Navajo History from Dine' Bikeyah / Hardrock, Arizona

Where the highway ends and Dine' Bikeyah traditions continue. We sit down Linda Simonson and listen to her stories of growing up in Hardrock, Arizona and the teachings that are passed down to the younger generation. We also met up with Marshall Johnson who grew up riding horses, competing in rodeos and shares his knowledge of the region. There is more to the mesas and high desert landscape than people know. Join us with more great storytelling from our relatives in the Black Mesa area.
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[@nedhenery6816]

Hello Linda and everyone on reservation.. Blessings to you all for keeping everything traditional. I miss days with my my dad on his property

[@deborahwilkerson5044]

Thank you. I believe you are part of the soul of this nation that is searching for peace.

[@lavernemoreno7168]

Please say Dinetah, not reservation,

[@nedhenery6816]

@@lavernemoreno7168: talking bout all tribes not only Navajos. Blessing to you too

[@Spagoshi]

Ned, what area did your bi'zahi reside?

[@Hello78989]

Thank you for these beautiful stories within the four sacred Mountains. I love it.

[@Spagoshi]

Anytime, what area are you from? Ahe' hee for your comment and watching the Johnson family's video 🤙🏾

[@lonniefaubion3945]

Beautiful family

[@Spagoshi]

Indeed they are!

[@RonnieWisdom]

Excited to watch this one!!! Thank you brother! Many blessings!

[@Spagoshi]

Hope you enjoyed it Ronnie!

[@RonnieWisdom]

@@Spagoshi Yes, it was amazing & eye opening! So many teachings and wisdom. Looking forward to the next one!

[@lavernemoreno7168]

What a beautiful way of life she and her family live... keeping alive the way of the ancestors...breath taking land,

[@Spagoshi]

Agreed, it's a lifestyle I envy when I visit and sit and talk. Sharing stories with families like the Johnsons is always relaxing and enjoyable. Ahe' hee for watching their video.

[@alexisgibson6766]

Another great video! Keep them coming, very educational 👍

[@Spagoshi]

Ahe' hee for watching!

[@imanslotboom6121]

Keep showing videos extraordinary land raise your voice you were the first nations around the united states well done!!!!!

[@Spagoshi]

Ahe' hee for watching and your support!

[@dottiannblakemore9231]

Hi Linda, love it here in Sun Valley, Az. Love your channel❤

[@Spagoshi]

yá'át'ééh, Ahe' hee for watching the Johnson's video series. Much appreciated!

[@brit8802]

I looooove the uncle. His chill could rock me to sleep and his hands are cool, his thumb kind of detaches, they look very capable. Good feels with this crew, God feels, like a bright and beautiful Sabbath day. 😊

[@Spagoshi]

Actually he's the father to Raeanna & siblings, husband to Nicole and Son-in-law to Shi'masini Linda. He's a great guy and we really geeked out together off camera while we all ate lunch together. They felt like family and we're hoping to spend time with them this summer.

[@ArizonaAirspace]

May God bless Linda and all of her loved ones. Bless the Navajo Nation. Spirits of Navajo ancestors are alive and watching over the Navajo land and her people.

[@TEPO--]

Beautiful. Your voices, the land and Tiger too are medicine to my heart this evening, thank you. Mitákuye Oyâsin

[@Spagoshi]

Aoh' ahe' hee for watching the Johnson's video and their Tiger as well!

[@Ricart0713]

We’ve been here! INDEED 🙏🏽 ! All along…. 🌲🏔️ 🦅 Way! way! Before they incarcerated our Ancestors 🙏🏽 …

[@Spagoshi]

Aoh' agreed 🤙🏾

[@juliehaskie6633]

Beautiful places. 😊

[@Spagoshi]

Yes ma'am it is. 🤙🏾 Ahe' hee for watching

[@juliusnells5401]

Been a long time. Good to see my little brother Marshal looking healthy and strong.

[@Spagoshi]

How are you two related? We found out we are related through clans. I believe we are brothers and I'm a nephew to Linda. Ahe 'hee for watching 🤙🏾

[@juliusnells5401]

@@Spagoshi I went to high school with Marshal. He was a couple years younger. I knew from way back in elementary that he was from the Salt clan. My older siblings knew his older brother and sister from school. A couple years back my family and cousins put on a Salt Clan gathering and invited people from all over the reservation and many came from all over. During the gathering they told their stories of their maternal lineages even as far back as the long walk to see how we were connected. It turns out we had the same grandmother four generations back named Asdzaan Dimaas. It was great to hear the stories that day and I think someone there started to map out a family tree.

[@Spagoshi]

@@juliusnells5401 That's a great story of tracking your lineage. Do they have meetings of the first four clans?

[@juliusnells5401]

@@Spagoshi I don’t know. I believe the Navajo college in Tsaile, AZ have some information about that. Our gathering was just something our older family members wanted to do as we’ve met many people of our own clan across the reservation.

[@frankf.jr_navajoartist5836]

No more draining or use of pristine drinking water by the super corps in this day and age. Navajo Nation protect our drinking water for generations to come

[@Spagoshi]

What do you think would be the best way to avoid corporations from using our water resource on Dine' Bikeyah? Ahe' hee for watching Masini's video!

[@rayelitaduboise271]

A'oo Ahe'hee Cheii ❤

[@Platero505]

Your stories are beautiful. Stay blessed. Im 100% Navajo. My family history goes back to 1580. Our family's written history starts in Seboyeta, NM, when the Spanish Fransican priests documented their travel near Mt Taylor. Through much struggle with the Spanish governors, with land grants, Spanish settlements, and non conversion to Catholicism, my ancestors were forced to move to present day Tohajiilee,NM in 1750. Reference: Wikipedia, Seboyeta Navajos, Seboyeta, NM. Catholic libraries archived in Mexico City, 1580. I posted 2 DNA results on KZbin, Patterson Platero. Interestingly, no Asian or Siberian connections.

