Diné Clans: Family and Community Relationships

[@jo-oe9zg]

U are doing things so wonderful. And teach and share all these thinga of your life and family..the elderly are so very pound of u .you shine blessing to u .hagonee 🥁 sing 🙏 for u and your 🤗

[@NavajoGrandma]

😉😊😍😎

[@terryrusselleverydayguy1613]

I love this family. My father always called me his little blackbear. I was born with a bear claw birth mark. He told me we were part of a bear clan. Thank you for teaching us so much.

[@NavajoGrandma]

Oh how endearing is that birth mark and yes, being a part of the bear clan is even the best explanation of a loving father. How cool is that?? Hugs. Navajo Grandma

[@loridisney3782]

Awe

[@Ummm0735]

I love learning about Native American Culture. Thank you Grandma

[@NavajoGrandma]

You are so welcome. Wonderful. Navajo Grandma

[@NavajoGrandma]

My next videos will involve defining myself, a sober one, then excitedly moving towards Grandma shearing a sheep for you all. This is an opener with videos on the weaving loom, rugs, carding and spinning dowel with weaving accessories. Its getting exciting to learn more about Dine' textile. Please watch and learn. Hugs. Navajo Grandma

[@marceyvogt2007]

I appreciate you sharing this with us. It is so respectful. To belong is so important. Thank you Grandma.☮️💖🎶

[@NavajoGrandma]

Marcey you do belong to your family and to ours even though it is online, it is family. Navajo Grandma

[@hyaladoesart]

What a great lesson. I really really enjoyed this. So I will share with you a story that happened while i was watching this. My friend came up behind me, I am sitting at my computer and asked "What are you watching" I smiled and said "My grandma... she's super cool" He responds "Dude you're not native" I laugh and said "When did that matter? In the end everyone bleeds red.. and therefor, we're all one family. Her lessons bring me joy." He didn't have a response and walked away. Thanks for the lesson grandma! I hope you are doing ok!

[@NavajoGrandma]

Hyala that was such a fun conversation you had and glad you let your roommate know you have a grandma on youtube. Hugs always. Keep being wonderful!! Navajo Grandma

[@LT-yh3kc]

I guess that makes you my sibling 😁, cause she my grandma too 🥰

[@peachmelba9333]

And if you have room for one or 2 more - We all would wish you for ours. I am majority white but you have the same sweet spirit as my own paternal grandmother- from her comes my small smattering of Indian blood. Our people were assimilated into 2 other tribes after they were gone from Ohio but we still stayed here.

[@NavajoGrandma]

@@peachmelba9333 Well Peach Melba there is always room enough for all of you and more. Hugs always from your grandma. Navajo Grandma

[@jessicataylor1171]

Grandma, I will give you my word that I will ,personally, respect your teachings ,and I will learn them well so that I can hand them down to my daughter. I do not have anyone to learn from, so I appreciate you with everything that I am. Thank you. I love you! Hugs!! 🌹

[@NavajoGrandma]

Jessica you are my heart!! What a wonderful soul you are and thank you for your kind words of Hozho and the uplifting words that show you do care what you are being taught. A straight A+++ student and granddaughter!! Hugs. Navajo Grandma

[@jessicataylor1171]

@@NavajoGrandma aww thank you!!! I feel honored and proud. You are the best Grandma!!! Much love and hugs!! 💖🌹

[@paulawerito2772]

Thank you once again grandma. That's exactly what my mom & my grandma used to tell us. They always say know ur clan. Sometimes they'll let me know how they're related to me. To this day I always hve that in mind. Appreciate ur teaching and I got more to learn. Good job grandma & take care😙

[@NavajoGrandma]

Paula what kinds words of Hozho you speak to grandma. Keep learning and remember what grandma says, "practice makes perfect." Love you. Ahehee. Navajo Grandma

[@CindyG-NYC]

Thank you for speaking about our real value and beauty as humans, the way our Creator made us. Blessings to you, Grandma🎁🌎🌏🌍🐢❤

[@NavajoGrandma]

Well Cindy, truth is truth and sometimes it just takes us to speak truth and understandings so we all understand one another and we continue being a wonderful family. Hugs. Navajo Grandma

[@jamiechristly4773]

Thank You Grandma. I pay special attention to your teachings. I thank you for these videos, they always make me feel better.

[@NavajoGrandma]

I pray they do help you remain strong, happy, hopeful and full of familial attachments with everlasting love and hugs. Navajo Grandma

[@brook7880]

I want to Thank you, from the bottom of my soul, I have always felt there was more than what we were taught in school. I have traveled for 5 years,in search for my place in the universe, I have found piece in the Navajo belief and your teaching, has helped so much. Thank you

[@NavajoGrandma]

Well travel no more, you are home and welcome home to our Navajo Grandma family maybe online but we are a family. Come sit by grandma and watch, listen, hear and learn. I love the comment you wrote and again stop wandering and you are needed here and you can be one with Mother Earth, Father Sky, the Holy Ones and being needed and wanted here. Hugs forever. Navajo Grandma

[@234sueann]

I just want to say I really thank you for sharing everything about Navajo have a great day grandma 🙂🙂

[@NavajoGrandma]

You are so welcome. Navajo Grandma

[@robertmcintyre4934]

My grandma passed away back in December, my other one died when I was a baby. I never got to meet either of my blood grandfathers because one died before I was born and the other lived far away. And he died before I met him. Almost every channel I subscribed to here on KZbin, I feel like I'm part of another family. I don't feel alone but I feel like I'm part of something else. Nice to have multiple families. Lots of people to love and feel loved by. It's why God has us here.

