Interview with a Navajo Medicine Man in Monument Valley
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ม.ค. 2013
- Dave Seminara is the award-winning author of four books, including Mad Travelers: A Tale of Wanderlust, Greed & the Quest to Reach the Ends of the Earth and Footsteps of Federer: A Fan's Pilgrimage Across 7 Swiss Cantons in 10 Acts. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Chicago Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times and many other publications and websites. Check out his website www.daveseminara.com and follow him on Instagram- / madtravelerdave
Yá'at'ééh. I am a young Diné woman. I come from a traditional Diné family. I was a little worried when the guy interviewing ask Mr. Chee if he could see his medicine bag and the items he uses during ceremony. You can't ask for something like that. If he wanted you to see his medicine and the items used during a traditional ceremony, he will show you. But just know these items used are very very VERY SACRED.. It's not just something one can openly share with any outsider or even the world. Traditional Navajo elders tell us these items are what heal us, protect us and keep Navajo traditions and culture alive. It's something you can't play around with or be open about.. It must be protected. Those are just my thoughts.
sister plz tel me this remedy really works
It's the same in our Andean tradition. I my self am a carrier of a sacred medicine bundle and it's not something for display or the outside world to know... Very few have seen what my Mesa (andean medicine bundle) contains.. And it is the same in our tradition... NEVER purchase your sacred tools...
It only works for you if you truly believe. One way I can relate it to is Christianity how you have to fully accept Jesus into your soul. In ways our culture and traditions are similar to Christianity and yet again, not. Like that kind of belief and level of trust. If you believe it, it will work. If you just play around with it, IT knows you are just using it. That part is all up to you.
Christianity has nothing to do with any Native American Culture/Religion..
KevinY yes I know that. But that is the best way I can explain it to foreigners.
Was stunned when interviewer asked to see what was in the medicine man medicine bag . No one was allowed to handle or see the contents of my bag not even my sons or grandkids . They are the tools that the medicine man uses . To be a medicine man or medicine woman your heart has to be pure and that of a lion , you will be tested and attacked by the entities of the supernatural side . 🙏
thats is definitely correct!
I want to meet a skinwalker
You will definitely be tested! I have since I was a kid. The spirits and the "other worldly" will always follow you when you have a connection to the other side. When you have been gifted, in order to help others.
Even before I realized the gifts my grandmother passed on to me, I sensed them all around me. My maternal grandmother was a loving and gifted healer. And the only family member I ever felt a strong connection to.
Mad Traveler
@@iammarcusanthony9207 No you dont
Herman Chee is my grandpa and in my family he is the most trusted elder in the Chee family everybody local to monument valley relied upon him for help now when I see him in this video and sadly he passed away but his is remembered the most and my dad mostly told stories about him that I’ve never heard of but he is missed
So sorry for the loss of your loved one, i feel this man interviewing was RUDE and shouldn't have ever asked to see his medicine bag!
Can you ask him what he knows about Greeks that came there in old times?
Would your family know of a woman in the monument valley area known as Margaret or margarit? She's known to be a medicine woman these days.
Mahe Ohna, Peace and Favour to you and your family.
these wise elders are sharing sacred wisdom with you and start to act like a child when they don’t show you what’s inside the bag.
Right, ugly that he had no respect. They act like it's toys
Yeah that was annoying. Show some respect🥴
Slow down and don't be in a hurry to see things you may not understand.
Been along time I hear my chei talk and hearing his voice I use this video to calm me down knowing that my chei will not be forgot. His voice makes me feel joy and happiness thanks to who very made this video. I thank you so much remember me how he uses to talk to me.
Have he left this earth?
So he didn't speak any English, he only knew his Indian language? Very interesting to know that there are still natives like that. I live in Canada and know lots of natives but I don't know any the only speak their own Indian language and not be able to speak enlgish
Would your family know of a woman in the monument valley area known as Margaret or margarit? She's known to be a medicine woman these days.
My condolences to the family of Mr. Chee. May he rest with our ancestors in power. I am hoping to find a medicine man/women who may be able to help me. My grandfather was Navajo and my grandmother was hopi.
