A GIFT FROM TALKING GOD (The Navajo Sacred Sheep)

[@martinaeastwood9781]

This is wonderful! I work with sheep in the North of Scotland where sheep are also very traditional. I love that shepherding all over the world is the same skill, the same connection with the animals and the annual cycle of lambing, shearing, sales, tupping. We just put the tips out...best wishes in tough times for the Navajo shepherds and their sheep!

[@martinaeastwood9781]

"tups" as in male sheep - autocorrect got there quicker...:)

[@francoissuissae6217]

Brilliant as the original colonizers were british & yanks but they first nations are still here!

[@bieditso2038]

I've herd sheep all through my childhood and it has been part of our chore, everyday.

[@miriam4091]

I love these wee sheep! Your gentle nature is part of your calling to be with the sheep....

[@aggierowe9574]

I love this yarn! It is tough and keeps me warm when I knit wrist warmers. Hello from NC!

[@romans116spiritualwarrior7]

And I have to get meat from the supermarket tainted by medicine. The Navajo have my utmost respect. This way of life is what God intended for man

[@nanetteroeland7847]

May God bless these beautiful people, their wonderful culture and their beloved sheep.

[@lame955]

Thank you

[@gregmacdonald3559]

I guess we are not all bad. Respect to this man for saving the sheep!

[@CoolAF100]

❤

[@gregmacdonald3559]

This is very informative and I envy your calmness. Beautiful Thank you 🇨🇦❤️

[@GillyMaid100]

A beautiful life. I fed lambs by the bottle at home in Devon when I was a little girl. I miss those days. Thank you so much for "shearing" your stories and life xxx

[@catherinehazur7336]

Magnificent documentary on the Churro Sheep and their ties with and deep significance to the Navajo maintenance of their culture

[@okaminess]

Nizhoni. I got to attend the March '22 talk given by Kevin Aspaas, who learned many techniques from Hastiin Kady. Learn as much as you can, ppl. This is the life.

[@virgieharrison7672]

So beautiful to watch.

[@catherinedesjeunes2949]

Excellent documentary!

[@sparky7915]

Through the sheep the Navajo are connecting to God and maintaining great spiritual health. In that way the Navajo are in harmony and balance with the universe. This is what matters!

[@CoolAF100]

❤

[@lucillestewart7445]

wow ! Great job in sharing another way of Native life. Love the Songs i remember the songs from early childhood. This falls into place of better understanding ...Thanks for sharing Thumbs up from Ks

[@martinespinoza9763]

Thank you JESUS, for sending this man to restore and save this sheep, for the people, blessings to all, in my saviors name JESUS, Amen

[@nancylee1625]

Amen!

[@CoolAF100]

Amen❤

[@margaretgaychanler4417]

The Churro sheep, along with goats and cattle were brought to Pueblo and Hispanic communities in the southwest by the Spanish Missionaries. The sheep's arrival fulfilled a Navajo creation narrative that promised them a gift of a sheep, and because of this, during the grass roots efforts in the 1970's to restore the breed to the Navajo people, the name Navajo was added to honor their long standing and sacred relationship to this animal.Antonio and Molly Manzanares are a family of Hispanic descent who continue to raise the Navajo-churro breed in New Mexico. Ganados del Valle is an organization in NM that also promotes and stewards the breed. .

[@francoissuissae6217]

God bless these first nations navajo strong people! All of them

[@CoolAF100]

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[@trina2021]

This is very educational. As navajo I never knew that u had to bless them that way. Wow! 😇👍 but I knew its good to herd ur sheep n have them eat the plants around there.

[@AbidAli-bv2gl]

Excellent video,Churro sheep is the best . More hardy than other sheep in the world

[@barbarastone7546]

Thankyou for this blessing

[@manleybegay1582]

Strong Dine'' stay strong, I have fithteen sheeps lot of work but love them we carried on from our parents with my sister, the sheep dogs are helpful

[@Alexandracoco1]

really enjoyed this!

[@dianeredhouse1420]

That's awesome, thank you for sharing, that's good teachings

[@virgieharrison7672]

I would like to have some Navajo churra sheep.

[@trellenrussey8432]

Awesome history

[@Photo4Corners]

At 12:02 the scenes of herding sheep to pasture is in the Carrizo Mountains. A friend took an excellent photo of a bigfoot there in 2006.

[@BlystoneStudio]

I'd love to see a copy of that photo.....??

[@andrearenee7845]

Thank you for sharing.. Beautiful.

