Native Portraits: Native Hairstyles at MIAC
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- As part of the exhibit Native American Portraits: Points of Inquiry at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe, this celebration of native hairstyles was held in November 2014. Numerous representatives from a number of southwestern tribes demonstrate and talk about the significance of traditional hairstyles. This first of three segments is introduced by curator Diane Bird.
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I'm Peruvian and these images bring to mind many fond memories of my grandmother brushing my hair and putting it in different kinds of braid styles every morning. My grandmother also had braids until she was around 80 and starting losing her hair due to old age. Peruvian society still discriminates against these hairstyles. You can't go to a corporate job interview in the capital of Lima wearing traditional braids, for example. I wish we'd embrace the beauty of these wonderful traditions without needing white American or European individuals to embrace these before it's "cool" for young people wear them again as it happened with other indigenous cultural artifacts such as the chuyo and coca leafs.
This ^^
It's a shame that you can't express as freely as you want but you should know that the corporations are evil and they want us to be the same to look the same
Observed when I was on the rez. Rarely did anyone do their own hair. Unless it was cut short. There was a lot of touching. I so miss that. Men weren't afraid to touch men. Not inappropriately but as kids do. Warmly.
Women too. Fixing hair and just in passing.
Mary Ann, what a lovely memory. That warmth and taking care of each other, connecting with each other, is something irreplaceable, and seems to be lacking in many communities now.
I miss that too 😢
i've lived in a western society my whole life, my mother and her mother are indigenous Canadians, it hurts to know that many indigenous people can no longer express their love in such gentle and non-threatening ways. especially in a society where we are very sterile and touch aversive. i hope in the future we can possibly change the collective perception of touch and physical connection to a kinder and much more accepted one.
@@vanilla7266 thank you !!
@@newatthis50 You are welcome~
I am native & my hair I charish deeply this video warmed my heart. My great great grandma was on the trail of tears from the stories I have been told then my great grandma was adopted by a pastor husband and wife from what my grandma has told me how the past was. All of our family history was wipes out except for the stories. I sadly don't know my native language. Only thing I know is my great grandma's native name meant 'Butterfly'. I have been unable to find a tribal number. So my hair is something I charish greatly. I'm 5 feet 1 inches tall and my hair is down to the back of my knees. May earth mother watch over us all🙏🏼
My daughter ❤️ and I cried as we were so beautifully enveloped & guided through this glorious woman's explanation. Thank you. 😊
Me having long, sleek, straight, long indigenous hair, have always been fascinated with female African American hair. When I turned 15 I begged my mother to allow me to cut it and get a perm...I was so happy with my new look but my grandmother not so much
Lailan it’s not their fault they were always forced to be ashamed of their hair. Even after slavery ended black women started styling and decorating their natural hair but white men started lusting over them so a law was enforced for them to cover their hair with scarves. Later on people would make them straighten it to “fit the agenda” , they would make them get harmful chemical treatments. People are still trying to tell them what to do to their hair. Just say you don’t know history and stfu
I'm of both African American descent and of indigenous descent. I really want to know my sisters and brothers of the Choctaw-chickasaw tribe and keep traditions alive.
Lailan I dont think so no BW wants straight hair tyvm. I speak for myself and many others, we don’t want nor do we care about ‘straight hair’ so keep your opinions to yourself.
Lailan good hair refers to people with type 2 or 3 hair
Lailan no, no we don’t.😊
Lovely exhibition of traditional hairstyles. Sweet young woman, loved her talking about her ancestors and grandmother.
I love Native American art and crafts! I want to learn more about the culture of the different tribes, as I have a deep respect and appreciation of the traditions and history of the indigenous people of this land! This was a great video, thank you so much for sharing!
This is very interesting, I love learning more about our Native American cultures. Their hair styles and meanings has always facinated me.
They've got such beautiful hair!! And features!
I’m very grateful to be able to see this. Thank You for sharing 🙏☺️
I’m half Native. I had really long hair to my knees but couldn’t get anyone to help me braid it. My mom would brush it and put it in a rubber band until she decided my hair must be cut. I’ve kept it short for over forty years. I’m Ojibwa.
