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There's a word in
the Navajo language

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that signifies that a
story has been remembered,

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or a story has been told.

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And the story
oftentimes doesn't have

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to be experienced
by the storyteller,

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but they may have heard the
story from someone else.

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And so the word that
signifies this is jiní.

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And so that's what
this is called.

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Jiní.

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"Jiní, they say.

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We accept jiní as part of
our stories on simple faith.

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It's not important who said
it, but that it was said.

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The stories become part
of our collective memory.

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Our stories begin
and end with jiní.

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At Ya'dziilzihii is the place
named after the contest where

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young men shot flocks of arrows
toward the clouds to see who

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could shoot the farthest.

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jiní.

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At Séí Delehí, lovers' trysts
took place on the wide sandy

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bed near the tamarisks.

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Jiní.

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'It's best to take time to
listen to the stories and not

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be in a hurry,' the
Diné elder says.

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He lives near White House Ruins,
where you can buy a cappuccino

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and tourist jewelry.

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He knows the stories
not echoed on paper.

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Díí'kwe'é Dibé Yázhí
Bich'ah wolyé jiní.

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This place is called Little
Lamb's Cap, they say.

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A man stayed behind and drew
the animals on the canyon wall

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and blessed it with prayers.

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For the people's
return, he waited.

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Time passed.

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Then a long-robed man
came through the Canyon.

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He's there on the
wall with the others.

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Which will last longer--

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the drawings, or the
stories of jiní?"

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