To the person conducting the supposed interview. Try to at least act as though you are interested. Be respectful. Do not ask stupid and/or disrespectful questions. Ask a few questions BEFORE you enter a traditional sacred space and ask if there is anything that you are supposed to say or do when entering a traditional scared space. Also ask about what you are NOT supposed to do or say in that holy place. Some things can be overlooked if you have the correct spirit and intent and you do something incorrectly, But if you do not have the correct spirit and intent, or if you are not respectful of that holy place, then just do not go there.
an unsacred place for germans not jews? ^ ^ well or romans ^ ^
very exacally i hate that he asks to look at the medicine bafg
Exactly! If I was the translator I would of asked him to stop recording. We ain’t National Geographic. SMH I would never asked my medicine man to look at his tools. Our ceremonies are sacred. When we go to our medicine men, we don’t go an say “what kind of tools you have?” I hope they cut your interview short and didn’t show you anything else. Chill out man.
notice how this man is closing his eyes when cameras are present.
My great grandfather was a medicine man and he would have never allowed himself to be recorded or filmed while talking or explaining our ceremonies or traditions. He was offered by universities across the US but the moment they said he was going to be filmed, he said no and meant it. They tried offering him money but the answer was still no.
My mom as a little girl tried recording him because she wanted to learn and not forget anything about him. She hid and turned on the recorder but he said to her I know you're there and you can't record me. She always wondered how he knew she was going to record him and years later her cousin brother told her that the holy ghost told him that she was there hiding. He then said that medicine men are like priesthood holders and they can communicate to the holy ghost.
Would your family know of a woman in the monument valley area known as Margaret or margarit? She's known to be a medicine woman these days.
*reminder* always walk clockwise when walking into a hogan or teepee ect ect
He must not have known
Wym walk clockwise
@@Avocados-zz7nw the same as the rotation of the sun
Never do it the opposite that’s the way of the evil way where as the sun rise in the east and sets in the west all hogan doors face the east. Never pray to the west of the sunset or dark side which is evil.
Got a little irritated with the interviewer. I liked what the medicine man had to say. The interviewer obviously wasn't really interested in what he was saying judging by the way he meandered with the camera during the interview on unimportant aspects of the environment. Also rude with his pushiness in wanting to see what was in the medicine bag. Didn't even let the translator finish communicating the story that the medicine man was sharing before he could stop himself from asking what was in the bag. Typical white man. Medicine man words saved the day though, so it was still worth listening to despite the culturally insensitive interviewer.
Love U uncle...will never 4get ur teachN...U will B miss but never 4gotN...😢💖
#rip2016
My condolences Marcella, very important person for a tribe and for a culture!
He looks like my father and my uncle too!
May he be with the GREAT SPIRIT!!!
Hi Marcella Im very worry with the situation in the tribe, About this new desease, I know lot of natural great medicines!
Please write to me in my channel!
hey nice interview, Im also navajo (Dine) i use crystal too. Im 23 yrs old turning 24 in May.
i thought it was funny you quickly responded to look at his crystal in the medicine man's bag.
How you were allowed access is beyond me. It's obscenely obvious that you had no business there. At all. At least, not the 'business' that you were after.
These people are so amazing
Thank you all.
Mr Chee. I am a navajo veteran. I have been deployed to Kosovo once, 4 times to Iraq and was diagnosed with PTSD when I came back from Iraq. I didn't deploy to Afghanistan and stayed on rear detachment due to my PTSD. I was discharged and given disability. Can you do a cleansing ceremony for me . Thank you.
Go to the town mentioned and I am sure you'll find him or who you're post too. Hope you are doing better and find full healing 🙏
If you can find a real medicine man he can help
Ty Namaste I feel you speaking thru me and am grateful for the connection healings and messages ty✌
Eastern & western Navajo is a bit quite different I must say watching this vid. Eastern Navajo airplane = flying iron, Western Navajo airplane = flying car. Eastern Navajo bridge = planked road, Western Navajo bridge = A pole like land bridge like a fallen tree. Interesting. Good watch.
No You Can't See The Crystal. This Dude!! Why Do They Make Videos Like This. That's Why Our Culture And Our Ways Is Suppose To Be Sacred. Smh
Lol I started laughing when he was begging to see it “can I see the crystal?” “can I see the crystal?” Lmao. He just cut him off too...like calm down...you’re not going to see the crystal 😂
Im a special person, meaning with a universal gift. Medicine people should'nt be talking, sharing their healing medicines with nonnatives. It must be highly respectul. Should'nt be interview for $$$$.
you’re asking to have a look in a medicine mans bag???
*sigh
Rip brother Herman.
