WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.510 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.510 --> 00:00:03.165 align:middle line:84% Don't know who she is, but she sounds awfully busy. 00:00:03.165 --> 00:00:06.156 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:06.156 --> 00:00:07.500 align:middle line:90% 00:00:07.500 --> 00:00:10.980 align:middle line:84% It's always a pleasure to be around people 00:00:10.980 --> 00:00:14.460 align:middle line:84% who are so gifted with words, so I'm 00:00:14.460 --> 00:00:18.750 align:middle line:84% looking forward to this evening, as all of us are. 00:00:18.750 --> 00:00:20.310 align:middle line:90% Normally it's the custom-- 00:00:20.310 --> 00:00:23.670 align:middle line:84% or customary-- for these session to begin with a prayer 00:00:23.670 --> 00:00:27.030 align:middle line:90% or with a song a sacred song. 00:00:27.030 --> 00:00:30.150 align:middle line:84% Since I'm neither a poet, and my voice 00:00:30.150 --> 00:00:35.130 align:middle line:84% is something that is probably better not heard, 00:00:35.130 --> 00:00:38.100 align:middle line:90% I am doing a different thing. 00:00:38.100 --> 00:00:41.850 align:middle line:84% I want to dedicate and honor the voices 00:00:41.850 --> 00:00:44.350 align:middle line:90% of some of our ancestors. 00:00:44.350 --> 00:00:47.190 align:middle line:90% 00:00:47.190 --> 00:00:52.740 align:middle line:84% In our many cultures, the songs, the chants, and the prayers 00:00:52.740 --> 00:00:55.200 align:middle line:90% are very poetic. 00:00:55.200 --> 00:01:00.390 align:middle line:84% They bring you along with the chanter on the dream vision 00:01:00.390 --> 00:01:04.650 align:middle line:84% as you walk with them, and they open these doors for you 00:01:04.650 --> 00:01:07.590 align:middle line:90% in these things. 00:01:07.590 --> 00:01:11.490 align:middle line:84% My grandfather was a student of Hosteen Klah. 00:01:11.490 --> 00:01:14.970 align:middle line:84% Hosteen Klah was a very well known medicine man-- 00:01:14.970 --> 00:01:17.310 align:middle line:90% a Navajo medicine man-- 00:01:17.310 --> 00:01:22.050 align:middle line:84% who contribute a lot of the songs and materials 00:01:22.050 --> 00:01:29.070 align:middle line:84% to a museum which still exists in Santa Fe, New Mexico. 00:01:29.070 --> 00:01:31.470 align:middle line:84% In one of these particular project, 00:01:31.470 --> 00:01:34.830 align:middle line:84% he really focused on the creation songs. 00:01:34.830 --> 00:01:39.000 align:middle line:84% And I'd like to, sort of, honor our guests 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:45.660 align:middle line:84% by going through and talking about the last song 00:01:45.660 --> 00:01:48.090 align:middle line:90% of the dawn. 00:01:48.090 --> 00:01:52.500 align:middle line:84% This is the ending of the creation stories 00:01:52.500 --> 00:01:55.740 align:middle line:84% that usually follow through a whole series of healing 00:01:55.740 --> 00:01:58.710 align:middle line:90% ceremonies. 00:01:58.710 --> 00:02:01.110 align:middle line:90% I am walking among them. 00:02:01.110 --> 00:02:06.570 align:middle line:84% I am walking among them, towards a place under the east. 00:02:06.570 --> 00:02:11.790 align:middle line:84% I am walking among them, the dawn people surround me. 00:02:11.790 --> 00:02:13.770 align:middle line:90% I am walking. 00:02:13.770 --> 00:02:16.200 align:middle line:90% The white corn surrounds me. 00:02:16.200 --> 00:02:18.000 align:middle line:90% I am walking. 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:21.930 align:middle line:84% [SPEAKING DINÉ BIZAAD] surrounds me. 00:02:21.930 --> 00:02:24.400 align:middle line:90% I am walking. 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:30.060 align:middle line:84% I am [SPEAKING DINÉ BIZAAD],, I am walking. 00:02:30.060 --> 00:02:32.220 align:middle line:90% Before me, it is beautiful. 00:02:32.220 --> 00:02:33.300 align:middle line:90% I am walking. 00:02:33.300 --> 00:02:35.250 align:middle line:90% Behind me, it is beautiful. 