Interview with a Navajo Medicine Man in Monument Valley

okay I'm in Monument Valley Utah here and this is a female Hogan they call this this is where Native Americans medicine men greet their clients people who come to them seeking to remove taboo or bad luck you can see where we are how gorgeous this is and I'm going to step in here and we're talking to Hermann Chi and Larry holiday I'm gonna shut this door so it's nice and warm it's about it's very cold outside but we've got a nice fire going in here so it's very nice and comfortable and we're here with Herman Chi who is a Navajo medicine man and also Larry Holliday who is helping us with interpretation and this question I was going to ask is mr. Chi is going to tell us about how he learned his craft or how he learned to treat people and remove taboo and to help people how did he learn this 27 years ago so take the dead oh wow bones are you faced with an appoint I did open a Charlaine a state-owned and 1990 sure wife oh what a virgin no no I don't a Nagi please because you're under ich in understanding other medicine mentally that message they that's what Bradley senior veterans that nah yeah are the other question and then in R&D caca de nada she she did need o yadi asha show competence cry i do equal uniqueness otto Yoon ha ha dado India's a Shia a day in the street then Assad they certainly are they I don't wash at other she said think I'd open Hawaii don't chief Natasha teeny haha cotton plantation okay yup you've been a harsher husk I don't eat question Chi idea so what Herman says the first where he got the being a medicine man he's when his wife was very sick and when he when he at that time he uh he already had a natural gift where he see a picture in an in a coal so when he when he realized that he went to one an immense cement on the reservation and that's where he brought back mr. Bradley he was one of them very well-known medicine man he brought him back home when he did the ceremony on Herman's wife that square he also got been both selected as being a medicine man and tore him this herb this herb will be cure you and will be a gift to you where you can run your own ceremony so that's where he started that on when he when he start doing the the prayer the ceremony helping the patient at that time is also been remind him that the instruments that you're gonna use the instruments that you're gonna use in the ceremony you will not buy what you will not purchase it you you will come naturally mm-hmm to you and that's how to this day he has plenty of instrument that he used to cure to help the medicine to patients what type of tools like does he bring with him case that has some of his things in it or what does he bring with him or when they come to him to his Hogan what does he have what sort of instruments does he have her nunchaku dat dead Ben Ahava hockey fish a penalty shot machine that she cannot know she thought eunjin da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da are there deep in Hawaii she knows some kind of how I feel so I can see they would be geeky people yet you know what yeah it's possible I think I don't yeah I thought so - didn't he get better there Steen has a thing nothing okay that though I don't speak to you thank you did a stinky bear - I don't know not Cudahy sana Street ten babies need not even eat at all - no no what Jean - totally don't repair sister's car which watches door Dean not liga de quito yada yada bash open now you piece in the center so on these ceremony all these instrument that he has he's always carry with him wherever he goes wherever to do the ceremony and that ceremony the main one he had is always a crystal crystal and that's this is his bag right here he's can we take a look inside their medicine bundle can we take a look inside and there the crystal is one of the very special one-day where during the emerging from the from the earth mm-hmm a genie these days species these animal toward like us they talk like us Navajo and when they come to to the next world they have this crystal they point through the word there's a hole like this okay when they put that Kris off they had all the lights bow to all four direction okay and they went and they know that it's safe and then they go go through that hole to the next world okay and that's how to this day that the crystal is it's one of the special one that he used in the ceremony okay

Channel: Mad Traveler

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Keywords: medicine man, navajo, navajo medicine man, monument valley

Id: s0IURNK30hk

Length: 7min 35sec (455 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 06 2013