Sisnaajini: A Navajo Story

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Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve

6 жыл бұрын

Blanca Peak (14,345 feet/4,372m), located just south of Great Sand Dunes, is one of four sacred mountains to the Navajo (Dine') people. In this 8-minute video podcast, Park Ranger Ravis Henry sings and tells their story of Sisnaajini - the White Shell Mountain, as well as the importance of Great Sand Dunes to his people.
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Special thanks to Timothy Begay and Tamara Billie of the Navajo Nation for their ongoing input and consultation with Great Sand Dunes staff.
Production/Videography: NPS/Patrick Myers

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@gailbrown4124 25 күн бұрын

Thank you for telling us all about your beginnings.The land, your tribe the animals and the mountains. How sacred these all are to your people. It’s beautiful.

@forcesightknight 3 жыл бұрын

You come from an honorable people, Semper fi brother. My people owe a great debt to your people.

@williampenatac9832 10 күн бұрын

Repay by telling your white veterans brothers to act right and stop being over entitled assholes. And if they want to act like that, to go back to their ancestral homelands, to show their ancestral people how they treat people. And if you or anyone you know say that trump stuff of we have immigration problem. Know us Navajos agree and we ask you and then when are you all leaving? Oh you don’t want to leave? At least honor our treaties and get the fuck across the Mississippi!

@williampenatac9832 10 күн бұрын

And don’t come back

@pamelasellers5980 2 жыл бұрын

It is an incredible honor to hear account of your heritage and your homeland. Thank you so much for upholding this history and sharing it with us. May all Americans come to value you, your people and your home. Thank you.

@sierramountainspirit6343 Ай бұрын

The great spirit has called me to serve the people and land of The Great Sand Dune, and my heart and spirit are smiling so much to know that I will be near Sisnaajini. Thank you for sharing these beautiful stories and words. All people no matter their upbringing or homeland benefit from being reminded that the land and the mountains are living beings like the animals and our fellow human beings. This wisdom and its embodiment is the path forward for mending our collective relationship to the land. Im so grateful for you sharing this with the people.

@elaineroddy9958 Ай бұрын

Beautiful land, beautiful message 😊. Thank you so much. May all that was stolen from Native Americans be restored.

@fabiancurto6484 3 жыл бұрын

We have to preserve nature , is our sacred duty

@susanhanna940 3 жыл бұрын

Loved the song❤️

@maori_fairy_smiling_nz 3 жыл бұрын

💗💗💗🌎🌿Kia ora, Good health n wellbeing....thank you for your sharing stories of the mountain....truly a gift to recieve on KZfaq..Well done👍👍👍✌✌✌ ....Alot will benefit from your talking stories very educational with great wisdom. Deeply honoured. Arohanui....lots of love from Aotearoa, nz.

@davidhydro9558 4 жыл бұрын

I love our people we need more stories like this to be told

@elisecody84 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome video.

@lotuspod17axemaster93 25 күн бұрын

Lived in flagstaff bellemont and parks Arizona for quite some time been up on the san Francisco pks many many times and liked most of my life in the desert, my opinion it is the best place on earth 🌎

@LiveInTheWilderness 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful! 💚

@byrondegroat5575 3 жыл бұрын

your intro and exit songs make me cry... i need to go back home soon😎👍❤

@anacleta424 2 жыл бұрын

Just beautiful Thank you

@mylan6221 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@wolfganggugelweith8760 3 жыл бұрын

Thank You for this Info! Greetings from Austria 🇦🇹🏔⛷🍺🥨🛶😎👍Europe!

@GEGE-bx3fj 4 жыл бұрын

I enjoy d that. Tradition needs 2 B preserved in ALL cultures.

@AshleyLebedev 3 жыл бұрын

Right on 🙏🏻

@mojorising1 3 жыл бұрын

Pretty area of the country and nice turquoise 🙏😇

@ReneeWeaver-rh7qj 8 күн бұрын

I love this , thank you ! Beautiful ❤️

@amyyazzie249 Жыл бұрын

Thank You very much for sharing your story

@nivanelson3129 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing your story with us awesome job

@dsplunker 2 жыл бұрын

Please continue to learn and pass on your knowledge to people like myself. I want to learn too! Nothing but respect for you and all your people! @Sisnaajini

@kathmandu1575 3 жыл бұрын

Great video, thanks for all you do.

