@@patrickisanavajo I had a duct car one time bumper duct taped back bumper the same it was a great car good on gas got me in 4 states. It was a beater kept on a ticking
Years ago I had a conversation with a security guard at work about "what's the point of having a dreamcatcher in your car?" Another guard walked by and without missing a beat replied, " that's in case the ol' lady kicks you out and you gotta sleep in your car"
I had an Indian car...rusted out Honda, 270,000 miles. It broke down in N. Dakota, one of the guys got out, burned some sage, said some prayers (in his language..eh ); it started right up and went another 100,000 miles!
I had a rez truck the woof rusted out when it rain. Water came thru .the doors were jammed it had 500,000 miles on it it smoke will bad had had to use 50 weight oil.
My little car was always full of my goats for shows, vet, breeding, or moving trained the goats not to potty in the car and to jump in on command. People called my car "The Goat mobile" I am Cherokee and man that car broke down every week, then had my fethers on my dash goat stickers everywhere then falls apart every time I hit a bumpy road. I guess I had a rez car without even knowing it. I was proud of my little goat car lol
My car broke down bringing home our first full buck. Hoooooooboy. We walked home 15 miles with that buck. Thank god he was the sweetest thing since nesquik.
Pumpkin Patch Exotics that’s amazing 🤣 I have never gone that far with a goat. The worst experience I had was when we tried to do hair goats (pigora) Boy were they dumber than a box of rocks. I had a doe in a big dog crate in back of our impala, she managed to get a hoof out one of the holes, and started screaming bloody murder in the middle of the highway right in my ear. Those things didn’t even last a year before we ate them for being too stupid to live. Wait wait wait, you in Florida? So am I! 🤣
@@jendubay3782 ya I'm in Ormond Beach FL now. Ya my goat and service dog chill next to each other in the cab no cages the slept most of the trip with their heads on my lap peaceful well till we had a wreck in LA then that was 8 hours of waiting till we got help. My goat was stolen soon as we got here. I'm starting over
Pumpkin Patch Exotics oh man, I am so sorry. I’m pretty far away from you, but if you need a ND, I got a doe pregnant, ready to kid in a few months. Floral City
In 1978 it was decided that we would take my 1964 Chevy Travelall that had been rolled a couple of times & had mud tires, iffy dealers tag, no inspection sticker, cracked windshield (we were in Denton, Texas so inspection sticker is important) to Ponca City Pow Wow. It was pointed out that 36 Indians could sit comfortably with extra leg room plus room for camping supplies & regalia. It had no inspection sticker so the guys left & came back with an inspection sticker on a piece of windshield. They found black electrical tape, taped it to the windshield & we were off. We went up there & back never got stopped & the Poncas gave all the campers commodities!!!!😍🤗 The old Chevy is a testament to Pow Wow cars & how they always get us there & back I loved that truck! Wado, Sgi
My granny had an ancient Dodge Rambler that maybe started some days and the back seat looked like two pit bulls had a fight in it. The car had been passed around through the family for years. She called it Custer. When asked why she would say," Cuz' this old car has had about a 100 Indians ride it and I plan to be the last." Ironically when she passed Custer refused to start and the mechanic said there was no reason why it ran as long as it did and it had no back breaks or 3rd gear. So Custer was sent out for scrap.
I had a car that was loyal, faithful and true. When I sold it, it stopped forever. Also told it shouldn't have been running. The radio should never have worked either. We rocked out.
Oh you made me remember our Rambler!!Lived in Pennsylvania. We loved that car but it was a hunk of junk.Broke down constantly. Remember going to the Drive In in it.💖
4:43 I'm a White Brit, 54 years old, and apparently I've been driving Indian Cars. PRO TIP: Get HIGH QUALITY Cling Wrap, for broken windows; it works great, as long as you wrap around the door part where the MIA window is, a bunch of times, and in WARM weather!
I had a 76 Mercury Zephyr... the best p.o.s. I ever owned. I used to visit my mother, and instead of stopping normally I used to hop out while it was still moving and let it slam into a large oak tree at the end of her driveway(she would just roll her eyes). It also had no rear passenger floorboards... if you rode in the back you had to sit cross-legged, it was like driving around with a bunch of monks! I miss that pile!
