Navajo Encounters With The Anasazi (Ancient Stories)

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In this captivating video, join Navajo Historian, Wally Brown, as he delves into our traditional Navajo stories passed down through generations.
These stories recount fascinating encounters between the Navajo people and the ancient Anasazi civilization.
Wally begins by sharing the riveting story of the Gambler. Witness as an Anasazi gambler and a Navajo gambler engage in a high-stakes game with much more than mere winnings at stake.
With the help of the Holy People, the Navajo gambler triumphs over the deceitful Anasazi gambler. The outcome of this intense duel sets into motion a remarkable chain of events, leading to the liberation of numerous slaves held by the Anasazi.
Prepare to be enthralled by yet another enthralling narrative - the tale of the last Anasazi leader. As the Holy People bring about the fall of the Anasazi civilization, they leave behind the last leader. In an awe-inspiring act of transformation, the Holy People turn him into an arrow. Then, a brave Navajo man sends the arrow soaring into the vast southern sky.
These mesmerizing stories--rich with wisdom and historical significance--offer a fresh perspective on the ancient past. They defy conventional narratives. Revealing untold chapters of Navajo-Anasazi interactions. Join us on this extraordinary journey as we bring to life these captivating accounts, ensuring that the legacy of these ancient encounters lives on for generations to come.
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[@beckylee3655]

A Navajo man saved my life in 1978. I was in Farmington NM and got an artery cut. This man had compassion on a 17 year old white girl 1800 miles from home. He drove me to the hospital and saved my arm and my life. I have prayed for blessings on this man and his family for almost 50 years. I will until my last breath. Thank you

[@maryanderson2759]

Gratitude is a beautiful thing

[@cowboykelly6590]

MUCH RESPECT TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY... AND, THE SAME GOES TO THAT WONDERFUL GENTLEMAN . 🤠🖖♨️

[@bretdaley6869]

You are a blessing

[@user-gq7ht3hw9y]

Always bless your self,and Navajo people,they love life to,god all of you, amen,❤

[@COWBAYOUBADASS]

When I was a boy a witnessed a Navajo medicine man pass away on the side of the road after being involved in a car crash. He looked into my eyes as we drove by right at the moment of his death and his soul left his body and entered mine.

[@boofriggityhoo]

This man is a national treasure. I go to bed listening to his stories.

[@cynthiaennis3107]

He surely is! And that’s a great idea!

[@brandy3573]

I know, I love listening to him...

[@joshuab2437]

I don't think it was the Anasazi, but the Aztecs. The Aztecs were hunting people down for human sacrifice. That's why the Anasazi, Hopi, and Pueblo people fled into the canyons and made cliff dwellings, all to hide from the Aztecs who were hunting them down like animals for human sacrifice.

[@HouseParty13]

​@@joshuab2437it's one of humanities oldest professions. Most cultures have used slavery in one form or another.

[@sashamoore9691]

@@joshuab2437those damn Toltecs!!!!

[@need2know739]

Thank-You Elder, these traditional teachings are very valuable for all peoples,tribes and tongues...

[@DanielFaith1000]

Maybe you be blessed by the divine 🙏🪩🪷

[@dustindontay3780]

As a white born with very little native blood...i highly value all teachings of all tribe that have been erased,lost,redirected. Thank you for such valuable life lessons and knowledge.

[@Dulc3B00kbyBrant0n]

I appreciate oral traditions! Also they confirm the bible which is cool

[@tonyfranks9551]

More please.

[@aaronsmith9202]

​@@Dulc3B00kbyBrant0nThey confirmed the bible before the Bible was created.

[@shannonm.4984]

Hey Wally, Its White Dog Running Wolf, I lived near you with my parents and brother in the mid 80's . I was the girl with the large snake at the first gym. It's nice to see you. Thank you.

[@Freya-bs5tx]

I'm a white woman who grew up on the Navajo, Hopi rez. I enjoyed these stories told by the elders as a child. I so love listening to them again. As I'm researching my own ancestors ( Irish, Scottish, Icelandic, ) I'm finding are legends pretty much the same just different names and places. Native American DNA has been found in Icelandic blood. I show your videos to my grandchildren who's father is Navajo and Hopi.

[@julietfischer5056]

The Norse did attempt settling in North America. When those settlements failed, they returned home. Some had married (or 'married') local women, and took them along with them.

[@paulbucklebuckle4921]

I share some of your ancestors, the Celts were colonised by the same people as our brothers and sisters here , a spiritual and mental colonisation of older shamanic beliefs by the monotheistic.

