Your Voice Matters.
What Do You Want To Say?
This online forum is a place to share your stories and offers an informal gathering of videos, music, poems, and insights by and for Native Youth, Native Filmmakers, and Native community members of all ages who have something they want to share.
Growing organically over time,
we hope you come back often to see what's new...
Growing organically over time,
we hope you come back often to see what's new...
Native Voices
"How do I know which way to go?
Am I doing what I want to be doing? Am I dreaming big enough? Am I doing enough?
Do I know that I am an amazing human being? What are the gifts I have to give?
How does the spark in others touch the spark in myself?
Have I been going for the easy things instead of the challenging things?"
and more...
Am I doing what I want to be doing? Am I dreaming big enough? Am I doing enough?
Do I know that I am an amazing human being? What are the gifts I have to give?
How does the spark in others touch the spark in myself?
Have I been going for the easy things instead of the challenging things?"
and more...
Wondering some of the same?
Meet Lyla....
From the official collection Cond|Essence videos on Vimeo Special Thanks to J'Cordova, a high-mountain desert dweller deeply rooted by generations of local Hispanic tradition. A graduate from Chicago's Columbia College with a BA in Marketing and Communications and an emphasis in Advertising, Cultural Studies, and Photography with a calling to be HOME in Taos, New Mexico. www.sodizin.net
What will you do with your voice? and this precious life?
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We can "Love Where We Live"...
Dii ei Shighan (This is my home)
From Graham Beyale...
A video exploration by Graham Beyale of Tse Bit A'i, Dinetah (Shiprock in Navajo Nation)
"Navajo Early Morning Blessing"
From RezBoyz Designz...
Animation and Graphics by Rezboyz Designs. Song "Hooghan" from the album Sacred Mountains by Louie Gonnie courtesy Canyon Records (www.canyonrecords.com).
The American Indian Religious Freedom Act
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1st Amendment
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IT’S MORE THAN A RIVER, IT’S OUR WAY OF LIFE
Louie Hena | New Mexico
"When I look at the river, I’m seeing life. I’m seeing my partner, who helps me make a living, who helps me water my crops so I can feed myself and my community. I see my ancestors using the water, like I do now. And I am seeing my grandkids running the river, like I’m doing now.
In these communities, we say Earth Mom is sacred. Everything out here to us, has a spirit. Our communities are connected to springs, which are connected to a river, and those rivers are connected to lakes up in the high mountains. We are all part of that system and this river gives life to us here.
More people around the world need to start listening to indigenous peoples, because what we do, we do it for Earth Mom, and if you look at Earth Mom, it is one big basket, and we are all corn kernels in that one basket. So whatever happens to Earth Mom, we are all impacted.
Everything who I am, is here. My way of life, is here. Clean air, clean water. The cactus, the willows, the piñon, sage, the bighorn sheep, the birds that you see flying around, the fishing. This is what we use within our communities. This is home.
My greatest hope for the future, is that the river does not run dry. For not just my kids, but for everybody’s kids. This is the lifeblood of New Mexico. This is the greenbelt. So if this goes, everybody’s gone.
Water and I, we’re one. We are always together. You start the day by saying prayers, then you end the day by saying prayers. It’s to leave the land saturated – wet.
The value of Wild & Scenic is that my grandkids’ grandkids’ grandkids will enjoy what we are enjoying today."
In these communities, we say Earth Mom is sacred. Everything out here to us, has a spirit. Our communities are connected to springs, which are connected to a river, and those rivers are connected to lakes up in the high mountains. We are all part of that system and this river gives life to us here.
More people around the world need to start listening to indigenous peoples, because what we do, we do it for Earth Mom, and if you look at Earth Mom, it is one big basket, and we are all corn kernels in that one basket. So whatever happens to Earth Mom, we are all impacted.
Everything who I am, is here. My way of life, is here. Clean air, clean water. The cactus, the willows, the piñon, sage, the bighorn sheep, the birds that you see flying around, the fishing. This is what we use within our communities. This is home.
My greatest hope for the future, is that the river does not run dry. For not just my kids, but for everybody’s kids. This is the lifeblood of New Mexico. This is the greenbelt. So if this goes, everybody’s gone.
Water and I, we’re one. We are always together. You start the day by saying prayers, then you end the day by saying prayers. It’s to leave the land saturated – wet.
The value of Wild & Scenic is that my grandkids’ grandkids’ grandkids will enjoy what we are enjoying today."
Our Time is Now from Littleglobe, Inc on Vimeo.
