Nataanii Means- Warrior

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8 жыл бұрын

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

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@C.kirk1287 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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 11 ай бұрын

🐾🐾♥️🐾🐾

@annewilliams8034 11 ай бұрын

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

@marshall_warpath8695 10 ай бұрын

IVE REACHED A BOILING POINT!

@supremethomas7455 9 ай бұрын

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

@crystalenrriques268 Жыл бұрын

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

@silentcomanche6987 4 жыл бұрын

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

@Geenie1217 4 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

Nu se numunu ❤

@ndnofmana521 3 жыл бұрын

Numunu present

@kennastout7621 5 жыл бұрын

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

@MattYellowhorse 7 жыл бұрын

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 6 жыл бұрын

Matt Yellowhorse I agree. #Unity ✊

@haroldmitchell4589 5 жыл бұрын

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

@aduarte8057 5 жыл бұрын

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

@blackwoodc7646 5 жыл бұрын

Matt Yellowhorse my native

@blackwoodc7646 5 жыл бұрын

Matt Yellowhorse thank u skin

@leorodriguez655 Жыл бұрын

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

@angelalaliberte1803 Жыл бұрын

That’s why they cut the trees.

@kristietsinnijinnie8993 Жыл бұрын

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

@shiverarts8284 Жыл бұрын

A'oo nizhoni ✊🏽

@MxMvskoke 4 жыл бұрын

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

@infinitewarriorproduction6278 6 жыл бұрын

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 3 ай бұрын

The food culture is what actually connects us.

@Mr04hayabusa 6 жыл бұрын

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

@TheLibraPerspective 4 жыл бұрын

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

@imagamerchick 16 күн бұрын

Blackfoot\cherokee here! Aho cousin!💖✌️

@alishably6024 4 жыл бұрын

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

@MrKnowyaself 6 жыл бұрын

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

@charlesratcliff8557 5 жыл бұрын

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 5 жыл бұрын

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

@nofx1420 4 жыл бұрын

Pure Hip hop resides in native country 👍

@martingonzales8306 3 жыл бұрын

Because your same as us brother

@juniorchavez6450 3 жыл бұрын

Respect

@kennelljones3970 7 жыл бұрын

Native Pride #WaterIsLife

@mizutsunethewaterdancer2155 5 жыл бұрын

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 5 жыл бұрын

Ahoo

@Ccarmalita 4 жыл бұрын

Theres more than justified in a native

@shellza5303 4 жыл бұрын

Flow like water, be water my friends- Bruce Lee

@averyortiz9493 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Times2Salute 4 жыл бұрын

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

@sloughwaya7291 6 жыл бұрын

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

@speedkills2861 6 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

I like that bro. Stay strong. Native Pride

@dansan3424 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

🙏

@jerrymichaud 3 жыл бұрын

Sorry about that you are my family Sorry

@aztecakid8056 3 жыл бұрын

native power

@flintose927 4 жыл бұрын

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

@gorivatra Жыл бұрын

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

@allamericannative 3 ай бұрын

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

@lowpro7 8 жыл бұрын

Respect to my native people, Apache tribe

@manny5215 4 жыл бұрын

Yea apache tribe

@terranceeaglefeather5290 4 жыл бұрын

Lakota Sioux respect

@jesusliveselima3846 3 жыл бұрын

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

@ndnofmana521 3 жыл бұрын

Respect from Numunu/Comanche

@breannapatten3286 3 жыл бұрын

Wr Apache

@OE509 6 жыл бұрын

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

@markedgette5463 6 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@ghostrder6127 5 жыл бұрын

New Native ERA!!

@lisafirstnamesapp4136 4 жыл бұрын

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

@eltainoproductionanddevelo5504 6 жыл бұрын

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

@elcoyote9410 7 жыл бұрын

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

@frankhernandez5060 3 жыл бұрын

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

@jeromemartin7682 3 жыл бұрын

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

@mountainview467 8 жыл бұрын

Mexico stands with you.

@hunterrice816 5 жыл бұрын

@juliedorman1858 5 жыл бұрын

Indigenous Americans unite!

@user-ny5cu5ol1p 5 жыл бұрын

Brown Pride is Red Pride ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽

@bethzaidarivera9943 4 жыл бұрын

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

@fragolegirl2002 4 жыл бұрын

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 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/psx3a8qgxrSal3U.html it’s a horror movie but they do cover themselves red like that.

@veronicaortega584 7 жыл бұрын

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

@tyronejames1386 4 жыл бұрын

Long hair forever warriors I love this song.

@dumspirospernwdss2036 5 жыл бұрын

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 8 ай бұрын

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,

@puzzledinnewmotherhood8247 6 жыл бұрын

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

@nativecommunityproject4249 6 жыл бұрын

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

@davidlloyd2225 Жыл бұрын

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

@Shadow_Wolf73 Жыл бұрын

Real lyrics! Many blessings ❤️‍🔥

@rasanchez169 5 жыл бұрын

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

@josephbrisco4379 8 жыл бұрын

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

@genejanko3129 6 жыл бұрын

we all gotta love something.....