[@fredharvey2720]

Europeans and Native Americans share distant ancestry via the ancient Yamnaya culture.

[@thegoldensandal]

@@fredharvey2720 where did you get that info from? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamnaya_culture

[@nicholausbuthmann1421]

Do the "SAMI People" play into such with the Icelandic matter ?

[@johnfun3394]

Imagine having this man as our leader of our country. We could not do better!

[@carleetodd4324]

Couldn't agree more.

[@klalbritton]

People would call him a socialist and he could never be elected, unfortunately

[@whereRbearsTeeth]

Couldn’t possibly be any worse than what we have right now.

[@theliquidtheory]

Outstanding! I have lived here in Arizona for decades and have spent much time in the mountains and deserts here. I have seen this symbol at many sites, it is good to know the truth of this ancient language. Thank you for spreading your history and knowledge.

[@leidersammlung6955]

Another desert rat here, and this was brand new information for me as well! Simply amazing, and awesome! I ALWAYS wondered about the spirals.

[@oosterhuisd]

Nephlium

[@cynthiaennis3107]

@@oosterhuisdNephilim? Didn’t they have six fingers??

[@correenpulido5407]

I just told my husband I saw both cliff dwellers, and Pueblo ruins Arizona at age 12. They make sense now at 45.

[@logoseven3365]

I have been enjoying the Anasazi stories. It answers so many questions about their structures and disappearance.

[@ScottJB]

Some stories may have been created after the fact to explain their disappearance. No disrespect to the Diné or this wonderful man, but there are many communities in the Southwest who claim direct descent from the Anasazi (and don't like the Diné word "Anasazi"). And Occam's Razor suggests they're right. The Anasazi would have simply migrated, maybe due to war or climate change, and continued to build pueblos like the groups further South do today. This is not my idea, it's what these other Native groups claim.

[@Impericalevidence]

They did have large structures which were ruined apparently on purpose. What reason I cannot say, but something funny happened. I know that they had some dealings with the Aztecs as well.

[@Impericalevidence]

I have had at least one friend who claimed anazasi descent. Very nice dude.

[@cynthiaennis3107]

@@Impericalevidence perhaps the destruction was due to others not wanting knowledge of them to get to non Native people, to further hide history, is just my thought.

[@fleadoggreen9062]

Video on KZbin say they were big time cannibals !! Not kidding

[@JJ-JOHNSON]

My Mother was Cherokee, and every year we'd come together with the rest of her family after her Brothers and Sisters pass away we no longer get together, the last time I seen all her people my family was when I was 16 years old, I'm now 60, I miss them those day.

[@BeingLifted]

Your story is my own with one exception. My parents' families emigrated from Poland. When Busia, my maternal grandmother, passed on, the extended family stopped gathering (with the exception of weddings, which are seldom celebrated anymore) and, when my older sisters passed, the more immediate family stopped gathering. I've tried to bring them together and I try to share our traditions and the wisdom behind them but I've about given up. I would like to say that I'm glad I'm not alone with these feelings -- but I'm not. 😢 I'm very sorry for all of humanity's losses. I suppose the silver lining in this dark cloud of sorrow is that we're still being blessed with this man's teachings. In closing, I wish you much ✌️, ❤️ and 💡.

[@incominghitdadirt9587]

​@@BeingLiftedsome people are like that. They are very special. My mother was from Sweden and she always kept up with everyone on my dads side and her side. When she passed about six years ago my family became very small. I really wish there was a strong sense of community in the US. Best wishes👍.

[@Catnipfumar]

I am an actual Navajo woman for the Navajo Nation Why do you white people always claim charity. It's always charity and then come to find out you're not Cherokee just like Elizabeth Warren. Why don't you actually do a DNA test? Most people claiming to be Cherokee are actually a $5 Indian. You don't know what a $5 Indian is Google it.

[@Catnipfumar]

@@bzbestudying919 😹😹😹 that $5 Cherokee indian blood🤣 Edit: Every time it seems like when I tell a white person what I am mixed with they pull the my great grandmother was Cherokee or even a Cherokee princess bs.😆

[@cowboykelly6590]

😔 I don't blame you.

[@lulumoon6942]

👀There is a reason Elder Wally is sharing this now. LOVE the deeper history & language teaching! ❤️🙏💞

[@victoriabraham3692]

Thank you Elder, I am Australian and I have always loved the outlook the native indians have about this world, nature and how to live in it without wrecking it, I wish we all had these values!!

