Vanishing Ancestral Foods With Miss Navajo 

When younger I had big gardens. My son came over and told me I don't want beans. I had fixed green beans with small red potatoes. Fixed with real butter and salt and pepper to season. So, he ate a spoon full from respect of me cooking them. He said wow these are good. I said I planted them, God made them grow, I nurtured them till they grow to right size. Now enjoying what God gave us

Great to see Wally out and about, laughing and smiling with the young people. And of course Wally is right about the food. Modern ultra processed foods, high sugar content food, the way we use cooking oils, all very unhealthy.

Hearing them speak the native tongue was a beautiful thing!

I heard recently, that 60-90% of the standard American diet (SAD) has been ultra-processed. Most of the nutrition that used to be in our food has been replaced by preservatives, corn syrup, so-called seed oils, artificial colorings and flavorings, and so forth, all for the profit and convenience of Big Agriculture. And then we wonder why we have so many health issues...🤔

Miss Navajo is beautiful 😊

In 1986 I had the profound honor as Miss San Juan county to be on the judge panel for Miss Navajo nation (the title at that time). I am so pleased to see young women still participating in this contest and demonstrating their beautiful cultural heritage. Thank you so much for these videos ❤

People now days don't know you don't fish when it is to hot. A lot if the fish will have worms. Also the same for rabbit

Congratulations to Miss Navajo! Working in the USDA commodity food program for several years now, I want to mention Karo syrup was removed from the commodity package many years ago. Thanks to Native leadership involved in the program, we have much lower fat and sodium content in packaged foods, along with locally sourced fresh produce and frozen meats. People who eat commodities today eat healthier than the average American diet. There are also traditional foods being introduced, bought from Indigenous producers. Food you traditionall grow and harvest yourself will always be best, but commodities aren't what they used to be, if you need food.

Super Moon Rising tonight.. Beautiful heathy & bountiful Corn beans cactus & colorful assortment of chilie peppers & squash just to name a few staples keep us all strong for life!!! Traditional foods have sustained us since Time Memorial!! Blessings be too all Nations. Thank you .

It's overdue that you teach US the better ways to live ! I am listening and I hear you.

Your Voice is Healing for Me... Thank You

Excellent information! Native love from Portland Oregon

It sounds like you are describing ‘Pemmican’. Blessings to You and Those You Love ❣️

Love waking up and going to bed and listening to your wisdom to help start and finish my day, Ahéheeʼ Grandfather Wally 🙏💕

Wow grandfather. Amazing that you came out to share. We should all listen to what you have to say!!!

Full Moon Blessings Thankyou

I agree. I think we all must study the old ways.

Thanks for speaking of how our females play important roles through times of celebration and what is our definition of Beauty ✊🏾 ❤

So incredible to see the Nations preserving there language, their ways, and their knowledge! Such an important Culture to preserve, and the Life of "The People"! Thank you, Elder Wally Brown and Team~!

So great to see an elder speaking with young people in and out of their language. Thank you for sharing these teachings.

It was great having Miss Navajo greet me after finishing the Shiprock 1/2 Marathon! Aheèheè from beneath Dibè Nitsáá

Excellent information. Please rediscover the old foods and recipes. They were best, and we all need them today.

Yeah, you never want to lose your language or your pantry, never ever. That's where a people's healthy self-concept rests. I remember my mom telling me about things she had as a child the names of which she only knew in Napoletano. Her mom died young, so she never learned how to make them after she married. I couldn't search on them until I randomly ran into a video about how to make cicerchiata, and I still remember how much fun it was to make it with her. It's funny too -- when my grandparents got here, the government gave them information about how to cook "healthy food," and to stop using garlic and olive oil. Thankfully, they ignored all of it. Now, everyone sees the Mediterranean diet as a pinnacle of health! It's very heartening and optimistic to see all of the young people recovering and treasuring language and food!

It is very enjoyable to see this. Heritage is being celebrated and taught to the young so they might gain the benefits of the lessons presented here.

I have always wanted to go to the Choctaw Indian Fair. PS. I am not Navajo, but I would like to have a lamb Navajo taco and a peach drink one day. Just for the fun of it.

I can't eat animals. I have had fry bread at a powwow in north Florida, I loved the bread. There was a stand where they only used cast offs from animals to make things and made herbal soaps.

The same thing happened to the Tibetan people when they were exiled to India. The white rice consumed in India caused them to developed diabetes. The traditional Tibetan food is barley which is roasted and stone ground. Then you just mix it with hot tea or whatever. It's already cooked, so perfect for traveling. Do your people do a similar thing with corn? I think I heard that somewhere...

🇦🇺 I wish you every success in getting this very important work out there. 🕊🌹🙏

Greetings. And thank you for making this video.

Ahéheeʼ Wally!! you look very healthy yourself. This was a fascinating video. I. have noticed that some friends who eat sugar have a lot higher cholesterol levels. Healthy fats like avocados and olive oil do not raise cholesterol. Frying foods is unhealthy especially when fast food places reuse it and use cheaper unhealthy oils like canola. I have seen some healthy cookbooks lately by indigenous chefs.

