I was reading something about the Corn Dance I one of few hopi dances that is Cogendered. Though some times there is a corn dance that is only women centered. Its one thing to read about in an Anthropology text and then see it.
I have been part of Native Am dances and it is a deep connection with the spiritual Source of things. It is not just entertainment, fun and costume.
Our industrialized civilization will consume until it destroys the planet. The closer we get, the more we deny it and accelerate doing this.
Perhaps our hope is learning from these people who have not broken their oneness with creation and the God who made it all. Can they teach us to restore our relationship?
Most tourists don't know that it is inappropriate to applaud at an Indigenous ceremony or that photography is forbidden unless a fee is payed or for special events such as this one- they should be told I am going on tour to Chimney Rock for sure better than going it alone there. And I hope and pray the Hopi will welcome my family upon their sacred mesas. Go in beauty. Thank you for posting this rare glimpse into the simplicity of the sacred.
A beautiful ceremonial dance, but I am continually perplexed by the people who applaud at the end of the religious ceremonies and rituals. This isn't entertainment, but there they are clapping like they would after some circus act.
I can only imagine the outrage if people started clapping after the Lord's Prayer or the consecration of the bread and wine in a church.
Perhaps because they're trying to express appreciation of the beauty of the ceremony and the skill of those performing it. The Lord's Prayer, when sung as opposed to spoken, usually IS applauded, AFAIK.
One cannot expect a person to properly express appreciation in an unfamiliar cultural context if they have not been taught how to do so. If they were, shame on them. But if not, they aren't doing it in a spirit of offensiveness. They probably think they're giving thanks to the performers.
You must not get off the rez much -- You can't expect outsiders to know the proper reaction to everything foreign to themselves. You comment as if the audience was acting in an offensive manner on purpose.
The audience were appreciative. Don't get all Casino-Face about your outrage.
I used to be closed-minded at one time. People used to look at me weird when I would applaud and hoot and holler once inside the large auditorium known as IKEA.
The culture is being shown (especially by Second Mesa, who would have thought?) because this is the end of the Fourth World and the emergence is beginning for the Fifth. If you haven't figured that out yet, you better do some soul searching. Corn Rock fell on September 11, 2001. It is now the Hopi's duty to prepare the world for this emergence because we all are intrinsically Hopi. The whites are lost and need to be brought back home before it is too late.
exactly what do you mean by the whites are lost and need to be brought back home? Back to the earth? Not all white people are lost! Thats like putting all natives in the same catagory, and some natives are lost too, its not about white or native or african or asian, its about "the peoples that are lost" of all cultures!
Agreed on the point that the whites are not the only people that are "lost". And you are correct in your deciphering the meaning of "brought back home". I can only think of one way that would solve much of what has been done to the Earth, and that is to begin living as traditional as we can, and at peace with one another. How to accomplish this with the addition of modern day technology, WE (the global community) will have to start figuring that out.
dunno y they go n make them noises at the beginning... haha sum Hopis r jz taught differentley... wuda been aite if they didnt make em noises...
jal2132799 5 months ago
I was reading something about the Corn Dance I one of few hopi dances that is Cogendered. Though some times there is a corn dance that is only women centered. Its one thing to read about in an Anthropology text and then see it.
SteampunkPagan 5 months ago
Theres us!!!!! Awsome i wish we could dance up there again! It was fun!
sakevaballer3 7 months ago
I was NEVER scared of Marlin or BArt or TR ....or nelson...i bet u now a dayz I could beat there azz, chumps
APACHETEWA 8 months ago
I lovd CLEO Laccupa.....might b spllinng wrong. But nunu was my godfather annd u is who I liked......CLEO, from down below.
APACHETEWA 8 months ago
Sonny sisto, we yd kachinas before a.yone bro. Grandma berta fed us, bra..'grandma berta.....hopi,tewa.
APACHETEWA 8 months ago
Love it ...im TEWA....from hano....ive danced this since I wAz a shorty ....NUNU is my god-Fathet
APACHETEWA 8 months ago
haha there are a lot of white people taking pics lol
sonnt016 8 months ago
has to be shongopavi? they shouldnt make the sounds the kachinas do.
jpavinyama 1 year ago
shodopoet...thankyou for teaching us how to act before the sacred dance. We need more instructions...we are so ignorant.
vulcan1429 1 year ago
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Nice dancing faggots.