[@grahamgirolami8384]

our own first nations people lived in the same fashion as the native peoples of america. i follow all natives peoples teachings, the moari are also very like this, very interesting history

[@user-ir4gw8zu6d]

I'm Athabascan from Alaska I've been taught we are Dene'ine related to the Denai, Furthest tribe in Alaska watch this all the time food medicine. The world needs basic knowledge like this. More then ever.

[@melissaboylan4798]

I could sit and listen to him forever! I would never get bored and would learn more than i ever could in a classroom.

[@RawOrganix420]

me too!

[@user-tm1ec2on6w]

I’m sad to hear that your youth are being swept away by the technology flood. I sell at a farmers market every Saturday in season, and last week a new couple came to sell flowers next to us, and that had a little five-year old daughter whom they sat in a chair for three hours with an iPhone to watch videos. I thought to myself, that from the perspective of the parents, they’re keeping her distracted, but do they realize that they’re also training her brain and mind to never take pause, be calm, and think? It made me incredibly sad.

[@pamelabennett1492]

She is unaware of her surroundings!🥺 She will always be looking for entertainment from outside herself.🥺

[@consideringorthodoxy5495]

And its not really good for them to be distracted. They just don't want to deal with the act of disciplining their child. Be bored, but focus on what's happening.

[@aphilipdent]

It's great hearing their oral history. As he said we need to learn history. It doesn't matter who's history, you can still learn from it.

[@user-cc4sy1mu8v]

These are universal truths and lessons.

[@kschoolcraft]

For sure, it already tells you who, what, when and where.

[@allenbuck5589]

I’m old and a white man I find your videos to be eye opening. I’ve live in the south eastern part of my life. But was raised in central Ohio we had mounds near our home. Lots of points to be found after the Plowing each spring. Thanks from Sc

[@afwalker1921]

We already know that you can't own a child of God. Thank you, Elder, for reinforcing this lesson.

[@shiverarts8284]

Yes another lesson is to be closely connected with other children of the sun

[@georgearden7075]

God punished some & they were made slaves, how is that possible? When Cain killed his brother he was punished and all his family and the ones that came after were cursed, read the hidden books.

[@shiverarts8284]

@@georgearden7075 books

[@shiverarts8284]

@@georgearden7075 idk brother figure it out. Make your own assumptions

[@Swanselm]

God ? The one who approved manifest destiny, slaughter, rape, & decimation of native peoples?? Lmfao😂

[@proverbs2522]

I want to tell that man who’s speaking first thank you for your giving us your inherited wisdom and knowledge. And secondly we are anxiously waiting and humbly listening to every word you say. We know this information is very sacred and important. We are listening. I will teach my children all about this history because it is needed. It’s not a joke and it’s not politically motivated. We all are so very grateful to you and to the people posting it and we can’t wait to learn more.

[@marjorieperry8985]

Wado, Cherokee, Tsalagi, for the words, "thank you". Your program means so much to me. I love how you teach and share. It lifts my spirit and heart. I try to listen often. It is like a holy meeting to do so. I pray everyday for you all to be blessed. Dohi, Peace.

[@bertnerny]

What you are sharing is so incredibly important. Setting the historical record straight in ways that no archeologist could ever do and keeping the truth alive. Clarifying the standards, ways, and history of your people when so many other people try to homogenize and stereotype the past. Thank you for these insights

[@mattsmith3750]

The Aztecs arrived in Mexico in the 13th Century after migrating from somewhere further north - I wonder if the events are linked? Some details about many cultural practices of the Anasazi being distasteful and offensive to the Diné make me wonder if the Aztecs and Anasazi are connected in some way? As well as practicing slavery, did the Anasazi practice human sacrifice, for example?

[@larmiisoren2568]

Straight up I believe it came to that. This is why the site was designated and the story boards created, so they could cover it up and control the narrative against Latinos today who keep saying oh the land was theirs... The furthest north the empire stretched at its peak expansion conquest was just beyond to Aztec, NM. There is evidence that supports the claims that people were butchered and consumed there in Chaco. Also "ancient Mexica prepared the pozole with meat of the captives sacrificed in some festivals, mainly dedicated to [their] Lord the Flayed, Xipe Totec". The Dine would never agree with such festival, let alone the practice of slavery. Thankfully the people who claim ancestry to them now prepare it with chicken or pork. Yup astonishing, and I bet you won't likely hear them tell you this. The pueblo were divided by that meso-american influence. All cultures influence each other and frankly modern land disputes are ridiculous, humans belong to/upon the Earth, we can't own it, it is not something to be owned, for it would then be enslavement. We used the concept of slavery against itself to attain the captives out from these monstrous practices of the time and beyond.