[@Spagoshi]

Ahe' hee for sharing insight to your lineage. Have you watched our To'hajiilee video with the medicine man Marty? He shared the history of To'hajiilee and Seboyeta. I really enjoyed his stories and learning the history of To'hajiilee.

[@melvinshirley1640]

Horseherder are they by chance related to the "navajo Horse whisperer "???

[@Spagoshi]

Good question, I'll ask Nicole when I have a chance. Ahe' hee

[@deitrestolbert4442]

Water issues 😭... Compaines should mine where people are not.

[@Spagoshi]

Agreed but that's why people are near water because we are reliant on it.

[@justiceedwards4219]

I wonder will navajo people stand up for thr 1/8th navajo people

[@Spagoshi]

I'm having a hard time understanding what you are asking? Are you wondering if you'll be treated equally or if you need help, they'll be there? What part of Dine' Bikeyah are you from? Thanks for commenting and watching the video, much appreciated!

[@brianalanreed5766]

Osiyo on the Dark Side of the Moon! One White Brother here of mixed heritage. What one white? The one who one. OB1. Pick another color! Gosh darn golly he must of jumped right off the screen! While that may be funny to you what I’m about to say is quite real… “Our conversation with the Federal Gov. to Free Native American Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier who’s been falsely imprisoned going on half a century and to honor the Indian Treaties (pre-constitutional law) forming the basis of our great nation was almost entirely redacted on national TV shortly before the insurrection because it demanded that the then President also relinquish the nuclear codes which has never been done. Oct. 2020 I spoke with at least around a dozen federal agents including the FBI and even the US Navy. Trump says before being elected, “We have nuclear weapons so why can’t we use them?” Nancy Pelosi confirmed to our international audience on national TV that indeed they where removing the nuclear codes with the help of the CIA and if anyone has any questions they could just call up and ask. What followed only confirms nuclear tensions where about to explode. The redaction is worth at the minimum trillion$ more than all moneys because with nuclear war lights out! Nothing! This simultaneously addressed the other largest nuclear power and all the rest without having to address any of them directly except our own.” This is a true story. If you alike what you see please support the Peacekeeper. Please allow me to retire and pass the torch. I should not need to utter another word. What was done never needs to be repeated. The whole story must be told with or without the redaction so what happened in Japan never happens again. The hardest work is finished and far too much already been sacrificed. We’re much too close to loosing everything. The freedom of all unjustly incarcerated sets the precedence both on the national and international scale for human rights violations leading us into this mess. If we cannot connect the bigger picture to what is happening on the human scale we’ll loose everything within the next century including the environment. “We inherit the earth from the future generations.” Thank You! Your Peacekeeper and friend P.S. There’ve been many like Christ or the Buddha but Krishna is a thief. Best to be, “Wanted” in Hopi Tribal Court for stealing all of space-time. During the proceedings the Peacekeeper will demonstrate just by being seen the supernatural. Know me (No-me). You know like, “Menominee.” “Brian” means King. Some say I’m all, “Ram.” Indeed 100% Ram (pronounced “wrong”).

[@dottiannblakemore9231]

Since time immortal, the people and the land existed. Governments were created long after TRIBES and COMMUNITIES. Land is bound to the Heart from beginning of Time just as man is bound to Creator God.

[@deitrestolbert4442]

This is interesting I believe your bloodline tells you who you really are as for as taken a DNA test. The story about the Berring sea is possible for some but also originating from where you are being from the US is possible as well. I believe many tribes were split up so some can and migrated. Into different areas. Do a research on your blood dna and see where your bloodline is most present being in the US, Canada, South Asia, Alaska, and Africa. That will tell you where your people roam or migrated from. Everyone has their own history and the Dine tribe was scattered out like other tribes... Its just a suggestion because if you're bloodline is "A" meaning your own blood is "A" the study shows all "A"s are the original bloodline which you will find in Canada or US .A bloodline thats been here from time in memorial its the beginning... however if your bloodline is "B" or "B positive" your offsprings is most present in the Asia country and Ivory Coast, Thailand and Vietnam, Laos and Kenya. So their was a mixture of race in order to produce a different bloodline. I don't know what bloodline is Dine tribe but you see where um going with this ... Those people who has those bloodline I mentioned their ancestors had to migrate from one of those places or had started a family with one of those people who originated from those places. 🤔

[@Spagoshi]

One day, I may try it but I'm always iffy about donating blood for research. I'll let you know, if I do that one day.

[@nealnez7729]

Theirs lots Navajos they moved around they call it that's their land its same thing where I live hard Rock come on now that's lie I cousin brothers live in Forest Lake their very lucky never took their land

[@Spagoshi]

I'm having a hard time following your comment. You're from Hardrock as well? What's going on at Forest Lake?

[@nealnez7729]

@@Spagoshi it's a lot easier when you're talking about it than chatting on here

[@Spagoshi]

Understood, shoot us an email [e-mail]

[@MrStaybrown]

Theres a navajo lady saying navajos are lost hebrew nation.

[@shiverarts8284]

Gross

[@jdotsalter910]

What are you Mormon?

[@MrStaybrown]

@@jdotsalter910 hey, I didn't say it. The lady has a KZbin channel and is convincing people of it. I don't believe it, because there wouldn't be a navajo language.

[@lavernemoreno7168]

I don't think we are Hebrew... Holy People gave us our land, language and way of life..that is surviving for centuries upon centuries,

[@terryulmer969]

In the beginning everyone spoke Hebrew until the Tower of Tongues event. After that the languages were mixed. Christianity and English keep mistranslating so much and then they totally misunderstand what they mistranslated and corrupted.