Navajo, Diné, Indians of New Mexico, Arizona,1945 Documentary

[@lonewolfgamingplus379]

I love looking at my people in the past. To see how it was to live in that era. I'm a proud Navajo and I feel so I proud to be Dińe. I'll try my best to keep my traditions alive for the future generations..

[@H3DG3xC043]

I'm navajo from lukachukai , everybody saying our culture is dying out is wrong, everybody here including the kids , can speak and understand navajo and for the most part still make a living off the land, it's the people that live in the city that are uncultured and are ignorant to think that our culture is dying out , believe what you want but if you don't live in the deep Rez , don't put our people down because you left home to go live a lazy life in the city

[@roberleneb.5702]

lxH8xURxFACE ha ha! 👏👏👏

[@panos..1063]

lxH8xURxFACE my friend you are the original american. For me you are my favorite people and you will live forever because you are gift from the heaven. Love from Greece my friend.

[@TheSKINNMAN]

lxH8xURxFACE Yá'át'ééh

[@soonermimi53]

lxH8xURxFACE I am glad your society is flourishing. It's sad when an old culture gradually dies out and the children don't even speak the language anymore. Don't let the whites take away your lifestyle. They have already taken too much.

[@chuco1336]

lxH8xURxFACE you right vato my daughter's are Navajo and Mexican Indian speak Navajo, Spanish, English, and nauatl, and understand all , my wife is Navajo and I am mexica and Spanish from my mom and father full blood mexica . stand proud .👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@lindatyler1784]

So much can be said about this documentary. It is a wealth of information about Navajo customs and about social bias. I was fortunate to have traveled these areas as a pre-adolescent with my family and to see much of this in the early 1950's. The narrator is so typical of the condescending voice of 1950's TV. I hope you will point out the fallacies, biases, and any early travel experiences you can share. We have come a long way in 70 years and have so much farther to to go for all social injustices. ENJOY!

[@ibgeorgeb]

I’m an elderly Navajo and remember this way of life. They are fond memories. Thank you.

[@hilarylawrence4588]

My husband and I went to Window Rock when we went out west back in October. I have chatted with Navajo a few times in the past and have always been impressed with their hospitality. They seem to enjoy my attempts to speak the few words I've learned of their language.

[@lucyslick1242]

I am actually the age 20 and my family loves following the old tradition, Still cutting wool with shear cutters, building fires in stoves, and doing our morning prayers. It wasn't until 5 or six years ago we got running water or electricity, to be honest I still miss hauling water and using gasoline lanterns and etc.

[@2287jan]

Yahateh Lucy Just build a Hogan and put the woodstove in there. No running no h20 and use kerosene lamps. Battery operated radios. That's what you call HOME.

[@hogwash9703]

I'm only 1/6 Native American (Shoshone) an plan to spend my soon-to-come retirement in a passive solar home made out of adobe and sandbags and a wood stove in the mountains of New Mexico with my little flock of sheep, a couple of goats and chickens. I want to teach my grandchildren how to garden and care fo animals.

[@chuco1336]

Lucy Slick hell yeah all the way to peebody and wait to fill !

[@patriciawedel9363]

My son Robert and Leilani who is Navajo have two daughters Shannah age four and Kahless age two... I love all four dearly... Love, Grandma xo 2016

[@terriynjonez8295]

Yeah, I'm Navajo too. It's true our culture is dying. Hardly these Young ones r not speaking their language nor do they practice their traditional ways of life & if they did there would b peace among our Nation. Too many r on drugs & too think if they cud listen to black music songs so called rap that wud make them bad & powerful. A very misleading ugly attitudes that developed among them. I do my very best to teach & tell my kids do not be in a position of a some kind of bad disrespectful attitude. I tell them we r not black Street ppl. We r Native American Indians have respect for every Nation, but not develop their bad ugly attitudes from them instead teach others w/respect. We r suppose to b @ peace Nation & we r not! It's the truth. Thank u for Ur time 🥀🍃🥀🍃🥀🍃🥀🍃🥀🍃🥀🍃🥀

[@marshmallow7640]

This comment is very racist “black street ppl” like bro, that’s disgusting of you. I’m Navajo and black mixed and attitudes like yours are gross. Rap is not just for black people, neither is the “ghetto” or the “streets”.

