What The Elders Thought About The White Man’s Language. 

This is a coincidence for me seeing this video. My grandmother was Navajo, born on a reservation near Albuquerque. She passed when my father was just a toddler so he never learned to speak the language (Dine' Bizaad). Now he's gone and I'm 64 years old and trying to learn to speak the language so my grandchildren will know some of it. And as a way to honor my father and grandmother.

My Great Grandma is still here, she told us a story where Government Officials (White People) were sent to the Navajo Nation to collect and send navajo children off to schools, but my Grandma's mother hid her in the Canyon and she told the white people she had no children.

Thank you, Mr. Brown. I appreciate all of the wisdom and encouragement you share with all of us on RU-vid. Thank you, also, to your Executive Warrior Producers. I love learning about your traditional ways and I am honored that you share them so freely. Love and gratitude.

The slow death of languages all over the world has always bothered me. I hope the youth listening to this might be inspired to learn their ancestral language to keep the fire of their cultures burning long into the future. We need the beautiful diversity and color in our world.

You Sir....are precious!!! Each time my grand daughter sees you are on a stream she points it out to listen to what you have to say! We try to find one of your words and the meaning for her to learn! Thank you! Blessings and peace always!!!

So beautiful... Such love...

Your teachings reminds me of the way my great grandmother was teaching my mother about our own culture and what happened to our people. Brings back so many beautiful memories. Thank you my dear Elder Wally for inspiring me with the same words that I heard over half a century ago. Blessings Always to you and yours✨️🙏🏽👣

Your Great Grandmother sounds like an awesome lady! You are so blessed to have known her.

My Dad was a big advocate of learning languages because it would give the student insight into different cultures and the people. He was a grandchild of German and Norwegian immigrants and he grew up hearing the older ones speaking in their language, and so he learned those languages. He had an ear for many different languages and even learned to read in many others. He loved to study origins of words, language, cultures, and anything that would educate him about people. He strived to learn about the Saami people of Scandinavia, but I don't know how much he really learned. Sadly, he's gone now and while I tried to appreciate and learn about our histories, I don't know that I truly took the interest in it that I should have. Mom still has pictures of his family on the Norwegian side from the late 1800's/early 1900's and many of them are dressed in their traditional Saami clothing. Thank you for your wisdom. My hope is that one day we will all be able to speak each other's language - Not necessarily verbally, but living with understanding, love, wisdom, and change.

This is lovely. All Elders should encourage children to learn everything they can. Anything that gives them more information is good for the mind and for the spirit.

Thank you Wally for you beautiful wisdom, I can not wait to buy earrings and bracelet thank you😇🦮🐕🥑🙏💙🦌🦚🌻🌲🌠we live you Wally, your fans and friends near fort Tejhon ❤

Great honor to the memory of such a wise woman! May the memories of her wisdom live forever!

i wish more of our younger Navajo Generations watched/supported this channel more, very valuable content.

Just as it is important or good to learn other languages, it is important and good to keep and understand our own cultural languages. This makes for better and more meaningful communication. Thankyou for inspiring us! Peace & blessings...

I just saw your medallion. I love your teachings even though I am not Diné. Thank you for your service, as an elder and a Marine.

I love watching these videos. It is very important that these stories and traditions need to be preserved and understood. Thank you once again for sharing this with us.

So wonderful to have knowledge and memories of Great Grandmother. I lost my Grangmother just a few weeks before being born. She had 10 children that lived my mother was number nine. And even though my mother had had my brother 19 years before me 2 after. She had me quite late in life. My grandmother who is blind by this time, spent so much time with my mother telling her about what to do when she had me. How to talk to me from the day I was born how to handle me what to teach me period even though my mother had had three children, one grown already. She said this one is special and is going to challenge you! I don't know if she said it because she was so close with my mother and she knew she was leaving. Or that she knew something about me that was special. My mother did such a good job of teaching me about my grandmother, even my great-grandmother. I don't have any of them now. I find it so amazing that somebody was born young enough to the women in their family to have met the generations before and to have learned from them. This is making me tear up too much to finish. Thank you for sharing your story. Your great grandmother was very wise!

Thank you Wally from my heart ❤for your constant love guidance presence healing clarity innerstanding patience peace 🙏🏻 your teachings are so very important I appreciate you!🌄🤗🥰

Mind, body and soul. Knowledge is important for everyone. 👍💙🌎

What a blessing to have a great great grandmother say such things...ty Mr. Wally Brown!

Thank you Grandfather your knowledge is great as is the knowledge of your ancestors. Jim BCC AZ

Thank you wallie brown,for being so helpful and kind,hombre grande.🖐️

I really appreciate you sharing your stories and time with us. Many blessings be upon us all ❤️

A great thinker once said, “Reading and writing is equivalent to thinking and if you can think, you’re intellectually “deadly” and can achieve anything.”

