Going To The Sing – Navajo Language Lesson

Going To The Sing  - Navajo Language Lesson

GOING TO THE SING
My father goes for dry wood.
He has to go to the foothills to get it.
My mother cooks bread and meat.
sit by the door in the sunshine and think about 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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Sleep – Navajo Language Lesson

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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Father Comes Back – Navajo Language Lesson

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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Story Telling – Navajo Language Lesson

 

Story Telling - Navajo Language Lesson

1-NAHANI'

STORY TELLING
Then my father tell us stories.
Long stories made up of many words.
His words have power.
They have strength.
They seem to hold me.
They seem to warm me.
They seem to feed me.
My father’s words, they comfort me.
His words have power.

 

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Build a Fire – Navajo Language Lesson

They will build a fire to melt snow into water to give to the sheep
My father blows on his hands to warm them

Build a Fire - Navajo Language Lesson

They will build a fire to melt snow into water to give to the sheep.
It takes much wood to make a fire to melt snow into water,
but if the sheep have water to drink they do not hunger so much.

My father blows on his hands to warm them.
His breath looks like smoke.
My father shreds juniper bark to start the outdoor fire.
He takes a lighted stick from our fire. ‘
He takes it outside..
He puts it under the bark and the dry wood, and kneeling down he blows on it.
Soon a small flame comes

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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The Dogs are Hungry – Navajo Language Lesson

The Dogs are Hungry - Navajo Language Lesson

THE DOGS ARE HUNGRY
The dogs are hungry, too.
They crowd in the hogan.
The black one is not sleeping now.
He lies with his head t on his paws and looks at nothing.
The yellow one whimpers.
He has worked hard, but there is no food.

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

Illustrated by:
Hoke Denetsosie

Linguistics by:
John P. Harrington
Robert W. Young

The Four Navajo Sacred Mountains

Mount Blanca (Tsisnaasjini’ – Dawn or White Shell Mountain – East
Mount Taylor (Tsoodzil – Blue Bead or Turquoise Mountain) – South
San Francisco Peaks (Doko’oosliid – Abalone Shell Mountain) – West
Mount Hesperus Dibé Nitsaa (Big Mountain Sheep) – Obsidian Mountain – North

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