[@dezee_0]

I was raised in Window Rock and OMG it looks so different from now it looks more wider then crowded (ToT) Glad I got to see an old video or how it looked back then 👍 Looks exactly how my great grandpa said it looked like 😱

[@93RGFMV]

Commentary side this is the best footage I have ever seen. Its amazing to see what my grandmothers have done 72 years ago and then be able to grow up watching them do it. Very strong hardworking women.

[@persuethedream9862]

If you watch this in its historic context this video is informative on two levels...1. the point of view of whites to natives expressed in post WWII documentary style and bias. 2 the living history of the Dine....watching the mother wrap her child was a treat! for example....preserved on film. Thank goodness someone did. Very glad I stumbled on this video...will be back to study...maybe with the sound off next time :)

[@charlesstepp2083]

Racist. Euro-American is the correct term.

[@saylaveenadmearedead]

Sound off video is my way to ascertain the quality of the content!!! Long live Dine!

[@joeguzman3558]

My grandma was an Indian and i remember as a little boy helping her when she made blankets

[@TheRobdarling]

It's better with the sound off.

[@JudoJohnny]

Rob Darling indeed

[@mon21420]

Makes me proud to be Navajo

[@nibiruresearch]

The Navajo tribe is much older than we think. They left us important information about the past of mankind. In their sand paintings they show us the appearance of Nibiru and the seven world periods that are caused by this appearance. In the book "Caesar's Comet = Nibiru I tell the whole story.

[@SkyandQuill]

Ad Roest i found out that i am navajo pima flat foot clan and i have psychic connections in dreams. I had a dream about nibiru. I have dreams about the desert lanscape where they lived, when I was a kid I used to make those indian singing sounds hiya hiya haya. And my real name is derived from navajo words. I have this weird connection to wanting to be in canada and the north west. I actually got to live in BC canada shortly and I lived in WA for 5 yrs where I have archiac dna in WA and also in Montana. So i at least got to see some of my ancestors homelands. I still need to go to cali, arizona, and new mexico and mexico

[@ententanz0162]

There is no highway to Mount Everest. It isn`t always an easy to climb up. But the sight from the top compensates for all the suffer, troubles and efforts... The way of the native folks in harmony with Mother Earth is the best way of live ever!

[@russellcox5129]

ententanz01 q

[@malemaline]

It was very insightful to see their way of life. So sustainable and appears to be a close community. I hope they retained the core elements of their ways.

[@hanklong4968]

Good documentary. It was cool seeing footage this old, my parents often talk about their experiences when growing up and I only had pictures or mental pictures to rely on and seeing it in motion picture is awesome. The explanations in the documentary in my opinion is accurate, there's nothing malicious in the narration, the language was appropriate for it's time which seems like the sixties, I know that now a days political correctness is overkill making a lot of ppl hypersensitive to words, but looking at the words in context it wasn't meant to offend.

[@hilarylawrence4588]

For example, I'm not fond of the term "Squaw," but I understand that was the terminology of the day. I've read about history and culture for decades now.

[@ThomasHardmanJr]

Saw De: look also at the culture of the Apache and other Athabascan Language Group cultures. A lot of those live in northwestern Canada. Some say this group was one of the last to migrate from Asia to the Americas via the Bering Land Bridge. Many genetic markers are shared with nomadic peoples north of Tibet and into Siberia. Research Navajo origin stories, very interesting explanation of where they originate.

[@OsirisBlackpool]

Interesting to see historical footage----- I hope the narrator's way of treating the people in will become a thing of the distant distant past, and that the Navajo are able to maintain their culture and traditions.

[@hunkydude322]

Navajo culture will never die, but lots europeans that came to America have lots their culture through generations.

[@karinec.2131]

And to think this footage took place when Native Americans still attended boarding school..hence Indian Day School on 2:27-2:40.

[@ThomasHardmanJr]

The Navajo were pretty lucky, in the end they got their sacred homeland as their reservation. A lot of native nations didn't get that.

[@foxhound9285]

We fought hard for it. We were always surrounded by our enemies, so we were ready to put up a fight.