[@NavajoGrandma]

Well Robert, I am so happy you feel like you are part of our youtube channel family. It is so important to be part of a family, there are so many differing cultures and ways families interact and I pray that you have the best of all of these families. Navajo Grandma loves you and prays for you always. Remain loved. Navajo Grandma

[@robertmcintyre4934]

@@NavajoGrandma thank you, praying for you as well. :)

[@ambersolstice]

Miigwetch! (Thank you) Grandma! I value everything you have been teaching on youtube. The lessons you have taught remind me of my grandparents and other dear community members who raised me, honestly they often make me feel emotional in a good way. This is by far my favourite channel on youtube. It reminds me of who I am, and this place I am connected to, a part of, (even while living in the city), turtle island. I do not take your videos for granted, and just wanted to express how much I appreciate you, and what you are doing here is seriously amazing! I will keep you in my thoughts while I am smudging.

[@NavajoGrandma]

I am glad you feel the way you do in appreciating and being better for knowing grandma. Hugs. Navajo Grandma

[@SusanA1056]

Oh Grandma, were you a school teacher? Your teachings are so interesting and so well done. Thank you for taking so much time to teach us. Miigwetch.

[@NavajoGrandma]

I am not a school teacher but a Grandma teaching you what I have learned from my Nali and Bizhi and parents. The culture I learned on a daily basis is what I lived as a child and I never realized what a magnet I was and what I remembered. But thank you for that compliment. Navajo Grandma

[@daneweems3513]

Thank you Grandma, you do so well helping us trying to learn. Hugs, Dane

[@NavajoGrandma]

Dane I love how receptive you are always. I am so happy to hear from you and know that what videos I have made mean much more thru your comments. Love you. Navajo Grandma

[@lisabarnes6919]

I’m watching all as many as I can thank you you for your beautiful way of teaching & kindness 👍

[@NavajoGrandma]

You are so kind. Thank you. Navajo Grandma

[@jenniferschmitzkatze1244]

Dear Navaho grandma. I actually noticed that it is very important to you to convey as much as possible to us. and of course I find each of your videos that I watch as a great gift. .. I am sure that we are all connected to each other otherwise I would certainly not have found you in the vastness of this medium / KZbin. .... you fill my heart with warmth...... 💐🍀🌻🌼🌈🌷

[@NavajoGrandma]

Kind words of Hozho, thank you Jennifer. Navajo Grandma

[@renatara9026]

Thank you very much for this great teaching. You are very wise, kind women with a big heart.

[@NavajoGrandma]

Thank you Renata, I am thankful for you having a true listening heart. Hugs always. Navajo Grandma

[@RJelly-fi6hd]

I learned a lot from this video. I appreciate all of the things you are teaching me. I will be teaching my daughter, who is from the Bear Clan. I didn't know what that meant until today!

[@NavajoGrandma]

What a good person you are. Great example to your daughter. Hugs. Navajo Grandma

[@juliamartinez3014]

Hi grandma, so happy to see you smiling and doing well, its always a joy to see your videos, thank you so much for your teachings, luv u so much,hugs n kisses stay safe and God bless u always 😘 ❤🙋‍♀️

[@NavajoGrandma]

Thank you again for your kind words of Hozho to grandma. Grandma loves you and have a wonderful weekend. Hugs. Navajo Grandma

[@haydeesanchez2531]

Grandma, you deserve a Nobel peace prize... You’ve taught us the creation of the original people of the land. Love this!

[@NavajoGrandma]

Haydee, actually I have not. This is a creation myth. Navajo Grandma

[@haydeesanchez2531]

@@NavajoGrandma Thank you for your reply, Much like the myths of the Hawaiian culture. My family has roots to Hawaii. We share so much - love and respect for our land, ancestors and keeping the myths and traditions alive- for the next generations. I so appreciate the time and commitment that you show, as you continue on this journey of teaching !

[@ReneeClymer-hj1mz]

I love this and you are such a special lady. I have a good family that loves me and I know that, but I don't fit in with them. I see the world differently, and my interests are different. I think they admire me as far as the things I do or can do, especially as a woman. I get my inspiration from my great Grandma and the stories I have heard about her, I remember her well and she was a very strong woman and did some things that women didn't do in her day, like break horses. I so love your videos. Thank you for all your teaching, love and compassion. Hugs.

[@NavajoGrandma]

Gee I haven't watched this one forever. Now and then I will sit down and inspire myself LOL!! I turned around one day and said to Gpa, Wow this woman knows what she is talking about and what great information, I am so inspired! Gpa said, "hey silly goose, that is you!!" I started laughing and what a nut!! Thanks for watching and thanks for the good fuzzies they say, it made me feel happy. Hugs again, Navajo Grandma

[@crazy4277]

I am always grateful for the lessons you teach us! This one touched me especially, family/clan is so important... The charts you make help very much - I appreciate being able to go back to re-read them... It makes it so much easier to learn! Thank YOU 'Grandma' for taking the time and thought and care that you do... I don't know if you realize the great impact you have, but I am ever grateful... Ahéhee'! Sending you great love and blessings - AND to your house!

