Nataanii Means- Warrior

In today's society we're quick to use the word 'Warrior', but in a lot of Indigenous People's language across Turtle Island, that word is translated into many different definitions. In this video I chose to travel the country to different events and locations to depict our modern day warriors, in everything they do, because all of us are fighting to survive in one way or another. Which brings it back to why in our languages, the definition isn't limited to one.
Directed & Edited by Nataanii Means
Director of Photography- Terrance Clifford
Co-Director of Photography- Angel Mills
Shot at various locations over the course of one year.
Natives Lives Matter Rally- Rapid City, SD
LNI- Rapid City, SD
Porcupine, SD
Wounded Knee, SD
Navajo Walkers- Blanco, CO
Canyon de Chelly- Chinle, AZ
Santo Domingo Pueblo, NM
Santa Fe, NM

[@C.kirk1287]

To all my Natives living out here in this fucked up world.. I love you with all my heart! Creator didn’t give us a spirit of defeat! Keep fighting, spreading love to you all! Sending unconditional love from a Ione Miwok girl ❤

[@rowzEkills0ps]

We need this type music accessable to our prisons. All they have is gang music and nothing positive. Give hope to the hopeless.. thank you for using your gifts of song to help our people. You save lives

[@rubytuesday7653]

🐾🐾♥️🐾🐾

[@annewilliams8034]

A'ho. sending love to you and your family.

[@marshall_warpath8695]

IVE REACHED A BOILING POINT!

[@supremethomas7455]

I'm cree from Canada much love to you too life's hard but we ain't soft

[@MattYellowhorse]

Natives supporting Natives! I truly believe power in unity, no matter what nation, what pigment of skin. To be together and to take a stand as brothers and sisters in this corrupt country, we are strong and resilient! One LOVE!!

[@Baby-jay-ef4vl]

Matt Yellowhorse I agree. #Unity ✊

[@haroldmitchell4589]

Matt Yellowhorse 💯🔥...I Agree...🔥RED NATION✊🔥💯...

[@aduarte8057]

Lee Francis It's OUR LAND.........

[@blackwoodc7646]

Matt Yellowhorse my native

[@blackwoodc7646]

Matt Yellowhorse thank u skin

[@silentcomanche6987]

Respect to my Indigenous Ancestors and my brothers and sisters. Comanche Tribe

[@Geenie1217]

Comanche is the BOMB.com baby. I work at a grocery store in Texas and one of our customers told me that his grandfather was full blooded Comanche.

[@airgnome5079]

Nu se numunu ❤

[@ndnofmana521]

Numunu present

[@crystalenrriques268]

As first nation people we unite, stand and fight together ❤️ proud to be Native 💯💯💯

[@leorodriguez655]

“The last of the dying breed, hooked up to the tree to breathe” that hit me so hard. So brutal yet so true

[@angelalaliberte1803]

That’s why they cut the trees.

[@kennastout7621]

"The last of a dying breed"....so powerful. Thank you, Nataanii

[@kristietsinnijinnie8993]

All Native Indiana stand together and keep our prayers with almighty. Love the lyrics.

[@shiverarts8284]

A'oo nizhoni ✊🏽

[@MxMvskoke]

This song is everything...unsguarcoated...talented...Native Indigenous life experiences that cannot be silenced.

[@infinitewarriorproduction6278]

I am with you warrior .. Sikhs from India from Punjab have had a similar warrior blood like native Americans .. we are all one warrior

[@allamericannative]

The food culture is what actually connects us.

[@kennelljones3970]

Native Pride #WaterIsLife

[@mizutsunethewaterdancer2155]

sounds good, NATIVE PEOPLE Always, let's all be strong together as The TRUE AMERICANS of this LAND that was taken from US. T.O. NATION, SW AZ. NATIVE PRIDE!!!!!