[@lil_ape_8471]

Buttt think about it they owned all of the Americas but now they only have arces

[@andrebegay]

Our lands covered most of utah colorado NM & AZ. Other tribes that surround us teamed up with the US to take our lands and hunt us down.

[@sparkimoto]

The background music sounds like such a MISMATCH to the narrative! The narrative doesn't quite fit the film footage, for that matter. Quite condescending to the Navajos and even to their sheep. But 1945 was a different time. I sort of get the same vibe as if I was watching the movie: WIZARD OF OZ. You can detect the narrator's attempt, at every opportunity, to reference the distinction, between the WHITE MAN, and the NAVAJO! It's a bit cringeworthy to listen to. The video is great, however.

[@carinarilk89]

I feel with the NAVAJO, but not with the WHITE MAN. I'm from EU, and I never like COW BOY. I hope one day the NATIVE AMERICANS BECOME EVERYTHING BACK.

[@mltndeal5120]

In 2022 Navajos number 400,000 strong. This old video reminds me of my late Navajo mother. She wove many rugs from 1930s until early 2000s. She went back with the Lord in 2016. My mother's rugs are out there somewhere in rug collectors homes possibly hundreds of rugs. She was also a sheepherder for many years. She also had a cornfield. I have a picture of myself wrapped in a cradle board in 1969. 😁 I speak fluent Navajo it's a beautiful language indeed. Nizhoni 👌

[@lloydliveryservices]

I was a long haul truck driver I often stop to see my Indian friend in blue water New Mexico I love those people so much also their cultures but I fell very sad when I have a stop at the souvenirs shop I found out none hundred percent of all goods were made out in China

[@haduheyiwelneb132]

I wish the navajo was telling this story story

[@kristenjohnson851]

Hello I come in peace. WHEN WAS DIS MADE?!?!?!? Very low quality.

[@tristengrey1406]

it says "1945" in the title lol

[@danielgolarz674]

EIGHT DAYS IN AN INNER CITY SCHOOL is a must read!

[@ententanz0162]

Well, they had a relaxed way of live, right? (smile) Contrary to nowadays. And their art, their jewelry like their blankets also are gorgeous!- Nice footage, made with much love towards/for the Navajos. I liked it :)

[@aashkiiawesome110]

So they were ripped off?

[@jonathanmosley9598]

I wonder if this is James Fitzpatrick's Travel talk's? anybody seen those?

[@Crazy-Horse-Tx.]

18:45 He said ," Looks like she sample several on the side a time a time ." Good gawd ! I do not know if to laugh or be mad. hahaha

[@dustypluskrat7423]

Horse is Crazy can’t blame her 😂 fresh frybread is always good

[@antoniochiquito9081]

Right I was like 😳

[@CharliieJiim]

I am Dine and this is beautiful

[@jonathanmosley9598]

"A Genial White man who is patient and understanding in dealing with his Indian Customers" I'm not sure what to make of that.

[@susanwright7682]

Jon Mosley propaganda at its finest 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@revanelson8810]

Wow! A lot has changed. There are few sheep and goats. Majority of the Navajo kids cannot converse in their language. Most of the young generations are now in so-called "gangs"! Very sad that we are losing our culture.

[@Native2Islam]

***** We were not allowed to practice our own languages/culture/traditions/medicines/martial arts/music or songs, all First Nations(Native Americans) all over the US and Canada have this problem because of the residential schools and the physical and sexual abuse that was used to scare us into not practicing and remembering are culture and traditions!

[@oglalalakota7023]

And so many are Christian. Such a disgrace.

[@oglalalakota7023]

Religions are primitive, our way of life threatened the Christians, that was why they eliminated our culture with their 'kill the Indian save the man' assimilation programs. That was why they completely destroyed the advanced Mayan culture and literature because the Spanish King believed the Mayans had discovered God's word and it contradicted the Bible. Actions speak louder than words and unfortunately Christians have a long history of being brutal oppressors so I have no respect for them.

[@ahbanuteh338]

Christians did the same shit to the celtic and Nordic tribes in Europe. Literally destroyed their gods and culture and spread disease. Fuck Christianity.

