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Keeping Balance: Arizona's Navajo Nation |
| Section: CULTURE / PATTERNS |
| Author: Jim Lo Scalzo |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1995 |
| Size: 506 Words, 3,083 Characters |
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Every day at dusk, Roger and Rosalyn Begay walk through the debris that encircles their home in Arizona's Navajo Nation and toss a golden arch of cornmeal into the sky. "It's an offering to our gods for protection," Roger says, smiling as if embarrassed. "It helps us keep balance between this and this," he ...
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...ave used complex healing ceremonials to help restore their people to balance. Each ritual consists of hundreds of chants and prayers, as carefully interwoven as the threads of a Navajo rug. One of these songs includes the refrain, "I am indeed its child. Absolutely I am Earth's child." It is an affirmation the Navajo will continue to chant as they struggle to restore a life imbued with hozho.
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