[@tonus2metal]

Ahoo

[@Ccarmalita]

Theres more than justified in a native

[@shellza5303]

Flow like water, be water my friends- Bruce Lee

[@blakehalvorson368]

Lakota Sioux and proud. We are still here fighting against all odds. Growing up my mom always made my native blood feel like a curse. Because the problems that plague Native Americans . I look at the many scars, fights lost and won as a testament to the strength of our people. We can keep going against all odds, we will keep going.

[@claudedavis201]

Descendent of the Maya people. Love to all my native brothers and sisters

[@OE509]

Real hip hop with a real message. This is what the world needs

[@markedgette5463]

OE Beats true but the powers that be fear any truth I'm white it's truly disquisting what was done to the aboriginal people of America.

[@senpai704]

Lmfao no its not real hip hop was created by my people fuck outta here

[@speedkills2861]

The only friends I had grown up in school where Navajo. I am white but the white kids made fun of me and just wanted to fight. Thanks 🙏 for being warriors for real and standing up for outcasts. I got y'all back everyday of the week!!!

[@dansan3424]

I like that bro. Stay strong. Native Pride

[@dansan3424]

I understand that my comment may be 3years into the future but what's said still matters to this day. Again stay strong bro

[@timothybowman1587]

🙏

[@jerrymichaud]

Sorry about that you are my family Sorry

[@aztecakid8o5]

native power

[@alishably6024]

I love you all. I represent my Native Nations and I'm fighting for this water, land and freedom. Stay Strong my Native people.

[@ghostrder6127]

New Native ERA!!

[@MrKnowyaself]

I'm latino and I think native american Hip Hop is one of the realest out there.

[@charlesratcliff8557]

hip hop stole its life from all that came before them an all that or ancestors had fought for before they came..Traitor young bloods.. hip hop sucked.

[@charlesratcliff8557]

keep on keeping it real..most of them doing time now or dead.

[@nofx1420]

Pure Hip hop resides in native country 👍

[@martingonzales8306]

Because your same as us brother

[@juniorchavez6450]

Respect

[@felipearmentaandrade7577]

Native always strong no matter what god bless native people forever

[@thechosen1515]

Not bad... Respect! When we all come together as one. Unstoppable, government knows that. First Nations.

[@Times2Salute]

first time I seen this I was blown away by the message and production , we send you love from Saskatchewan, Canada

[@sloughwaya7291]

Finally some rap that spits the truth, thank you - From Canada

[@santiagominjares1417]

Take all I am My Freedom My Dreams, The Small Visions We Have Of Acceptance...... But You Who Truly Know Us Know We Die With Our Integrity............

[@gorivatra]

Stay STRONG and PROUD…. We are with you, Much respect. Greetings from SERBIA 🇷🇸

[@allamericannative]

Warrior's NOT soldiers there's a difference. There's more PRIDE in warrior's. That's what NATIVE PRIDE MEANS .

[@dumspirospernwdss2036]

Much love and respect from Greece 🌿🇬🇷 A positive aspect about the Internet is that you can reach people all over the world, and via creative ways (like this song) make us aware of what your People are going through and their reality/daily lives, so hopefully we can somehow, someway contribute to make a positive change. Thank you for the lyrics and the video, I learned a lot I didn't know(also thank you youtube for putting this in the suggestions). Please continue with the music, it means a lot to the world.

[@DobermansRock]

Look up a Tribe Called Red also look up the 1491's. Hello from Tucson Arizona. I was stationed in Macedonia for a time. Beautiful country I want to go back to,

[@veronicaortega584]

Stay together peacefully brothers and sisters. .wado....A'ho...our prayers for #standingrock

[@Mr04hayabusa]

What a POWERFUL song well done.... Mi'kmaq for life

[@averyortiz9493]

Are elders are moving on and its time for us to stand up for are people. Diné Nation 👊🏾

[@rasanchez169]

All of us fighting every day! My SW people represent! Dine' nation!

[@josephbrisco4379]

Indigenous pride man, love from the Chickasaw Nation. Loving this track

[@genejanko3129]

we all gotta love something.....

