Night Corral – Navajo Language Lesson

October 20, 2014 by Harold Carey Jr

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

March 25, 2013 by Harold Carey Jr

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