See What Canyon Life Is Like for a Navajo Pageant Winner | Short Film Showcase

Beautiful. her singing is mesmerizing and I am really glad that the father is ensuring their tradition remains alive. much respect for the original Americans.

What we did to these people is atrocious. We need more education in schools about the natives and they should be honored and respected.

Abandoned Indian. I almost started crying when she said that. My great grandmother was full blood Native American, but she was so ashamed of it that she burned all her papers that connected her with any reservation. A lot of her children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren have done research to try too figure out at least what tribe she belonged to, but there are a lot of reservations in New Mexico alone. I just wish I could understand where I came from and the beautiful culture my great grandma left behind. I don't think I have enough native blood at this point for it to matter, but my brother and I keep looking

I honestly cried watching that young girl in the pageant. These people have had their land, language, culture and personhood stolen from them, but are fighting to reclaim it. In that pageant, even if to a smallish audience, the young girls were not judged by their appearance but rather performing their traditions to others who will appreciate them, keeping them alive in the process. May they all have bright futures.

Her singing in the fields is so beautiful it gives be goosebumps.

Every child should be taught their history and culture, to know who they are and who went before them. Great little video.

As a native Hawaiian I feel a kinship with the Native American culture. Soooooo much love and respect for them.

I'm English and visited Canyon de Chelly in 1989. I was at the river near sunset and about to walk back to the top when a group of Navajo of all ages started to descend the side of the canyon while singing. Their song echoed and resonated around the canyon in a sweeping sound and remains one of the most beautiful and evocative things I've ever heard. Somehow it felt like a people reaching across the ages to the heart of the human condition.

proud to be Native American (Full blooded Navajo) ❤✊

I'm not of Native American ancestry but I can appreciate the beauty and complexity of the Navajo and their desire to maintain their identity in an ever changing world!

That girl in the green dress... her song brought me to tears. Now, I'm not a crier, but something touched me even though I don't know the words to her song. I hope she never stops singing.

I am from El Salvador and they look just like us and my heart breaks by how much I have lost my heritage

THE REAL AMERICANS ARE NATIVE AMERICANS WE WILL NEVER FORGET THAT

Respect to Native Americans from Ireland, They helped The Irish when we had a famine by sending money to feed us. when the English sent any food that could grow & all the livestock over to England. Respect ❤

26 seconds in and my heart is already breaking at how beautiful this video is. I desperately hope that Native American folk tradition and culture can make a strong comeback. Everyone should be able to love where they come from and who they are.

THIS is what you tube, and internet sharing is SUPPOSED to be about. A beautiful story shared by an awesome family, thank you very much, PEACE.

MAKE AMERICA INDIGENOUS AGAIN

i cried real hard knowing that navajo people were killed tortured and evacuated from their own homes heartbreaking to imagine combined with that beautiful melody by the lil girl god bless girls shine and live ur true identity

"Dad", to these children, to this family, - you are GREAT ! God bless you, your family and your people !

Reminds me of when I was a kid in the 80's. Would go to Chinle and Many Farms, AZ. My family lives off the rim of Canyon De Chelly. Actually called Canyon Del Muerto. The best summers I ever had riding in trucks through the watery canyon and hiking. The nature and wildlife was spectacular. BBQ's and camping was so fun. My Grandpa Nelson Draper was recruited off the Reservation and joined the US Marines in 1942. His Brother Teddy Draper and Himself were Navajo Code Talkers in WWII. Upon his discharge from the US Marines he moved his family to California where I was raised. Grandpa worked a Civil Service job at a Marine Base in Barstow, CA. My wife is Navajo from Shiprock, NM. Those summer vacations in the 80's were some of the best times of my life.