Navajo Basket Dance

[EliManningFan896]

I'm not Dine' and i know that is a traditional dress! Only my spiritually adopted family is Navajo so i learn a little about the culture from them. They are all beautiful!

[MsNavajoGirl]

Navajo Basket Dance is fun!

[sk8rNinja1001]

whats the song name?



[ThatGirl686]

Does anybody else hear them say "homo"!?!

[janakovacs]

i love this song.

[hopichick13]

HEY HEY WHO;S TALKIN BOUT HOPI'S. N DATS NOT A HOPI DRESS. TRADITIONAL HOPI DRESSES R ALL BLACK WIT RED N GREAN STRIPES WIT A QWEWA(BELT). N WE GOT BEAUTIFUL SQAUSH BLOSSOMS LOL BUT WE DONT SOUND LIK D OTHER PUELBOS FOR REALZ N DONT GOT CHURCHES IN OUR VILLAGE

[XxKitsuneHeartxX]

@hopichick13 What mesa are you from?

[hopichick13]

@XxKitsuneHeartxX im frm the Mishungnovi village (2nd Mesa)

[XxKitsuneHeartxX]

@hopichick13 What's it like on Hopi? I've only visited Hopi a few times.

[yellow197286045]

Just beautiful!!!

[srikrishnajay]

Pueblos???

Pueblo means Town in Castilian ('Spanish')

♦We should stop calling ourselves the way the Hispanics (spaniards) and the Britanics (Anglos) called us.

We didn't call ourselves Native Americans either until the white faces came here.

•We should use our OWN languages to define who we are.

"When we let other define who we are we lose power"

Cuahtemoc (Descending Eagle)

[slynnlee86]

will u guys stop saying its a hopi dress. Im full blooded navajo and raised traditionaly. That is the original dress. Know your history

[seantsosie]

What so funny is the pueblo people and we DIne' are ONE. In actuality, alot of the pueblo people, especially along the Rio Grande escaped the Spanish Reconquest in the late 1600's into Dine' lands. This changed both cultures. Dine' People borrowed and the Pueblo People borrowed. Nothing BELONGS to anyone. WE are ALL MIXED. GET THAT STRAIGHT!

[ceuy333]

wher is this at? remeinds me of GW at andover

[hopichick13]

shes off beat lol jk but come and check out da hopi basket dance in october at my village =)

[kewameh]

Yea but pueblos have there own patterns any different types of weaving that we taught

To the pueblo people by there kachina spirits.

[lalealynn]

brilliant

[kewameh]

The navajos learned a lot from the anasazi/puebloan

Cultures,the dances ect.

[Ljuuroku]

WHAT?!?!?!?! YOU CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!

[kewameh]

Navajos borrowed a lot from pueblos and other tribes

At least give them credit and cornmeal is not just used by navajos

But with pueblos too and pueblos dint adopt a lot from spanish

Only the saints but our dances and cultures and languages

Have been with the pueblo/hopis since the beginning

And hopi and pueblo are almost the same cultures.

[tabaaha92]

obviously the navajos were friends with some of the pueblos who TAUGHT them some dances. navajos taught pueblos how to weave, it was given to us by nashje'ii asdzaa. and we've always herded sheep, just because people say the spanish people taught us how to raise livestock doesn't make it true, besides, the Tewa people knew this long before the spanish people arrived...

[tabaaha92]

aren't hopis Pueblos?

[kewameh]

Yea Hopis Are Pueblo..i made a mistake on the last comment i made wich probly trew u off to asking that question..lol..but yea Hopis Are Pueblos.

[tabaaha92]

@kewameh haha, yeah lol

[lylejohnson486]

god is not real if he was then the shit that happening then what did he tell them it alright to take other people land and not feel bad for it get it shight people !our godslook what they done for us ! they show us how to live in peace and look at the white people history

[mbadwarrior]

I'm Navajo and my husband is Sioux and I'm going to make sure my kids know each side of what LITTLE we have left of our culture. For the record I'm also christian and I believe God gave me my culture and religion and showed me Christ. Oh and basket dance, ribbon dance, etc..is an adaptation of the fire dance, a healing ceremony that not everyone can see. Disagree with me if you will this is what I was taught. If you're hating then thats an issue with yourself not me. I know who I AM!

[islander5999]

i am not only hawaiian i am also hopi.