00:02:35.250 --> 00:02:37.210 align:middle line:90% I am walking. 00:02:37.210 --> 00:02:39.450 align:middle line:90% I am walking among them. 00:02:39.450 --> 00:02:41.820 align:middle line:90% I am walking among them. 00:02:41.820 --> 00:02:44.280 align:middle line:84% Towards the place under the south, 00:02:44.280 --> 00:02:46.230 align:middle line:90% I am walking towards them. 00:02:46.230 --> 00:02:48.150 align:middle line:90% The sun people surround me. 00:02:48.150 --> 00:02:49.830 align:middle line:90% I am walking. 00:02:49.830 --> 00:02:51.900 align:middle line:90% The blue corn surrounds me. 00:02:51.900 --> 00:02:53.804 align:middle line:90% I am walking. 00:02:53.804 --> 00:02:59.610 align:middle line:84% [SPEAKING DINÉ BIZAAD] surrounds me, I am walking. 00:02:59.610 --> 00:03:02.280 align:middle line:84% Behind me, it's beautiful, I am walking. 00:03:02.280 --> 00:03:05.680 align:middle line:84% Before me, it's beautiful, I am walking. 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:07.590 align:middle line:90% I am walking among them. 00:03:07.590 --> 00:03:10.230 align:middle line:90% I am walking among them. 00:03:10.230 --> 00:03:14.010 align:middle line:84% To the place under the west, I'm walking among them. 00:03:14.010 --> 00:03:18.150 align:middle line:84% The people of the yellow afterglow surround me. 00:03:18.150 --> 00:03:19.740 align:middle line:90% I am walking. 00:03:19.740 --> 00:03:21.870 align:middle line:90% The yellow corn surrounds me. 00:03:21.870 --> 00:03:23.110 align:middle line:90% I am walking. 00:03:23.110 --> 00:03:27.900 align:middle line:84% [SPEAKING DINÉ BIZAAD] surrounds me, I am walking. 00:03:27.900 --> 00:03:30.120 align:middle line:90% Before me it is beautiful. 00:03:30.120 --> 00:03:31.290 align:middle line:90% I am walking. 00:03:31.290 --> 00:03:33.350 align:middle line:90% Behind me it is beautiful. 00:03:33.350 --> 00:03:35.340 align:middle line:90% I am walking. 00:03:35.340 --> 00:03:37.590 align:middle line:90% I am walking among them. 00:03:37.590 --> 00:03:40.650 align:middle line:90% I am walking among them. 00:03:40.650 --> 00:03:44.580 align:middle line:84% To the place under the North, I am walking among them. 00:03:44.580 --> 00:03:46.860 align:middle line:84% The people of the north surround me. 00:03:46.860 --> 00:03:48.660 align:middle line:90% I am walking. 00:03:48.660 --> 00:03:51.450 align:middle line:90% All sort of corn surrounds me. 00:03:51.450 --> 00:03:52.990 align:middle line:90% I am walking. 00:03:52.990 --> 00:03:58.020 align:middle line:84% [SPEAKING DINÉ BIZAAD] surrounds me, I am walking. 00:03:58.020 --> 00:03:59.970 align:middle line:90% Behind me, it is beautiful. 00:03:59.970 --> 00:04:01.170 align:middle line:90% I am walking. 00:04:01.170 --> 00:04:03.840 align:middle line:90% Before me, it is beautiful. 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:08.700 align:middle line:84% I am walking, I am walking among them. 00:04:08.700 --> 00:04:10.770 align:middle line:90% I am walking among them. 00:04:10.770 --> 00:04:14.010 align:middle line:90% 00:04:14.010 --> 00:04:16.950 align:middle line:84% This is the kind of healing journey 00:04:16.950 --> 00:04:22.170 align:middle line:84% that takes you to the place of power where you can get healed, 00:04:22.170 --> 00:04:25.170 align:middle line:84% gives you an empowerment to heal yourself, 00:04:25.170 --> 00:04:28.410 align:middle line:84% and it allows you to walk among the deities 00:04:28.410 --> 00:04:31.050 align:middle line:84% with these kinds of power that they're 00:04:31.050 --> 00:04:33.030 align:middle line:90% willing to share with you. 00:04:33.030 --> 00:04:36.690 align:middle line:84% And so I want to remember them, these ancestral 00:04:36.690 --> 00:04:40.510 align:middle line:84% voices that read words of healing. 00:04:40.510 --> 00:04:42.990 align:middle line:90% Thank you and welcome. 00:04:42.990 --> 00:04:46.340 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:04:46.340 --> 00:04:49.259 align:middle line:90%