Commemorating Indigenous Peoples Day, Marash Girl records the following memory.
Years ago, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when Marash Girl was conversing with a college classmate, a classmate who is a member of the Navajo Nation, her classmate explained to Marash Girl that it may not have been Marash Girl's people who took this land from the
First People, but certainly immigrants like her people, and those before her people, that had taken this land from the
First People.
It is important to note here that at an Armenian dance, that very same college classmate, Marash Girl's college classmate, a member of the Navajo Nation, commented on how similar the simple Armenian "
bar", or the"
nehneh dance" as Katie, Caroline, and Alison used to call it (translated the "Grandma Dance") -- how similar that Armenian "
bar" dance is to the Navajo line dance . . .
Just saying . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
N.B. Image above copied from "indigenous people.png"
I've spent a lot of time in AZ and NM around the Navajo Nation lands. It is a special place. The light is tinted pink...I think there is some iron in the soil. When the sun sets, the mountains pop with color. It's beautiful!
ReplyDeleteThe Pixies have a song The Navajo Know. Here are the lyrics:
Upon construction
There is the mohawk
His way of walking
Quite high above the ground
Fearless of looking down, skywalk
Ever longer
Some people say that
The Navajo know
A way of walking
Quite high above the ground
Fearless of looking down, oh no