Navajo song - the dance is not traditional Navajo

[sundoghrs]

LOL WTF

[bluegreenrach]

I'm Navajo from Kayenta and i got to Powwows all over the US and Canada, i look at this video and I'm like WTF!!!

[Ljuuroku]

@WolfyCly oh stfu ur just a damn pup. U creepy.lil boy

[Waldoxxig88]

Be proud of who you are and your culture no matter what tribe you are or what race you are the great spirit gave us these traditions to follow and we must stick to them to be true to ourselves and to our ancestors who suffered greatly for us today.

[Waldoxxig88]

we should embrace our own traditional culture and stop imitating the pow wows and the plains it is theirs and not ours. even though it may be for all tribes we should sick to our own ways and stop imitating other cultures that do not belong to us navajo people. I also see tee pees being built next to hogans. I do not understand that.

[Waldoxxig88]

i dont think navajos should be doing plains tradtional dances. it does not belong to us. The plains have stories to back themselves up for those dances and they have a purpose for them. i see why northern tribes dislike navajos. where are own traditional dances? it gives me mixed emotions when i see navajos dancing plains.

[WolfyCly]

Haha. That just threw me off guard completely! A grass dancer in the desert with no grass to flatten? Labled as a Navajo Dance when we aren't even from the plains to begin with? LoL. This is the funniest thing I've ever seen!

[txcaddo]

i dont agree with darkshinju92 that powwow dancing is somethign generic...this is a Lakota traditional dance...lots of navajos have taken up Lakota grass and fancy dancing for powwows (now called yarn & neon dancing)..what is wrong with our own cultures?..I'm Caddo and stick to our own ways..which is what my elders advise...anyone want to learn the turkey dance?

[sacred4s]

Shadyand laurie, if you not Fed. recog. tribe member you cannot exploit traditional Indian arts and craft and make profit or personal gain.

[darkshinju92]

geez, you guys are mean. "my own people" ....you all sound like prejudice jerks. I mean hey, people come from all over the world to witness something like this, and you call it stupid? Pow wow dancing is the something ALL NATIVES can share equally, along with chantings songs, and flute playing are something we can do to proudly come together as a Nation.

[reservationromeo]

I danced like that once, but it was 2nd night an I drunkenly put my put in the fire.

[Badluck4all]

How sad. that our own people have to subjugate our navajo culture to make the white mans experience and travels to our land more "authentic." It's not like we go to there country and ask them to do something for us in there own culture. what am i saying, they have no culture, so they have to come to our land to feed off of us.

[nijoiz]

WTF!!!! wrong place wrong tribe.

let's stick with the traditonal, enough with this circus act they call pow wow!

[SUPAFLYNATIVE1]

wow ndns watching ndns..lol i agree thomas builds a fire lol jest had to say it

[peyoteboy82]

kool,its better then whiteman music

[lameman777]

My name is Chief "askfortips"

[yashti1979]

How bout chief got no class.

[ottertailfeathers4]

wow something i've seen. DUMB. the whole thing doesn't work it all seems stupid the way he is dancing. NOT NAVAJO TRADITION. ITS ALL PLAINS INDIAN TRADITION. i know right? our own people too!!!.

[screamingeagle2008]

Do you know whats more pathetic? Indians watching Indians.

[patticakes06]

this is stupid !!!!!!!!!

[han2warrior]

commercialized native art isn't kool.

[systemaddictshock]

Like Blackfire huh?

[billieder]

Wow,...Navajo dance? Hardly. That form of dress and dance style does not exist in Navajo folk or ceremonial dances. The song, however, is Navajo.

[navajodorkboythef]

ummm this isn't a navajo dance. the song is navajo but not the dance. interesting. my own people too. god!

[ShadyandLaurie]

Thanks for the correction.

I was going to use this video in a story about Monument Valley, but I'll take it out.