[@jaslynn377]

Giants and Chaco canyon give evidence. It was a huge place that Aztecs could have met Anasazi.

[@smougmax5_9_72]

Fist of all my ancestors in search of Mexico Tenochtitlan wasn’t Aztecas they were Mexicas because they were looking for Meshico/mexico Tenochtitlan,Aztecas/Aztecatl from Aztlan-Atlantis before the great flood,after it they weren’t Aztecatl anymore,determined by Huitzilopochtli,who named them with mexicas. And in the origin of Aztecas they did yes Sacrifice but they wasn’t so exploited as in the recent nation of Mexicas, sacrifice is by free will of one person not forced(in our origin they didn’t needed to kill people for a ritual,dark forces have been Attempting to indoctrinated and forced those rituals on my ancestors). Tejtsino Ometeotl🇲🇽🪶🐉🪶🦅🪶🐆

[@ERLong-ww7yn]

The Anasazi practiced cannibalism

[@Acorn33713]

There’s abundant proof the Anasazi were cannibals

[@asupremechieften]

I am doing a navajo project for my school and I'm multitasking while I start learning how to thinking and read and speak in Navajo as well! Diné Strong! #pathofascension

[@IceLynne]

I have learned so much from you over the past two years, it's amazing! I have great respect for you.

[@IceLynne]

@@durtyhairy reformulate that question so it makes sense and then ask someone else since California isn't a part of this conversation.

[@samrivers1815]

Much thankfulness for your wisdom. I am just but a white man that loves nature and history and the outdoors and bringing the children to learn to fish hunt and survive off the land and give respect to every animal we consume to help the circle of life that never stops.❤️🧎 Thank you for sharing your wisdom!❤️

[@freedomforever6718]

My brother, my elder, my teacher. Thank you.

[@Beartracks51]

Gött Segne dich. Thank you for sharing aswell. I have lived the most part of last 30 years off The grid on property with Anasazi ruins everywere even on the property , there iis still spirits around from those beings . 1 night i observed many small light orbs dancing around an moving up and down on the hill were main ruin site is. There was many other paranormal anomalies experienced not only by me but my son and others who had stayed many nites with us out there. I leave tobacco gifts.. to show respect wen the spirit moves me to do so. May seem silly to some but i know why i do its good intensions. All living things now and before us are important, fragile an precious life is short how we treat others an all living things is extremely important . The creator of all life and the spirit of life is paying close attention.

[@bigwombat7286]

It would be nice to hear the ghost's side of the story.

[@kennethsmith4956]

I love hearing you speak, I'm Pawnee and was never really able to be around my people growing up. Thank you

[@1J_R]

i'm very happy i found you. my curiosity abounds about the legends and traditions of the original peoples.

[@elram2649]

The roofing from those kivas look like a woven pattern. Cool structural design.

[@2nickles647]

It's not a Kiva. It's called a Hogan or Howaan' . The meaning is a home.

[@elram2649]

@@2nickles647 Coolness! 😎👍 Hogan and Howaan both sound like Spanish 'Hogar' meaning 'Home' in English. Of course, Different language roots. I'm just pointing out how similar they are. And yes, 'Casa' means 'House' in English. So it's: Hogan/Howaan in Navajo. Hogar in Spanish. Home in English. And Casa means House in English.

[@SolzeyeJewels]

I'm really enjoying the real teachings about the anasazi. Thank you.

[@samiraannadkins2615]

You have a beautiful past and a beautiful heart. Thank you for sharing and keeping traditions alive.

[@brainflash1]

"Turned him into an arrow" I suspect that's the polite way to say they carved his bones into an arrowhead.

[@Dovid2000]

Or else he was exiled into the south country, meaning, Mexico.

[@georgerowe9166]

@@Dovid2000 It sounds like the creation myths of the Aztec people.

[@SolidGeddoe]

@@Dovid2000 If that theory is true,how did the Aztecs learn to create ziggurats or pyramids and Dine didnt? I thought the Aztecs are nothing more than descendents of the Mayans?

[@the_endgame]

Yes these stories are extremely biased towards the teller

[@larmiisoren2568]

@@the_endgame Aren't all narratives biased to the teller?

[@Ale-hg6lf]

My son started drawing spirals at age three... Wouldn't draw anything else... Peace love light. Thank you for your lessons. All praise and great glory to our father in heaven. Amen

[@bryanpeterson9846]

History too important to be forgotten. Thank you.