Úyhúuúuúúhhhhh hmm jjjjj
Is there a native ASMR channel? If there's not, I hope someone sees this and makes one. This was so cool to see!
If you find one let me know haha.
Ikr. My dad is from Carlsbad so he and my grandmother used to talk about these traditions often. Heck even where we lived on Seattle was very close to the Muckelshoot reservation and Puyallup Nation. So this is like reliving child hood stories
This video was so relaxing 😌
Ugh stop. Calling it asmr would be an act of commercialization, trivialization and not only that it already is asmr without trying so what more do you want
@@gluntford i think it's wrong of you to say trivialisation. There are so many rituals and customs in several cultures around the world and some of them are so beautiful and relaxing yet very unknown of. Often so it happens that an ASMR community discovers it and helps it be known. When I say ASMR I don't mean the wooshing sounds and other unnatural elements. But what I and maybe others mean is we want one where the whole process is in focus and there are no other noises or distractions. 🌈🌈
I loved listening to HIM. GREAT CONTENT.
Beautiful as well as practical. My hair is no where near that long, but with a 4.5 inch ( diameter) pony tail having it tied up securely is a constant struggle but a must. Very interesting. Thanks for showing this.
WoW, since my hair has grown during the summer lock down, I’ve been playing with tying my hair up for work. And strangely enough I’ve thought of doing something similar.
Mine as well ☺️😊
Thank you for the beautiful video, and the glimpse into your culture. Best wishes to you.
Native people have long black hair. It is a sign of power and strength; and - I would say - good-looks
My grandmother never even trimmed her hair and she always wore it in a bun. Her her if left down would drag along the floor if she was sitting in a rocking chair. Her hair was beautiful like your.
I'm still learning how to tie my mans' hair so he ties it himself for now 🙂. Most Native men with long hair wear it as braids too. Not all Pueblo Natives rock the bangs. I don't. But bangs are needed for certain ceremonies. Many Pueblo Native women with long hair wear a simple bun.
I didn’t realize that bangs are incorporated into certain ceremonies, thank you for sharing that! This video is the first time I’ve learned about Native hair, and I am really interested to see some of the meaning and cultural elements “tied” to hair.
thank you i just asked this question and you answered it thank you cuz
Mic drop, the most delicate and delightful how to video I have seen in awhile, it was very relaxing to watch.
Til this day am still burning my hair so my ancestors will live inside of me the tradition that my ancestors did . I seen in my vision of them since I was little but I didn't know why they were with me and keep on seen them around me but now I know there inside me . Live free .
Thank you so much for sharing! You are such beautiful people!!!
I’m fair skinned but my entire dads side of the family is born and raised in west Tennessee since the Cherokee and Chickasaw were there. My family got with the Chickasaw i found out recently. After watching this videos I feel so seen I always struggled with my hair and my mom never knew what to do with it so thick and long and coarse. Thank you for the tips and the information! So beautiful! I always had a bad feeling wearing my hair down it never feels right 😂
You’re not creek 😂.What the fuck is a Cherokee? A person of a different speech, a got damn foreigner 🤣.Stop googling things and actually tell the truth
I notice the cultural belief of 'letting select people touch one's Hair'. I am a Black American with Native American heritage via my paternal grandmother. Are there hair salons in your communities or is hair styling a community ideal?🤔😏
Me and my uncle's have long hair. We would usually let the women style the hair when it comes to braiding etc. But if you were gay like me then you did your own hair and busted out with some fierce styles😉
Gabriel Escobar oh I am too I was wondering, do you have any hairstyles I could wear that are somewhat feminine?
Simple braids do the work.
I braid my own hair and my brothers' and partner's hair. I also do my own hair trims and my partner's. I used to fix and trim my sister's hair as well.
I personally just wear simple braids most days or a version of a bun.
My friend who is native from the Phoenix are Rez does her families and friends hair after becoming a cosmetologist.
When they drafted men into the army, they wanted native american men who could be very stealthy. But in the army they would cut the hair short and the stealthy men would die quickly. The hair actually helped them to gain information around them. The army started letting them keep their hair long finally, and the men felt like that had their senses back. The longer hair allowed them to sense around them, if someone or something was nearby. Very interesting fact I learned I thought I would share. 🤷♀️💖
I love this! Thank you for sharing your beautiful traditions!