@1975sld 6 жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@str9ngeangel 3 жыл бұрын

This is so beautiful with such a POWERFUL message!

@BeesKneezs 5 жыл бұрын

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

@blackdog.6398 6 жыл бұрын

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

@tupac1779 4 жыл бұрын

Much respect.

@Honeyangel202 4 жыл бұрын

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

@brown6767 4 жыл бұрын

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

@davidlloyd2225 Жыл бұрын

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

@zbeh4495 7 жыл бұрын

this song hits me in the feels...

@somierain4018 7 жыл бұрын

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

@juancamaney896 4 жыл бұрын

God Bless all my indigenous peoples.

@romannoodle7005 4 жыл бұрын

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

@auedesigns 7 жыл бұрын

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

@tylersheary70 6 жыл бұрын

Love it!

@mindymyers2017 4 жыл бұрын

"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!

@felipearmentaandrade7577 4 жыл бұрын

Native always strong no matter what god bless native people forever

@claudedavis201 3 жыл бұрын

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

@MJSL81 2 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

"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.

@hunterriblett7230 5 жыл бұрын

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

@theworldisyours5831 7 жыл бұрын

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

@mattyazzie1435 4 жыл бұрын

Chinle, AZ!!! Home!!! 🔥🔥🔥🙏🙏

@RealEstatewithAlexLiu 4 жыл бұрын

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

@ericfisher565 4 жыл бұрын

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

@hockey44d 8 жыл бұрын

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 11 ай бұрын

we are still here, and fighting.

@VernDeLaronde 6 жыл бұрын

We Have And Shall Remain... RESPECT.

@samracassar2765 4 жыл бұрын

Hello Nataanii Means, I really like the broader understanding and complexity you expand on with regards to what it means to be W a r r i o r. Right on....love from Ontario, c a n a d a

@stephanie163 2 жыл бұрын

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

@elshablack1579 8 жыл бұрын

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 7 жыл бұрын

Lilili lilili!

@anonymouswatchers1201 6 жыл бұрын

Love you my bro. I am Miwok.

@genejanko3129 6 жыл бұрын

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 6 жыл бұрын

AHO!

@gt_filly9136 6 жыл бұрын

Much love from Alberta Canada indigenous strong brotha's

@moseslarios650 4 жыл бұрын

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

@AnGhaeilge 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@areimontana1308 6 жыл бұрын

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

@lopezcora 7 жыл бұрын

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

@sharstar5888 4 жыл бұрын

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

@elcoyote9410 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@redboneshoneypot2960 6 жыл бұрын

Peace and blessings

@kohakuizumi7110 4 жыл бұрын

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

@amyballardrichshe-her1924 2 жыл бұрын

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

@iram9111 4 жыл бұрын

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

@tamaradogtrail5252 2 жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

@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

@PaulaKirsti15 6 жыл бұрын

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.

@Hobomedic1 7 жыл бұрын

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

@boldog5974 7 жыл бұрын

same here love it

@thechosen1515 4 жыл бұрын

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

@angeltozer9701 4 жыл бұрын

Listening to your music is my trail of tears

@PerriYellowBird 8 жыл бұрын

Great song bro! Saw some of my Pine Ridge family in the video

@blakehalvorson368 Жыл бұрын

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.

@alexsoria6945 5 жыл бұрын

Much love and respect #Houston,Texas

@3Bit..c 7 жыл бұрын

Respect from POLAND !!!!!!

@nuisance_grounds 6 жыл бұрын

Me too, Chipewyan, Cree and Polish

@sweetlou2362 6 жыл бұрын

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

@carrollkinkade2329 4 жыл бұрын

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

@claudedavis201 2 жыл бұрын

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

@dagrouch92 7 жыл бұрын

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

@djmolecular 7 жыл бұрын

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 5 жыл бұрын

djmolecular were all guided by one spirit

@JM-fp9wk 5 жыл бұрын

@@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 5 жыл бұрын

Lakota*

@shellza5303 4 жыл бұрын

Moors!

@shearosamamacita 4 жыл бұрын

@@JM-fp9wk That's beautiful

@kimmesteth4248 5 жыл бұрын

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

@aliciavaldez3032 5 жыл бұрын

Love from the Quechan tribe❤️💛🖤

@yeseniabelen 7 жыл бұрын

This gave me chills!!

@IndigenousMonk 8 жыл бұрын

This song keeps me strong.

@danksecured3540 3 жыл бұрын

Love the music! Peace from Australia ✌️♥️

@MrDatsherm 4 жыл бұрын

Wonderful song it angers me and humbles me at the same time# chactaw

@user-wm6cv1zl9v 6 жыл бұрын

Totally great. Greetings from Germany

@Crystals-of-gaia 7 жыл бұрын

can't stop listening to this! all of your music. transitional and resilient! love it all

@gotrain4me 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@TwinDevilDedzik 4 жыл бұрын

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