[@lowpro7]

Respect to my native people, Apache tribe

[@manny5215]

Yea apache tribe

[@terranceeaglefeather5290]

Lakota Sioux respect

[@jesusliveselima3846]

The first slaves of what I'm with you right now I am not of your tribe play with your souls

[@ndnofmana521]

Respect from Numunu/Comanche

[@breannapatten3286]

Wr Apache

[@TheLibraPerspective]

Blackfoot/Chippewa here. I love your music, vibes so deep, the tree, the life of love cures the weak. Thank you!!

[@imagamerchick]

Blackfoot\cherokee here! Aho cousin!💖✌️

[@jeromemartin7682]

Standing Rock Sioux tribe, Fort Yates, ND- Denver, CO. Love ALL my NATIVES holdin it down. Salute!

[@mountainview467]

Mexico stands with you.

[@hunterrice816]

R

[@juliedorman1858]

Indigenous Americans unite!

[@user-ny5cu5ol1p]

Brown Pride is Red Pride ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽

[@bethzaidarivera9943]

Puerto Rico too!!!🇵🇷 we are indigenous too..we are here to support!!

[@fragolegirl2002]

Tlacatecolotl as a South American I know where the Spaniards get the race red from. It’s because the Amazonian Amerindians covered themselves in achiote. Some natives covered only some parts with Annatto also known as achiote and others only their hair and others did the whole body. In Ecuador the term red race is still used. I don’t know other places. Achiote is a Nahuatl word, so I’m guessing southern Mexicans used it on their bodies too not anymore but maybe they used to. I don’t know why it’s applied to natives in USA because they don’t use achiote but prolly because we look the same racially, dark skinned with asiatic eyes. I dunno but we South Americans have that term red race too but only used by government and school history books at least in Ecuador yeah and most definitely Brazil where the red paste covered indigenous mostly live. Here so you can see how red they are kzbin.info/www/bejne/ppeqaZqllrNpnaM it’s a horror movie but they do cover themselves red like that.

[@eltainoproductionanddevelo5504]

Much respect from the Taino nation we all have to stand together and fight for our people

[@flintose927]

Watching from Flint, Michigan. 👏👏👏👏 LOVE THIS! 🔥🔥🔥

[@lisafirstnamesapp4136]

Seminole spirit here.... nothing but LOVE to my brother’s and sisters ✌🏼❤️

[@1975sld]

This brought me to tears...so beautiful and powerful. Keep doing what you're doing...speak out, stand up. There is no peace without justice.

[@angelalaliberte1803]

Definitely justice. They can’t get rid of us all. We don’t die, we multiply. 😎

[@AZTLANSOLDIER13]

Nataani thanks for coming to Denver for the Columbus day protest. Your support means alot. Keep doing your thing brother!

[@tyronejames1386]

Long hair forever warriors I love this song.

[@mindymyers2017]

"When youre angry.... that goes way back to our elders" thank you for having the voices of elders for the stolen children to hear as we grow. I felt that my whole life. Hoka hey!

[@nativecommunityproject4249]

this is still one of the best musics out there native pride all day every day

[@davidlloyd2225]

Please help why would a person b shown crow/wolf 3 times across the moon ❤

[@auedesigns]

Respects from the Tuhoe Nation in Aotearoa, Land of the Wrong White Crowd. Te Mana Motuhake o nga Iwi Taketake hurinoa! Power!

[@RealEstatewithAlexLiu]

That is was up it is time for us to come out as a people and have a voice ✊

[@juancamaney896]

God Bless all my indigenous peoples.

[@blackdog.6398]

Right on Baby Boy , love and mad respect....RIP Russell Means ,🃏🏹🌕🕷👣👣👣🐾🐾🐾🐾

[@elshablack1579]

This is beautiful! Young Warriors arise! The second coming of AIM! Let's change this world for the better of our people. AHO. Much love from a Ute Brother!