Amazing traditions, amazing culture and blessed people..thank you. Te Moengarau Aotearoa.nz.
Wonderful people sharing their beliefs and gentle ways of living together. If I could go back in time I would want to know my Blackfoot and Cherokee family, because my European family is easy to know more about their ways. So sad that many cultures are wiped away by the conquers in different lands.
Very informative.
I appreciate the native people's..and the struggles that they still face because of what has been done to them..
I would go to the Pos Wows twice a year in Louisiana and just be in Awe at the Beauty and meaning to everything the said and did..
You are so sweet! Wa'do for the teaching! Many blessings
Love their culture! Just beautiful
I love Native Americans history
How can healthcare providers take care of First Peoples’ hair when in the hospital? Especially now when visitors are not allowed in the hospital?
If the care givers are Native American perhaps they would be willing to do patients hair.
This is a great question, and I’m glad you asked it. I am not in healthcare, but I think it would be amazing to incorporate this type of individualized care into hospital settings.
A simple braid will solve it.
I am only 25% native and I always wonder about that side of my culture, so it's nice to see the significance in the different tribes hairstyles.
Blade Hicks same, my great grandma was cherokee izola, my mom told me im half Cherokee just dont what percent tho
Blade Hicks
I am sure it wasn't meant to be heart breaking but when she said they call it boarding school hair, the casual and common place of the what she said just made an ache to my heart.
Beautifully weaved with love
These is relaxing but relieving my depression when I watch the lady show her longer ponytail 😏😌☺
Super cool vid! Thanks! I wish we could've also seen some homemade hair slav
I never grew up in a reservation, but I did grow up poor. I'm 50-60 percent Native. I'd probably be less if I had a different mother, with her 1/4 Cherokee blood. But I love learning about the culture of my race, especially since I never got to really grow up learing the language, or the festivals or traditions
Aaron Martin I'm 100% Diné
Hold up, they have their own language? What is it like? Sorry I know none of this, I’m from Finland. We are having a hard even learning about Samí people.
Hey, all of the tribes of the Americas had/have their own languages. There were probably thousands languages spoken prior to European contact, divided among a wide variety of language families and isolates. The languages were very diverse. For example, Europe has a few language families between it's various languages (Indo-Euro, Uralic, Turkic, Basque, and Afroasiatic), wherease North America alone had around 29 families for around 270 languages, and that's just North of Mexico. Over 6 million people in Central America still speak Mayan and in South America there are over 350 indigenous languages still in use (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_languages_of_the_Americas).
Sadly, like happened with people in Europe like the Samí and Basque, most indigenous people had their languages suppressed. There was an open genocide against indigenous people and culture in the Americas. Only in 1975 was a law that basically allowed the government to take indigenous kids from their families for the sole purpose of having them raised by whites to "civilize" them overturned. The Indian Offenses Act in 1883 existed solely to prosecute anyone who participated in traditional ceremonies/religion and prevent things like speaking indigenous language or wearing indigenous clothing. As a result today, only around .8% of the entire population of the USA is indigenous, and many indigenous people are having to work to revitalize their tribe's culture and traditions. As a result, also many non-native people really have no exposure to indigenous culture outside of the entertainment industry, which is often very inaccurate to say the least.
Some languages are still robust and spoken by tribal members. In Central/South America many tribes still speak their indigenous language, Inuktitut is still spoken in the far north of the Americas, and Navajo is still widely spoken. Some languages have been threatened by suppression, but there is a real movement to revitalize them that is succeeding. For example, I am taking the Cherokee Language Program through the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. I want to bring back the language my own ancestors spoke, and the classes are popular with many people who don't want to see the language die. Other languages seemed doomed, but have been brought back with hard work. For example, Lenape was almost dead, but working with things like bibles translated into Lenape, tribal linguists are bringing it back from the brink and have language programs. Sadly, many of these languages are lost. Another tribe I'm related to, the Nansemond, has lost the ability to resurrect their language. Many of the tribes with very early contact have similar issues.
