http://www.dejavu-shop.com/8707/how-can-i-help-the-navajo-nation/ Tie Dye Clothes Generation Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:24:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.dejavu-shop.com/8707/how-can-i-help-the-navajo-nation/comment-page-1/#comment-67 Brings Light Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:28:16 +0000 #comment-67 I watched 30 Days too. It was a good episode that showed many of the realities of living on the rez. What should YOU do? Learn your language, know your relatives, go home. Since you are a mix of a couple of tribes, 'home' can be several places. You're growing up Choctaw and, even though you have more Navajo 'blood,' culturally you are Choctaw. Since you are also Navajo, don't forget your Dine' people. Travel to your grandfather's hometown, meet your relatives, learn a few words of Dine'. If you want the Navajo language and culture to continue, learn it yourself, marry a Navajo lady, have Navajo children and pass on the language and traditions. Go to college, get a law degree in Tribal Law and fight for the rights of indigenous people. If you're looking for something less committal, send a check to the Navajo Nation Department of Education or to one of the language immersion schools. Don't feel bad for people who live on the rez though. Those of us who live on reservations do so for many reasons. We take the bad with the good. Since it is mostly good, we do what we can to get past the bad. I watched 30 Days too. It was a good episode that showed many of the realities of living on the rez. What should YOU do? Learn your language, know your relatives, go home. Since you are a mix of a couple of tribes, ‘home’ can be several places. You’re growing up Choctaw and, even though you have more Navajo ‘blood,’ culturally you are Choctaw. Since you are also Navajo, don’t forget your Dine’ people. Travel to your grandfather’s hometown, meet your relatives, learn a few words of Dine’. If you want the Navajo language and culture to continue, learn it yourself, marry a Navajo lady, have Navajo children and pass on the language and traditions. Go to college, get a law degree in Tribal Law and fight for the rights of indigenous people. If you’re looking for something less committal, send a check to the Navajo Nation Department of Education or to one of the language immersion schools. Don’t feel bad for people who live on the rez though. Those of us who live on reservations do so for many reasons. We take the bad with the good. Since it is mostly good, we do what we can to get past the bad.

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