I'm from Germany. In the Moment I 'm laying in my bed with a fever(hope its Not the BigC...) Feeling very ill. But watching this Video made me laugh so hard, I feel so much better! Compared with my fellow citizens clean fine new cars , I drive a rez car too...i even have a horse quirt for a key chain for my "tin pony"...and the whole neighborhood knows when I return from work... Thank you for your great Videos... This is,what the world needs in this freaking days!😍😘👍
@@explorinjenkins349 LMAO one of my Apache Brothers was dating a Scottish girl and she took him to the Scottish games. He came back raving about what a good time he had at the "Scottish pow wow." 😂
Get well. I had covid 3 times. the first 2 I was really sick. Second time was horrific. Somehow I stumbled on Patrick's hoop dancing. Just instantly I felt better and spirits lifted. Hoop dancing literally kept me going. And the traditional singing and the modern Indian artist.... OH Yes. And the jingle dancing. Go to Patricks video list. There is one video that he is in and it is a collaboration. I watch it over and over and it is for healing COVID. These dances are powerful energy raisers and healing. Not to mention beautiful to see and the music beautiful to hear. Patrick gets credit for me still being here. Go watch. Watch one a day or more. Also be sure to get immune boosting herbs, Vitamin D, Vitamin C in small dose twice a day, 10 mg or more of melatonin, and whole food. I like Source herbal supplement called Wellness. Tincture or tabs. capsules not as good. Or grape seed extract, echinacea. I think apple cider vinegar helps too. get well. If I had listened to the doctors office and just had fluids and rest, I would be dead from the second round. Be proactive. Boost the immune system. I like Germany. Miss it.
My dad once told me--proudly--about how he put together a Toyota for $200. I asked my older brother about it later. He said "yeah, I remember that car. I remember pushing it when it would stall!"
We just got a bus (turning her into a mobile home/resistance aid unit - we got evicted in covid and are homeless now), and been working on her all day so this was perfect. Wela’lioq/thank you. When she first gets going the entire 40ft bus shakes like Ogijinew’s jingle dance 😹 First trip was 2 hours through Virginia trying to not get pulled over - lots of praying and singing and we got home safe. Gonna fix her up, but when it first happened I knew she was the one for me 🙏
@Catherine Hazur oh honey if the Creator wasn't watching over us I'd be dead by now more times than I can count. Being two spirit Mi'kmaq, trans, poor, and disabled means having to move every 2-3 years because of how aggressive the US is about killing people like us off. Thankfully listening to my ancestors and saving the sacred, healing the harmed, freeing all relations, and empowering the marginalized gets me through what imperialism tries to throw at us ✌️ Hope you're getting through 2020 as mntu 🙏 Be well 🖖
"Smoke Signals" at the movie theater, $5. Ten of us laughed until eyes watering... Everyone else blank stares while hearing, "you did that, you did that". And the giggling backwards down the road. (I broke the floor shifter off so had to get out, slide under truck with pliers to get from reverse to first, didn't bother around home.) Priceless...
Whoa.... You sparked a memory. The years gone by.... We living on my wife's Rez when we 1st got married. She has a training in Seattle so I met her the last day & we went to see the new movie Powwow Highway at a show house. There were only a dozen people. Only skins were us & another couple sitting back a little but on the other side. As the movie played the laughter came from us & the other couple then someone would kind of laugh when the 4 of would LoL !!!
I have to show my mum this video. The cars of my childhood included: 'If you open more then two windows while driving the roof gets sucked down.' and 'You have to hold the handbrake down while driving to stop it from braking.' PRO: One of the cars ran on love and praying, cause we always made it to a gas station, no matter how empty the tank pretended to be :) Thank you for this awesome video!
So, I am from a very small remote tribe. I played sports in the local public schools and like most kids...they tried to kind of pick on me. In general and it was fairly mutual, we laughed. We all named our cars funny stuff so they named my POS "canoe". We took out all the seats besides the drivers seat lol 😆 we spray painted "canoe" on the sides and we made our own sunroof. My first bad ass paycheck...I bought a black BMW. My license plate says "canoe 2.0" hahah My cousin still uses it 20 years later.
I love this channel ❣️! Your ability to laugh and have fun when the rest of the world is ANGRY about everything is awesome 👍! Thank you for sharing some humor with us all. You guys rock! 😂😀🤣
Those dirt roads brought me back to memories of trips to Mexico. The road, a truck, and all the kids holding on for dear life in the bed of the truck. Just our little hands vs all pot holes.
You know the song "Thunder" by Imagine Dragons? I live out in the country too where we have dirt roads as well and every time it rains the potholes come back. So every time we get those potholes back I sing "Potholes, feel the potholes. Clap clap clap clap. Potholes and my butt butt" 😂
Great stuff, guys! Kinda reminds me of the Irish sense of humor. 'Englishman goes into a pub in a small town in Galway, starts bragging about how wonderful England is. "On the estate I grew up on you could drive away from the house right after breakfast and not reach the front gate until lunchtime." Old guy at the end of the bar says, "Oh, that's terrible. I used to have a car like that meself."'
