Brandon Story Class, indigenous, navajo

Act justly, Love kindness, Walk humbly

Chinle — Or as the Navajo put it: “walk in beauty.” With beauty before me I walk, With beauty behind me I walk, Beauty below and above. I finish in beauty. In 1855 one Jonathan Letherman reported to the Smithsonian, “Navajo singing is but a succession of grunts and is anything but agreeable”. Navajo spirituality views the universe as a dangerous place with good and evil elements which must be kept in ...