Brother To All Men Native American Music Video

[MsGelemos]

What a beautiful song and video.  This is one of my posts on FB to honor Native American Heritage Month, November.

[moonros21]

oh what a great video!! thank you so much for sharing..love and respect always

[akjomama]

I was at the MSIP today and watched you, and your daughter, perform. Appreciated the background presentation and decided to look for this site. Amazing! Have watched you perform for years at our local powwow. I found the video quite spiritual and admire you for going to the great lengths to perform this, from your own efforts, for us to enjoy. It was so special to see you perform today with music and video that you had created by your special talents.

[BoydCommunications]

@akjomama Glad that you enjoyed the performance and also looked up this video on Youtube. Hope that you also clicked on the Boyd Communications link to my channel to see other videos that I have produced. For other viewers: The MSIP in their comment stands for Midnight Sun Intertribal Powwow which is held in Fairbanks each year around the middle of July. There are videos about it on my Boyd Communications Channel. If any other viewers saw our performance there, Please make a comment.

[willcausality]

Maybe we should start praying for the cow's life that is taken. Maybe then, we'd start giving its life value. BoydCommunications has a point. Its a difficult paradox, killing in order to live. But, it's the only way; through plants or animals.  What is important is that respect and thanks is given for that life, which is taken. In that way, the being is not killed without much thought and prayer about its existence and the role it plays in the Earth Family. To not over-kill, for example.

[biggyjones111]

With your dancing song with pictures you have aroused my spirit

[urgirlie22]

i love native culter love the powowws want to play in it thepowowws love the songs and ther dances and the very good songs like i think its called twinkel littel star

[urgirlie22]

i love native culter love the powowws want to play in it thepowowws

[wbworkout]

This should be my theme song, white skin, Red Heart.

[GPhillyMusic]

great video. I wrote a song called Native American Ballad in a similar style. I wrote it as an instrumental to allow for a peaceful reflection, similar to this song. Maybe the next video you make you could use Native American Ballad as background music? I would be honored

[animalguy888]

awsome video i feel i am brother to nature itself and plan to grow up to help animals who need it like rescueing a bear cub whos mother was killed by poachers and also plan to work with seas i feel i am the child of the seas i may go on wilderness and stay in the wildeness with lions and tigers and wolves and bears to try to rid peoples supestitions that animals ar just cold blooded killing eating machines because there not

[yoyououototo22]

I recently discovered that I am a cousin to Ben and Hannah Boyd. They are hoop dancers.

[yesterdayswine]

don't care what people think brother, it is you and the Creator and none else

[AnahuacNicanTlaca]

I am glad that I found this video. May I bless all my Native brothers of all first nations.

[gekodude1]

i im white and i am trapped in a house and a brick school i believe i will be free when im older unfortuenatley not now but when im free i plan to live along side with nature like man is supposed to

[yesterdayswine]

I am Temakwetet, a brother of the wolf as well. When one walks the red path, they can not kill or take from nature. The idea that we stand outside of nature is the white man's idea. The red man does not conserve nature, he is nature, and when he takes he always does so with respect. He gives with respect for All Relations.

[yoyououototo22]

@yesterdayswine I am the cousin of Ben Boyd and Hannah Boyd. My mom is Michelle Boyd.

[BoydCommunications]

Someone stated that they thought that the background of the dancing was a back drop. The dancing was shot on top of a mountain and the background is a valley between the mountains with the Brooks Range in the far ground. The haze is caused by forest fires in the area.

[BorrowedCactus]

Aho!! Wonderfull video... much respect to you

[sandyscheetah]

ten years i lived on my own across the arctic territories and Yukon mountains. I agree with those who state that no man will ever understand unless they are there in body and spirit. I am not there now and I am haunted by the wilderness until I return. Long live the man who lives in the mountains.

[specfu]

very true Boyd, unless someone experiences the way of life in the far reaches of the arctic they wont understand the way of life and or what needs to be done to live here in the arctic. There has been a few that came here and thought that we were people that lived in the plains of the mid west, and run around with feathers in our hair, but this is the real deal, we have to live the way we do cause of the area we choose to live in. And thats the way we choose to live. :)

[hoopy1111]

Why would he kill that.. that is ashame to just kill like that.. he don't look like he is starving.. this is exactly what the creator says we should not do. If he was hungry then fine, but he wasn't he just wanted that rack.. shamme on you !!

[BoydCommunications]

Excuse Me! but I do not think that you read the information about this video. This video takes place 110 miles above the Arctic Circle, no roads, 250 miles by air only from Faribanks, at the most northern Indian Village in the world. People still live a traditional subsistence way of life which means that they have to hunt for their food. The cost of air freight is so expensive that people can only afford to fly in bare necessities , but the main source of food comes from the land.

[BoydCommunications]

Permafrost under the ground makes almost all of Alaska not good for farm land. Most rural communities in the interior live from hunting and fishing. We still live by killing just what we need for our own food, not paying for food that some someone else has killed to make money. I think that may be more the way the creator intended it. And as for the rack. In the video you can see that the dancer is dancing in front of a rack on the ground. That is where we leave then to honor the Caribou.

[BoydCommunications]

I appears that may people have lost sight of the reality that every time you eat something had to die so that your life could continue. Buying meat in a store becomes like buying shoes or any other commodity. When we, ourselves kill animals to eat we see that animal die and are aware that something had to die. In a Native Way, many of usl, when we obtain an animal for food, pray for that animal and to the Creator a thanks. I don't think people are praying for the cows they eat.

[ChildBeyondTheWall]

I love the song! Any idea how I could get it (CD or somewhat)???

[Tannerita]

this turns me on

[BoydCommunications]

The only way a person can be 100% just one culture is if they have not had any contact with any other cultures. The moment we see or hear someone from another culture it puts new thoughts in our mind and forever alters the way they think and what they do.

[BoydCommunications]

You stated, "You are just like all the others" . Neither most Alaska Native or myself are just like all the others. We are people who have the skills and tools of this modern society but also have the traditional Native skills and knowledge to subsist in the wilderness from what nature has to offer.

I came out of the wilderness to study at the University of Alaska Fairbanks after living a life without electric, TV, computers, phones or machines.

[BoydCommunications]

In the wilderness I made my living with an axe, gun, knife and dog-team. I was asked by the head of one of the University Departments to take a video camera back into the wilderness and document this way of life and then bring it back to the college and learn to edit it on computers so that this "Real Way Of Life" that exists today would be documented.

Once again, thank you for bring up a good subject.

[proffromgview]

Why are you using a "white man's" invention, the gun? Or a camera? Or a computer? If you want to be real, go 100%. Otherwise, you're just like all the others....

[BoydCommunications]

Thank you very much for your comment as it opened up a very good subject. The subject was one of the focuses of my studies that I researched to receive my Master's Degree in Cultural Documentation. That subject concerns how cultures, both Native and Non-Native, are not static and do not remain the same but are always changing. A culture may add things that are obtain from another culture and then what is added becomes part of that culture.

[leighmcm]

Great!

[sicbot]

awesome

[johnny2020vision]

cool video

[purespirit9]

Excellent!