[seantsosie]

What is do evil about the Native American Way of Life? We follow what the creator has taught us: provide for those unfortunate, offer cornmeal (navajo) every morning, noon, and dusk, have a good heart, walk in beauty, and there are many more. I HATE IT when so-called "christian" indians abandon their culture and ways then talk against it. They have "hate" in their heart, isn't this against christianity's teachings? lol

[lukeysmama]

Duh Christ is religion. And where Im from we're taught both. And if that makes you so positive I won't get to heaven if I don't abandon my beliefs, don't worry about me, our Mother will take care of me. And the medicine man probably couldn't help you because you have hate in your heart and didn't believe in what they can do for you. If you abandoned all that what are doing on here watching these dances? By the way, every one I know who gave up their Indian religion have come back.

[amilli021]

Culture? Religion? Culture and Religion will not get you into Heaven. The only way is to execpt Christ into your heart and confess your self to him. I abandoned all that for Him.

[daybreakwarrior]

I've seen the basket dance performed at every parade, in schools for Native Week, and almost every Miss whatever pageant since I was a child. It's been around for awhile.

[islander5999]

HA...i didn't knw there was a navajo basket dance....what did dey jus make that up??

[dbegay57]

if iwas an islander i wouldn't know. been around since first women done it. after emerging to the present world

[ygorman]

I LOVE THIS VIDEO...NICE..

[shonto86054]

Dude, the girl does not seem to be putting any effort into the dance..More effort...Lift ur feet.

[bboyjacatronique]

that's how its done...rly

[ntvporcupine]

If you speak your language and still keep your traditions alive, you do a have a right to talk. BUT, if your a urbanized and have a belly, don't know your ways, don't know about that. Another thing I discovered, Navajoes adopted in many tribes, you can tell by their clan system, I believe other tribes are in similar circumstances, so there is not that many full bloods anymore, just manymutts. I believe I'm a mutt from several tribes but do speak a language and live a tradition.

[junyajones]

Hey, hey...my dad has a belly :]

[redhorsenm]

that is a Pueblo dance, and Pueblo dress. Nice dance anyway

[meems1128]

zuni dress...

[redhorsenm]

Where is the real Dine dress? Not learned dress from other tribes,

[Ljuuroku]

that is a traditional dress. they wore those before the naakai's brought cotton fabric and cloth over. it's two rugs sewn together.

[redhorsenm]

Dine people did not wear pueblo dress. clothing was buckskin, then later later because of trade they took up pueblo dress. I for one, would never be caught in pueblo dress because I'm Dine and proud. I may be mixed but I'm Dine. basket making, painting, farming, and dine were too unsettled during those times. What the navajo did is make it better...

[tabaaha92]

zunis can't weave or silversmith as well as navajos :p

[Kyoshi2Kay]

@tabaaha92 but thier squash blossom clusters are just fierce!! :D

[AzeeBeeNahagha]

Good song, I use to sing this song when I went along my Grandfather when we went to Fire Dance/Dzilji Hataali... This dance is hardly done any more. I think she alter it to protect herself. Important parts of the song are removed for the same reason of protection. I like the video.

[mutton97]

dis is just foe show..ppl..lik wat pueblos do...lik all then videos on here...

[ParentOfBrooklyn]

Everybody is always pounding on the Navajos, Dine'. this is the reason why native americans are really being put down. We should lift each others spirits instead of bringing each other down. We all have one thing in Common, our uniqueness. Be proud.

[OmOrange]

We are all distant relatives, it doesn't matter

[mencanto]

All Navajo Dances come from the Pueblo People..The Hopi,Zuni,Acoma...and The Rio Grande Pueblo People.

[donnjone]

Please....!!!!  Natives are Natives and are all people!!! Dont matter the tribe..!!! Remember also pueblos and hopi borrow a lot from the spainish, a lot of influence. Saint days and feast all from Spanish. And Hopi also not acknowledged by Rio Grande Pueblos ask a Santo Domingo or San Felipe elder.!!!

[meems1128]

lol id like to see you tell that to a navajo elder. you do not know as much as you think you know

[berserkwolvie]

still looks good though. pretty damn good if you ask me.

[shotime87]

Hopi Basket Dance is way way better

trust me!!!

By the way I agree with Mencanto!!!!

[mutton97]

sooo not ur's...lol..

[ajsth101]

And they got it from the Hohokam, Anasazi, Pima cultures. Most cultures of the southwest have borrowed from one another. Some motifs and ideologies of Western and Keresan Pueblos have been acculturated from Spanish influences. Cultural exchange from neighboring societies are certainly going to have some sort of influence on one another.

[redhorsenm]

totally agree

[bboyjacatronique]

whats makes you so sure?