[@NavajoGrandma]

You are so welcome! Hugs. Navajo Grandma

[@susanjones7086]

Dear Grandma I love all you teach us and tell us ! Im so happy I can call you grandma and be a part of your family! 🙋‍♀️💕💕🌺 Both of my parents are gone , its so special to me to hear your kindly, loving voice guiding and giving all of us a safe place and loving place to for comfort! My great, great grands were Eastern Band Cherokee. Sometime I wish I could discover what their clan is. But I feel Navajo too in my ❤ heart! Love you Navajo Grandma🙋‍♀️❤🏵💮🦋

[@NavajoGrandma]

Well grandma talked with Chief Hicks when he was Chief of the Eastern Band quite a few years ago now, as he no longer is Chief. Through my insistence, he lowered the blood quantum to 1/16. We spent a lot of time there and love the village where you learn about the culture. I still have the end of the arrow we got there, cool. My husband bought me a $450 hand bag there so gorgeous and surprised me when we ate at grandma's kitchen out past the main street going east from the places where tons of people were shopping crazy. I also loved the river flowing through there and wanted to go swimming there like everyone was. You have a beautiful heritage. So proud of what Chief Hicks did to expend the money to build the high school, and purchasing and building Casinos and Golf courses. Then even more he bought back many of the lands the white folks had taken from the Eastern Band of Cherokees. How blessed are you. Your stipends were good and hope all are spending it right. May God bless you always to retain what you know and yes, learn our ways too as I have learned yours. Hugs always. Navajo Grandma

[@susanjones7086]

@@NavajoGrandma oh my Grandma that is so exciting for me to hear you went to N.Carolina and spent time with the Eastern Band and visited with Chief Hicks ! My heart is so glad and im so,thankful that you were instrumental in getting the blood quantum lowered for being considered for tribal membership. I would love to be a member , but im not sure I have enough to be 1/16, but perhaps I have more than I might realize . I hope to find out more about my relatives . My grandmother that goes way back in early 1800's her name was Clara Emma Bear. Now that I know you are professional researcher in genealogy, one of these days I will have you help me with more research! You know my Navajo Grandma , before I found out I had Cheroked heritage I felt in my heart all my life I was Native American . I just thinkmuts so wonderful you were amongst my people and your husband bought you that beautiful handbag! I hope to visit in N. Carolina sometime and go to the village. I live in Okla. Love you grandma and I have faith in God he directed me to you ! Love and hugs🙋‍♀️💕💕💮🏵

[@susanjones7086]

Im so happy to know that when you were in Cherokee in N.Carolina you learned from Chief Hicks that he had bought back more of the land that belonged to the Eastern Tribe! What a wonderful visit you had there and seeing the beautiful countryside . I would like to walk some of the Trail of Tears paths and I would love to visit the Navajo Nation in N.Mexico and Arizona! Blessings to you dear Grandma ! God is with us always!

[@michelle03.]

Beautiful teachings ♥️ Thank you Grandma, Hugs 🤗

[@NavajoGrandma]

Glad you appreciate it Michelle. Hugs. Navajo Grandma

[@Wendy-zl8kv]

Thank you Sweet Grandma for the lesson! You are a wonderful teacher! Thank you for being my family 🦋

[@NavajoGrandma]

Well Wendy if it wasn't for you, I would not have a youtube family so thank you even more. Please enjoy learning and share grandma's channel. Hugs. Navajo Grandma

[@Wendy-zl8kv]

@@NavajoGrandma blessings and great love to you

[@NavajoGrandma]

@@Wendy-zl8kv You know words do hug. So Hugs to you. Navajo Grandma

[@ligiamanj]

What a blessing it is to tune in to you, grandma. Have a good day.

[@NavajoGrandma]

Welcome always. Navajo Grandma

[@srcottonmouth7824]

This is so special to me you r the window to my past I have much research to do thank you your hard work shows!

[@NavajoGrandma]

Ahehee shi yazhi. Ni masani.

[@dalejohnson1555]

Thank you so much, especially for this video about clans. I am so glad to be reminded of this and taught by you. Keep up the great work. Walk in bueaty.

[@NavajoGrandma]

So Dale are you Dine'? If so, what is your clan? Well I hope you watch all my videos then share them with your friends. Hugs. Navajo Grandma

[@dalejohnson1555]

@@NavajoGrandma Yes, I am T ł 'ááshchí'í born for Táchii'nii. I have been subscribed and watching for a while from Northern Utah.

[@NavajoGrandma]

@@dalejohnson1555 Well hey, you are my grandson definitely through our clanship. My Chei is what you are and my dad is the same as your dad. How cool can that get? We are always family even more. Thank you to Northern Utah where you hail from Dale, jini. Navajo Grandma

[@kimberlydavis5034]

I appreciate you sharing this and it gives understanding and knowledge to people who don't know. Thank you for taking the time to make this educational KZbin Video.

[@NavajoGrandma]

Glad it was helpful! Appreciate your ability to see that needs of others and that is quite a virtue. Wonderful. Navajo Grandma

[@ashtonstroman8663]

Hello Navajo grandma! It has been a while since I’ve watched KZbin being busy. I am again so grateful and honored and feel your teaching and understand what you mean towards the end. I am showered with your knowledge as it helps me grow like a tree. I love you Navajo grandma! May your health be well and be blessed with longevity!