[@Ken-gy1sr]

Thank You, Mr Brown. You are an endless well of Great Knowledge and Helpful wisdom Blessings for you Sir

[@davidredmond366]

Great story... Very interesting. I would like to hear from your teachings about who the Apache are to the Navajo. Your languages sound similar and have so much in common. Apache call themselves Dene, Indene.. and sounds much like Dine. Curious to get your input an history on the Apache.

[@leidersammlung6955]

I know that there is deep seated animosity between Apache and Navaho. The Navaho I encountered were really excellent people, the Apache…… not so much. Just my own life experience,

[@davidredmond366]

@@leidersammlung6955 Im not asking about what you think about Apaches in present time. Im asking about the history between the Navajo and Apache from Navajo traditional teachings. I'm sure the Apache people have their own opinions and traditional teachings as well. Remember the winner of the war gets to tell his story first. But the truth is found only by both or multiple sides mixed together. We all have a bias for our own. I respect that but understand what it is. The Apaches fought long and hard against 3 Empires (Spain, Mexico, USA), multiple enemy tribes, thousands of bounty hunters (scalps)and finally hunted down by other Apaches and US Army. Remember they had to do this with women and children near or in battle and being pursued. When your being attacked and driven from your lands and the enemies scalp your women, children and babies.. I might find many ways to torcher those enemies as well. I'm not gonna judge the many tribes who fought back viciously against their enemies. Something in their history probably made them that way. The U.S. Army, Mexico and the Spanish Empire sure wasn't innocent of war crimes. Considering some tribes, bands and clans don't exist anymore to tell their side of the story.

[@999a0s]

@@davidredmond366 this is a great perspective. history is written by the victors. the historical accounts we draw from do not incorporate indigenous people's side of the story, because they were the target of an ethnic cleansing campaign. imagine if Turkey wrote the history of Armenia. you would never know the Armenian genocide happened at all. they deny it to this day and it's been over a century. always keep this in mind. people will never volunteer the truth about their misdeeds, and if they come out on top, they will try to erase the history. japan still refuses to acknowledge the system of mass systematized rape that was the "comfort women" system...and it's 2023.

[@bullboo1]

@@davidredmond366 What was done to many tribes is nor different than what they did to others before the Army, Mexico and Spain came. Doesn't make it right but humans by nature do good and bad.

[@paulstevens4178]

“War makes beasts of all men.” I believe this quote goes back to the Greeks.

[@nedhenery6816]

Ah'heh heh shí'chíí.. for sharing with us the past.. I really enjoy listening to you..

[@michellecornum5856]

I have so many questions about the symbolism and perhaps a longer version of the last Anasazi. But what you said answered a long asked question. Thank you.

[@liarliar7491]

I love you Grand Father. I love the historic stories more than you know. From Australia ❤

[@LydiaKolbe-hd5ml]

Hello Sir! I am not an American. But I used to spend a decade in the USA, Florida. There live the Seminoles. The story of Native Americans called Indians has always touched my heart since I won t ever understand invasions crimes extermination violation of rights etc. Our stupid world continues to do such wars for power and greed.. I once thought to be part of an Indian community to help or teach or else.. i felt closer to them than to their invaders.I am grateful that today's native Americans share their knowledge with those even who hurt them..that s grandeur! Intelligence and dignity. I left the USA not proud of their past at all..a shame. Slavery got abolished but Indians live in reservations.that s nonsense. So long this persists America won t prosper. God does t allow crimes against humanity. Thanks Sir for your greatness. From France

[@olecranonrebellion9976]

Natives had slavery also. The word Slave comes from Slavic Whites enslaved by north African Arabs. Yes Slavery is evil.

[@LydiaKolbe-hd5ml]

@@olecranonrebellion9976 hi! Thanks for your answer. Slavery exists all around the world yes..And in démocraties even! what are we doing to each other? Stupidity will cause the self extermination of human kind.nothing else. Sad. Be blessed my friend.

[@RichardWScottKrug]

We're Native.... not Indians either because this isn't India. nor Native American.. just Native... to the land before it was ever named America.. I'm spirit walker.. lower porch creek nation.. muskogee... east of the Mississippi

[@LydiaKolbe-hd5ml]

@@RichardWScottKrug hi Sir, I learned something new from you since History calls "Native""Indians" , at least in the European History. Many greetings from France. Krug is German meaning earthen vessel used to drink beer and other😉

[@RichardWScottKrug]

Yup.. my last name is deffinately German. And my native family on my mom's side is Mcintosh.. Scottish/porch creek.. Chief William Mcintosh

[@eleanormckelvaine6939]

I’ve said it before, if people lived as the Navajo this world wouldn’t b in the trouble it’s in! Thank you this video and all the others too! ❤️

[@pamelabennett1492]

The BEAUTY WAY!

