Weaving Worlds - Navajo Rug Documentary Trailer

[gipper086]

buy their rugs and "listen" to what they have to say. they speak truth

[lmollot]

"whippings on weaker children" "women have 7 or more kids"?-thats taught by whte mans schools-so many ethnic women overwork her paycheck goes to father/brother/sons booze/drugs- natives kids in schools battered & end up drunk/drug on streets-how different from the IROQUOIS MATRIARCHY LONGHOUSES - see iroquois women by spittal- no money needed/dependence on clients- if grow food/make clothes/shoes

[lmollot]

WHY  need money?

[lmollot]

HIC INDIA 2005- recommended that religious excess lands be transferred to womens collectives-to prevent sex assauls/marital prostitution/rape of women & children & joblessness &homelessness

NATIVE IN INDIA- would be better to BUY LANDS than to WAIT for gov etc to ACT- while waiting, natives are abused by teachers,shelters, & landless ,JOBLESS school graduates are forced into drug/sex slaves city ghettos

FARM EDUCATION & LAND MORE USEFUL THAN EDUCATION ( SEX ABUSe BY TEACHERS,KILLS FORESTS 4 BOOK

[lmollot]

tactic to finally break down power of natives- women farm communes turned to becomeslaves 2 one man like christian women-ACT was patriarchy christian women against power native women whose large grandmothers clans were INVINCIBLE against the white man conquerers-split up the women cd be attacked by whites-indian men were told they cd own women s labor/lands/her children-to this day thats what native men expects-so isolated men shipped to war by gov who take his farm-buy lands 4 farming for food

[lmollot]

tactic to finally break down power of natives- women farm communes turned to becomeslaves 2 one man like christian women-ACT was patriarchy christian women against power native women whose large grandmothers clans were INVINCIBLE against the white man conquerers-split up the women cd be attacked by whites-indian men were told they cd own women s labor/lands/her children-to this day thats what native men expects-so isolated men shipped to war by gov who take his farm

[clyazzie87]

page, arizona is definately part of the navajo (dine')...

[Patdlaca]

Does anyone know what external forces are causing cutlural change for the navajo people?

[BlackSeranna]

I wish I could go out west and have a weaving class and learn how to do it from the pros.

[BlackSeranna]

I watched some of this on my PBS station and it made me angry that the coal people are taking away your water. I wish there were something I could do for you. Perhaps if the west adopts sunlight technology, there will be no more need for coal being shipped to California.

[flashrobbie]

Kia ora - same thing a lot of fourth world people go through; colonisation, loss, rediscovery which reconnects us and gives us self esteem and a sense of belonging. Indigenous people didn't cause our own woes but only we can heal them, and it's through a journey home that it happens.

[AreaRugsClub]

It seems very insightful but why so short? Thanks for posting.

[willoWolf8]

I just finished watching the documentary on PBS. It was fabulous and now I want to learn more! I really recommend it!!!

[kathynonna]

appears to be an insightful, thought-provoking and provocative documentary that challenges the status-quo--long overdue

[rdayzie]

flameboy, I would welcome you to the Navajo land and learn more about the people you have generalized, perhaps you will have a much more informed opinion.

[flameboy63]

I don't like most Navajos because they are hypocrites. They blame the white man for everything, Im white and didnt do anything to them and they still bitchin bout their land. 90% of navajos are unemployed and just mooching off the white man. them blaming white people is racist cuz nowadays we aint doin anything but keeping their asses alive with OUR tax money. their culture is dying too

[EasyMacEuphoria]

Flameboy- while I respect your opinion, you must acknowledge that these people have been taken advantage for a very long time. That means that there is some shit that goes real deep down. They're just trying to preserve their ways, just as the any culture has that right. And yes it's our tax money but it's because generations above us set us up pretty damn good (at least in relation to what the generations above us did to them). I've seen this documentary, and it's def worth watching.

[Alstomus]

What a load. I live on the reservation. And while some of the ones that have assimilated have become great people, many, including the ones who still live on the res, only come to town to collect their checks on the first of the month.

[Alstomus]

Page Arizona, PART of the res.

[83169]

@Alstomus You can tell more about a man from what he says about others, than from what others say about him.

[ccanthro]

Looks like a great documentary...I hope it plays soon!