[@NavajoGrandma]

Thank you Ashton, you always have such kind words for Grandma. Thank you for being busy and hopefully constructive busy life being the salt of the earth. Navajo Grandma

[@narutoukiuzzummmi9194]

thank you navajo grandma im about to cry .....you really touch my life thank you so much giving me a sense of belonging thank you..... i will hold your precious word dear to my heart till i die i promise myself ill never forget this thank you

[@NavajoGrandma]

I pray you remember what grandma spoke, not the myth. But what comes from our hearts are worth more than all the gold in this world. We do belong, we are family, we are always in our community to serve all and anyone in need. Our hearts are pure and spirits are amazing. We come from God and there is no other answer. We are royalty. May you always remember grandma's words for they are true. Hugs with respect. Navajo Grandma

[@narutoukiuzzummmi9194]

@@NavajoGrandma I will thank you again 🙏❤️ you don't know how much your words mean to me and how close I keep it to my heart thank you so much 💛

[@joycegonzales4994]

You put such a lot of love and work into your wonderful videos

[@NavajoGrandma]

Thank you so much! Navajo Grandma

[@jandavis1523]

Thank you thank you for all you do. This was wonderful.

[@NavajoGrandma]

You are so welcome. Navajo Grandma

[@sarahwest5964]

Grandma i love you so much. I try to share your videos on Facebook to teach others and at home i use your teachings to help my own family. I have a soon to be 17 yr old daughter and what you said here is exactly what we've been teaching her. Kindness is free and easy to share. I dont understand why people can't be kind. Its really easy to be kind. I love you and this video really touch my soul. Thank you again your a blessing to me and my family.

[@NavajoGrandma]

Sarah, thank you so much for this comment. Thank you for being such a good mother to your newly 17 year old to be. As long as you love her, hold her, speak kind words to her with respect, listen, truly listen to her, she will honor you as a true mother and will no matter where she goes will honor you. Sarah with the good heart and yes, my grandchild. Hugs to you always. Navajo Grandma

[@MandaPandaBailey]

Thank you so much for sharing these videos. My great grandmother was half Cherokee and it wasn't spoken about because of the racist environment in the South. I've always wished I could know about that part of our heritage but it's so overwhelming to know where to start. These videos are so comforting and lovely. Please keep sharing!

[@NavajoGrandma]

Thank you Amanda. Start with prayer, pray to be led to what you need to know that is true, and move on from there. Grandma teaches truth and thank you for honoring grandma for watching, listening and learning. For now, that is a good start for you. Eventually you will come to yourself and your true ways. Navajo Grandma

[@YazzieValerie]

Yá’át’ééh shik’éí dóó shidine’é Shí éí Valerie Lee yinishyé Tó’ aheedlíillinii nishłį́ Kinłichíi’nii bashishchiin Tłógí dashicheii Tábaahá dashinalí Ákót’éego diné asdzáán nishłį́ Dibé nitsa hahoodzo kééhasht’į́ Tse Si Ani déé’ naashá Ahéhee’ Thank you for sharing.

[@NavajoGrandma]

Well well well, how beautiful and even in the written Dine' Bizaad. Nizhoni Hey!! Ahehee shi yazhi. Just perfectly beautiful. Grandma

[@patriciavlahos2167]

Beautiful knowledge. Thank you🙏

[@NavajoGrandma]

Why thank you. Navajo Grandma.

[@mygypsyadventure3610]

I love your caring and inclusive message of love you share with us. You have such a wonderful spirit about you. Your message is something we can all put to use no matter what culture we are from. I love learning about your childhood and life and these cultural gems you share with us.

[@NavajoGrandma]

I sure hope you continue to watch and learn. Navajo Grandma

[@emilyarora707]

This is so fascinating ❤️. I really appreciate and enjoy these videos so much.

[@NavajoGrandma]

Glad you enjoy it! Thank you for subscribing, stay a while and watch, listen and learn. Hugs always from Navajo Grandma

[@jo-oe9zg]

339 is 👍 oooo good to 🤔 about to take in ..did u find it yet...❤

[@NavajoGrandma]

We are doing good. How cold is it there? It's been in the 30s here. Hazy, I want the sun. Take care!! Love you. Gma

[@jo-oe9zg]

@@NavajoGrandma here it's 47...l love the sun light on my face ..wait for that season. Happy u are doing good 🤗 💫💞

[@sabrinaaguilera7657]

Thank you grandma ♥️

[@NavajoGrandma]

You are welcome again Sabrina. Hugs. Navajo Grandma

[@davidflanagan1653]

Thank you for sharing with us, I very much enjoy the sound of your voice,and the things you teach.

[@NavajoGrandma]

David, thank you for the spirit of truly listening and hearing grandma's voice and pray it will always sound peaceful to you with strength and wisdom. Hugs. Navajo Grandma

[@Bezlonirslair]

This is very informative. And heartwarming. Thank you.

[@NavajoGrandma]

You are so welcome! Thank you for being so receptive and appreciative. I sure like that. Thank you again for supporting Navajo Grandma and I send you hugs from Mobile, Alabama. God has spared us from the Tornadoes and feeling very humbled as we were exactly where these towns were mowed down and where folks died while doing genealogy research. Very blessed. Navajo Grandma

[@timbillings6884]

Excellent! 👍👍 You are wise and beautiful! 🌹

[@NavajoGrandma]

Wow, thank you. Grandma

[@katedavy6272]

I am keeping this video to study and remember. Thank you.