[@buildmyboard2210]

Even though after all the misery they went through they have kept their history and culture! Which is amazing :) So much wisdom inthere

[@SnakePlissken-ki2rw]

There are Christian prophets that are prophesying a return of land that was stolen and treasures being discovered on their land. Great wealth is coming to them.

[@revolutionunderground]

I LOVE the teachings about the ancient ones!!

[@crikman100]

Sincere thanks to you for sharing your wisdom and knowledge. I have found great enjoyment in listening to you speak on the history and stories of your people. Your words leave me a better man. Peace and goodness to you and yours.

[@gregcollins7602]

I love these anazasi videos. It's a great way to keep the teachings alive.

[@gadeyeye6268]

I appreciate this wisdom passed down through you and your people. Peace blessings and wisdom to yall.

[@margodoyle3557]

A am very drawn to your teachings. Best wishes from Scotland.

[@thinginthewoods1414]

Thank you for your teachings. I plan to travel the area in October and this greatly helps to understand and respect what I will see.

[@JuliaJames-zx5xy]

Thank you so much for sharing this. Truths need to be shared down thru the generations so we will not forget the ways of life affecting our past, present & future. 🙏🙏🙏

[@utahprepper8925]

I live near Navajo Lake in Utah. This lesson was very interesting and valuable to me. Thank you.

[@herbertharris7316]

All praise to The Most High for the great Elder!!! Thank you dear great Elder! 🖤💯🖤

[@dawnstathis348]

My Highest Respect 💙 Dear ELder , You are a True Treasure

[@prussia1557]

Ive been searching for these stories on the Anasazi forever! Thank you elder! As a historian and Anthropology major you've done a service to humanity for preserving this information for future generations!

[@markeverson5849]

Again thank you so much for sharing this valuable history of not only your families and Clans! But the others and this is the history of America

[@Orbacron]

Thank you for sharing these acts of kindness to free the people from slavery

[@joantrigilio9990]

Thank you Brother Wally. This was an exceptionally poignant teaching. ❤

[@michaelmcdermott209]

It is always riveting when Wally speaks and I retain most all of the information afterwards. What an amazing teacher

[@pamelabennett1492]

We really enjoy hearing about the way of "Walking in Beauty". Thank you

[@An_Eclectic_Mind]

Thank you for your service to keep this country free. I believe we are going to repeat history in this country in some ways...your knowledge is invaluable.

[@MrLotrecht]

Greetings from Germany .Thank you for your very impressiv words,the story of your ancient people and the more understanding of you !

[@marlysmoilanen8459]

So love hearing these stories. Truth.

[@DeborahRosen99]

I wonder if there's any chance that the Aztec (Mexica) people, who claimed to have come from a place they called Aztlan, and knew as a place of plenty far to the north of the lake they ended up settling by, may have been descended from the Anasazi. It would add another layer of meaning to the story of being transformed into an arrow and fired south - driven away.

[@frankb9149]

Or they're are no more Aztecs , Spanish killed they history like they did to many people.

[@theflamingone8729]

I was told the Anasazi originated in the south and moved up along the trade routes, bringing their death cult religion with them.

[@sunnysideup5451]

@@theflamingone8729 I have often wondered if this was the case. Does this wisdom come from oral history handed down generation to generation, or is it written down? Thank you for your comment.

[@coryboehme68]

One of his videos I listened to not to long ago was him saying the Anasazi came from the south and the Navajo came from the east

[@theflamingone8729]

@@sunnysideup5451 sorry, I watch so many of these and read so much, I rarely remember where I heard stuff.

[@belindadunne4312]

Thank you for sharing these stories with us. ❤

[@BeingLifted]

Thank you for sharing your wealth of ancient knowledge with all of humanity. While my parents were born in the US 100 yrs. ago, their parents emigrated from Poland. We were taught, and my family practiced, Polish traditions. Now in my 60s, I thirst for more of that knowledge and would like to share what I know with younger generations of the family but it's hard to pull them away from their phones and social media. It's even difficult to catch them for voice-to-voice communication and so much is lost in text messaging. I'm not surprised but I am sorry to hear that you've experienced much of the same with your younger generations, particularly because there's so much ancient wisdom still available to back up your Dene traditions. This Polish "girl," now in her 60s, still thirsts for this type of knowledge and is humbled to accept it. Thank you!