Thank you for caring enough to share your Wisdom. I hope that we are worthy to receive your teachings.

Wow Grandfather! Knowledge gives you strength. You are strong very strong! Jim BCC AZ

Excellent video! Today, the English language has preserved many of the teachings and customs of the tribal nations throughout the world.

Very wise grandmother.

My grandfather asked his father why he didn’t teach him German? “What country are we in? Learn their language.” He had beautiful handwriting. Thank you

WALLY YOU ARE A NATIONAL TREASURE I COULD LISTEN TO YOU FOR HOURS

Thank you for sharing the sacred knowledge

Thank you Godfather Wally this hit me very hard as my Great Godmother also did the walk ..She was 4 years old and had her brother and sister and her Mom and Dad..I met my Grandmother when I was around 4 and she passed shortly after..I know now that she passed on some knowledge to my Mom who tried her best to pass it to me..

I appreciate him sharing his story, we should also learn to speak their language because it is a beautiful language and in the way if there ever comes a time then we can relate to them in their own language and speak with them in their language.

When I see a video with Wally, I click! This channel is so informative.

Wally Brown one of my favorite teachers🙏🏻💚

Truley an amazing human being. Much respect from Wales

Thank you so much brother doing this incredible work to preserve these precious teachings from your father before get lost.

Yáh'ah'téh shí cheíí what you said sounds like a good prayer I will listen and I'm sure it will soak in "Education is the ladder tell our people to take it" Navajo Chief Manulito

I love the way that you were taught to put those words in your mouth, taste it and eat it!! Giitchi Miigwetch! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!

Thank you Elder for sharing. Yes, I'm white but I listen to your words and respect your truth. I shared this teaching because so many children can't read cursive today. The internet is an on off switch away . But knowledge that we use can not be lost.

Thank you, Elder

May the creator bless u for your teaching ✨

👍 The two main things I wanted my child to learn was to read and to swim.

A wonderful lesson... Thank you Mr. Brown and Shane...

Thanks for taking the time to help everyone.

One of my best friends told me how English is the most expressive language in the world. I told him "That may be so, but we Americans don't use it to full effect these days." Good thing we both love learning different languages. I don't know the Navajo tongue, nor the Diné equivalent of the phrase, but I hope the Navajo tribe (and all other tribes) be blessed.

Thank you , Uncle Wally! 🌵🕺🏽💚

Passing of Grandmother I Thank you for sharing these teaching 🌻🐝✌️💞🤟✨️🧚‍♂️🙏🏾💗🦉

Hi Wally, I enjoy listening to your teachings. You have a wonderful way of conveying your traditions. I was wondering if you have ever heard of the artist Warner Eliphelet Rollins? He did alot of native American art. Especially with the Navajo nation. He died in 61 in Winslow AZ. Peace and agap'e

Thank you Grand Father and Grate Grand Mother.

You are so right. In the world we live in it's tragic that so many children and adults can not read. There really is no reason for it except teachers and parents no longer take the time to make sure kids learn how to read, generally speaking. That doesn't apply to all teachers and parents. What happened to No Child Left Behind? My Mom and Dad read in bed every night before going to sleep. That has passed on to me, my children and granddaughter. I was the "poor" kid growing up. Though my classmates never made fun of me, I still learned at least 10 new words and their definitions every month during summer break at Mom's encouragement. She said that way no one would ever be able to try to talk down to me and she was right. I've never considered myself to be poor. I have always considered myself rich because of the way I was raised. Thank you for sharing and reaffirming that knowledge Elder Brown.~APRIL LIPKE

I do So enjoy the time I spend here. Wasté Lo--Mitakuya Oyasin

And the gentleman from the volunteer state thanks you for sharing sir...

Beloved brother. Honor family everyday. Grandma...Sacred OWL WOMAN

Thank you, Mr Brown. Always enjoy your videos.

That is very generous cultures learning other langauges and civilization is great. Olga from Greece

Great message! Just last week my 19 year old son asked me what was the pound sign! I laughed and said I supposed to you that would be known as a hashtag 😂

Thank you so much for these precious teachings, kind Elder. Truly golden wisdom. Much appreciated. 🌹🌼🙏🤗

Thanks for teaching an sharing your lives with us. I am grateful for this honor as you don't have to share anything with anyone but your own!!! Thanks for sharing with us grateful ✌🏻💗😊❣️

You mean so much to us all. We love you more than you know

Thank you for sharing 💚

A beautiful teaching… over delicious food. Thank you.

Your great grandmother was a genius! To speak several languages is hard enough, but then to make them all extreemely complex languages? Thats insanely difficult.

