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This is a poem that I always
feel obligated to-- then cook

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for people.

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I really like to think about and
discover the meanings of Navajo

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words and just take different
sections and look at what

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each one what each vowel
means or where it came from.

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So the poem that I want to
read now is called Náneeskaadí

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and you'll see what it means.

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"When the weather is nice,
we sit under the trees

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with covered bowls of
warm dough and make bread

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on grill set over
glowing ashes more often

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we sit in my mother's
kitchen and take

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turns plus placing
flattened circles of dough

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on the hot griddle
the stack of bread

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ultimately grows then
shrinks, depending

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on how many people are around

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these days I drive home in the
darkened evening to a quiet

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a house, the cats greet me
with a glance and a yawn,

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they look repeatedly
at their food bowls,

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they want canned food 'it seems
like everyone wants something

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from me,' I complain while
filling their bowls Dexter

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Dudley begay purrs in response

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[LAUGHTER]

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I wish for beans or warm stew
but then I just wash my hands

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and line up ingredients as I
learned to do in home economics

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years ago, 'never start cooking
without everything being

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in order' Mrs. Bowman preach
I mix the dough and cover it

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and then let it set a
while I change clothes,

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turn on lights and fix a glass
of ice water then I search

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the refrigerator for something
to accompany the Náneeskaadí

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'it goes with everything and
anything' my inner Martha

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Stewart reassures me [LAUGHTER]

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the process is simple,
take a few handfuls

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of flour preferably,
Bluebird or Navajo Pride,

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toss with a bit of salt and
a palmful of baking powder,

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mix well, ponder the
next ingredient a while

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but then go ahead and add
two fingertips of lard

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not too much, just enough to
help the texture mix very well

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then pour in one and 1/2
cups of very hot water,

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as hot as you can
stand, and mix quickly

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mix until the dough forms a
softball and the remaining

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flour lifts away from
the sides of the bowl,

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rub olive oil on a griddle
and heat until very warm then

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take a ball of dough
and pat it into a disk,

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stretch it gently while
slapping it from side

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to side after a few
minutes, a rhythm emerges

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from the soft muffled slapping,
combined with the pauses

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to lay the dough on
the griddle flip it

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over its removal from the hot
grill and its hot replacement

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soon the kitchen warms and
the warm scent of Náneeskaadí

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drifts through the house the
cats are now sleeping circles

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of fur, the door opens, my
husband comes in smiling he is

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savoring Náneeskaadí
and melting butter."

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And this is what
the word brings,

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part of what some meanings
of what Náneeskaadí means.

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Na'.

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Here as in Na' k'ad yiłwoł.

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Now, go run along' we tell the
children when they're hanging

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out waiting for
bread Ná for you,

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the Díí na'iishłaa I
made this for you Ná,

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díí ná iishłaa here, I made
this for you Ná 'ahéésh kad.

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I slapped this dough
into shape for you,

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Díí náníínsííł kaad this warm
circle of dough is spread out

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for you K'ad la'.
there, Łikanish?

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is it good?"

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