NAVAJO GRANDMA'S NALI'S MASONRY & BUILDING OF OUR FAMILY HOMES

okay so here is where i was born this house is dwelling here my children don't even know look at this it's rotted it's quite old think about and look at this is i love that uh corner fireplace isn't that neat that's where that fireplace is like the pueblo fireplaces they have and i'm going to go around this way notice it looks like a gel cell i was born in a jail cell but look at this my children don't even realize how lucky they are to have been born in a an incredible hospital now look at this look at all around look how isn't that amazing this is my home here's another room that goes look goes back to where the living room is again look at this i love the i can just see my grandpa made making these uh see this is how grandpa worked he had he was he's just he knew how to put stones together and he was quite the there's another in his building that he made look at this how cool is that look at this see look at this my home boring people this tells you how old grandma is i am i am an ancient i am an ancient and you don't realize how ancient i am look at this back door look at that and look how pretty right there where the horses are it's where like i said it was a watering hole for kit carson for uh calamity jane all these people this is a watering hole and there is water there that's what they're drinking and thus we had water that was quite the commodity to have incredible look at the backyard probably why i love junipers look at this this whole backyard an old place but a beautiful place for me from whence i came i'm showing you this building this is my uh this is a home that my grandfather built for his family i'm not sure how old he was but uh basically when he was definitely younger and this is facing the east and i wanted you to see the construction of this home notice this is a very because he worked in chaco canyon uh basically all the work he did was almost like the chicon pueblo uh you know the way they built their home and and how he found the rocks and stuff and then looking at my birth home you can see the way the window was built same exact and him and grandpa and grandpa raphael basically both of them helped build this home and how beautiful uh look at the structure and even this the same thing uh grandpa's handwork and it's just similar to my birth home and all of the uh look at this and i just wanted to see let you see the comparison of what uh it looks like and how wonderful that i can come here and that this house still stands and it's fallen but it's okay it's getting old but it's still grandpa's handwork i wanted to share this with you and again it's uh seeing here it is facing the east and it's amazing so when you face the east and let's say we're in the morning he would walk out and the sun would come up and he would offer his prayers so beautiful look at this your front door none of these houses were here but this had been his his entrance to the morning so it's beautiful i want to share this with you thank you and again grandpa's home my nollie and this poor house that's falling apart but it still stands thank you

Channel: Navajo Grandma

Views: 1,090

Rating: 4.9365077 out of 5

Keywords: Navajo Grandma, Dine', Masonry, Building Chacoan homes, Chaco Canyon, Chacoan Pueblo Masonry, Chaco Canyon National Park, Anasazi, Navajo homes, Nali, Shi Nali, Shi Nali Hasteen

Id: ymsZn7TEYVQ

Length: 5min 16sec (316 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 02 2021