Big Mountain Dineh (Navajos) "Hopi Partitioned Lands" -- Essential Water
By NaBahe SheepDog Keediniihii
May 15, 2020
Sheep Dog Nation Rocks
Good Greetings, Yaa'at'eeh.
President and First Lady, Jonathan and Phefelia Nez
Vice President and Second Lady Myron and Dottie Lizer
Navajo Tribal Council, Counsel, and Chapter Leaders
I was born at Big Mountain and I grew up on those pristine lands. Since I was very young I live the sheepherding and farming cultures, and nearly 85% of our subsistence was land-based like natural farming, raising meat, weaving, hunting, building from local lumber - reused or fresh, and harvesting water and maintaining natural springs. There were also the old health care systems of herbalists and chanter healers. Eventually, at the age of nine, my parents were forced to give me up to the BIA boarding school. Upon graduating from high school, I took advantage of higher education, but the U.S. law of partitioning of our lands came about and I returned back to Big Mountain to help with translation.
Good Greetings, Yaa'at'eeh.
President and First Lady, Jonathan and Phefelia Nez
Vice President and Second Lady Myron and Dottie Lizer
Navajo Tribal Council, Counsel, and Chapter Leaders
I was born at Big Mountain and I grew up on those pristine lands. Since I was very young I live the sheepherding and farming cultures, and nearly 85% of our subsistence was land-based like natural farming, raising meat, weaving, hunting, building from local lumber - reused or fresh, and harvesting water and maintaining natural springs. There were also the old health care systems of herbalists and chanter healers. Eventually, at the age of nine, my parents were forced to give me up to the BIA boarding school. Upon graduating from high school, I took advantage of higher education, but the U.S. law of partitioning of our lands came about and I returned back to Big Mountain to help with translation.
