Thank you so very much, Sir ! I love your work and each presentation and feel so honored to be able to watch and learn and listen ! THIS SONG ! THIS SONG! I am exactly in the place right now where I need to sing this song with gratitude! I AM sTILL here. We are still here. I AM STill here. !! Megwhich !!!
Thanks! Your channel has helped me understand a lot since the pandemic. I'm still questionable about events that happen through out the day with family and friends. Either way Im grateful for where I am in my journey and send you and your family thanks for the support.
Say as it is, Ott! I'm a native trying to speak it. I learn and I'm young so, I'll learn my Navajo words, what really brought to speaking my language cause, when I first spoke I feel pourd like a light, spark in me. Also what makes me more into our culture, is the Yei Bei Chei dancer song, that makes me loving my own culture even more.
Ohh Wally, you are on we live you( all my animals love you too!! ) thank you for teaching us and I can’t wait to buy a bracelet or something from you thank you🙏😇🌲🔥🐝💛🐣🐥🐶♥️🐈⬛
Blessings from Mongolia. 🙏🏼 I’m a white American who wants to work with development policy but I come from a background of anthropology. I hope to find synthesis between Mongolian and US indigenous culture as not an informer but a driver of development. I hope to bring this through indigenous, policy, and anthropological methodologies (indigenous methodologies I find to be central to properly developing indigenous and non-western regions as looking at Mongolia, it is obvious that copying the US [or the USSR before] and becoming a primarily capitalist nation is killing their environment, national identity, and unique life ways). Thank you for having such an accessible space of learning. This is something that elders and academics alike need more to disseminate truth and knowledge.
It'd be interesting to link yourself or your nation's Dine wisdom keepers with my tribe's wisdom keepers. I'm half Dene from up north in the Northwest Territories of Canada 🇨🇦. According to modern mainstream archeological studies, the Navajo (Dine) peoples split off from the Northern Dene tribes around 1200 to 1000 years ago and began heading south after that, eventually settling in the area you guys are now. My Uncle Jerome speaks Dene (South Slavey) and in the late 1990s he actually went down to the four corners region where the Dine nation is currently. He said that he was walking down a street and overheard two Dine women speaking in their traditional language and he was surprised because he could actually understand most of the words they were saying even though the Dine and Dene peoples have been separated for so long. It was funny too because he said they were talking about him and must've thought he didn't understand them so they were super surprised when he replied in Dene that he knew what they were saying 😂
Even after all the despicable and horrible things that the U.S. government did to your people you still played a crucial role in world war 2 in aiding that very same government into victory. What a great example of courage, dignity and righteousness! May the Dine’ be blessed for all eternity!
We were just tying up the drum now when we noticed Wally's video about songs! great video before prayer songs! coincidence? I think not! I rarely sing prayer songs on Monday.... We are all always on time... no matter what your crumby watch says!!! LOL!
I was singing “Adele vice” while pulling weeds the other day... when I got to “ bless my homeland forever “ I teared up lil but it sure made me love the “work”
and edelweiss means something like preciouss-white, it is a flower in the alps that is very hard to reach, it is seldom, you have to climb an endanger your life in order to pluck it- young women used to ask young men to get it for them, in order to accept them as a husband-i hope this helps you in any way @The Rev. Dr. Dewnuttin Esq -this all plays in a land called "austria" (next to germany, in europe)
@@heymetwaly9235 well... the ‘weeds’ I was pulling here in Tucson were green with sparkly white leaves and blossoms. My mom loved the sound of music and some of her ancestors were German. But I am just a mutt that was born in Tucson😎
It is important to remember that original people coming to our country were escaping the rest of the world also. Native America is where we came for a better life. I don't have my family history details but there was some that came on the Mayflower. Native Americans are great people.
Most people’s around the world ancestrally had very tough lives, enslaved, etc. our souls can resonate for infinite reasons - this strange time of now can actually be a healing time up and down the line if we choose and intend it to be. Awareness, responsibility, action 🎶✨💛
my grandfather was German/texan and was part of the community that participated in that treaty you speak of.the only one that was not broken as I have read.may it continue.
thank you for sharing this i got a question, maybe somebody can answer me in my youth, i heard an indian song that will not leave my mind- it is curious because i am in europe, i would not hear those songs anywhere one day i was given a cd, a compact disk where this song was on it was native american songs and chants, for the life of me i can not remember the correct tribe that sung it it was called "devil-song", but this translation did not fit with me however, it went something like this: "heyaana heyaana..heyaaaana heyaaaana heyana ta ye ta ho heyana ta ye ta ha heyaana heyaana .heyaaana heyaaana" if anayone can tell me any more about this, i will be very gratefull, it does not leave my mind for 30 years now i tried to find it, but i did not thank you and many blessings, your teachings help me a lot in every day-life to have more joy, happiness, confidence and peace
@@zeropointconsciousness hmm.... it really sounded like "hey yaa na"....i will try yeha noha, it sounds really close, especially the "refrain"....thank you for your help
Thank-You Elder, Song(Music) is considered the Universal Language and it draws us all together in the 3 as ONE. I ask? Do your traditions speak also of Angels or Angelic Beings that are also the Creators own...