In reality, there is as much variety and cultural diversity between native people in the Americas as between much of Eurasia, but the media depiction often conflates tribes and focuses on portraying all tribes as the plains tribes (war bonnets, tipis, etc.), so a lot of people don't really know much about native people, even in the Americas.
@@TeddeeJordan .8% Is the lie being told. While people classify many indigenous people as black/African American
@@chucky7237 While afro-Indigenous people often struggle to receive deserved acceptance, like with the white population, the majority of the African American population does not have indigenous heritage.
Tribes were not racist and freely mixed with both white and black people, and often afro-Indigenous people were wrongfully classified as black only, but like with white families the vast majority of black families' claims of native ancestry are little more than family lore.
In white families there's always a story about a great, great grandmother or grandfather who had high cheekbones, long black hair, or dark skin - almost universally attributed to a native ancestor. In many cases the reality is that there is Mediterranean, Semitic, or even African ancestry.
For many black families the claim goes to lighter skin, more high cheekbones, or a relative without woolly hair. Often times the reason is European ancestry due to the impact of slavery.
Y and m DNA (not the same as autosomal) in either population is about the same.
Add to that being native isn't just about ancestry. It's also about a cultural and familial connection to a tribe. It's why no tribe accepts DNA tests for membership. afro-Indigenous people aren't just black people, they're also back people connected to a tribe. Native people, people with a tribal affiliation, regardless of skin tone, are native people. It's not helpful for any group to claim to really be native on the basis of ubiquitous constellations of family lore. People who otherwise are not engaged with native culture, with their tribes, or with indigenous struggles. If one is white or black 99% of the time, and only Native American when telling family stories, dressing in native clothing, or other areas more superficial but not part of daily life everyday and struggles, you're not native.
www.theroot.com/high-cheekbones-and-straight-black-hair-1790878167
Much respect for the Native American! I wish that they have more rights!
Por favor, si es posible que activen la traducción automática en estas transmisiones para que podamos disfrutar de estas exposiciones quienes no hablamos inglés. Gracias y saludos.
I had very long thick hair that I shaved off for Charity in 2011. My profile picture is the pre-shaved look.
I grew it again and shaved it off Again in January this year for the Leukaemia Foundation. I have kept it shaved since because when long it is Very difficult to look after and I cannot wear it loose because I Literally can't see!
I may grow it again.
Аs a citizen of the same planet , I'd like you to keep your health , your native languages and your ancient culture , as your culture makes a part of the world culture, dear AMERICANS!
I have a 127 cm long hair and I don't let anyone touch it! It's my "power".
Her hair is so preaty and shes beoutiful
That jewelry is beautiful!!!
@the amazing person and thesmiling rose 🌹,thank you guys,I love ❤ you both I take pride in my hair its a blessing god and mother earth gave me lol.
If your a reel native you wouldn't believe in god like the british forced us to and called us Indians
What City and State can I find Information on my Native American people.
I am Cherokee, Mohawk, Blackfoot and 1 or 2 othes.
If you're looking for information about the Blackfoot don't look in the United States, we are not there. You have to look in Canada.
Ducky! My birthday twin! It's been a long time, my friend.
i am Cherokee, German, Irish mix. when I tan, which I tan SUPER easily, I look full blown native American. i have extremely thick wavy brown hair with a red highlight in the sun. but when its winter time or when I don't go outside much I'm super pale and its hard to tell im Cherokee indian. i want so badly know more about my Cherokee side but I don't have any native relatives. my grandmother is half native but her biological father never spoke of his tribe life, we believe he and his brothers ran away or were kicked out of the tribe, and even if he would've said more about his life in the tribe, he died when my grandma was 5
Ruhsaan Jones im half black and half cherokee. Funny thing is yesterday when i washed my hair i noticed that half of my hair was curly and kinky and on the other side it was silky straight.. Which kinda got me thinkin why is my hair like that.. Its pretty cool i cant ask my great grandma cause she died when i was little.. She was fully cherokee i miss u mama! (Sorry)
Omg people, PLEASE pick a different tribe to claim that your fraction of a drop of Native blood is from. There are literally hundreds to choose from... So sick of Cherokee princess descendants, smh
Well, the Cherokees intermingled with everyone. So they have descendants everywhere and it's not a crime to claim and be proud of the Native blood that flows through your veins. If you have a drop of Native in ya, then you're Native. But don't forget to be proud of all the blood that flows through your veins, not just one. Every race has a beautiful culture and heritage to be proud of.