[@NavajoGrandma]

Wonderful! Keep learning. Navajo Grandma

[@candacemeifert-polk7383]

Thank you for caring!!

[@NavajoGrandma]

Always! I do Candace. Sometimes this is too sober for most but it comes from within my heart and spirit. Hugs to you. Navajo Grandma

[@candacemeifert-polk7383]

@@NavajoGrandma I can see it is from your heart that you want to reach people and let them know they are valued ... that is very evident in all you do.

[@epiccandy]

Beautiful video today and every day you post!

[@NavajoGrandma]

Thank you Candy. Love you comments and hearts to grandma. Hugs. Navajo Grandma

[@brightmoonweavingstudio6954]

Grandma, thank you, I deeply appreciate you ❤️ please will you share with us about your red coral necklace, and what coral means in Diné, all love

[@NavajoGrandma]

Well yes, I can do that as my schedule is long and eventually I will get there. You bet. Navajo Grandma

[@paulawerito2772]

Once again, my clan"Bear Clan" and born to "Two Water Flowing Together" Thanks again..😁

[@NavajoGrandma]

Yaateeh hey and how wonderful to have you know your clans. So your mother is the Bear Clan and your dad is Two Water Flowing Together. Wonderful. You made me smile to read this. Navajo Grandma

[@feathersky860]

You have SO much Wisdom ❤️ LOVE YOU SO. THANK YOU your Granddaughter 🙏🏽💙✔️🦅

[@NavajoGrandma]

@@feathersky860 Love you Feather Sky, remain strong in your clan and relationships. Hugs. Navajo Grandma

[@robertcavalluzzi8112]

Hello grandma your family goes back from your grand father your great grandfather and your great great grand father your family was very protective who they were seeing very educational grandma

[@NavajoGrandma]

Well said. Navajo Grandma

[@robertcavalluzzi8112]

@@NavajoGrandma grandma I'm happy you like my comment love you grandma

[@tjwarburton]

Good morning Navajo Grandma. This was a very passionate video! I love history, especially on other peoples and their architecture. Unfortunately I couldn't read the translations on the turquoise and yellow boards. Take care and love you Navajo Grandma.

[@NavajoGrandma]

I am sorry you couldn't read this. But thank you for trying to watch and learn. Hugs. Navajo Grandma

[@beautifulsoul8197]

Beautiful...love it...

[@NavajoGrandma]

Thank you for subscribing and watching, learning and now you can say your clan right? It is wonderful as you go through out the world you find family everywhere who are Native American. So awesome to be family. Hugs to you. Navajo Grandma

[@tarawhiterock1246]

Honnaghani right herre...thank you shi dine masani❤🙏

[@NavajoGrandma]

Welcome Tara Whiterock. Nizhoni Hey shi yazhi. Nimasani

[@ta9394]

Yá’át’ééh Shimasani! I am also of Honnaghani!

[@lisafrazee5416]

I love the creation stories! Can you tell us why it was third woman created that became Changing Woman and not the first or second? Embracing origins is important. I just feel so good inside right now for the things you said. It is making me emotional! Thank you so much for helping us to walk in this earth with so much of a better foundation. It is never too late to build a good foundation. I love you too!

[@NavajoGrandma]

I did put you on the video list and I shall make these according to order. Thank you for watching and hope you create your legacy daily that will be a delight to your posterity, family and all those who hear of you. Navajo Grandma (Don't forget to tell us about your creation story how you started, where you came from and all about your life too.)

[@bubbletwinsmom]

Thank you Grandma ! You are the best! 💝💝💝We need to learn or relearn the family values, because it has been broken through pride and disrespect and lack of knowledge. In the movie Lilo and Stich, the cartoon movie, they said OHANA in Hawaiian means Family! No one is left behind and I say to my children, family sticks together as one! 🤞

[@NavajoGrandma]

So true! Love your comment and so true. Love the rooster in Lilo and Stitch. Navajo Grandma

[@carolynanderson7879]

Thank you so much!!

[@NavajoGrandma]

You're welcome!

[@dougreed9843]

