Sunday, October 25, 2009



Wednesday, September 05, 2007 Navajo’s Born between 1930s to 1970s!!

Hey Shoo'....THIS IS FOR ALL THE NAVAJO KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!!

First, we survived being born to mothers who herd sheep in the
cold , carried buckets of water, chopped wood, and worked the cornfields in the heat while they carried us.

They ate mutton stew and blue corn mesh, fried bread, drink black coffee, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Our baby cribs were flat cradle boards, with sacred stories and songs.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets as we lived in Hogan and brush shade houses and when we rode our horses, we had no helmets, not to mention, clan relatives recognized us from a distant and picked us up while hitchhiking.

As children riding in the back of a horse drawn wagon, absorbing all of nature on a warm day was always a special treat. No such thing as seat belts.

We drank water from the natural spring where the livestock drank and NOT from a bottle and no one actually died from it.

We shared one soft drink with our
brothers or sisters, from one bottle at least four times a year and get one piece of hard candy out of a month.

We had fried potatoes for breakfast, lunch and dinner and at times roasted mutton
liver covered with fat placed between tortilla and tea with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight, because
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the sun was just above the rim of the west horizon.

No one worried about us or thought about where we were all day. And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our Hogan out of damp sand, used rocks for horses and trucks, sounds of shifting gears were heard as our imagination ran wild and built dirt roads with our hands, even before Wal Mart invented floor rugs with imprints of roads and communities.

We rode on old rusty car hood tied to the saddle behind the horse and laughed with mud flying in our faces. After that we learned to solve the problem and made improvements.

We did not have Play Stations, Nintendo's,
X-boxes, no video games at all, no 500 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........

... I lived the same way four months a year with the grandparents farmers ...
... remember the corn mesh, Piedmont farmers food ...
... we ate "polenta" corn mash with boiled rabbit ...
... delicious ...
... my Cherokee girlfriend makes it like her grandmother ...
... with corn syrup ...
... but I guess that comes from the fact they are half Belgian ...


# posted by intcoex : 3:49 PM




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