I'm Sioux,that's everything I know haha
The Goddess Demeter But you still have a native American part
Thank you for your channel
He said that the 'ribbon' chosen is usually the black, does the white one used for special occasions? And are the ribbons been blessed? Pueblo style yarn, is there a certain material used to make? ive been growing my hair out for awhile, i cant wait until its long enough, so i can do a traditonal pueblo hairstyle, to honor my ancestors :)
Are you a pueblo native?
@@kuo-haya9200 yes I am Pueblo indian.
Absolutely gorgeous jewelry. Is there a certain way to weave the hair yarn?
Why were the comments turned off when Mary W was making her Turkey Feather Blanket?
beautiful styles
So beautiful indeed.
Are you ever planning on close captioning some of these older videos?
This is fascinating.
Can I ask what product did your daughter massage onto to hair please. Was it palm oil? Thankyou and great peace ✌️ 🕊
Nah we don't use store-bought items gross
pygronze.2 she used something from a green tube - in the video.
Where I am from my cousin, and a couple kids were the only other Indians. But we couldn't do our hair traditionally except for one girl because our hair was too short.
Bigger question: How has modern hair products impacted the health of Indian hair?
I believe many stick with the natural things.
I am Sami and we still use natural products...
Thank you. I had no idea the significance of your hair 😀
With us, sometimes i asked my friend, or my brother to dress my hair when we are afraid. We were so so afraid.
We didn't want to this. But we were curious about what is it!
What’s that green thing she puts on that guys hair ?
Hair gel
I wanna do my hair like that!
Could you please add closed captions to your videos?
Love this!
Eres una belleza señora❣️🥰🥰
So cool and interesting
BEAUTIFUL. DATS HOW MY GRNMA USED TO FX HER HAIR
.FAST TOO..
Beautiful
I have some native ancestry. But my most predominant mix is Black and Korean. And its so amazing how similar Native beliefs are to old Korean beliefs about hair. We believe hair is sacred as well, and was kept long, and to have it cut was the ultimate humiliation. And it was constantly groomed and kept sacred. And NEVER CUT.
me and my brothers are 50% Navajo and my mom is full. My dad is German, French, and other stuff
I am Odawa Indian and French. I would love to grow my hair long but it’s super thick and heavy. Once it gets past my shoulders....whew it’s a lot of hair.😀
Interesante ! Gracias
as they do i only have a hand full of that can touch my long hair. i dont wear it because its the latest style, i wear it for strength for my family....we only cut it in death, or job, military, incarceration...
beautiful
My Great Great Grand mother lived on a reservation. She refused to talk about it tho.it was suppose to be a bad thing to have natuve american blood . So idk much. About it.
Long hair definitely important. The disposal of hair is also something not taken lightly,weather hair loss thru combing or showering..hair is personal so many burn it .
And the meek shall inherit the earth...
How do I find out how much native American I am?
Take one of those DNA test - most reliable way.
I let my mom, sisters, aunties, and certain cousins tie my hair. I’d let my dad and uncles do it - but they have short hair. That being said - I wish I still had a Cheii’ to wrap my hair.
My grandfather was indian too
thank you for sharing our culture, i am plains cree but i am always curious what elders used to do since they scrubbed our culture away from us, can anyone please explain why the pueblos cut their bangs & whats the teaching behind that, i was hoping michaela would explain that
meegich hiy hiy
Poor thing seems nervous, she did fantastic though
Man said his straight, long hair is like the rain. Never thought of referencing hair back to nature as they do.
Mine is a ribbon of clouds or a river of tumbling waters
Yes. Long hair represents rain.
@@kawaiksify or something like that.
Lol hair of wool
@@kawaiksify Yes, it is
Native Children forcefully and brutally had their beautiful hair butchered. Very heartbreaking.
They had way way worse then that done to them in residential schools
Mary's Mother fur not hair if it’s not wooly it’s not a live
Kat Izz you program you not ok research then come back
That's not the only horrible thing to happen to them......it makes me sick to think about it!