@StephanieWilsonxoxo 3 жыл бұрын

What a beautiful story. Thank u for sharing it.

@updownstate 3 жыл бұрын

I didn't know Sand Dunes has so many species of animals. Thank you for this trip.

@mizzougrad001 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks. We'd love to see more park ranger backgrounds, stories, etc.

@andreacharlie2226 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent Shicheii! Nizhoni - I would like to use this video to supplement my instruction, if that's ok.

@greatsanddunesnpp 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, all Great Sand Dunes videos are public domain. Feel free to use as you wish!

@daydreamerprod 3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful, rich in culture and warm feelings of history of an enlivened peoples. Thanks for time and share.

@markvianen2282 2 жыл бұрын

Mountain made by rainbow colored beam, sounds pretty advanced and makes perfect sense to me

@joao2837 3 жыл бұрын

aluhahaluha for all. Bless.

@rosaliaoliver-qv3gr 28 күн бұрын

❤I will always ❤treasure❤in my ❤mine,and Heart ❤this ❤Beautiful ❤story ❤

@frankbedonie3571 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing your knowledge Mr Henry.

@crazysusanaita619 4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful

@T3860ifyDubstep 2 жыл бұрын

Aye my mom's family is also from Alamo NM! small world.

@kylewood8327 Ай бұрын

Wonderful story and video.

@davesmilingcoyote 3 жыл бұрын

Hey, @6:33 that's a hummingbird moth!

@janelliot5643 Жыл бұрын

Wow! Thanks for pointing that out

@GRD64 22 күн бұрын

We have them here down under in Australia as well

@silviabraggio4551 Жыл бұрын

Amazing! When I was in New Mexico during the eighties I Knew many of them. I had two school Navajo (DINÉ) mates.. I went to an Anarizonan School "Rock Point"....Hello, Luisa, do you have some sweet memories of me? I do! 🥰😃😃

@henderlenwilson3950 4 жыл бұрын

Beauty Way Prayer

@amyyazzie249 Жыл бұрын

Let me just say this was the best Navajo legacy I’ve ever heard even the songs from the beginning and at the end was a true Navajo songs the way I remember. There are stories told out there on videos I’ve seen are more made up and songs are not by Navajos

@forcesightknight 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing. Any stories about the ant people ive heard put all that sand there? So much knowledge that I would like to hear about. There are supposed to be caves that sheltered people in the past somewhere? Or were they covered up when they were discovered by the pioneers? Just stuff I heard somewhere.

@lunatraveler7007 5 жыл бұрын

So very interesting...thanks ever so much.

@beedubb7755 3 жыл бұрын

Great presentation!

@JH-en1iu Жыл бұрын

I’m from the towering house clan as well❤️

@fernwebb5568 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@devasadhvi 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@johndusak8147 4 жыл бұрын

God's altar is in this region,we're the offering is too be made by man at end of the trail of tears love one another and good luck for now the rooster.

@herself50 3 жыл бұрын

beautiful scenery. .

@caleblauber1441 3 жыл бұрын

Nice!

@rezboy6878 2 жыл бұрын

Nicely put...thank u

@kinteel2551 3 жыл бұрын

Nizhoni shiisili'. Ahe'hehee nisaa'go

@anidiquaojala1804 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent, Aho

@a.walters123 3 жыл бұрын

I feel America will always be troubled until it is rightfully back in the hands of the Native. Whether that means a Native American president or just the people returning to their natural place and glory. This land is there’s, and we aren’t abiding by their teachings and respecting nature.

@jonmacdonald5345 5 жыл бұрын

Yaahtahee!

@watupchief5889 5 жыл бұрын

Aho nizhoni 👍🏽

@larrygrimaldi1400 4 жыл бұрын

Like the history, read something about this in Tony Hilllerman and James D Doss books

@josephwood499 4 жыл бұрын

Where is this park located? Never heard of this beautiful place.

@bonnerin0 3 жыл бұрын

I'm willing to bet somewhere in the 4 corners region of the U.S. (Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico)

@forcesightknight 3 жыл бұрын

@@bonnerin0 nope, it's in Colorado

@stephenlantrip697 3 жыл бұрын

Blanca Peak is just north of ft. Garland, CO. Great sand dunes national park is north of Blanca, about half way from ft. Garland to Alamosa, west of ft. Garland. Ft. Garland is near south border of CO. Just no. of Taos & Amgel Fire NM. Alamosa is no. of Santa Fe, NM. I'm not sure this location of story tef. But I've been there. Sounds like perfect match. Yeah te hee!