[@martinaeastwood9781]

Omg, they got a llama! I would LOVE a llama!!

[@marymadalenem2351]

Great video!

[@laffilmfest3759]

Good nature story!....

[@wildswan221]

How can we buy wool and wool products from them??

[@miriam4091]

I wondered if the Navajo Churro Sheep can be raised by Natives in other parts of the USA or other countries. It seems to me there would be an interest in that - however I could understand that this project and livelihood might be restricted, especially after losing it to almost extinction. Blessings.....

[@yomamahohoho6513]

wow i love this and the cool song at the end

[@staceyspangler219]

I so related to this with my Paiute background and the way that if you want to call it your destiny your ancestral guiding as a girl in high school from the beef Market fell in the early '80s it made sense to go with sheep I didn't really know of what breed or direction to go but I did and through umbilical cordial Court to date I have a group of sheep that has fed my family over 38 years and I kept them even when sheep for a short time had no value because I felt there would be value again even if it was for our own existence and I'm very happy that I held on and our herds are building again big and it's funny that how popular they're becoming on a financial and for a lot of people but it's more than that for us I see it goes back to a heritage that we were not really told about there was rumor and there was some stories and there was some missing pieces but some years back we got most of the truth that my maternal grandfather who is buried on a reservation in Nevada was actually all piute and not that he married into a pirate family after he left ours and that my mother and Aunt really were half-breed girls raised in an English setting as to not bring shame if you would at that era in society I have always embraced without knowing an Indian background but it made a lot of sense when I had gathered all the truth and that the stories that were told us in secret were true and not just figment of my mother's imagination the Indian people the cultures live on even if they've been disguised in some white man's sheets because I do believe on some levels it was the only way that some could survive by hiding in plain sight and for that I'm very grateful and it's wonderful to put tradition and why we did certain things without understanding why we were doing them believe certain things did not fully understand why we believed and felt to our core being and I passed this to my children who display a lot of native heritage not only buy some looks but by a way that I have raised them that didn't make sense to a lot of people but it made a lot of sense to me and I didn't know why

[@vernaharding4688]

Can you tell me which Hispanic or Latio community's own Navajo Churro Sheep, because I have never heard of the the community's that I have just mentioned ever owning Navajo churro sheep except for just Churro sheep. Other than that, what an amazing video, I wonder if this was filmed during Covid-19. I sure hope one day I can own Navajo Churro sheep.

[@yosefch6605]

Who do you think brought the churro sheep to this continent. There are also many Hispanic weavers who use the wool of this sheep.

[@chrisgarcia8592]

They are Navajo churro by name but they drop the navajo name because those communities don't like us. They'll blow smoke up your ass and say we do just so they don't look bad.

[@TheGrmany69]

The Navajo churra sheep is also known as American churra, and it's known as oveja criolla in South America.

[@jaredmgylnt584]

I did not know that the Navajos also domestic llamas

[@nativoplantas2003]

Yatahay

[@NathanielLeslie]

Me too l'm sheep head. I can take care animals. Cows and horses too. I know how it is to take care animals

[@usmcairbornedaddy3761]

Moses liked sheep.🤠

[@usmcairbornedaddy3761]

His sheep were in desert mountains too

[@sagitarius4518]

The music on the end ist not suitable to this wonderful story..Love this beatifull sheep.

[@yomamahohoho6513]

the woman singing at the end was the Former Miss Navajo its sort of a big deal here on the Rez as the pageant is tough on young women. Most of our youth dont listen to as much traditional songs so this end song is the link between past and present

[@BlystoneStudio]

@@yomamahohoho6513 Thank you for adding that. I agree!!!

[@hollylaw8272]

I would really like to know what herbs they are using to smoke out the parasites!

[@jenndess1276]

My mother used to do it but I don't remember what herbs she used.

[@PedroPeyolo]

Juniper

[@usmcairbornedaddy3761]

You guys reflated to Moses’s peoples? You seem to live with the sheep like they did, in the desert mountains.

[@NathanielLeslie]

But l ever take care pigs. But it was nice to take care animals.

[@jeremycoussemaeker1253]

super

[@TheGrmany69]

This ain't common churra sheep, I can bet they are related to the endangered Marismeño and the quintessential merino.