Very true I remember my great grand father only spoke of it once in a while.i was very young but I remember....he would fight back tears and was not allowed to speak his language ..he was called a savage.Taken from all he knew in the name of educating him.. his beautiful long hair cut off...he was struck with sticks and razor straps.The only savages were the cruel ones who took a strong beautiful child who had never even been talked to harshly never spanked or struck...he said his parents never treated the animals horses or cattle or dogs in that manner..they took every thing...I admire the all indigenous people because of my great granny and great grandpa and my grandfather...I only have fragments of words or stories but they are treasured ...this made me weep it is such a beautiful thing to see...thank you for posting such a wonderful educational video💝💪🙏🕊🦅
I love listening to Native American people talk about their culture. It's a different way of talking about ancestors. It's a way of speaking that seems to shorten the amount of time between ancestors and present-day. For instance, "we used to use buckskin" makes it sound like this is something she did regularly in her lifetime. She speaks as though her ancestors are standing next to her. Which, they probably are. I love it. It's a beautiful way of speaking about your history.
Thank you.
A good friend of mine is Native American and she talks and teaches me about what they do
The most beautiful fashion, the most beautiful jewelry and the most beautiful culture is Indian , Indigen Natives❤
There's a scholar who explains this worldview saying "in western culture we focus on how big and far things are while many non western cultures especially native Indians talk about things as if it's right in front of you."
I love that she wanted to do her hair like her grandmother did her hair.
hair holds so much spiritual meaning, all over the world in so many cultures. i realized the power my haird holds after doing everything to it, from shaving it all off, to dreads, bleaching, ever cut and colour under the sun, now just letting it grow back to its natural state is a powerful feeling. loved the video
This was really interesting! I didn't realise that there was so much meaning attached to hair and certain styles.
That's what we were trying to say for years
In many cultures hair and style means something. It can show if you are single or married. Whether or not you're a parent or connects you to your parents if you're an orphan.
@Lpsyoutubegirlz : So true. The intricate styles of different African tribes held the same significance too.
And Africans appreciated the texture of their own hair. It breaks my heart, that black Americans were so deliberately cut off from every aspect of their origins...those things in which we could identify ourselves, has been lost.
Our hair has been meant to torture us here in the US. The pain we endured to be up to white hair beauty standards is horrible. The same for trying to be that way in professional settings. We still have to debate about that!
Man, I was living in China and i needed my hair cut because it was too heavy...i was so nervous I waited 2 years before letting anyone touch it. I told them it was very important not to cut more than what I said off and they cut half. I cried and they were like oh but it looks good I was so upset.
@@sabrinambabe5181 there are self-haircut tutorials on youtube, for next time you need a haircut but don't have access to any trusted hair dressers.
It is incredibly violating to have someone take advantage of your trust like that, I am so sorry.
The "boarding school cut" is connected to a very sad, and traumatic history.
Yeah... It's super sad, read this story called "cutting of my long hair" it's the story of a girl who doesn't submit but has to be chased and held and tied down for them to cut her hair as her mother told her cowards allow their hair to be cut short
B Sarangi this was far from uncommon, sadly.
Many native peoples tracking and other instincts are directly tied to the length of their hair. They lose those abilities with hair cutting.
Yes, Just One of the sins of the Catholic Church. There are many.
There are many tragic stories and it makes me sick. They are amazing people.
I'm from Germany.
As a girl I wanted to grow my hair long, but my mother didn't allow it.
It always was cut when it reached my shoulders. In my teens in the 80s I had to wear a perm.
When I turned 21 I cut my hair very short out of protest. My mother was apalled...
Now at 52 I let my hair grow and it will be never cut again!
Dude that’s awesome, hope it’s long like Rapunzel
Why does this sound like a reddit post
My 91 year old grandmother is always telling my 64 year old mother off for keeping her hair long. My gran thinks it's disgusting a woman my mothers age had long hair and she looks like a witch.
Well witches are cool and awesome so win win
I feel you, my mother never allowed me to grow my hair, she always asked the hairdresser to cut it as short that it barely touched my neck, no matter how hard I cried and begged to let me wear a longer hair. Now I'm 22 and I have long hair and she calls me ugly every day for having a long hair lol.
