Dissapearing Clans and Migration

Navajo Historian, Wally Brown, teaches about how clans become extinct and about some of the migration stories of Navajo people.

[wolf_pup]

My grandparents travelled to Alberta Canada. There’s a place called cold lake. They took a boat and cross the little lake and met some people who speak navajo. They could communicate w them. My grandparents only speak navajo

[requiemcollectiblesgaming]

You were also a Marine? Thats badass.. true hero

[sallybright]

Thank you for sharing the oral history of your people. This is a history that needs to be told.

[ngbgqwd]

Grateful, Grandfather, to learn from you about your heritage and culture. It brings me joy and peace of mind and I thank you. Blessings.

[AllegedlyControversial]

Accordingly to my great uncle Rene who passed away a while back there was once a people in Northwest Territories (Canada) called the Naha tribe. They lived in the mountains and were vicious warriors. My ancestors were the northern dene who lived in the lowlands below the plateau on the south nahanni river. The Naha used to come down from their caves and villages in the mountains and raid the lowland villages until one day All the lowland tribes banded together including the inuit and the dogrib tribes to get rid of these raiders once and for all. So the newly formed army travelled up the South Nahanni to confront the Naha at their home base but when they got to their village the Naha were gone. They had allegedly escaped by using their medicine men to open a "portal" through the large fire that was still smoldering in their camp. The Naha allegedly walked through the hot coals in Northwest Territories and then walked out of the fire into the four corners region.

[twots]

I enjoy your teachings. Thank you for your generosity! Bless you.

[jclearwaterlove]

Some of my children were born with the birthmark on the back just like he’s saying and I also thought the nurses had mishandled my babies until my aunt explained that it’s an indigenous birthday mark of some kind. It does go away after several weeks.

[Ken-wcpo]

Excellent lesson..Thank you for answering the Navajo / Apache question...

[leanderhobb]

This is really great to hear🙌 more then the books

[aprilgomez]

Thank You for sharing this my daughter also had these bruise on her lower back when she was an infant. I didn't know this was a native birthmark, I was a bit concerned but then it went away after a few months. My mothers side has told us we have native ancestry I am happy to hear this.

[marcusbitsuie]

One time we had a sweat lodge ceremony with some Mongolians and they told us that they came from here . i always wondered about that, thanks for sharing.

[e-maikey]

🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴We are truly grateful for all your Teachings ! Sharing and Caring with love ... 🐢🐺🐍🐆🐈🐊🐪🐳🐳🐳... "Grutas do Nzenzo" Angola Africa

[AnthonyDavis-ojpp]

Same stories I've heard from my parents passed down from their parents and grandparents. I've heard my parents mentioned those names.

[margaretneanover]

Thanks for hearing the stories and sharing some. All homes early on were underground. At least that's the strong theory of past. The terms have been thrown to whatever game played.

[YausmendaAliBey]

My birthmark, the “bruise” looking mark on my tailbone never disappeared. All my life doctors have thought I was abused.

[kerrypurcell]

great story, , , , really enjoy these of history, ,

[djchancla]

I’m Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo and enjoy your teachings

[ruthbaker]

This is fascinating. I was really shaken up when he talked about the people dying suddenly. We know that smallpox and other European diseases made it across the continent, killing enormous numbers of first nations people long before European people made the journey. Viruses can move so quickly among people with no immunity. I've always felt that it must have just been a horrible time. We have very few eye witness accounts of that experience, perhaps simply because it happened so quickly and even those who survived may have been ill, all too ill to even tell the stories.

[ronaldcautiverio]

All of us and even my children had that birthmark that disappears. My ancestors are from the Islands of the Philippines once known as Maharlika.

[blesdco]

Interesting about the birthmarks, Japanese babies are also born with them and goes away as the child grows.