[@magicjordan7478]

While it appears this Diné Churro sheep tradition only goes back to the time of colonialism, I am wondering about this creation myth of the Big Horn sheep. Can anyone comment on whether there were sheep in this region prior to the coming of the Spanish Churro? Like archeological evidence even. I am wondering how the "prophecy" of the gift of sheep was understood as such if there was no knowledge of sheep prior to coming of the Spanish. I'm not challenging that this gift was fulfilled as predicted, I'm just wondering if knowledge of sheep herding (of any breed) did exist prior. In another video on this matter it mentioned a mountain named after the Churro translated as "Big Sheep Mountain" I believe and I wondered if this name predates the arrival of the Spanish or is in fact older than 400 years. Any comments, book recommendations, website links, etc.on this matter is greatly appreciated. thank you.

[@magicjordan7478]

Also, this video mentioned that among its various usages, milk from the sheep is also utilized. Don't recall any milk drinking in the video so I wondered if there are any Diné who can confirm if dairying and milk consumption of these breeds is a thing and how common is it? Thanks again.

[@blystonefilms]

Good question. Indeed- there has been a large population of wild Big Horn Sheep going back thousands of years in America..... Just not true domesticated sheep until the Spanish brought them. The archaeological evidence is in the rock art, the myths and rituals. Creation myths are difficult to date as they are passed down through the generations. It is likely that ancient people- before conquest followed Big Horn Sheep herds-- similar to Reindeer peoples following herds in other parts of the world.

[@magicjordan7478]

@@blystonefilms Thank you! That gave me some insight.

[@issacendischee3637]

That's good that ur teaching others but we need our own navajo youth need to know Anne learn the opportunity to define them selves to become a dine people so we can be human being. Again and maybe show a different ways of living a walk in beauty with our tradition

[@user-ep8xo1od9o]

Was this filmed recently?

[@rthawknatanabah1759]

NI'ZOH'NII.....👋

[@rongablue]

God bless all good Native Americans… Sadly, for their persecutors, I’m unable to ask for blessings.

[@hildebertocarreiro9232]

Indians grow berries

[@michaelbegay9985]

Mutton Power..🐑🐏

[@texas2michoacan457]

LAND BACK!!

[@hildebertocarreiro9232]

Make conveyor belt

[@darz3829]

I see clothes and eyeglasses most likely of manufacture by the white man. I also see motor vehicles most definitely NOT manufactured by Indians.. Also corral fences that look like white man's construction. One man is carrying a thermos bottle that's probably not Indian plastic. Plus, there are parasols and stainless steel cooking pots (just like traditional Indian ones. Yes, Indian traditions make living in dusty undeveloped areas all worthwhile.

[@CeciliaLewis-f6s]

🤔🤔🧐🤔😯😯😲🧐🤔🤔

[@PedroPeyolo]

6.50/lb for meat.. u can tell this an old video 😅

[@orosiaabadiaspoch2965]

Como dato curioso, fueron los españoles los que llevaron a América las ovejas (además de caballos , vacas , cerdos, gallinas etc ).

[@christineyazzie1559]

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[@hectorcortez787]

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[@billc.3733]

AN OPEN LETTER TO ALL NATIVE AMERICANS & AMERICANS I am a white American with pure English blood line with name Craft and I am not proud of the past and my family did not participate in the extension of the Native Americans and I do not like what I see for the future. I pledge to you I will spend my time and energy to teach the American people that until the country as a hole Pay the native Americas back with Land and money this country can not progress any further. Did you know that in the 1960 when the Cuban's came to Florida the government payed them $800.00 mo. for every man, woman, child, child, child, grama. granpa, aunt and uncle.in the house hold. this is back when you could buy Volkswagen bug for $3.000. They bought cars, homes, and businesses they built little Havana in Miami and they are very wealthy Americans now and you never hear about them being poor and run down. Time to give you what your due Land & Money A CALL TO ALL AMERICANS MAKE THIS RIGHT FOR COUNTRY SOLE. AS A COUNTRY WE HAVE TO GO BACK TO THE BEGENNING AND CORRECT OUR FORFATHERS FIRST MISTAKE. UNTILL WE CORRECT THIS THERE IS NO WAY THIS COUNTRY CAN MOVE FORWARD IN AN HONORABLE WAY. MR.CRAFT

[@daisyclement2268]

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[@rettapine9500]

Who ever is singing dont sound rite Put a sock in it

[@BlystoneStudio]

What kind of music would you prefer....?

[@rnempson1]

I think the singing is beautiful.

[@franciscojosecano2217]

esto son listo no mezcla churra con merina

[@franciscojosecano2217]

ya veo que lo navaho son mu musulman o judio no comen cerdo mucho carnero