I just stayed in one of the Hogans in monument valley a month ago. Much needed
Walk to the left, man. At the very least, walk to the left.
He did. He wasn't supposed to enter that way, always walk clockwise around the stove/middle.
thank you this will help with my nhd project
Hogans are amazing. I wish we could get back to that.
All kinds of ppl still live in them lol
@@ashleyalessandrocampos394 I guess that was the white eye in me. But in a broad sense get back to traditional dwellings and or incorporate them in modern architecture. Like the Pueblo are doing.
@@charlesfortney2372 many 'regulations ' are made to stop national house from being built
Shii wife... He goes... 🤣🤣🤣
Lord let me remember my language. I understand what he is saying. I have trouble putting this together. I hope to be fluent again.
I try to find videos of people speaking their native language. It's so beautiful to listen to. 🌻
Respect 💥👍
That flag behind them reps Native Blood.
These are the true Americans.
That nasty flag represents nothing but blood of many different people In this country and around the world
Beautiful always and forever ⛈
Thank you🫂🫂
Great video thank you.
Is anyone know how can I contact the medicine man?
Ugh...this is sacrilegious!
I love it
No right or wrong( just life)!!
Hello , Mr Cree, How can I receive your help? I am of Cherokee/Pawnee/Irish and Scotts mixed and my family was destroyed over time. My spirit is sick and I would love to know how I can get help or where. I truly need it and trust in your wisdom to either help me or to not help me. I have great respect for you. My granny was of the old way, but kept it quiet for reasons I do not wish to go public with. Thank you either way for your time in reading my words.
it wont work on Irish people
bogus johnny..its up to you michelle to go sit in a ceremony..I've sat with many different ethnic people..
I wonder what suffering the interviewer went through after this meeting. He (Grandfather ) is protected! there are no spirits that will allow uch disrespect .... I feel so sad he wouldnt honor custom and traditinal laws while entering this space
plz some one tel me that remedy really works an he is really that navoja man please
Hello everyone , does anyone know if the natives have cases of animals mutilations, if so, do these events happend since very old times ? Is there a native here that can answer me ? Thx ( it's about horses mutilations in France )
I am just 20yrs because of English medicines side effect now I am suffering from bilateral sensorineural hearing loss an tinnitus
Detox and take some reishi mushroom tonics.
Do you still help 5 fingers being in 2021
puisse le Créateur garder ses hommes saint le plus longtemps possible pour que nous puissions encore longtemps croiser leurs route pour partager le sens du vrai....
AND THAN IN THE ENDING OF VIDEO WE ARE LEFT WITH OUR MOUTHS OPENED WONDERING WHAT. HAPPENED NEXT CURIOSITY KILLS THE CAT WE ARE THE CAT
Prob kicked him out and he posted without their permission my guess
That's cool he's speaking in Native Navajo however he does not need a translator he speaks perfect English
subway & Dr Pepper in beatty way 2 burger king at parking lot ceremony
I went to Arizona went to Window Rock I was looking for a medicine man to help me he gave me a $200 tour special and I came out worse now than I ever was why won't they help me that's what you're supposed to do right I need help who do I go to to help me
What did you need help with?
@@EMRAE_8 I seen something when I was young it keeps telling me to do something and I started trying to understand it all when I was 50 The Voice led me to Window Rock
@@billbeerman6272
How old was the medicine man? Some younger ones weren't trained in all necessary ceremonies. The only ceremony that is most common is the beauty way ceremony which brings you back in harmony with your surroundings. You might need the night way ceremony which could take more than one day. But not all medicine men know that ceremony. You probably need to find a hand trembler which usually is a woman.
@@billbeerman6272
Is the voice something that is unwanted? There is another ceremony called the evil way and that one is to exorcise evil and negativity and restore or heal you to good health and bring goodness and positive harmony.
@@EMRAE_8 I really don't want to throw the shaman out there but he is the youngest Shaman ever you probably know him Aaron Sam very very bad man The Voice is not evil they want me to go and find something they won't tell me what it is they just keep telling me to go out west and find it
Why are men in a "female" hogan???
didn't those guys used to be pipe welders?
American Flag is posted wrong.
I would like to be sung over to help me achieve hózhó
I don't believe the interviewer knows about the traditions of respect for the healers in the Dine cuture. No Dine would ever ask so bluntly to see into the medicine case. Heaing is personal, powerful (holy) and based on long training. Not something to be dealt with superficially.l . I don't think I'll be looking at any more of this type of interview.
