I don't understand why some are bragging about the kids performance. hello! give them the support they need. atleast these students happen to keep up with by there culture. i enjoyed ever minute of this... your parents should be proud of you. above all haven't you guys kept up with the news... some schools in our country have denied some students who embrace there culture to wear... speak and or attend just because there a tribe member... Segregations has started for some NATIVE AMERICANS so please applaud for these kids and show some respect. NOT all Nations get to do this in there schools....
Great performance kids! I grow up in boarding school on the rez from head start to 12th and have been singing and dancing all my life. Yes some people will frown down on these dances.. Only a few people these days have the knowledge to say when and which part of the ceremony is okay to dance in public.. So please support our young ones and educate them with your knowledge and wisdom of Dine' cultural and traditions. Ahó nizhoní...
I don't think old school traditionals would perform this dance at a basketball game. It's the public part of a longer ceremony. My grandpa was a medicine man and he told a story of healing a tumor in a man's throat that he got from simply not wearing part of his costume correctly during the yeibichei. As for what I personally believe: I approve of this video. I think we make things good or bad for ourselves with our thought. I'm just saying though. Old school traditionals lives were filled with many taboos about keeping stuff like this sacred.
Eugene Chee because da seasons spirits will be piss and not supposed to combine winter and summer season it’s dangerous and forbidden for us..I don’t know wat gonna happen to da season sprites..
This is a ceremony only for healing, why is published in public and 2ndly its only performed in the fall and winter. Abide by the rules that were bestowed on us and live in harmony. If you don't understand the meaning of the purpose of it all then we all pay the price . Like sin. Wake up.
+P.Anthony Lasiloo its sacred and putting on the masks would be disrespectful and it would mean discrimination against the Navajo and the Navajo Gods .. the masks are only worn during the ceremony even then youll never see it on RU-vid or anywhere else
Kim Guy Eh! I already know that. My grandpa was a dancer. Also its the same way with the Pueblo Kachina dancers. My point was that it would be nice to see this dance with the masks. Nothing more.
Smh Navajo culture is dead. The moment you see our natives imitating dances like this for the public we are gone. Sad to see. Do they even know the meaning behind the Navajo nation symbol. I don't think so. Sad!
our natives? we don't belong to you. The Navajo culture is far from dead. We are a strong, proud people who have endured what most would despair and give up on. Before you open your ignorant trap learn a few things first. p.s. you DO know the Navajo Nation is a sovereign nation, right? Dying? What the fuck are you smoking, brah?
Nah your gone with them "brah". Just drive through the Rez and see how many navajos are doing that dance and dress like that. And beside them type of dances are done only in winter times. Not for show or performance.
Your life is Blasphemy!! You must not be a blessed person since you ridicule our youth who have every right to conduct our Dances to bless our land and people!! What's Blasphemy is those circus tent revivals cluttering our nation and those NAC nonsense teepees!!!