Brosiris 1 year ago
@Brosiris what?
malot131 1 year ago
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@Brosiris Dont be a b****. if you dont like it. then dont watch it. simple as that.
oOMrSpikeOo 1 year ago
I am so glad the traditional dances are still going. the other traditions of the world are losing their dance in the last decade or so.
thepixieful 1 year ago 2
Haha My Sister Is The One In The Pink Cape Thinqq!!!
hopiboy12 1 year ago
I have been part of Native Am dances and it is a deep connection with the spiritual Source of things. It is not just entertainment, fun and costume.
Our industrialized civilization will consume until it destroys the planet. The closer we get, the more we deny it and accelerate doing this.
Perhaps our hope is learning from these people who have not broken their oneness with creation and the God who made it all. Can they teach us to restore our relationship?
Am I overstating this?
mtnman2012 1 year ago
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SweetAngel12797 2 years ago 2
shodopoet 2 years ago 8
Can someone tell me what they are holding?
I cannot see. It looks like the males are holding bunches of several corn tassles (the male part) and the girls are holding young cobs.
I work sun-up till sundown breeding Indian corn. This dance is very sacred to me.
mtnman2012 2 years ago 3
@mtnman2012 they are holding up evergreen from a tree
PIMAGIRL2000 1 year ago
@PIMAGIRL2000 ya so. are you a tree huger or what
sonnt016 8 months ago
@mtnman2012 evergreen branches
EspanolaNewMexico 1 year ago
qwa qwa! thx for addin dis video! nahongvitaii
hopikid4 2 years ago 3
A beautiful ceremonial dance, but I am continually perplexed by the people who applaud at the end of the religious ceremonies and rituals. This isn't entertainment, but there they are clapping like they would after some circus act.
I can only imagine the outrage if people started clapping after the Lord's Prayer or the consecration of the bread and wine in a church.
ancientpurple 3 years ago
So I'm not the only one who has thought about that....excellent point.
Cyberia3716 2 years ago 6
Perhaps because they're trying to express appreciation of the beauty of the ceremony and the skill of those performing it. The Lord's Prayer, when sung as opposed to spoken, usually IS applauded, AFAIK.
One cannot expect a person to properly express appreciation in an unfamiliar cultural context if they have not been taught how to do so. If they were, shame on them. But if not, they aren't doing it in a spirit of offensiveness. They probably think they're giving thanks to the performers.
wandering1coyote 2 years ago 5
You must not get off the rez much -- You can't expect outsiders to know the proper reaction to everything foreign to themselves. You comment as if the audience was acting in an offensive manner on purpose.
The audience were appreciative. Don't get all Casino-Face about your outrage.
I used to be closed-minded at one time. People used to look at me weird when I would applaud and hoot and holler once inside the large auditorium known as IKEA.
DancingSpiderman 2 years ago
Is as'quali uma damu'gam di'vah
ruhopi2 3 years ago
Why show the world our culture? We are weak an ddying. Bueautiful, but why?
airforcebrat911 3 years ago 2
The culture is being shown (especially by Second Mesa, who would have thought?) because this is the end of the Fourth World and the emergence is beginning for the Fifth. If you haven't figured that out yet, you better do some soul searching. Corn Rock fell on September 11, 2001. It is now the Hopi's duty to prepare the world for this emergence because we all are intrinsically Hopi. The whites are lost and need to be brought back home before it is too late.
Humpahna 2 years ago 4
exactly what do you mean by the whites are lost and need to be brought back home? Back to the earth? Not all white people are lost! Thats like putting all natives in the same catagory, and some natives are lost too, its not about white or native or african or asian, its about "the peoples that are lost" of all cultures!
wheelori814 2 years ago 4
Agreed on the point that the whites are not the only people that are "lost". And you are correct in your deciphering the meaning of "brought back home". I can only think of one way that would solve much of what has been done to the Earth, and that is to begin living as traditional as we can, and at peace with one another. How to accomplish this with the addition of modern day technology, WE (the global community) will have to start figuring that out.
Humpahna 2 years ago 4
such earthly people ,and they deserve their land back after the cleansing.
agonyuncle 3 years ago 6
kwa kwa nahongvi ta aiii
hopisun 3 years ago 8
Kwa Kwai
YakimaLee 3 years ago