The Sheep in Winter

February 11, 2015 by

The Sheep in Winter – Navajo Language Lessons

The sheep are wet and cold.
They are hungry, too.
If the snow keeps falling,it will be bad for the sheep.
Perhaps that is why the wind cries.
Perhaps the wind is sorry for the sheep.
That is what I think.

Dibé daditléé dóó dabi’niidlí.
Dóó dichin bi’niighá.
T’áá nchíilgo debé doo bá yá’át’éeh da.
‘Éí daats’í biniinaa níyol ‘áni.
Níyol daats’í dibé yaah bíni.
Shí ‘ákwíinisin

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The Goats – Navajo Language Lesson

December 5, 2014 by

The Goats (Tlízí) - Navajo Language Lesson

The Goats – Navajo Language Lesson

THE GOATS

Goats have long whiskers.
They have long faces.
They have long legs.
Goats are funny, I think.

TL’ÍZÍ
Tlízí bidághaa’ ‘ayóó ‘ádanilnezz.
Binii ‘ayóó ‘ádanilnezz
Bijáád ‘ayóó ‘ádanilnezz
Tlízí t’óó danichó’í nisin

From:
Little Herder In Autumn
by Ann Clark
United States Department Of The Interior
Illustrated By Hoke Denetsosie

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Possessions – Navajo Language Lesson
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Night Corral – Navajo Language Lesson

October 20, 2014 by

Night Corral - Navajo Language Lesson

NIGHT CORRAL

The night corral is fenced with poles.
It is the home for the sheep and the goats when darkness comes to my mother’s land.

DIBÉ BIGHAN
Dibé bighan tsin bináneeskáál.
Éí dibé dóó tlizí yigji’ nijah shimá bighan binaagóó hiliijiihgo.

From:
Little Herder In Autumn
by Ann Clark
United States Department Of The Interior
Illustrated By Hoke Denetsosie

Little Herder – Navajo Language Lessons

Story Telling – Navajo Language Lesson
Build a Fire – Navajo Language Lesson
Little Lambs – Navajo Language Lesson
Field – Navajo Language Lesson
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The Puppy – Navajo Language Lesson
Sheep Corral – Navajo Language Lesson
Possessions – Navajo Language Lesson
Breakfast – Little Herder Story
The Sing – Navajo Language Lesson
Going To The Sing – Navajo Language Lesson
Sleep – Navajo Language Lesson
Supper – Navajo Language Lesson
Father Comes Back – Navajo Language Lesson
Shoveling Snow – Navajo Language Lesson
The Dogs are Hungry – Navajo Language Lesson
There Is No Food – Navajo Story

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The Puppy – Navajo Language Lesson

April 8, 2013 by

 

The Puppy - Navajo Language Lesson

THE PUPPY

Far from the hogan in a dry sand wash I found the gray dog
and a new baby puppy gray with black spots.

Poor little puppy, it crawled to me crying.  

Thin little baby, its pink cold nose found my hand.

You gray pup with black spots.
I will teach you to watch the sheep so that always there will be a place for you in our hogan.

 

 Source : “Little Herder in the Spring” by Ann Clark 1940

Illustrated by:
Hoke Denetsosie
Linguistics by:
John P. Harrington
Robert W. Young

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Possessions – Navajo Language Lesson

March 25, 2013 by
Possessions - Navajo Language Lesson
POSSESSIONS
We have many things.
My mother has many sheep,  and goats, and her hogan, and the things, of the hogan, and me.

My father has many horses.
On his land he has many horses.
He has a wagon near the horse corral.

Inside my mother’s hogan my father keeps his gun, and outside he hangs hissheepskin and his saddle and his blanket.

And I have my mother and my father, three baby lambs and a cat with a long tail.
Behind my mother’s hogan is Beautiful Mountain.

It is mine, I know, because always it is looking at me to make me happy.
We have many things. All of us have many things.

We have many things. My mother has many sheep and goats and her hogan and the things of the hogan and me.

 Source : “Little Herder ” by Ann Clark 1940

Illustrated by:
Hoke Denetsosie
Linguistics by:
John P. Harrington
Robert W. Young

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Breakfast – Little Herder Story

March 20, 2013 by

Breakfast – Navajo Language Lesson

 

Breakfast - Little Herder Story-2

Breakfast

On the fire in the middle of the hogan, my mother cooks food.
My mother makes fried bread and coffee, and she cooks mutton over the coals.

 

My father and I and mother, we sit on the floor together, and we eat the good food that my mother has cooked for us.

We have many things. My mother has many sheep and goats and her hogan and the things of the hogan and me.

 Source : “Little Herder in the Winter” by Ann Clark 1940

Illustrated by:
Hoke Denetsosie
Linguistics by:
John P. Harrington
Robert W. Young

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Morning – Little Herder Story

March 14, 2013 by

Morning, from Little Herder in Spring

 

Morning - Little Herder Story

MORNING
This morning, when I crawled from under my blanket, when I stood before my mother’s hogan door outside looked as if it had been crying. The sky was hanging heavy with gray tears.

I stood at the door of my mother’s hogan and looked out at the gray, sad morning. My father came. He stood beside us. He spoke in o happy way and to my mother.

Then the gray tears on the sky’s face melted. The clouds pushed away and the sun smiled through them.

Now it is gray again, but I cannot forget that when my father spoke the sun came and looked down upon us.

 

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Sleep – Navajo Language Lesson

February 14, 2013 by

Sleep - Navajo Language Lesson

 

SLEEP
Lying on my blanket bed on the floor of the hogan,I say to myself
over and over, “If the sun shines tomorrow we will go to the Sing.”

 

Source : “Little Herder in the Winter” by Ann Clark 1940
Illustrated by:
Hoke Denetsosie
Linguistics by:
John P. Harrington
Robert W. Young

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Supper – Navajo Language Lesson

February 9, 2013 by

Supper - Navajo Language Lesson

SUPPER

Now we ore eating the good food. We eat slowly.
We eat a long time. The hunger I pain is gone.
It went somewhere, but I ‘do not know when it left so quickly.

Source : “Little Herder in the Winter” by Ann Clark 1940
Illustrated by:
Hoke Denetsosie
Linguistics by:
John P. Harrington
Robert W. Young

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Father Comes Back – Navajo Language Lesson

February 6, 2013 by

Father Comes Back - Navajo Language Lesson

 

Father Comes Back
We hear my father singing as he rides along the snowy trail.
My grandmother goes to her hogan and my mother and 1, we stand together, laughing.
We stand together outside our door, happy because my father comes back again

Source : “Little Herder in the Winter” by Ann Clark 1940
Illustrated by:
Hoke Denetsosie
Linguistics by:
John P. Harrington
Robert W. Young

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