The Vulnerability of Relearning Culture
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 มิ.ย. 2023
- We're back with traditional Navajo weaver, Tasheena Littleben of Rock Point, Arizona. But this time, she addresses a source of anxiety for many Natives who want to reconnect with their culture--either through language, trades, or beliefs--but are afraid of being judged by other Natives for not being Native enough. Importantly, she also demonstrates that there is a path through the negativity and self-doubt that can discourage people from asking questions and learning more about their culture to a place of greater understanding and connection. Join me as we put it all out there and get to know Tasheena.
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Much love and light. She right. Everything is part of tuning ourselves to live and be in harmony
that is also called Hozho. In Clayton's video, he explains how that balance is created. Appreciate your support
Love her honesty and story on getting back to her roots, the land, and cultures.
Yessir, Tasheena is a voice that many can relate to. 🤙🏾
Beautiful, ahe hee for sharing.
Inspiring for us reconnecting and on that path, even though I don't live on the reservation (wish I could but can't with life right now). So doing what I can here and learning on my own, one day at a time ❤️
Keep up the great work & one day at a time is progress. Nizhoni
Another great video. Looks like this kind & gracious lady is on the right track. ( Leaving much of the craziness of modern city life behind to return to a self-healing traditional path.) 👍👏
I remember reading W.T. Hamilton's book on his fur trapping expeditions with other free trappers on the great plains & Shining Mountains in the early 1840s. At the end of their 3yr expedition, his mnt man mentor, Bill Williams, gave him a Navajo blanket. ( These special blankets were highly prized because they were water proof, a very important feature for people who lived 100% of their time outside. To my horror, Hamilton said he cut a slit in the center of this blanket so he could wear it like a rain-wicking poncho.) Hamilton said the whites were amazed by these blankets & couldn't figure out how they could shrug off water so well.
Ahe' hee for sharing that piece of history. Our rugs are definitely special in more ways than we know. 🙌🏾
"Vulnerability is a wonderful thing. We're all so afraid to be vulnerable in this world. When you meet somebody who is vulnerable, there is an attraction. There is something to that. There is beauty there. The beauty of life is not knowing."
Matisyahu
"There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives. Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the program of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime. You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding."
Terence McKenna
"The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Independent of others and in concert with others, your main task in life is to do what you can best do and become what you can potentially be. In times of change, learners inherit the earth. There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
If other people do not understand our behavior-so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being 'asocial' or 'irrational' in their eyes, so be it. Mostly they resent our freedom and our courage to be ourselves. We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them.
Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men, and from nature. He has been transformed into a commodity, experiences his life forces as an investment which must bring him the maximum profit obtainable under existing market conditions.
A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody wants to be an outsider, or indeed an outcast; in order to avoid this risk everybody adapts to the majority, who have in common only their mutual antagonism.
Many psychiatrists and psychologists refuse to entertain the idea that society as a whole may be lacking in sanity. They hold that the problem of mental health in a society is only that of the number of 'unadjusted' individuals, and not of a possible un-adjustment of the culture itself.
The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness. The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.
Organized religion is in substance a mystification, a means of hiding the wickedness of the social system. If the Christian principles of love, equality, and freedom were really practiced instead of only preached, there would be no need for a special institution(the church) to take care of those principles.
We try to evade the question of existence with property, prestige, power, possession, production, fun, and, ultimately, by trying to forget that we- that I- exist. No matter how much he thinks of God or goes to church, or how much he believes in religious ideas , if he, the whole man, is deaf to the question of existence, if he does not have an answer to it, he is marking time, and he lives and dies like one of the million things he produces. He thinks of God, instead of experiencing God.
As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found- in himself.
We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization. Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him also into a sadist or a destroyer. An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality.
Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost total… Man has created a world of man-made things as it never existed before. He has constructed a complicated social machine to administer the technical machine he built. The more powerful and gigantic the forces are which he unleashes, the more powerless he feels himself as a human being. He is owned by his creations, and has lost ownership of himself.
