The Original "Underground" Tiny House? Navajo Hogan Tour
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.พ. 2025
- Derek "Deek" Diedricksen, while en route to speak at the first Tiny House Jamboree in Colorado Springs, CO, inadvertently discovers "The White Mountain Trading Post" in Fort Garland, CO.
The White Mountain Trading Post host FREE tours of their teepees, a recreated wild west downtown, a Navajo hogan, another underground native american dwelling, and so much more. Its truly a backroads hidden gem and well worth the trip out to visit. The WMTP also puts on wild west horse and gun shows, complete with a downtown showdown, for the kids!
Fort Garland, CO is located about 2 hours from Pueblo, CO, and about an hour from Waldenburg, CO.
Again, well worth a visit! This place is great!
Sometimes when I see the way things were built YEARS ago - I often think we really haven't progressed all that much. This hogan was really nice - great tour, thanks a lot!
But we hav progressed, .... into debt. in houses that can be shot through. I bet these are tornado proof.
Lets not forget the pyramids ...we have regressed in my humble opinion
Takes me back to my childhood growing up in Arizona and visiting our neighbors on the rez. Thanks for posting
Love the clever engineering in this. And the young man Elija was so knowledgable and happy to share. Wonderful!
Yes, a very nice guy too- we were the only people at the place and he gave us quite an extensive tour of all the dwellings they had.....
NobleDesignMedia 🙃 yes he is knowledgeable, I did not know the Navajo are also Dene, my mom is "Dene Kho ne Kue" people of the mountains, most people call us Slavey, that name was picked up from chip guides, to the English explorers.
Thank you for sharing a historical experience, would love to see more of these as time allows you.
The most facinating tour you've ever done.. My favourite by far!
Wow- thanks- honestly, this place was tough to film- video doesn't do it justice. This little middle-of-nowhere trading post was one of my favorite parts of our trip- and it was a place we randomly stumbled upon....
I found this video fascinating as it is right at the intersection of two of my interests: tiny houses, and historical re-creation. I would be very interested in watching a relax shacks produced miniseries of covering mini houses through American history, with an emphasis on design, construction, and social context of usage of the houses.
We slept on the dirt floor on sheep skin while growing up in a hogan. We never had beds.
I'd love to hear more about your daily life in the hogan. I assume hogans are still in use today. Do they need to be rebuilt often?
I would like to know how hot/cool it is inside during the summer
Our country is rich with history! Enjoyed!
Cool video...thanks for the tour !
I enjoyed your video. Thanks for sharing. 😊👍
My main question is: on the rare occasions it rains in the desert, water would come through the hole in the roof and put out the fire, possibly getting their stuff wet. Was there anything they did to prevent this sort of thing happening?
Very cool! Gives me ideas for my earth home build
Watch the Shipping Containers being buried underground, of course they use rebar and cement on the roof for ridgidity and strength, even a bulldozer can drive over the top without any issues. You need to shore up the areas you cut out when putting them side by side of course away from the wall's a few feet.
That looks really sturdy I like it
Mmm navajo doesn't mean thief in spanish...
The name “Navajo” comes from the late 18th century via the Spanish (Apaches de) Navajó "(Apaches of) Navajó", which was derived from the Tewa navahū "fields adjoining a ravine". The Navajos call themselves Diné.
Gringos again misrepresenting Indigenous people. Stop.
Ohiopyle means "very white," which would have been a description of the water in what is now Ohiopyle. That means the entire state of Ohio simply means "very." The Native Americans were probably saying "very flat," but the remainder of their speech was lost in translation. I agree most names are a mistranslation of places and geography and not derogatory corrupted words describing the indigenous peoples that inhabited those areas.
His description of Navajo is incorrect. He is passing on information that is not true to ignorant people who have no clue if he is passing on correct and clear teaching.
Care to explain? -rather than just calling people ignorant (those who are in actuality, eager to learn)? Your comment doesn't help at all unless you make the effort to explain and educate others, who would actually appreciate it.
My dream home.
Looked at several houses there.
The ignorance in this video is extremely disrespectful
Say what? Could you explain?
I'm just waiting to win the lottery so I can build the underground hatch from LOST, that will be my tiny home
"Navajo" is a Spanish adaptation of the Tewa Pueblo word navahu'u, meaning "farm fields in the valley."
Today you could do this with a couple shipping containers. They never get sent back to China, should be cheap to buy. The ones built as freezers are very well insulated.
I wouldn't mind having a Navajo hogan house with modern stuff
Too me, it looks more like a reconstruction of a 19th century dwelling, not 17th century. A big metal stove and stovepipe,
sheep's wool blankets.
I wonder how long a hogan would last before rotting or termites got it? If you were to ask me, we should all be living in such houses. I know I will build one.
Well the one he was showing, the kid said it was 300 years old
I’m Navajo, this hogan isn’t construed right. Nothing near what we have.
Navaho is actually a Zuni word for enemy
That is one handsome tour guide.
Absolutely! Radiant...
One of many original "tiny houses."
Yes, exactly- the past was very "tiny"- and there is lots to learn from it....
I mean most of it is inaccurate but go off
Horses did exist prior to the Spanish. Dine’ does not mean the people. My bed was directly on the ground, sheep skin and all. I don’t know where he got the idea that it was an authentic hogan. I’ve never seen a hogan build like that! My people don’t have chiefs, so the hogan is not a chiefs home. White people? Which compass direction is the front opening (door for you whites) of the hogan?
The so called "Navajo Hogan" looks more like the "Earth Lodges" of the Mandan Tribe, of North Dakota. Although, I believe, they revered Mother Earth, and slept upon her bosom, so to speak. Not unlike their southwestern brethren.
Navajos do not have chiefs! They were a nomadic people! The y only had family! They did not lived in villages!🙄
Navajos had 'head man', similar to chiefs, of their region.
Horses not here until white man.....i don't think so!! At least he go dineh right.
Thats what he said I believe- they were brought from Europe......
Horses came from Europe but they were traded by the tribes so they arrived in West long before the white man did.
Christine Johnson that sounds contradictory white men were from Europe
The horse evolved here but became extinct 8-12 million years ago. Columbus and later the conquistadors re-introduced them to this part of the world.
@@anitaarchibald6138 Modern horses, zebras, and asses belong to the genus Equus, the only surviving genus in a once diverse family, the Equidae. Based on fossil records, the genus appears to have originated in North America about 4 million years ago and spread to Eurasia (presumably by crossing the Bering land bridge) 2 to 3 million years ago. Following that original emigration, there were additional westward migrations to Asia and return migrations back to North America, as well as several extinctions of Equus species in North America.
The last prehistoric North American horses died out between 13,000 and 11,000 years ago, at the end of the Pleistocene, but by then Equus had spread to Asia, Europe, and Africa.