I can relate. I grew up with a “Mexican Car.” Doors malfunction, patches of primer, 12 people in a 5-seater, some saint or cross or a flag on the dash or mirror, the upholstery inside all mismatched... our most ethnic car had a metal window and the passengers had to put their feet over the holes in the floor so water wouldn’t splash in on rainy days.
That actually happened to my mom's station wagon when I was a kid. She drove about 10 miles back to the rez in reverse... most of the way down dirt roads.
I had to borrow my father-in-law's truck to get to work you started with a screwdriver then when you get to where you going you got to jump out real fast and put some boards behind the tires so it won't roll out in the street or over somebody
Maine Indian cars are special. I carry a "free" sign in my 91 Subaru, just in case. Last week, I broke down with six sled dogs in the Subaru out on RT 16 in NH. It was 12 below zero and the heater's broke.
I was riding a moped near Pine Ridge in 1978. Stopped at a store. Across the road a native woman could not get the car to start. She re-emerged from the home dressed in blue scrubs with a stethoscope around her neck and proceeded to open and close the hood loudly many many times in a row before mounting the hood on all fours and pressing into it repeatedly with one hand over the other. The CAR diopulmonary resuscitation did not work.
Love that song! I first heard it on the radio at a trading post somewhere out in 'Deep Rez' after driving (swimming?) miles over thick powdered caliche (blow sand). When I walked in the door (with Kuyi playing 'Indian Car' on their radio), the clerk pointed at the bread truck I'd driven in and said, "That must be an Indian car!". I answered, "I hope so, if it is it'll get me home!"
As much love as that beat up and not at all maintained indian truck gets in the comments; why does no one got kind word for that mans squeaky clean AR?
@@patrickisanavajo Every NDN I know has a name for thier car,my wife calls hers Kola,you know "male friend" in Sioux. They musta had some NDN's working at the car manufacturer's,cause mine came with a name from the factory "Grand Cherokee"!
Guy's this auto series brought back so many memories from my childhood, I had a grate laugh. Maybe my parents had more Indian blood than I realized. Especially the part about dirt roads my father often just drove where he wanted to go no road needed ! Often he would drive down a hill with no chance of driving bach up assuming he could go out the bottom . I remember moving a lot of rocks so we could get through. On many occasions.
I love Jacob’s little hand dance he always does 😆 always puts a smile on my face! I’ve been binge watching you guys for days. Thank you for the laughs and all the informative content you guys are putting out and for featuring other natives. 🙌🏼💞
Those are hilarious. 😂😂 The one abt you know whos driving up by the sound of their truck...I felt that haha. And was so cool to see MMIW being brought to light. Our sisters need a voice. ♥️
Horrors! I'm 72 years old but I think I drove every one of your 'Indian cars' when I was a teenager back in the day! I'm half Italian and I would cut a bouquet of Italian Sweet Basil for the dashboard, made the car smell great...does that earn any Brownie Points? Your video brought back a lot of memories that were funny after the fact back then...I can relate to the lack of tread on the tires, and I pushed so many cars out of snowbanks as a teenager that my Ideal Date was the Incredible Hulk. (My Mom despaired of my taste in men!) These memories are funnier now than they were back then. Thanks for the drive down memory lane...we used to stuff the little VW Beetles with however many kids we could without asphyxiating someone, I see that's still a thing. Thank you for posting, I haven't thought of those cars in decades. It's a lot of fun to see other folks still having the same trials and tribulations.
GREAT Show ALL!! 😂 I had no idea of "Rez Mobile" I rode shotgun for OVER Three years in a Geo Metro with duct tape and plastic back window😂My best bud driver Big Joe nickname "Tatanka"🐂😂I just need that sweet grass coverage😂take care stay elev8ed💚💨💨
@@Anits1989 It happened to me, I found a HUGE nest of hornets in the passenger side mirror on my Town Car, and my uncle is allergic so I wasn't taking ANY chances on myself! For the first few nights I chickened out, then finally I had to man up and deal with it.... A grown ass man freaking out over those lil angry bastards...they freakin hurt! But yeah I used my method to kill em all, it worked.
The duct tape and plastic on the driver’s side of the pickup truck I drove. I know what that feels like in the dead of winter. Also had to take a screwdriver to the starter to give spark to start.
I really enoy watching your videos, I find as someone who grew up poor and in the country that I really relate to a lot these experiences. Although I myself am not Indigenous, I'm living on unseeded territory and am always trying to learn and take time to hear the stories and experiences of this country's people. And its videos like these that I relate to the most
Currently i have a car that has only one working door. Earlier this year we sold a 4 door jeep with only one working door (driver's) When our kids were little we went to Cincinnati with plywood covering a broken window! It was so much fun watching people laughing at us! Good times, good memories!