YOU GO AHEAD AND CHANT ALL YOU WANT. IT IS PART OF YOUR HERITAGE...there was a long time for the different Indian tribes, the u.s. government prohibited the pow wow,s and chanting here in America.. I say do the pow wow,s and chanting and war dances and whatever you want too. It is part of your heritage. I am a white man born and raised here in America. They need to do it under there rights, as free speech.. I,m for the Indian tribes here in America.. the past was the past, that's over and gone.. we all have the right to free speech and freely worship our GOD..
yes, but like the vid says here, it's NOT "chanting".....like chanting a mantra, .....it IS singing "songs", Sacred Songs....with words that have a very deep and special meaning.....
3:00 I really hope that the young man whom he heard singing all four verses has had someone record him - or at least make a note of the song’s words? This is a song from and for the survivors of an attempted genocide.
“The Creative is the strongest of all things in the world. The expression of its nature is invariably the easy, in order thus to master the dangerous. The Receptive is the most devoted of all things in the world. The expression of its nature is invariably simple, in order thus to master the obstructive” -iChing… Wally talks about how these songs were all they had in captivity and hardship… like the Blues and slavery. Funny enough too the blues and jazz became loved all over the world. Nazis loved it. Americans, all walks. No one could deny its truth. But they had to reconcile; “these people we deem less than human have created something we admire and can’t do ourselves.” Many denied that blues/jazz came from blacks. This talk made me think of all this. Appreciate your talks Wally.
interesting to note also, that the earliest roots of "the Blues"....REALLY was both, the African, AND the Native American musical expression...It's where Rock n Roll comes from too......The Rolling Stones, and even the Beatles, would never have existed, without that primal early foundation to build upon....
Greetings from Ireland. I am passing these teachings on to some of my fellow Irish people. We had a culture stretching back thousands of years, with wisdom very similar to that of the Diné . Much of it has been lost because of our desire to embrace shiny toys like smartphones and American multinational corporations. You are helping many people with this wisdom.
I just realized you are wearing a Marine Corps. pendant, so i just had to say thank you for your service, and happy Independence Day! I love learning more about native culture through your videos. I live in Arizona, so i think it's very important to know more about my native american friends through their culture.
Thank you so much Wally and Shane. This song keeps coming to me as I walk and I want to sing it. Most of my grandfatherʼs family were killed by Hitler during World 2 and only my grandfather survived. I feel a strong connection with this song and empathy for what your Diné people and other tribes suffered. The middle part often sounds different when different people sing it. There are so many layers to it. I think Radmilla Cody does a version in her CD ʼShi Keyahʼ with more verses. I have sung what I have learned of this song as I walk along the beach and pick up the plastic to make Mother Earth more beautiful as I walk.
Very humbling and nice to know such great enduring history and perseverance of what must be taught and learnt by such songs and words to heal the mind, body, and soul. I very much appreciated this Wise Elder
I'm drawn to these teachings, I'm not Navajo I'm white, a Greek and French Canadian born in California moved to Utah where I live today 59 years later. Thank you for your teachings.
I appreciate and know what came from the sufferings of our ancestors as a whole in the 1800s. But the history that led to the tribes demise has always been a question for me as a Navajo. My entire family's displacement began in the 1750s with the early Spanish settlers. Then, backing up further to 1580s when my ancestors coexist with the Pueblo in Mt Taylor, NM. Not many Navajo know of their family history. Thanks to the Catholic Fransican priests who documented their travels in NM, now archived in Mexico City's Catholic library.
Thank you for encouraging your young people to preserve their culture... as global capitalism destroys all human cultures and clollective memory, the world needs more people like you and those who follow your lead...
Thank you sir for the great wisdom you share with us. It is an honor to watch and learn from these videos. In your teachings, are there any ancient stories of Atlantis, the land swallowed by the seas? I ask because a lot of information shows a strong connection between Atlantis and the Native American people. Thank you.
Where can we find native songs like these ? Like Wally sings in the intro. Most of the time I find music with lots of reverb etc… Sounds too much « new age » to me ! Thanks a lot !