My wife is Navajo and my in-laws have taught me how to butcher sheep early on in our relationship haha.Now we are married it's been 24 years now we have 7 children and her and her mom make the best fry bread yes this newer generation need to listen to the older people the elders have a lot to say they are wiser in their years and to keep traditions and life style of the Dine going strong I love watching your you tube my friend I wish I could shake your hand 😊

This must be my favorite channel. I would like to buy a book about the topics covered in this episode.

Thank you!

I never noticed his USMC pendant! Semper Fi. My ancestors that were Marines grew up in the Southwest, Arizona and New Mexico. My grandfather and his son on my mother's side; World War II and Vietnam.

Hello, Grandfather- I hope you are well. There is a revolution of health, food, understanding, and spiritual freedom taking place here in the UK. It is beautiful to witness and be involved in. Across the globe, there are many exciting developments occurring. People are waking up to the sinister powers that are destroying the Mother (Earth) and her children, we are taking back our power. It fills me with great hope for the future. Much love and respect. (Brother Shane, thank you for the emails 👍)

This needs its own series. This is the first step in becoming self-sufficient

🎉Thank you for Sharing from Great Grandma Begay and Grandma Marietta ....

Good for you on food health! I enjoy your videos. Thanks.

I love listening to your native language.

such a blessed video!!! Thank you!

Thank you sir for this fascinating topic. I deeply enjoy these videos.

Thank you.

Thanku Grandfather & Miss Navajo Ms Cassidy, friends & family for bringing out these basics. I’m a mixed blood native New Zealander & have seen all these issues here too. Kia kaha kia ū. Love to your grandson for his dedication too 😍🤩

When i was in the army i served with a navaho woman and i used to hear her speak to her family(someone named wally ironically enough)on the phone, ive been fascinated ever since, thank you all for running this channel

Thank you for preserving and persevering to this foretold Time.

This is so beautiful! Family is best when surrounded by food!

good teaching.

Thank you both. Very necessary information for all people around the world to learn about. We the People all over the world in all our communities and backgrounds are one family under G-d. It is past time for us to work with each other to preserve and share all the ways that all our traditional cultures had for producing and preparing natural healthy foods that preserved our health and our lives. Together we will prosper for our mutual benefit and preserve our families and restore all the people of this earth to our natural good health. It is not too late. G-d bless us all with new beginnings. Together we will solve our current challenges (aka junk food aka highly processed food, aka poisonous industrial seed oils, the excessive amounts of sugar in processed food. WE have our work laid out for us. Thank you Wally and Shave for your work excellent work on our behalf. We really are all in this together : )! Let's work together and change our world through the power of our kitchens and our unity! Dear Shane and Wally Brown as soon as possible I will increase my contribution. I truly appreciate you work on behalf of all of us. Shane I am a grandmother and I am not very cyber savvy. Please let me know if you find my contributions have stopped. I actually do not know where my automatic payments are coming from when they go to you? I would like to know Shane so I can be sure that you receive them without interruption.. G-d bless you and all.

Keep up the good work.

Hello miss Navajo 💐 thank you matua

Thank you 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

Love from Iowa. Thank you for the videos!

Non-native here, "white man". Ive thought of fry bread sort of like "fair food". At the fair, you try all kinds of foods that are delicious introductions into, sometimes, a whole culture. Like corndogs, like baklava, like gyro, etc. You try that one thing, then you get interested in the rest of the story, which is fantastic! I love me some fry bread, some commodity cheese from native friends, etc. But I am so glad to hear about "three sisters", the native practice of growing corn, bean, and squash together, how awesome! Why do they grow so well together?! Perhaps scientists might not even know the answer to the old old knowledge of "three sisters". Fry bread is a doorway, to me, and the world into which it leads is spectacular!

The talk of "reparations" should center on the native Americans.

I’m a certified personal trainer, I will come train all the native people!!! We’ll all get healthy together!!!

were those the peaks by flagstaff? love the creation story and all the knowledge you share!

Wally is 100% correct bout what he said about the foods we eat today and the probable necessity to remember the way these real natural foods were gathered and prepared. He said this especially in light of “the way things are going” and he is right.

a brilliant episode and good advice.

excellent episode felt great to hear folks speaking dineh language together nice to hear from the guests too and food quality, and food sovereignty are valuable topics thank you, guys!

god bless this

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Calling for a systematic change, I love it.

You are wise. I could only hope to meet you. Time is not my friend.

I would really like to hear more about the real traditional foods. I assume corn and beans played a big part? Or am I mistaken?

What an honor to learn the Navajo tradition.

Yes. Yaataah. I remember when my late sister used to make yucca fruit for us. I always wonder if anyone still makes them.

We have chosen comfort over our calling and we have to change our minds to be a healthier people as was our ancestors

👍🙏>>>💚--- Thank You

community is more important than ever these days

Thank You for another wonderful history lesson that needs to be told. I sure hope Wally is working on a biography, as the world needs one. or three.

Thank you My Elder. You have helped us much!❤😢❤😊

Pemmican was also a favorite in the past. Bless you!! May the Great Spirit watch over you. 🙏

One of the most important videos on the internet 👏

Hearing the language was wonderful.