Reminds me of the way some of the Japanese wear their hair.
I thought that too. Very Asian in the binding process and design.
Beautifully tied and very practical.
I also see the similarities. And both cultures are rich and highly spiritual.
You can only do so much with thin black hair lol my mom always said.shes a pine ridge resident.
All native Americans have Asian in them due to prehistoric migrations.
@@jllucas501 yeah its a real thing abt ppl using hair for witchcraft/hexes so its always good to be careful and not let your hair be easily taken.
Fun fact: US Military found that the original people could track exceptionally well so they recruited men from the tribes for this reason but after entering the military they had their hair cut off and their tracking was that good! The officers over this group ask why can't they track like before and they recruit said it was because their hair had been cut so the officers had them grow their hair back & the officers saw as the recruit's hair grew back they became better & better at tracking again!!!
Many cultures feel that having long hair allows you to connect with the forces in the world & universe!!!
I've heard of this one before. I've thought it was a myth or an urban legend. 😲😲😲
Haha maybe they were doing that so that they could grow it out again, either way that’s awesome.
Eve Marie Post no it’s truth. Not lies to trick them into growing their hair long.
Yes hair is the human equivalent to antennae
@@sweetkarma1345 not only human, animals too.
Notice how unstableand dogs come up after getting their hair cut. My dog is so fluffy and leaves hair cotton candy style, someone recommended that I should cut her hair short, so when I did it, my dog was sad and embarrassed, she felt as if I did it because she misbehave or something, which was not true nevertheless she felt miserable and sad for a couple of days. Now I don't cut her beautiful fluffy hair, and she is is quite sensitive and distinguish a bad person or situation before it even appears.
I won't cut my hair either, I will use this beautiful technique 🤗
American Indians are very beautiful with their thick hair, healthy color of skin and tall strait stature of body.I am always glad to see such people with their honesty and wisdom.
@@isaacfiedler9404 pure bullshit
We Asians too! We also have very thick coarse hair
@Danny American Indians look simmilar with the people of Asia, desended with black hair, dark eyes and tanned skinned. Most mexicans are also desended from the anscestor of Native Americans
@@isaacfiedler9404 Yeap, it also depends on how you take care hard of it, thin hair is just present
Thx miigwech
I have hair down to my backside and I don’t think I will cut it until my Mom passes. It will go with her to be creamated. After that it will not be cut again. I’m white but was raised in a mostly native neighborhood. It definitely gives you a different perspective to how you interact with other people and most especially nature!
that made me tear up. what a beautiful, powerful thing to do
Same here...I felt emotional reading your response 🤍
As a Cree indigenous, you are so, so wonderful and honourable. As the lady speaking said, hair is our strength. Hair is our connection and our sense of intimacy. May your hair grow long, healthy, and wonderfully. Your ancestors are so proud of you ♡
I'm Native and I was crying throughout this whole video
Why
@@isaacfiedler9404 Its already a part of their culture
@@isaacfiedler9404 I'm Filipino, but I admire the Native American culture since we filipinos are sometimes mistaken as Natives of Asia
Me too when she says bording school and then giggle made me sad and mad
@@isaacfiedler9404 I also watch Native American Pow Wow dance videos, the way their dresses covered with large feathers made from eagles or turkeys
She calls her own hair “the boarding school cut” in a derogatory way, but it does look lovely on her.
That is because cutting of the hair means alot. And when we were colonized our hair was cut to be more european
Theres history behind why she said that. In the past the american government would take native children away from their family and take them to boarding schools where their hair would be cut and their culture and way if life would be beat and programmed out of them. It was a dark time
@@okikeure7422 not only in USA- www.lavoceditrieste.net - the cancelled identity
us neechis use humour to cover our wounds and deal with the harsh realities of this world......... so i think her comment was to highlight the fact that yes residential school abuse is still alive and relevant, but also to educate with out being a victim....
So interesting how white people were so offended by Native American cultures, now they seem fascinated. I have much respect for Native Americans, the love I feel for them♥️♥️ they are true to themselves♥️💯