[@reneejoy8004]

Lilili lilili!

[@anonymouswatchers1201]

Love you my bro. I am Miwok.

[@genejanko3129]

aim? hmmm if i recall, ended in prison....AIM: asshole indian movement...is that the correct words? me half native thinks whiny weak suffering complaining crap is not the way to honor the warriors who actually walked the talk.

[@CyrylB]

AHO!

[@frankhernandez5060]

Perfect song for what's going in in the world, right now!!!🙏✌

[@romannoodle7005]

I like the message, the style, that instrumental. Brother, its hard to find gems like this. Stay strong hermano Nativo.

[@puzzledinnewmotherhood8247]

Blasting this at work trying to open more eyes an spread our power. ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

[@hockey44d]

Love the meaning to this tune... I take for granted how much our cultural and heritage was suppressed and we are still here. Fighting everyday to tell the world that us Native Peoples are alive and proud. I have to remember what we been through as a nation and use that same determination, pride, and self-respect to get me through this hard time I am going through at this moment in my life. #NativePride #RezLife Tihehta, Mohawk Nation Bear Clan.

[@annewilliams8034]

we are still here, and fighting.

[@gotrain4me]

Its 2020 and that last message about police brutality was just more fuel on the fire and its just as true today as back when your video first posted... thank you for posting. RIP Allen Locke.

[@kohakuizumi7110]

All the love and spiritual support from one fan from 🇷🇴 (Romania) AHO BROTHERS AND SISTERS ✊✊ P.S. Edit: Stay strong and fight ✊👊

[@somierain4018]

this song speaks truth I'm glad I can find native rappers like this!

[@zbeh4495]

this song hits me in the feels...

[@MJSL81]

Finally was given the opportunity to meet Nataani Means in person and hear his music LIVE **lelelelelele** It was a honor and hope you come back to Treaty 6! The ending of this music video always chokes me up because of who it was dedicated to, your words your message is powerful, and just hearing them all do their war cries really really hits ya in the heart. Makes me PROUD to be Nehiyaw!

[@p.w.harris9883]

"Hooked up the tree to breathe." This is powerful Sundance imagery right here. Amazing lyricism. Real ones recognize. My skin is black and I am very little Native but I pray the tobacco way, Sundance way, peyote way and I am forever in dept to your people for bringing me into the spirit of the land to be humbled before creator.

[@areimontana1308]

One love one heart I LOVE MY NATIVE PEOPLE and respect to my native brother on the video true warrior...much love coming outta Flagstaff AZ

[@djmolecular]

I love it! As a white boy (actually native Italian from Sicily) I've always had a connection with native American. I went to school with them here, with many tribes. I found that even they didn't always like each other even though native, yet different tribes. I have been good friends with Tohono O'odham, Pima, yaqui, lokato (I was married to a direct descendant to Chief Redcloud. And I've found all these people were human beings that I could bond and connect with. point being, all people can get along. just depends on the spirit that guides you. My guide taught me to love all people, especially natives. And all of you, no matter which tribe, I love you all. Deep down you are all my brothers, my sister's and I love and appreciate you all. From the white guy Italian scicilan to yours. peace be to you and to yours and may the great spirit bless you all.

[@TJFox-re6lv]

djmolecular were all guided by one spirit

[@JM-fp9wk]

@@amadeopaul4647 Regardless, Sicilians are considered white on our birth certificates, Mediterranean isn't an option. I am Moroccan by blood from my Sicilian Father, he carried no Italian blood from his mother, his father was Sicilian, 100% Italian. I always tell people I am Mediterranean, as I am made from the people who live on the Mediterranean Sea 🌹

[@hg077]

Lakota*

[@shellza5303]

Moors!

[@shearosamamacita]

@@JM-fp9wk That's beautiful

[@Honeyangel202]

I love this song. I listen to this a lot. It has so much meaning.