No such ' ,.. all are to be in medicine ,.. these folk's are groupy's who practice ,.. ' the craft "
He is my people...also sounds a little like Japanese.
yaaati kaaaaraaalinti daw mga tangi
Removing curses
It's what they do.
It's what they do.
Please I need to see someone to remove old family curse. Please direct me to someone who may be able to assist me.
annoyed how disrespectful the interview went by the rude pushiness of the non-native looking to sellout a medicine man
I speak navajo and that's,not what he said tell the truth I know what he said
What did he say?
I really would respectfully like to know what the Navajo medicine man said because I could tell the interviewer was being too pushy and wasn't really into what was being talked about instead you could tell he had an hidden agenda with him smh.. I'm glad the elders didn't share the truth with him well most of the truth.. but it really would be interesting to hear what was being said in Navajo..😊🤔
Disrespectful to ask to look at something sacred
peyote way is not dine way.
prayers with peyote started from Mexican medicine men who taught it to Quanah Parker..and in return Quanah Parker taught it to many different tribes in the US..I know this because I am Navajo(Dine) and my grandfather was taught by Quanah Parker
This is the 100th year anniversary of the NAC Charter being legally recognized as a legal church, my family will be having an honor dance, to honor my great great grandfather Quanah Parker. The Quanah Parker Decendants will be hosting this honor dance, we will be inviting NAC churches, please share my words, we will be having it at our Comanche Nation complex in October 2018.
OMG! IS THIS A MOONIAS ASKING ALL THESE RIDICULOUS QUESTIONS? DID HE EVEN FOLLOW PROTOCOL!!! ITS NOT YUR WORLD YOU WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND....
You know what's funny he speaks perfect English he just refuses to speak to you in English because he is dishonoring you there is no respect but respect is expected this is not okay he wears a wedding band this is a European way this is not Native American Way people believe everything they see everything they hear but they do not listen to Spirit when it talks they go to others for help but everything you need is within you
Not everyone is aware that they have gifts and braces or engages in practice but I smell sweet wood also hint of cedar so you asked what was in the bag that is made not by the Native American not traditional and purchased and then you ask to be disrespectful to go inside the medicine man bag this is not right cuz it is sacred and it's not for prying eyes but he wears glasses and if he was a medicine man what do you not know how to heal his own eyes what is with the bandana what about the clothing it isn't traditional I'm very impressed though with the structure because it is authentic unlike the sweat lodge which was made out of a lot of deadly materials at the Lakota reservation people talk a lot but no one really listens and Common Sense is no longer common but this video is a joke on you
Eloah, you are right . Some of us sat in these homes during these sings and ceremonies.
why doesn't the guy speak english ?
GummyBearRecords he likely doesn't speak or understand English that well.
there are many elders like that. my own gram knows enough to tell me what to do in English but we don't have the same long conversations she has with her friends or my dad and his siblings. I barely know 12 words of Navajo.
+KaptainRogers ok thanks
how is a desert beautiful? it wouldnt be so beautiful if if you broke down out their in the middle of nowhere now would it.
There's always a navajo male with mechanical skills on the reservation and lots of family are willing to help.
need more video n bad interpretation
I hate to say it I would rather c&o medicine Man from the 80s cuz they have more believed and now medicine they just want more money then materials I remember the trade rule always material wise and now it's just money so it's a waste of money a new medicine man because it will charge you $300
simple question why dont they speak chinese ? (or asian ?) sounds only a little asian ? hel thats the weihking sunstöne xD
Do you not think we don't speak I know who cursed us and touching our stuff as I said before and I say again I missing a necklace with a native man in the center every account I open will not affected sorry
If you have virus and sick I promise to keep both traditions Chris very angry and loves me and we don't like this games
North west south east go north Sacramento California apostlic God and the devil and Jesus Christ name amen
Are we supposed to believe he doesn’t speak English? Lol dumb on
This fake med man knows English hahaha
Aren't we supposed to keep our medicine show as a sacred thing instead of spreading around the world?.. Shame on you. You. Two. Medicine Man.
you shouldn't have been there. no real
As a Navajo woman the interviewer is really BADDDD and ignorant ‼️‼️‼️
Bullcrap! He understands English very well! Fake! You never reveal the culture.
Navajo sounds more like an Asian language, isn't it?
Beautiful Nicely