The Navajo language sounds like the ancient Hebrew in my opinion. With the East being so important it leads me to this same indication that your people may be one of the lost tribes (who were never lost) that moved to the south west and the rainbow being a protection is the promise to protect against a global flood, many things that you mention have similar respect for the the talking God I say the great spirit because that is my own belief is the same. I greatly appreciate all your oral presentation of your traditions. The holy spirit has the reference of the female nature of God so the female reference is a thing many dont know about. I do mean that we are a family from the original tribes that creation gave us life. Yes Grandama your efforts are doing the work that brings life to the traditions and respect The Way to live together that love is the one value of belonging in Unity as a people your beauty is from the heart it goes beyond the superficial view many live at. Its a spiritual understanding love is all that matters if I love others I wont do wrong by them I wont cheat or lie even steal anything not mine because the number 1 value that love represents is this value projected equally among family of creation we are all brothers and sisters, yes we identify individually as tribes or clan across the earth but still the universal law is we are all family therefore connected you only have to believe this value to understand the respect of its truth. All humanity has made mistakes in the past with each other, the interesting thing is we supposedly have gone into the "Age of Aquarius" the concept of having greater understanding a higher awareness of self, that being, the things I mention all come from LOVE. One for self of self respect for the BEING that we are and other as equal, LOVE as self, never do ILL towards another. As I hear the coyote yelping outside it sounds like the native peoples in the dance its sounds so beautiful to me, they are calling out to their family to share the catch to ear this is universal in nature we hear and witness is the truth and how we of humanity are suppose to live, not controlling one another or have war and killing or murders. One LOVE like a native african who tribes mixed with the People of the land of India in Jamaica named Bob Marley taught through song, "One LOVE", was to share among all of creations peoples, some thing to take to another level this also means I forgive others for their wrongs, for the giving is to love them, is my own interpretation of its meaning. Much Love Grandma, I pray blessing now upon the young ones seeking the truths they need to grasp, the love their young lives need to progress maturely among us all, without fear to hold their dreams back from creating the reality they can, reach as high as possible, only to think is possible be their reailty. True as it can be for them. The young need hope and sonething to hold on to this I see is what your giving them. Blessings.. Doug

[@dougreed9843]

The Way is what the movement that Jesus started is reqlly called back then, among his tribes. Interestingly its called "The Way", this came from his saying, the way the truth the life, I finish it with, "is to Love". Some how all together, "The Way to live is, the Truth and the Life is to Love".... my spiritual understanding I am sure that interpretation and language has skewed its real exact wording, so I expand it for my own understand to share among people equally to share that Love for each other.

[@NavajoGrandma]

Thank you for your understanding. I am grateful when others wake up to these things. It is my responsibility to bring hope, trust, kindness, love, familial ties with our family and throughout this world and to testify of Christ that He does live and will return and oh what a wonderful day that will be. Like my Nali taught, we had the Christ walk among us, He taught us, Many walked by sight, those and more are our oral traditions he taught always. The story of the crucifixion is one that is so Holy and when my Nali spoke it, I always wept as a child. Humbling.

[@denisefallin8042]

I love the language. It is so lyrical and beautiful.

[@NavajoGrandma]

When I hear it, it does sound so magical to me. Navajo Grandma

[@jo-oe9zg]

👍 🤔 ❤

[@LT-yh3kc]

I love this video! 🤗

[@NavajoGrandma]

I'm so glad! Hugs. Navajo Grandma

[@beealynn7337]

How do you find out your clan? My grandparents are both sadly gone, and my mom does not know her clan

[@NavajoGrandma]

You must have aunties? Relatives who know your mother and father? You need to find them and ask them. Navajo Grandma

[@tjones3406]

I love you Navajo Grandma.

[@NavajoGrandma]

Thank you. Navajo Grandma

[@robin-chat2812]

Thank you for sharing. Did you hear NASA is naming items on mars in Navajo?

[@NavajoGrandma]

Yes, how awesome is that? Nizhoni. Navajo Grandma. But what worries me is that later some activist is going to do the same thing what they did with the football names, Jeep, etc. What makes and gives people "offense," unless they are filled with anger. I pray we all respect others. Navajo Grandma

[@steveflorez1865]

Grandma you are my dine’ but I am a lost wolf try to find his pack many years ago my grandma explained we are Navajo but we never live on a rez. For fear of being with out freedom my ancestors took on Mexican first names because native Americans were not allowed to work for cash, only Mexicans were allowed to work for money. I know my grandma would not lie to me about us being Navajo. I see it in our facial features I hear in our voices and on our skin. I used to tease my dad about not having hair on his legs and arms and chest, lol😂. Now my son teases me lol😂. So grandma thank you for more knowledge of dine’, 😢😢 but I’m still a lost wolf in search of his pack😢😢😢. I know I am dine’ I feel in my bones grandma. I am just lost. 😢❤

[@NavajoGrandma]

My dearest Steve, the name rings a bell in my life. But you are not a lost wolf, you are in our Navajo Grandma family and welcome home. No matter your past, you are home to learn, watch and understand, practice and be whom you want to be. Talk kind to yourself, its a part of being Dine', it is our Hozho, "peace, beauty, balance and harmony." Ke' being kind to family and with a loving family like here, maybe online but welcome home any way. We love and need you here and the wonder of being here is to learn, hear, practice and remember life isn't always easy, it teaches us and molds us, maybe some think we are without but never, we have a home on the reservation where its dry, hot and rainy and the wind blows dust like crap, but it is home, the four sacred mountains protect us and no matter where we go our hearts always return and pulled back like as if our umbilical cord were buried on the rez and pulls us back. It is refreshing, and fulfilling. I feel such peace when I am home. Nope, you are not lost, its in your mind, do not speak that anymore to yourself, you are home. Home here with Navajo Grandma. Hugs to you always my dear Steve. Navajo Grandma

[@rebeccalara4982]

thank you

[@NavajoGrandma]

Rebecca thank you too for watching grandma's videos. You are so important to grandma and hope you understand this video and what grandma is trying to teach all of you and you don't have to be Dine' to understand the Dine' cultural values. Hugs and love you. Navajo Grandma

[@RBarber128]

Wow super neat Grandma! Do you take your dad's clan? Im bullhead clan like my dad.. Ojibwe 😎

[@NavajoGrandma]

In all Native tribes you take your mothers clan thus it is a Matrilineal clan ship. Navajo Grandma

[@paulamartin9618]

❤️❤️

[@NavajoGrandma]

Love you too. Navajo Grandma

[@besitstookeezbeshzhacuz9371]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@NavajoGrandma]

Love your thumbs. Hugs. Navajo Grandma

[@ramonajones494]

My Navajo friend wants to take me to the rez(in new Mexico) he thought he was the only native at work until he met me I'm very dark im choctaw and creole he never questioned me he was so happy to be able to relate to somebody he accepted me i don't know what his clan is but he exited to show me his lamb 😂

[@NavajoGrandma]

Well go with him and enjoy the quite beauty. Navajo Grandma

[@ramonajones494]

@@NavajoGrandma yes ma'am !