[@TheSKINNMAN]

Reva Nelson Yá'át'ééh You are so correct. When the white man came the only saw the land and its treasure. They ran over the Indians no mater what tribe. There is so much crap Remember your history do not forget the Navajo way. Our heritage is very important. I grew up in Aztec New Mexico. Peace

[@dennistallman3338]

we’re not Indian or Navajo we’re Dine’ people, navajo is a mispronunciation by the Spaniards & it’s stuck with us to this day.

[@antoinettespencer5153]

It’s amazing to have this footage as a record of traditions. It would be great to hear it with a culturally respectful narrative. I have been watching the images with awe and cringing at the language. At least this wonderful visual feast is preserved.

[@leon4medicman]

Wow.... Lol I wonder if they ever made a White man video and how they live, but i want it to be narrated by the Dine Haha

[@cynthiajcandelaria6667]

I am Author/Artist CJ Candel of LAST STAND O THE WOLVES - An Oracle, pub. 7/30/2012.

[@unitedstateofamerful]

Looks a lot more alike or similar to my Asian culture...an Asian tribe call ''Karen''... I am interesting to learn more about these people ''Navajo'' in the future.. part 9:38 , 17:22 and some other parts look much alike..

[@grassSamurai]

No mention of the Code Talkers in 1945 either.

[@grassSamurai]

doh! Of course

[@magnetitic7817]

ok so was this narrator the ONLY narrator before 1980

[@captblood4457]

traditional navajo land? the christian white man kept all the prime land between the san juan mtns, blanco peak and mount taylor and left us the desolated land between the san juan mtns, mount taylor and the san francisco peaks. it was the christian thing to do, i think jesus told them to do it.

[@carinarilk89]

No, Jesus was very poor. But every Church became RICH. The BRITISH/ AMERICANS ELITES WALL STREET TOO.

[@jesseyazzie80]

I am a Navajo.

[@SkyandQuill]

Jesse Yazzie me too

[@misamisa2677]

They are not wearing costumes thats clothes made to wear naturally They are not pretengious

[@l.k.2085]

oh my gosh, did the narrator just call the Navajo woman fat?! (18:40 to 18:50)

[@l.k.2085]

every time the word "squaw" is used, I cringe......

[@jamesritchie6899]

She was fat. What's wrong with that. Most real women in America are fat. Rea life isn't a Hollywood movie.

[@Crazy-Horse-Tx.]

A. Calamity : I see me when I see your pic . We look so much like brother & sister twins . You are beautiful my lady.

[@dredaboss505]

Healthy

[@dredaboss505]

@@jamesritchie6899 yaa but being polite is every day common sense weather someone is or not normal, dick!

[@MustangCoupe1951]

Ignorance abounds. This makes me ashamed to be belagana. "Indian Day Schools are scattered across the nation... typical of what the white man has done for the red man." What incredible unconscious irony. Yes, we tried our very best to destroy the Navaho culture and language and bless the Navahoes with Christianity, and even better, the Book of Mormon. Poor? Mormons will take your children and raise them as bizarre Christians. Good Lord, no pun intended.

[@melaniehaskan4608]

Young, Navajo "Squaw"!!???

[@loveskimberly929]

RIGHT

[@Turtlereaddave]

Yeah, I remember these "pompous ass" documentaries from my youth. They all talked like this when discussing other cultures, lands, or peoples back then. I think it originally back from the British.

[@missnena227]

SUCH SKILL!....In everything they do. They were robbed of their freedom's and had no resentments, they just carried on living. Work work work to survive. SO amazing. I appreciate this. Upsets me that they are very commonly undermined today I'm sure the narrator didn't know any better though. Or maybe he did? Sadly, many of the new generations have been taught to unknowingly undermine themselves also.

[@paulboy741]

❤❤❤

[@cristianofromdallas6809]

Window Rock located in the "heart"? Chinle is more like the centre...

[@misamisa2677]

The speaker as the people that took possession of land free to settle sounds so prejudice

[@dwightslim6563]

You don't say....

[@jonathanmosley9598]

He literally called that woman fat!

[@moquinoeh8596]

I actually enjoyed this film.

[@jaylabee7964]

Native not Indian.

