoGrandma Yaat' ee abíní, Ahe hee Grandma, just like you, I think that the spirits close to each other attract and meeting, you is a blessing in my life! You are perfect grandma, you can manage and put together sacred things like JESUS our Savior and the millennial teachings Dine! This is wonderful because in fact there are no religions, there is everything that our CREATOR gives us so that we can grow! Grandma you're also full of lightness and do a beautiful work teaching us! Yes I was thinking about it yesterday, I almost can't focus on more than of the spirit issues, a lot of people like and focus on money on other things, but I can't, it's like something is inside me all the time lit and aiming at divine matters! I am completely open to absorbing more and more there than what is already inside me, things that no one teaching me but that I do and only after I can see other people doing, like smudge myself and my house and thounsand things more like this! Ahe hee Grandma Im already to learn só much more!🙏🙌🏼🙏 May GOD Bless you and Thounsand kisses❣️🎶🌈🎵🎆☀️🌔🔥💧🙌🏼🙏💋💋💋
@@NavajoGrandma Yá'át'ééh abíní! Ahe hee Grandma, you're also full of lightness and do a beautiful work teaching us! Yes I was thinking about it yesterday, I almost can't focus on more than of the spirit issues, a lot of people like and focus on money on other things, but I can't, it's like something is inside me all the time lit and aiming at divine matters! I am completely open to absorbing more and more there than what is already inside me, things that no one teaching me, but that I do and only a sometimes late, I can see other people doing, like smudge myself and my house and thounsand things more like this! Ahe hee Grandma Im already to learn so much more! God nik ihadlíi doo❣️🙏🙌🏼💧🔥🌔☀️🎵🎆🌈❤️🎶💋🌺
@@johanna9198 It is a true blessing to be teachable and I know there is a reason for you feeling like this. You need to fast and pray and ask Heavenly Father what is it he wants you to do with the desire to learn so much and that it is the spirituality that you desire and not the superficial things. How wonderful. Ask then tell grandma.
@Navajo Grandma, Ahe hee Grandma, but I really would like to have a more deeper conversation with you Grandma, to could tell you every incredible things, thats happened to me!❣️ ☺️🌈☀️🎶🎇🌔🌞🌟🌺🌸
Physical labor is true. Look how little I made and I had to sit down. whew! I do appreciate when I was young and we had a blast doing this. Thank you for your kind comment. Navajo Grandma
Navajo Grandma, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with this video! Your song was beautiful. I wish we could be a community like that, working together, everyone having and knowing their place. It seems like such a harmonious way to live. God bless you and your family, thank you again
Hi Kayla, what was described here is called Ke' and Hozho. It wasn't people knew their place, it was supporting each other, women supporting the hard work of grinding. Women volunteered as the end result also paid them a handsome sum of ground corn, as well as relationships in the community, women working and understanding each other, helping by singing to lessen the load. It was rather endearing. Some were hired but that was far in between. The community my Nali(Paternal grandfather) was a tribal council man for, always went out early in the morning on his Palomino Stallion, "Chogo," who together my Nali would announce or that word got around what was happening at who's house, and corn grinding occurred often and all wanted to gather, enjoy, help one another, rub shoulders together, etc. Also, the later it got everyone made food together and all ate. A wonderful community family affair. The good old days. It was filled with peace, beauty, balance and harmony as we all walked in beauty together, putting our should to the wheel together. I do miss those times and the leadership of my grandparents. Thank you for watching and your lovely comment. I am always happy to hear your heart and your thoughts. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
Thank you, so much for giving these lessons and tutorials. I tell ya our ancestors did not have it easy. But I somehow believe they were not only much healthier than people of today but also happier and content. Blessings.~ Debbie
My dear Debbie, your words are like the tongue of angels who speak perfection. You expressed this so perfectly. I so enjoyed reading your comment. I am humbled by so many of you and your amazing comments. Thank you so much! Navajo Grandma
My children are half navajo, but were not taught much of the their culture. My ex-husband did not live near the reservation and his mother did not either. The only person who still knew the language was grandmother Josphine. She didn't talk to me much, because I was the outsider who married her grandson. I wanted to know so much, so I could pass it on to my own children. It is sad that I don't know enough. She has passed away now, and so the language has too. Thank you for your videos. They are a link to the culture!
R Jelly, no matter, come and you are welcome to sit down, watch, listen and learn with your children. Grandma loves you and your wonderful wisdom to teach your children correct principles. Hugs. Navajo Grandma