Thank You Wally.I love your teachings and truly appreciate your wisdom.You are an amazing soul.We all need to know the truth so to learn from that.You have yourself a great day.

Very cool teachings, by a very cool teacher!

My father in the late mid 1970s went to the Navajo nation near Holbrook Arizona. He was taught Navajo and spoke it fluently and taught english as a second language at the highschool as well as christian missionary work. He passed away when i was 8, but if he was still alive im sure he would have taught me Navajo so we could speak to eachother. He loved working among them and their culture. Thank you for keeping this alive and sharing with us.

Thank you Wally and Shane for sharing your knowledge. And also for sharing this in Englisch with all of us 🙏

Thank you, love the 100-2 hands take heed about a person who loves you with only one hand 💕😋

This is good history lesson of your family. In today's world too many young children and teen can't read because of the internet and the short cut symbol reading. and their face is always down on their cell phone. It makes me whenever I write a short message inside a Birthday or Christmas card to my niece in cursive and she looks so puzzle. We used to call it writing, but she and others thinks it so weir. And they get accepted to collage very easy. Responds to my card: "What is this no one does this anymore" and that about it and never just a verbal, Thank You.

Thank you for sharing your wisdom of the Dine. I really enjoy your teaching and stories.

Thank you! Semper Fi

Thank You so Much for sharing Your Wisdom and The Wisdom with the World: Many Prostrations and Eternal Love and Reverence 💗💗💗🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽💗💗💗

Thank you, you’re wisdom, and I love that you speak your language then give meaning as one day I’d love to speak your language and understand. Growing up we only got to pick french or German at school.we were limited and had no choice. Grateful now we have people like you to open our minds to the beauty of a people. ☮️

Beautiful thankyou, if only the words & associated knowledge (languages) of my non English grandparents had been passed down. What a wise great grandmother you had🤍🤍🤍

🙏 never stop learning

I love your uploads. I find them truly enlightening, and they give solid, understandable guidance on how to live a life of truth, dignity, and spiritual fulfillment. Not to mention how important I feel it is, as a white American (who regardless of having family roots in this land back a couple generations on both sides, remembers that we are the real immigrants to this continent), that it behooves us to at least have some knowledge of, and respect for, the vast continent of different technologically and spiritually advanced cultures that already existed here for thousands of years before any white people arrived (and caused the irreparable harm they did). There is an unknowable amount of knowledge which has been lost, of course, but I am grateful for all the teachings which have survived and continued to be passed on so that those of us now and in the future may expand our horizons and become better people.

we are lucky you have gifted us your teachings..A'he'hee!

I am so glad you teach me. Love to you.

Infinite ♾ flowing gratitude 🙏🏻

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 give thanks for the literacy message

Thank you.

❤️

wally you saved my life! 💛🖤❤🤍

This advice is so important. I have an English background yet we do not actually understand our own words. Linguists talk about language as a dynamic, changing entity but I don't see it as language transforming, instead I see it as language being lost. We don't even really understand the meanings of common words. We are not taught the roots of words or how they came into being. I can't understand a book written in English 100 years ago because it is such a different dialect. Languages should be taught, shared and cherished.

I love you Wally brown

That because of bad treaties. I'm proud of my elder .. my uncle was professor help Kaz write their words down first time.. He had a passion for that.

Grandmothers can always be the wisest ~.♡.~

MINHA GRATIDÃO,,ahoww 😇😇🙏❤

It’s been truly a pleasure watching these videos. Thank you for sharing more of your great wisdoms here.

This is so amzing! thank you for making this channel, ive always wanted to learn more about native history and the native way of thinking . so thank you

Thank you for this message we receive it with your love and we love you 🌈💖🕊🌏

Thank you my dears ❤️❤️❤️🌈☀️ God Bless my dears 😘

I find this teaching to be true as well, also for other languages. Peoples whose native language is English should learn another language as well, to just understand that there are other cultures than their own.

Sihasin - Don't You Ever Give Up A song finds you? Sharing what i love.

Very wise to learn another persons language, so that you can understand them and get an insight into their true selves and only take what is good, leave the rest and keep learning

This resonates with the way my father taught me so much! ❤️

Hello! Good night! Buenas noches , Mr: Wally Once again , thank you For teaching to listen yours experience

I always enjoy your videos and wish I could meet you or some other Native elders some day. We would have some interesting things to talk about for sure. Glad to see more uploads from you again friend.

I sooooooo Love Native people **** The stories are road maps to a TRUE way of "Being" My children are Native Americans *** I am sooooooo very Blessed by the Wisdom of the teachings & way of "BEING" = they are true Guides Of "DIVINE CREATORS" HEART OF "BEING" MEGWECH + Thank You wise ones .

He is a very wise and worldly man, listen up.