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RE: Dance like Nobody is Watching, Navajo Pow Wow 2018
Rebecca
You look like that you are really enjoying yourself there.
And you fit right in with the Navajo Pow Wow.
This will be a trip for you that you won't soon forget.
I am happy for you.
Thank you
Francis
Hi Francis!
I think that it was a damn good thing that we attended the Mohawk PowWow early this year because we learned what to do.
When people were asked to dance, hardly anyone responded to the Navajo’s invitation.
I thought: “Are you kidding me? Of course I will dance! When will I have another opportunity like this again to dance with the Navajo, in their traditional way, to their music?”
I considered it an absolute honour.
We also learned some interesting statistics in honour of Remembrance Day - Veterans Day and that is that 7% of the entire US population serves in the US military in some capacity. For the Navajo population it’s 25%!
They put care of the earth, animals and people above everything else.
These are the Navajo Vets who were honoured yesterday. It was very moving, especially because of the role the Navajo played in the Second World War. Their language was not understood by either the Germans or the Japanese and they were known as “code talkers”.