[@NavajoGrandma]

@@ramonajones494 I meant the quiet beauty and wonderful reservation. Navajo Grandma

[@ramonajones494]

@@NavajoGrandma I will indeed 😍

[@howdydo7320]

I'm part navajo & Ojibwa (MN); my mother never told me anything about Navajo clan system. In 1967, I met a Navajo Green Beret in ft Bragg & he asked whats my clan. Told him I don't know what he's talking about; never heard of it. In 1997, I asked my sister why navajo men ask me 4 my clan. She explained the reason - relationship. In white man's way, u don't want to marry ur brother cuz b incest. That took me back 2 fort Bragg w this Navajo soldier & why he was so insistent on knowing my clan. Today, I still don't know my clan cuz I don't speak or understand navajo. My sister told me my clan but can't remember the navajo word. Today, I ask men their clan & I say oh that's my clan too. Good way of staying single. LOL. TY 4 the info; will review it again & again. I married a British-American man (28 yrs). His family came from London area of the UK.

[@NavajoGrandma]

You made me laugh and I totally understand. Especially about the same clan talk LOL! I did that too. Hahaha. Eventually you will and should ask your sister again or siblings, mother or father. Why not. Write it down and keep it. If that is the only thing you did as Dine' it would be respected and honored that you know who you are. Its just that way in life. Happy to have you come here to Navajo Grandma and thank you for the time to relearn or learn. Enjoy. Hugs. Navajo Grandma

[@MrAngryJarvey]

I am of the Red Bottom People. Navajo Grandma is an actual Grandma. Thank you Masani.

[@NavajoGrandma]

Well MrAngry Jarvey, my clan grandchild. How awesome is that? Welcome and welcome again shi yazhi. Hugs. Navajo Grandma

[@lindasandoval7919]

Grand Rising Navajo Grandma

[@NavajoGrandma]

Why thank you and a big Ahehee to you Linda for your kind words of Hozho. Navajo Grandma

[@lonewolfgamingplus379]

My shíma (mother) is The Many Goats clan, and my shízhé'é (father) is the Red Bottom People clan. I don't know my nalí man, nalí girl and grandma and grandpa (on my dad's and mother's side). I've always got a complicated answer from my mother and father. Even after my grandma passed, I still don't know.. actually I don't know so much about my grandmother on my shíma's side.

[@NavajoGrandma]

Well you’re halfway there. I would ask your uncle or auntie, they definitely know. That way it will help you learn. Otherwise keep asking. Navajo Grandma

[@thegoldencanes]

Yaateeh!!🎉⚡️✨

[@NavajoGrandma]

Yaateeh, hello and welcome to our Navajo Grandma family. What are your Paternal & Maternal Clans? Navajo Grandma

[@thegoldencanes]

@@NavajoGrandma Hello masani!! 🥹🥹🥹. My name is Juliet. My clans are Honaghaahnii, born for the bilagaana + the Taíno people. More specifically the Boríkua, which is the Taíno word for the Puerto Ricans + very similar to a clan name itself!😊✨✨⚡️

[@thegoldencanes]

@@NavajoGrandma Also we are from the Arizona/ NM area. I also have Zuni heritage along with possible Hopi.

[@NavajoGrandma]

@thegoldencanes Wonderful to hear you are family. Happy to know you know who you are. Get some ancestral research and truly define with exactness your heritage. Definition is important. Love & hugs, Navajo Grandma

[@thegoldencanes]

@@NavajoGrandma I am definitely doing so thank you. But I feel that it’s sort of a rabbit hole at a point. I feel like I’ve reached a point where now it only comes down to nationalism. People don’t value clans as they should anymore. Even where you think they would or should. It’s sad.😞

[@SemoreLucky777]

Thank you for helping me. I think we are related And if not we are now 😂 lol. I have been trying to find out information on what red running into water meant. I figured it was somewhere that had red mountains or Red hills and when it rained it cause the red Earth to run into water. Is that true? also I heard that the red running into water were considered holy people because of the last world we came From we escaped a big fire and all the other clans thought we were dead and since we survived they considered us holy people.something I read. im here because my wife said learn Navajo stuff and please teach are kids :D

[@NavajoGrandma]

I really don’t have a good answer for you that makes sense even thru mythology. Some do say when Changing Woman placed Taachinii it was near the red rocks thus when it would rain the place of their homeland had red in the running water. There are other explanations too. My NALI didn’t want us to be involved with mythology but reality, truth and the Creator, etc. Navajo Grandma

[@SemoreLucky777]

@@NavajoGrandma red rocks is a location in the Doné reservation?