[@hunterriblett7230]

No matter how many times I listen to this song or the older it gets I get the same chills and feelings everytime.

[@sweetlou2362]

I love being native American because I know I come from proud strong people WHO NEVER GAVE UP ... my ancestors live through me ...

[@brown6767]

I’m Lakota Sioux and I stand strong with you all.

[@davidlloyd2225]

Let's see if u recieve this message I had a vision 3 times across moon saxon,man,crow,wolf..I'm not of your culture and am asking for help please ..peace and blessings

[@amyballardrichshe-her1924]

I see you carrying on your father's important legacy, but in your unique and brilliant way. Thank you and blessings.

[@iram9111]

Respect from germany. You are true warrior s! My heart is with you.

[@tamaradogtrail5252]

All people are the art of great creator we have code for that love n honor one other mitakuye oyasin all my relative's

[@davidlloyd2225]

​@Tamara Dogtrail ❤Greetings we are spiritual beings and my tribe is of the North let's say I had a vision and the materialistic world is ending..Good ❤and intent

[@gt_filly9136]

Much love from Alberta Canada indigenous strong brotha's

[@joseangelhernandez5274]

black, brown, and native people come together, and the white folk who genuinely want to help the cause are welcomed too.

[@MagklJellyBeanPastelLucidDream]

I'm white, wish I had the money to leave my home to travel and protest and help those in need who aren't white, especially natives. I love my ancestors people of today. (The Lakota Oglala and Tsewogi (Cherokee). I would like to try to speak to congress directly about problems like Russel Means and join AIM. 😣

[@germanresendiz3778]

+Leslie Lucero that's all bs wtf?

[@germanresendiz3778]

the Eskimos derived from Asia and the story goes they crossed through Alaska when glaciers froze,That was in the past I don't have anything against whites.What happened centuries ago, I did not have control over neither did you.

[@ISavageN8TIVEI]

Leslie Lucero What are you saying we fight?

[@ISavageN8TIVEI]

Leslie Lucero Okay but tell me this I'm not trying to disrespect you but I've read what you said and I agree with most but why you using the bible? and using what they said inside of it? I'm just curious because the whites forced that upon our people and then the priests would rape our children in the residential schools and try'd taking the Indian out of us so I see it as the whites wrote the bible too fool people into believing a false god? I'm not saying Jesus is not real because I'd love to believe it but not when they killed my people in the name of Jesus or god you get what I'm trying to say? I feel like they are trying to mislead us... you talk a lot about whites but whites are the one who wrote the bible to keep us in line... you feel?

[@BeesKneezs]

True Hip-Hop, music by the people for the people.

[@Shadow_Wolf73]

Real lyrics! Many blessings ❤️‍🔥

[@ericfisher565]

This song is deep brother keep speaking the truth I’ll fight with y’all until the stars aligned ✊

[@laurelcollier486]

Please don’t stop saying this. It’s 2020 now, and finally the whole world is seeing the injustice, don’t let other movements drown out your voice. Be here too. I care and want to see the future we all dream of.

[@amadondellerba2997]

Please put this track on Spotify! So good brother. Your Father would be proud. Stay Blessed.

[@moseslarios650]

Respect and blessings for you and your children and there children's children's..long live the Great Spirit and long live all Nations!👊

[@PaulaKirsti15]

Personally I have never been able to listen to rap music. I have to say that THIS I can actually handle! There is harmony and balance in here. Thank you for keeping the native spirit alive.

[@theworldisyours5831]

As the wind blows across "your" land you can hear "your ancestral spirits" calling out "white man still speak with fork tongue"! ....Sad my heart is heavy and aches for the genocide of your beautiful nation.......Respect from Scotland

[@AnGhaeilge]

This is nice. My dad loves the track this is sampled from. I'll send it onto him to listen. Lots of love from Ireland.

[@brianturner371]

Thank my brother! It truly means a lot all love. I got that long Native. Keep that fight!