Getting away from processed foods is the first best step! I ❤ U guys! I cannot wait to get back out there and fellowship with you all

May the Great Spirit bless you all and abundantly

Great show (we will go back the old ways/ the good path, only when we are forced to) sad but true.

Great video and very good info 👍

I see a specialist who is originally from Iran and he has told me that I need to only eat food that our tribal people ate because the food supply in the US is "not right." In my research and learning, I have found the link between the Eugenics program and the GMO foods which dominate the US food supply today. The genetic engineering program is Eugenics. I have learned about the effects of gene therapy and the methods used to genetically modify organisms and it is quite frightening to say the least. A huge effect from these experiments is the cancer prevention gene being turned off. These are not theories but facts that are occurring in reality but the enormity of it is just too much for most people to really comprehend and they choose to just ignore what is happening. Modern life also makes it very difficult to eat our traditional food because many of the seeds have been lost and other foods are difficult to gather and process. I live in the southeast and I am certain that acorn was one of our food sources. Acorn takes a tremendous amount of processing to remove the tannins. Another abundant source is dock seeds which can be made into flour and the roots were traditionally used as dye for the cane in our baskets. Black walnut is another traditional food but the black walnut trees have almost been wiped out here. Pecans are plentiful. This video is a reminder that I need to heed this advice.

I was a young man when my grandma taught me how to make it. Because I was a outdoor kid always horse back riding and hunting with fishing also. So it was a good snack.

Thank you sir.

This is so important and topical... I have been ill with Asymptomatic Pneumonia for about 6 weeks now - I can't help but think it has something to do with the food I eat... Thank you Mr. Brown AND Shane! Thank YOU...

I am glad you are talking about this.I began getting involved with your people in the early 2000's and participated in the pow wows and expected to see healthy traditional foods and was shocked to see the unhealthy food there like the fry bread.At that time I then realized they were eating what they were given by the government and still handed down these foods to generations. I am enjoying your lessons,grandfather

❤ Prayers for you to regain your old ways of wisdom.

Wally your endearing truths that you share are so very important even for those of us who aren't part of the tribal people like the Dine. Our white ancestors ate more healthy and loved lived longer due the simplicity of preparing food. The industrialization of food is the biggest problem that continues to support the medical and pharmaceutical industries that want to maintain the sickness and not cure it, the wild natural means our ancestors lived by has been lost and we are not talking about very long ago 3 to 4 generations or prior to the industrial revolution I believe most humans relief completely on a different lifestyle then of course this modernazation of all things. I appreciate your kind gentle way of sharing and to me that jus is loving one another reminding each of his own histories be blessed dear brother I have moved from California to Colorado and now settled in Indiana where my sister lives and life has settled down much less stress and hardship is finally behind I traveled several times through Yuma going back and forth thought of you etc. Seriously I wouldn't want to ever interrupt or be a burden I would love to meet you and shake your hand, your spirit is genuine and true. Thank You once again very much needed to our human family that we share these things with the next generation even more so the way things are today.

Thank you for sharing some of your culture with us.

I watched a documentary about Indigenous Australians, and the health issues they have because of changing to a Western diet. One person decided to eat ancestral food and his health immediately improved. As Wally mentioned, different plants grow in different climates. Eating what grows in the area you live is common sense and how to be heathy.

Native language oldest form of communication in the U.S....amazing

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This was a very excellent video! I really really enjoyed this one. Yes, we cannot put things in our bodies that are processed, filled with the fat of the animal, the various cooking oils like vegetable and canola and that, that is simply not good to eat. It leads to obesity, High Cholesterol, Diabetes and a whole lot of other health issues. Olive Oil, Sunflower oil and such is best, even avocado oil. I also really enjoyed hearing you speak with the very lovely ladies in the native tongue. Just beautiful, thank you 💕

Thank you 💖🙏💖

Wonderful video! I have always wondered what Native American people ate before colonization since our food is sadly not even real food anymore. I started "de-colonizing" my diet some time ago, so I am happy to see others thinking about this as well. Also, recently I discovered another delicious Navajo food at the Hubbell trading post - steamed corn. It smells delicious when opening a bag of it. Based on my understanding, you may store it for a long time, and has all kinds of nutrients including vitamin B6.

I have a fixation some a obsession on tiara's and crown's 👑 why is that, 🤔 and a few other things as well. That tiara is 🤩😍🥰🤤😋

I found my brain and body to work much better when I did not eat pork. I tried the ancient Hebrew diet for a season, and now i stay away from shellfish too. I would love to compare Hopi, Lakota, Navajo, Pueblo etc. menus. One of the biggest thrills of my life was realizing the holy days were celebrated all over the world on the same days! ... Merry Messiah Gathering 💛😉

I would love to hear more about the foods, so interesting, thankyou.❤️🥰

Im european but I really enjoy your channel!

Keep up the good work on this issue, people will come back around.

We ate dry shredded jerky, added wild onion, and chile wrapped in tortilla. Summer sheep camp food in Smith Lake, NM / Continental Divide.

Thank you 🤗

Food culture and material culture are essential elements in preserving a person's ancestral legacy. Enjoyed watching this.