[@FaithAndRepentance]

Beautiful, thank you for keeping this alive ❤

[@markhayes8546]

Shane this was a very informative video. Thank Elder Wally for his time and effort. I like listening to the honesty and sincerity in how he presents his teachings. He is a great man. Mark

[@womanofthunder993]

Thank you grandfather for your teachings. You are much appreciated. ❤🕊️🌺

[@kellyross4801]

Thank you, Grandfather, for sharing the stories of the People. My People are of a different tradition, but we too, value our history and stories. I remember you, Mrs. Vera Lupe, a Dineh woman who was a beloved music teacher for seven years in my childhood in Colorado. Be at Peace. ❤

[@de1018]

Thank you very much for continuing your run of videos explaining the [true] history of the Anasazi and their interactions with the Diné! I have learned more about the history of this continent from a few of your vids than I have in years of schooling. Again, excellent work, and I cannot thank you enough!!!

[@toddrodgers5108]

Someone hug that man for telling us what tge great father would have told us if we would listen. Blessings

[@stewwilliams1537]

Amazing!! The sacred spiral crosses all the world! For my ancestors the clock wise spiral was the light path and the ani clock wise was the dark path. But the stories tell of a less simple idea.....but as with you the old ones have passed on so the knowledge is going as they go. Thank you for the lessons.......very helpful for my journey through life.

[@lindakooistra1889]

That - To walk in Light and Beauty has always spoken to my heart - I am of Native origin from Louisiana, but unable to research these roots because Fr. Hebert tried to protect people. My husband I made a trip to the village of the Cliff Dwellers and I meditated in a tent set up there. We both felt a presence with us on the way home through Oklahoma. We had met dear people from Colorado in Sturgis, S. Dakota and I bought an earring and necklace bandanna set with silver-like conches that I was wearing as chest protection from the sun. Across Oklahoma I continually wore this set in remembrance of this couple that had later had a motorcycle accident with an elk. As we came through a tunnel and onto a bridge, my bandanna necklace came loose and I willingly detached from it. Later that evening I got a very loving feel that someone was especially pleased with finding this ethereal gift. This was very dear to my heart as a Native connection of Family. This website speaks to my heart, Thank You Dear One.

[@kathleentice8323]

I am grateful to find this site today. I study a book based on the ancient people of America. I love the stories. I love the teachings of the ancient people of America on the Great Spirit, or Creator. Thank you for this message.

[@stevenrey56]

Thank you, I found that very interesting. The symbol for A Na Bay Ho as the clockwise spiral and the reason really hit home for me. The circles of various kinds are spread throughout the Southwest by many native peoples. I've seen the symbol in many pictographs and it makes me wonder about some of the other symbols in the pictographs. Can they be interpreted or perhaps the representations were more familiar then and not anymore? Knowledge lost sort of thing. I wish archaeologists would listen to this version of the Anasazi because it seems absolutely more likely than an extended drought which forced them disseminate into the Pueblo people, which I think is the popularly held view among the "learned". Particularly when other native peoples continued to exist at the same time.

[@steakeater4557]

@@brynfragua2646 You have it wrong. You make warnings to your Family, not boast to them. You love Europeans? They make moats around castles! We just don't like hurting Earth. You poison the learning, when all that can be presented by Human is the bad, so we do good! Anasazi understood, so they wrote us on the walls where their pottery is destroyed, and so it is!

[@stevenrey56]

@@brynfragua2646 My remarks encompass all southwest native people. Circular symbols are used throughout. The question is, did Anasazi disseminate into the local population or did they just leave? There is more evidence to suggest they left leaving existing peoples already there, than there is evidence that they stayed and merged with the local population. I hope we get some DNA answers someday.

[@julietfischer5056]

It could be a combination of causes. Perhaps droughts reduced the food and water supplies, leading to (more) conflict with their neighbors, ending with wars and the Anasazi scattering after their leaders died.

[@michaelschiessl8357]

Thank you Grandfather Wally for sharing this wisdom and knowledge with us..I means alot that you take the time to share these stories with us..I just wish these videos would be longer..Just love hearing about the ancient ancestors and who they were and how they came to be..Thank you!!

[@jasonspurlock1318]

A friend shared video to me but love hearing and respecting the stories. So much reason to keep stories alive for respect and wisdom of each other

[@kathym5307]

I love your teachings.

[@lostadamsgold]

Many old maps also say "Nabahoo". Super-interesting as always. Thank you. Your definition of Dineh is always interesting. To be preserved, culture must be shared. Those who care (like Billagaana me), will pass it on - as best we can. Thanks.