[@lopezcora]

since discovering your music..i have not stopped listening..

[@VernDeLaronde]

We Have And Shall Remain... RESPECT.

[@AZTLANSOLDIER13]

Met your dad a couple times down here in Denver. Once in the 90s and in the early 2000s for the legends of Aztlan book signing. He was kind and wise.

[@mattyazzie1435]

Chinle, AZ!!! Home!!! 🔥🔥🔥🙏🙏

[@sandradennis8901]

liking that all our youth all over turtle island realizing, understanding and moving forward of what all our elders have suffered for ages and becoming something we were and wanted to be...realized! thank you

[@sharstar5888]

Our ancestors are proud of you! I'm proud of you and your accomplishments. ♡

[@tupac1779]

Much respect.

[@TwinDevilDedzik]

I love this music. How could I have missed out for so long? Vasa Park in Mt. Olive NJ has to be the best place for multi-tribe PowWows. I went to 4 as a child & my 5th was when I was 23 & I took my sister with me to her first powwow. I need more times like this

[@Hobomedic1]

Randomly clicked this video after a Tribe Called Red song. Glad I did.

[@boldog5974]

same here love it

[@stephanie163]

Thank you so much for opening our minds Nataani. Bless you and all of your peoples.

[@cobaltcox5210]

I’m Northern Cheyenne, my grandma was full blooded and even though I’m mostly white, I feel my native blood very deeply and love all of my native brothers and sisters. Much love to all of you!

[@cassandraglosson9352]

The only reason you worry about “how much blood” you have is an internal consciousness of the federal “blood quantum.” If you have the heritage and cultural, how much “blood” you have doesn’t matter! I’m technically a quarter for my tribe, my son is an eighth...how much our blood has goes back to the federal gov putting an overall limit on us. Eventually our tribes will die out because of blood quantum.

[@JaneGojara]

Omg yes me to my friend me to native forever!!!! I'm ashamed of being white

[@davidlloyd2225]

​@Jane Gojara what..my vision is saxon/man/crow/wolf you totally miss the point this is a spiritual war..and I'm proud of all ancestors ❤

[@dagrouch92]

one love.... it's great to see the natives making music an being recognized for it mad love and mad respect for all

[@tammyleath4964]

The Native people were strong in the past as they are today. No one can break those who are strong. The native people can’t be erased no matter what. Your ancestors stand with you. Stay strong stand tall always

[@str9ngeangel]

This is so beautiful with such a POWERFUL message!

[@carrollkinkade2329]

praying better for all -"Mother" as well as her "children" deserve better - thank you for your presence

[@kristykingery3798]

I knew your father. He would be very proud of you

[@sherriar1570]

😁🖤💜💜🖤

[@elisibetts5252]

@Kristykingery that’s awesome. What a wonderful statement to post to this young man. Made me smile.

[@stevenwilliamson9031]

No disrespect intended but not just his father but his whole family and his tribe would be and probably is proud of him

[@stevenwilliamson9031]

Very good I was watching lil Mike and funny bone and other native American rappers which brought me to him

[@snookssnooky285]

@@stevenwilliamson9031 thanks I'm a Lumbee Native NC Tribe very nice thing to day I just found this song made my day!!!!

[@tylersheary70]

Love it!

[@steelers530yc8]

Just found song and glad I did. Navajo Nation here. All love here for my people and to my fellow Native's..

[@kimmesteth4248]

I love this song Natanni!.. Thanks for thinking of my cousin/brother Allen Locke.. We miss him so much it hurts 💔

[@IndigenousMonk]

This song keeps me strong.

[@unknown-zu2py]

powerful song n worth replaying 100,000 times n over :) Native pride hooicha!!!

[@aliciavaldez3032]

Love from the Quechan tribe❤️💛🖤

[@angeltozer9701]

Listening to your music is my trail of tears

[@claudedavis201]

God I wish this song was on Apple Music. I love this song so much