[@MrJm323]

Well, I'm a native; and I'm not an Indian either. (I was born here. "Native" comes from the Latin "natus" - meaning "birth".) How about "indigene"? ....B.I.A. - Bureau of INDIGENOUS Affairs.

[@boxerfan2]

wow. everyone helped one another back then. Now its about facebook,eating and gossiping.

[@listener6596]

❤❤

[@soonerorlater9883]

almost invariably these A.I. Film Galleries that are uploaded onto KZbin are worthy and historic to be sure, but they are not without the proverbial (and propagandist-like) sheen of a wonderful life still lived in tradition. (these AI Gallery includes old docs from Africa, South America, Australia, North America)

[@antoniochiquito9081]

18:48 was it just me or was the narrator making fun of her weight... 🤨 Sheesh

[@FaberGeronimo]

I am NAVAJO & HUICHOL (HOPI)

[@AztecJimmy]

Beautiful people. Especially back in the good old days. Things are a little different now Unfortunately with the modern way of life it has affected the people

[@brewse64]

8:14 he did'nt just say squaws did he? hahahahaha that is so 1945

[@Sennmut]

+brewse64 What else would one expect it to be?

[@yeeyeenation7614]

It was made in the the 1940s times have changed

[@Qááh_Eskiminzin]

My paternal grandpa is APACHE (Jicarilla & Chiricahua) Indigenous Native American My paternal grandmother is NAVAJO & HOPI Indigenous Native American My maternal grandpa was O’ODHAM & HUICHOL Indigenous Native American My maternal grandmother was European American. Not native.

[@Mudkip3r]

even though it's kinda racist and Americanized it's still entertaining and funny.

[@sisanders5645]

As a British family man ,its a little strange...believe it or not. we respect you and send our love.xxxx

[@roberleneb.5702]

Mudkip3r yep, pretty funny

[@sharpaycutie2]

Wait, how is it rasciat?

[@carinarilk89]

​@@sisanders5645Now?

[@omni1omni244]

How do you make navajo spaghetti?

[@fabianlang7537]

Marry a Italian girl!

[@carinarilk89]

E adesso? I invasori sono stati i Inglesi e Americani, quelli che sono arrivati dall' Europa. Assasini!

[@bingaman]

Question for any Diné watching this - isn't it against your religion to film religious ceremonies? I know enough to ask before taking photos but this is pretty intrusive, isn't it?

[@indicacarrots]

yes. i don’t get why ppl allow filming ceremonies

[@70sghost22]

this to me is kind of rez

[@romannomad4332]

There were no fat Navajo’s back then.

[@STOPandsaid]

When i flew away from my tribe the first thought that it crossed my mind is that i'd find her §ⓣⓞⓟ

[@MRbug_423]

I'm 25% navajo and I came here to learn about my people

[@bipolarexpress830]

Happy Indigenous peoples day!!

[@captblood4420]

corn is not that which you eat. naadaa' is corn and it doesn't mean, that which you eat. i have never ever had frybread made from mutton fat. squaw is not a navajo word, why does dii'gis keep using that word? overall, interesting. a lot of stereo typing, but what did i expect?

[@leonwatchman6075]

I have had frybread fried in mutton fat. That was how it was done before the trading posts introduced lard. I wasn't a real fan of the mutton fat fried bread. An acquired taste. As for the word squaw. That word was used by the Navajos as well up until the world became politically correct. Everyone on the rez used to call our Enemy Way ceremony "squaw dance."

[@roberleneb.5702]

"young athletic squaw" 😶

[@deejim4767]

Yup, it's just racist, this is the reason why I hate white people back in the 1940s,1950s, and early 1960s

[@fabianlang7537]

Don't forget the firewater?the stories?

[@carinarilk89]

IT WAS A SHAME! WHITE MAN

[@cynthiajcandelaria6667]

i WANT AT THIS NARRATOR....AND HIS !!!!

[@tsosiedepartment9593]

i wish i was in that time

[@Fred-mp1vf]

The ancient people who first came to America kept a written history. Some of these translated writings are in the Book of Mormon.

[@tattunich]

wow. yeah hard to listen to this narrator, but fun to watch. gotta wonder how much that jewelry is worth nowadays?

[@8tive4n]

I prefer Native American. Mainly because Indians live in Indai, kinda a different country let alone continent, know what I mean.....hahahaha.