[@spirithawk2418]

Thank you Sir for sharing your Wisdom and destroying ignorance...

[@georgedelatorre4249]

I thank you for your time & energy

[@9877joseph]

Thank you so very much, Grandfather.

[@thespirituniversity3527]

Absolutely fascinating! Thank you, I love these videos.

[@lawrencemckeon6802]

This is fascinating and very informative. Thank you very much.

[@TheGlobalTravelr]

Thank you for recording these important stories.

[@kimserio8317]

thank you for taking time to teach us.

[@normneeb9809]

Thank you honorable Elder , this was a lovely and profound teaching

[@Elev8.5280]

Thank you for the valuable information, traditional story telling like this is much appreciated and needed. 🙏🤙❤️‍🔥 Blessings and Peace 🕊️🤟

[@FenrirStrange]

Thank you for making these videos, I love these

[@ruthiecastro9519]

This is my favorite story👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻thanks ❤️❤️❤️❤️I am Diné

[@ericvandermey3231]

Thank you for sharing your wisdom. I can't wait to see the great healing and rememberance come to be. Our worlds history is very beautiful. A testament to human determination and beauty ❤

[@chenoah7963]

Beautiful teachings that give us so much understanding of the past which we must preserve for future generations , to remember what we can learn from them. Thank you for sharing and preserving these talks with Wally!🥰

[@pietromatarazzo7247]

Thank you for this message and story of your Navajo People

[@janosik150]

I am from Poland. Thank you for the history lesson.

[@humanresetproject]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING YOUR PRECIOUS WISDOM 💕🙏

[@sunnysideup5451]

Thank you for sharing the traditional wisdom and stories! I visited Chaco Canyon and climbed Fajada Butte way back in the 1970's, before it was closed to the public, and saw pictographs on the cliff with this spiral. We were told a much different story, about the "peaceful Anasazi" and also about the Navajo people; discouraged from ever hearing and learning from your ancient stories and memories. I can't thank you enough for dispelling the distortions, which were the exact opposite from your oral history. I have remained interested and fascinated by the Chaco Canyon region for 50 years and at one point discovered that early archeologists in the 1800's reported evidence of cannibalism in that region and that the "Establishment" of Archeological Studies quashed this information because it countered their "controlled narrative" of the Anasazi people being peaceful. In the years since my visit to Chaco Canyon much money and focus has been spent on research there. Technological advancements have revealed massive road structures connecting many many communities covering a vast area of land. I would be very interested to learn more about the real story of what happened. Thank you again for sharing your wisdom so generously.

[@julietfischer5056]

It can be easy to mistake lack of recognizable castles and other fortifications for lack of warfare. Most Native American peoples did not make war the way the European invaders did---army vs army until one side died or surrendered---or for the same reasons. The cliff dwellings were made by people who fought with their neighbors. Those narrow and difficult paths were meant to deter enemies, even if it meant the defenders had trouble getting supplies during a seige.

[@sunnysideup5451]

@@julietfischer5056 thank you for adding perspective! It's an easy mistake to make, looking at history (and even present times) through the narrow portal of one's own personal and cultural experience. So much of the history we are taught is limited in this manner.🙏

[@julietfischer5056]

@@sunnysideup5451- The Native American population of what is now the United States had been in the hundreds of millions before the invasion that Columbus kicked off. If I remember correctly, it had dropped to a quarter million by the beginning of the 20th Century. Between the death toll and the deliberate attempts to destroy the many Native cultures, information vanished. Genetic information, cultural lore, and artifacts are gone, and the remainder give us so many hints of the interconnections between the many peoples that school history classes treat as self-contained.

[@sunnysideup5451]

@@julietfischer5056 ❤️🙏❤️

[@Nyctophora]

Thank you for taking the time to share with us.

[@valve6642]

Thank you. Your knowledge is so appreciated.

[@Platero505]

My 2nd Navajo clan Tl'ogi is of the Zia Pueblo, weaver clan. I did a DNA that validates my connection as 95% Navajo Athabaskan, 3% Southwest indigenous and 2% Spanish. A great........ grandma was Pueblo and Spanish decent back to 1580 in Seboyeta, NM. The now Tohajiilee, NM was designated by Spanish governors in 1700s. I myself never lived there, but I know of many family who still live in the small community.

[@lilcricket4379]

Thank you, Papa! such important teachings ✨💞

[@ae2948]

Thank you for the stories, Mr. Brown !

[@piercecottingham]

Thank you for all your teachings!