[@SemoreLucky777]

I just looked it up and there is a stream or river running through red rock in new Mexican south of Gallup NM

[@rockogawky5982]

How are clans defined in man woman relationships, it seems everyone skips over this or it’s never mentioned.

[@NavajoGrandma]

Well thank you for watching my video. I believe the only situation here is that you can't marry another person from the same clan. At least no medicine man will marry you. So if that is the case and it is happening more and more that the couple goes and marries in a church outside the reservation then returns married. I don't understand exactly what you mean. I guess the other way is that this Dine' Ina is about the maternal societal part of clanship. It is not a paternal society like the white folks. It started as such and somewhere between 1929 it all changed where the woman was not considered a voice any more. Not as it use to be. So maybe explain what it is that you would like to know. I could only think of these two that have been addressed by many and in my videos. Let me know. Thank you for this comment. Looking forward to hearing from you. Hugs. Navajo Grandma

[@NavajoGrandma]

I don't know exactly what happened but I did address your comment and question. 1. This Dine' people are all based on a maternal society not paternal like the white folks. 2. You can't marry your own clan. Nowadays many are not following these Natural Laws that guide our people so if the two fall in love they leave the reservation and get married in a church then return married. I have addressed this in my videos and others in other channels have also addressed this. If this is not what you mean then please tell me a little more indepth and I can answer you. Hugs. Navajo Grandma

[@rockogawky5982]

I was reading comments from another video and the young people were asking if their first two clans aren’t the same can they marry, or if their maternal and paternal clans match should they be together but their first clans aren’t should they be together?

[@NavajoGrandma]

@@rockogawky5982 Rocko, the first two clans would be the mother and father's clan. If the person is from his/her Mother's clan and it is different from the one who is wanting to marry that person. Then it is fine. More so, if the father's clan whom the person is born for is from a different clan again that is fine. They can marry. If the parents of the mother and father are the same, that is not the determining factor. "it is only whom you are (your mother's clan) and whom you are born for). Do not conflict the simple understanding. Keep it simple. Your first two clans (mother/father's clans) are what matter. Simple dimple. Amen . Navajo Grandma

[@rockogawky5982]

@@NavajoGrandma awesome grandma! See? This is the answer a lot of us young people ask but we don’t get a straight answer. It is simple. Thank you!

[@pleasebenice8285]

I can't find mine

[@NavajoGrandma]

This is what many white folks say, you made me laugh. I can only say, what nationality is your mother, ask her what her clan is if she is Native American. Same with your father. Then ask them about their parents. The Hopi's do have clans you know. The Hopi have many clans, such as the Bear and Parrot clans, within each village. My father always said, "if you don't ask you will never know." Good luck. Navajo Grandma

[@pleasebenice8285]

@@NavajoGrandma my mother's clan is kinłichíí'nii

[@NavajoGrandma]

@@pleasebenice8285 Oh from the Redhouse clan. Great!!! Now you can start introducing yourself. Happy to know this clan. Hugs. Navajo Grandma

[@oso8146]

Yáh'áh'téh i am from coyote canyon NM and I am bitter water clan born of nakaii diné'e my grandfather is désh'chíníí and my Nálíí are nakaii diné'e I'm the 3nd generation who's family return from from Fort Sunmer

[@NavajoGrandma]

Well, Yaateeh to you Jonathan. Wonderful pedigree there and 3rd generation as I am too. This is wonderful. Navajo Grandma

[@NavajoGrandma]

We definitely are family.

[@augustinehendren8966]

I was adopted and I was told I was Todachonni

[@NavajoGrandma]

Todachini clan. Gma

[@A1rB0rN.]

Hey grandma shíí nokà díne u forgot to talk about the black sheep clan u forgot them in the video

[@NavajoGrandma]

Hi there jrackob, well I have to say I only used the first few clans as you may well know there are over 100 clans in the Navajo Nation. So I am sorry I did not say your clan but many I did not say a well. I hope you got the gist of the video though. Take care. Navajo Grandma

[@jpokeefe8122]

She’s hot!

[@NavajoGrandma]

Ok this is grandma. You are making me blush. Stop it. Navajo Grandma

[@nicemomasmr]

Isn't she gorgeous!

[@kevinallen1699]

You should have been a History School Teacher G'ma !... Too much of History has been lost or destroyed in modern Society.

[@NavajoGrandma]

Haha Kevin you said it right, but that is what you learn as a genealogy researcher. That is what grandma does with Gpa. Slowly rebuilding our genealogy company back up after this awful political pandemic and one that is still ongoing. You bet so much of history has been lost & destroyed in modern society today as CRT is being passed onto our youth as if it is correct and worthy, NOT and a lot more. When one wakes up to society and government administrations with political agendas, you realize what is allowed to be indoctrinated into our schools, colleges, universities, work, home and thru technology, calling evil good and good evil. Really messed up. But when I teach my Dine' history you can't change it, it is truly the oral history that was taught and many generations know this and understand and honor what was passed down. At least that is my faith. Navajo Grandma

[@Rellesofsaturn]

Grandma works hard . 🫡 good morning

[@NavajoGrandma]

😊😊

[@jmack2462]

Thank you so much!

[@NavajoGrandma]

You're welcome! J thank you for watching. Appreciate it. Navajo Grandma