[@8tive4n]

When I hear other Natives refer to themselves as Indians, makes me cringe. Also makes me look at them like morons.

[@jacobeksor6088]

Some of them looks Montagnard indigenous .

[@BigMamou367]

Wth is that

[@frombeyond4657]

awl rezz...

[@midnitewaterchief]

We don't wear costumes you people do when you pretend to be us

[@gmoore9449]

Native American is the standard term, but it's inaccurate. Native simply means born. So I'm a Native American because I was born in America --- even though my grandparents are from northern Europe. A more correct term for the tribes of North America would be Indigenous Americans, or maybe Aboriginal Americans. Or how about First Americans?

[@spencerallen2645]

gmoore9449 how about Indians

[@sethjohnson2358]

It's all white mans words so none of the terms bothers me lol I'm navajo with other tribes hopi/ute but I got the whitest name ever lol

[@carinarilk89]

THE WHITE STOLEN THEIR COUNTRY. STOLEN THEIR LANGUAGE STOLEN THEIR TRADITION KILLED THEIR PEOPLE STOLEN RESSOURCES GOLD, SILVER, OIL, GAS and so on. I'm from the EU, and I understand how the IMPERIALIST ARE WORKING WORLDWIDE. IT'S A SHAME GIVE THEM THEIR INDENTITY AND COUNTRY BACK.

[@FayeDancingCloud]

I feel gratitude for this window into another time, but at the same time I find this very sad, an active 'white washing' of the struggles of the Dine - the narrator hints at the Franciscans winning "confidence" which is the word shortened to "con" in "con man." The Franciscan friars were "con men" representing the lesser evils of the European oppression of America. The other giveaway is how the film glosses over the "training" school, where the students were at that time still forbidden to speak their native tongue while at the school. The whole thing has the feel of a tourist promotion video, it was probably used to draw people and industries to Gallup to privitize and poison the land and further drive the people into poverty. I'm sure the Dine who participated thought this would bring people in to buy their goods and give them better income!

[@teresafikes424]

I am only half way through this and I have seen so many insulting statements and that is stating it nicely. I don't think I can watch the whole video.

[@tattunich]

+Teresa Fikes i have to wonder if you watched the rest, it doesn't stop. it kinda just gets worse and worse. but oddly captivating. it's dark and twisted, but you have to just focus on the love of seeing these beautiful images.

[@Sennmut]

But you took time to write a review.

[@janetwalmsley-heron]

Yes it is very Interesting from 72 years ago now and a rather poor interpretation by a obviously white new American in corny commentaries which are a poor reflection and rather biased as if we are all stupid enough to believe everything in his opinions are as factual when it would have been better to have a native voice over interpretation. But the photography was not bad for what it is worth and you could always turn the sound down and guess yourself it might be more fun. It was good to watch this for history sake

[@wildboi72]

When did the Dene of nothern canada and Navajo spit ?

[@dn2ze]

coming from Dene. long time ago before Whites and Blacks came here. we know this history but not so sure about Dine tho.pretty sure they have legends of that too in their stories..they should of mention Apache too since they were from the same tribe too..

[@jangofett7034]

I love my culture I am dine

[@misamisa2677]

Just like any person of different color or raise have to smile and laugh or be chastized

[@hunkydude322]

theres many cultures in the world, i stopped here just for a bit, cause i was watching Navajo cops, nice epesodes or should i say interesting epesodes.

[@arizonafc1]

Actually this is interesting.. A lot of these old ways and songs are lost.. I don't see it as a negative view!!

[@Λυκάων]

the narrator is hilarious xD

[@M3dicin3MaN1]

Pinon AZ, Blackmesa AZ..

[@michaeltalas9636]

Tha squaws. Ha ha. Love it

[@midnitewaterchief]

This narrator is disgustingly horrible

[@misamisa2677]

Its not yaka its uca

[@memyselfmyownmine]

So simple then! I kinda miss the Rez now!

[@misamisa2677]

Yes many hours of painful work When they were free they ate what they gathered or hunted The skins made hood very warm clothes from God creator gaia universe spirit buda whatever you call it

[@dwightslim6563]

....ok...?