I'm so glad that I found this channel. This, the rez dog video, and so many others have had me cracking up because I relate so much, but I'm from the middle of nowhere in southern West Virginia. The Holler and the Rez have more in common than I'd ever imagined. From the long hair, being barked at and chased by dogs, a value for taking care of those in our communities, the four-wheeler riding, beater vehicles, and dirt roads and potholes, etc. And sadly, we also have a lot of the same problems, such as not everyone having access to running water or electricity, among many others. It's been amazing to learn and such a joy, the way y'all carry on and laugh reminds me of so many of my own friends and family. I can't wait to watch more from you guys.
My family has a tradition of seeing who's beater can tally the most miles on the odometer. My brother tallied 382,000 on one car, and I tallied 300,000 on my last car, lol. This video made me bust a gut! No cheating, you gotta contribute to 75k or more to the car!
Granma used to always get old cop cars...We had one that we put over 500,000 on it!....it leaked and burned a lil oil so we always had to put new stuff in...I bet thats what made it last so long!
i drive a 3 door 200 chevy s10, got it when i was 16 and im 29 now. i think my mileage is approaching 300k or it could be over. on its second motor( bought used) as i do believe it was a crank bearing that blew up inside the original motor. the oil looked like silvery shimmer nail polish. just got new brake lines, pads and rotors and drums. rear shocks have been shot for 6 or 7 years. the fender wells and along the bottom of the cab are rusting out along with the bottom of the 3rd door, the battery is toast, abs system is broken, one of the 02 sensors is shot, i think i lost a pencil from off my dash down an ac vent and now you cant direct the air setting. but she's still a good little truck.
I had a 1997 Ford Ranger and my friends start calling it War Pony because my INDN truck had different size tires and bald tires and was always getting stuck in the mud or snow but that little truck was tough. Also it breaks down but I fix it up and it would be running again. Also it had a camper and I used to sleep in it while I worked in the city, I always had buncha blankets in the back....I didn't want to waste my money on motels. Then in the wintertime I would sell firewood with it at Window Rock, AZ. It was indeed my war pony. I currently have three INDN cars in my yard which I keep saying "I'm fix them up one day" the speedometers read over 250,000 miles I drove them on the dirt roads alot which probably contributed to their demise. 😂
This was soooooo good .... lol ... still smiling .... But also thoughtful about the MMIW ... remembering the episode you had on that last year. I recently saw something about the many native women who have gone missing along a stretch of highway in western Canada ... I really appreciate how you are continuing to bring this issue to the fore. Also really impressed by the young man who was a part of the show Yellowstone. Such a talented one! Blessings ...
Some people have volunteered to provide taxi service. And community night patrols have been formed. I haven't heard any updates if these measures have been successful.
I hadn't heard of Yellowstone, but the ongoing tragedy I was aware of. Victimization of Indigenous girls and women is an epidemic that doesn't get nearly the attention and action it deserves.
some people out here saying that it's been a long time, and I'm just here like this feels like a real quick turn around. Feels like it's been a week, but time moves strangely in 2020
I am not native, but I think I had a minivan that qualified as NDN. Both front door handles were broken, so we had to get in by the passenger sliding door that would stick in the cold weather. The light switch for the headlights was held together by rubber bands and a paper clip. Def an A to B car for the whole family. Never used a coke or pepsi bottle tho- that was creative! Love you guys! Please keep doing these!
Back in the 70's, I helped my friend's father stuff a logging pony into the back of a Caddy with the seat removed and straw put down. Turns out the pony had lice. Glad I didn't go on that trip!
Thank you so much for the good humor Patrick and Jacob; it’s been a tough couple of weeks and seeing you posted today was a huge lift to the spirit! Love you guys!
The video with everyone rushing to get in the car reminded me of musical chairs for some reason. Especially since that one guy was left out. Lol! Hilarious though.
...nailed it. granma had to CHAIN OUR HOOD DOWN! in the old jeep cause people be stealing our batterys....and our CB...What does a city boy want with a CB though? they will steal anything.
Good song to come put on when you come back home. When the thunder is roaring, and the smell of wet sand from the blessed rain... yup. It's a must to play the original when you are driving to the home land ☺
YOU two!! Are such bright lights in this time and space...I am from Texas and NM and you remind me so much how I was raised...putting back positive into selves communities famiy and planet...and your hoop dancing is pure cosmic poetry!!
I grew up with kids from the Rez. So much of what you guys are showing brings back so many memories. Pow Wows, rodeos, all the awesome food. I love your channel.