@forcesightknight 3 жыл бұрын

TBH, I think this is either the lake west of the dunes, or in the actual mountains that feeds the creek from the East and North slopes. I would call the parks department and ask them the best places to visit are, some may be blooming with flowers, others may be just dead and hot. Good luck.

@John-M. 8 ай бұрын

San Luis Valley Co.

@ajdixon926 4 жыл бұрын

❤️❣️

@skindianu 4 жыл бұрын

Dahgo teh! Wassup cousins?

@redwolf6950 3 жыл бұрын

Nizhoni hey

@ajwood172 3 жыл бұрын

Chizzzzz says hi. LOL

@rthawknatanabah1759 6 жыл бұрын

NIZOHNII'..

@tyhouston2750 Ай бұрын

In what year was the emergence?

@gamerfish900 3 жыл бұрын

"Aho"

@theend.55 2 жыл бұрын

Coo

@tomcat505 6 жыл бұрын

Hózhó, hózhó

@user-jf5xk5ey6i 5 ай бұрын

🎉

@richardcarew4708 3 жыл бұрын

ya ta hey... ;;☆》.. ???

@richardcarew4708 3 жыл бұрын

the leading edge has a weapon, someone tried to take out.. Eureka mesa is flat because of this.. 55km northwest of Los Alamos.. my father helped build the scaffolding for the first weapon tested.. trying to get inside the shot passes through Mt Taylor and ends in Mt Blanca... the KT extinction event was an act of war... the end of the straw or reed is probably Tohatchi.. at the highest point.. Navajo word friend Noonie tells me... To Hatch i.... the escape hatch

@richardcarew4708 3 жыл бұрын

it's said the Anasazi called the Dińe "Navajo".. like navy jos.. maybe.. lots of stuff I don't know.. but I would like to find out

@BrazyN8V 3 жыл бұрын

Ahòò

@CHIEFRAENKLOWESHTE 2 жыл бұрын

IHÉHE ASÉ

@cindybarton8562 2 жыл бұрын

❤!!~*

@UnacknowledgedUnknown 4 жыл бұрын

Hozho

@NiiNeeWarrior 2 жыл бұрын

Ahehe

@Dovid2000 10 ай бұрын

Perhaps the oldest recollection of this park's history.

@misterpolytech 3 жыл бұрын

Four worlds to come to One...Think of these other worlds as parallel dimensions; to the one that we usually consider as 'reality'... Navajo Holy people & Brujo's can connect to these other 'dimensions', or worlds through 'portals' which manifest in all worlds (including parallel dimensions); not just Navajo, but other native peoples have understood this for eons.. At one time; these worlds were thought to be illusory at best; but particle theory string physics proves this primitive scientific assumption to be another untruth held among academic physicists of the past....In fact; the the latest understanding is that these parallel dimensions & portals are much more numerous in our galaxy than the numbers of star's; giving advanced extra terrestrial biological entities the abilities to manipulate both time & space for the exploration of worlds other than their own....The ability to transcend the time/ space continuum . All it takes is the technology or organic understanding to do so. To manifest one of these 'portals'. Actually often seen in Navajo country. Don't believe me? The evidence is here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pbOYfMR929LbYXk.html

@fidelcastillo7815 2 жыл бұрын

Ma' Deeshgiizhnii

@jegesbubu 7 күн бұрын

Navajo teach earth is flat period thats right though

@BradPitbull 5 жыл бұрын

MY NIGGA

@Muhammaddavid-sl9qg 13 күн бұрын

Belom ada Islam adil 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

@ProudUteGirl Ай бұрын

These lands you claim that are your people is false. The northern area Colorado/ Utah is Ute land, and the south is pueblo/hopi land. I spoke once to a Navajo medicine man and he told me your people never went into the mountains and I know your people never came into colorado because my people, the Utes fought, killed and enslaved them for trespassing onto their lands which also included Northern New Mexico and Northern Arizona. So you don't know what your talking about. I believe the Apache were on that southern part you claim.

@BradPitbull 3 жыл бұрын

My NIGGA