To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness. The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness. Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either. If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.
...in spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money, power-almost all our energy is used for the learning of how to achieve these aims, and almost none to learn the art of loving. Could it be that only those things are considered worthy of being learned with which one can earn money or prestige, and that love, which "only" profits the soul, but is profitless in the modern sense, is a luxury we have no right to spend energy on?
The criterion of mental health is not one of individual adjustment to a given social order, but a universal one, valid for all men, of giving a satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others. To have faith requires courage, the ability to take a risk, the readiness even to accept pain and disappointment.
Whoever insists on safety and security as primary conditions of life cannot have faith; whoever shuts himself off in a system of defense, where distance and possession are his means of security, makes himself a prisoner. To be loved, and to love, need courage, the courage to judge certain values as of ultimate concern - and to take the jump and to stake everything on these values.
The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love. Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.
The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one.
The opposite pole to narcissism is objectivity; it is the faculty to see other people and things as they are, objectively, and to be able to separate this objective picture from a picture which is formed by one's desires and fears."
Erich Fromm
The more society dives into AI technology and automation... the more natives are gonna go back to our roots. We live waaaaay beyond our means at this point. Great video
Ahe' hee for looking at it from that perspective. It's much needed to go back to our origins.
Thanks for sharing, beautiful practicing , teaching brings back so much memories of my mom , grandma and Thanks to spagoshi going to all ends
Aoh' we appreciate your support & glad we brought back some good memories. Merry Keshgon / Keshmish!! 😉
What an amazing vlog.
Ahe' hee 🙏🏾
Very interesting! It's refreshing to see one honest, humble, and talented . I can see all the little animals smile along with your laughter... I know I do... Thank you!
Ahe' hee for the nice comment. Once practice is put into place, everything else falls into place. Tasheena is one of many living proof of that.
I like that Tasheena lived in the modern world but came back to the traditional way of life. Her comment about "you have to control your thoughts when weaving" makes a lot of sense given the intricacy and detail of the patterns. In other words, you can't let your mind wander too far or I could see "unweaving" the rug back to where your mind wandered, LOL. Lots of discipline needed for this art.
I really like her comments about water. So true for ALL of us. Even areas with more rain are having water shortages due to climate change, in my opinion.
Always a good story from Spagoshi.
Ahe' hee for your insights Dave 🙌🏾 never thought of the weaving showing where your mind started wondering. I could imagine how my patterns would turn out, ha
@@Spagoshi Sounds like something I would do, LOL.
@@D2uned 🙌🏾 ha
Very KOOL 👍
Aoh' she is 🤙🏾 Follow her on Instagram, very cool stuff she shares
I love your story. Some of us cannot get back to the reservation, especially no water, OMG. Very nice you are weaving. I love the Navajo tea color. Keep up the great work.
Tasheena is doing great stuff & ahe' hee for watching her video series! 🤙🏾
What type a bread?
Frybread
Thank you for your videos I love learning the arts and now I’m on the search for more information about the tribe my family comes from, but it said to be extinct. But in reality we are here just not as a family in one place.
@@mbmenendez That's great to hear! I hope you find more information about your tribe. What tribe are you from? It's always important to find out where you come from & to hold onto that. Thanks for checking out our channel & I hope you enjoy our other episodes as well. Ahe' hee (thanks)
@@Spagoshi Concha in Northern Mexico.
@@mbmenendez ah gotcha. That's interesting, I hope you find some good history during your journey. 👍🏾
You forgot the part where it was the Hopis not spider women who showed you Navajos how to weave.
Great insight to history, are you Hopi? If so, would you be willing to share your story? Ahe' hee for your comment! 🤙🏾
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@spagoshi insight? It’s facts
@@tayesekakuku6778 Is that right? Would you be willing to share your story on camera? Ahe' hee
Women are better at talking about who they are... than men.