Mapping Navajo Nation: VICE News Tonight on HBO
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- Опубліковано 15 лют 2017
- Navajo Nation is the largest Native American territory in the country, sprawling across nearly 28,000 square miles and three states. It can be hard to find your way around, and not just because the lands are mostly rural. The majority of homes and businesses in Navajo Nation don’t have addresses.
Navajo Nation is split into 110 chapters, and about 70 of them don’t have street names or numbered addresses, which adds up to at least 50,000 unmarked properties.
“We don’t have fancy roads and streets that go North, East, South, West, in a grid system,” rural addressing supervisor M.C. Baldwin told VICE News correspondent Nellie Bowles. “Our roads are going all over the place.”
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There is nothing more inspiring than people looking out for their own community. Props.
Radioactive Snake except when it's white people.
Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi Except when you think "community" means the pigmentation of the skin rather than the humans in your local vicinity*
Radioactive Snake Uh they aren't. This isn't 1818.
Most peoples of the Southwest engaged in both farming and hunting and gathering; the degree to which a given culture relied upon domesticated or wild foods was primarily a matter of the group’s proximity to water. A number of domesticated resources were more or less ubiquitous throughout the culture area, including corn (maize), beans, squash, cotton, turkeys, and dogs. During the period of Spanish colonization, horses, burros, and sheep were added to the agricultural repertoire, as were new varieties of beans, plus wheat, melons, apricots, peaches, and other cultigens.
Most groups coped with the desert environment by occupying sites on waterways; these ranged in quality and reliability from large permanent rivers such as the Colorado, through secondary streams, to washes or gullies that channeled seasonal rainfall but were dry most of the year. Precipitation was unpredictable and fell in just a few major rains each year, compelling many groups to engage in irrigation. While settlements along major waterways could rely almost entirely on agriculture for food, groups whose access was limited to ephemeral waterways typically used farming to supplement hunting and gathering, relying on wild foods during much of the year.
20 years finally have a house address on our reservation(OKIB). Shout out to my friend Jim Smily, Navajo Nation
Moe Jo Congratulations!
***** no
i am a Koyukon, the navajo and apache came from my people not too long ago. what i will say is, the easterners have already invaded my land, and killing all of them is not going to happen, however, we can spread awareness that america and england own no land in the west, and that this isn't their land. eventually we will get our land back, but we will not kill non westerners on our land but let them live under our rule or they can go back to their land and live the way they want on their land
About time you sorted yourselves out, it’s the 21st century
FrankieJames7 good luck, when’s this happening ? 🤣🤣 they can’t run a small town never mind a country
Many of us just don’t want to be bothered we just want to live the way we use to that’s why we live out in the middle of nowhere
forget the roads, and addresses focus on the WATER
focus on the bottle made from oil to sell US 'pure wter'
why not focus on both? I'm sure we're capable to multask.
It’s all good work
Steelo Meelo ,.and let's not forget electricity
I KNOW THAT'S RIGHT!!!!
These people do not want to be found, unless they need help and then its the ambulances fault for not getting there fast enough.
Levi Get GPS
obviously it was not helping them, otherwise they would not need to do this.
what a stupid comment
Most of the land they live on don't have official road names, or street names. Which is why a GPS wouldn't work in that situation.
campy :3 Exactly, even if they had the GPS location there is nothing they could plug that into to get directions. It will tell you its GPS location but if the roads are not mapped out and there is no software that can be used then its useless information.
I lived on the Navajo Rez. Even with g p s , you would not find my house for a long long time. You might have to turn left when the g p s says my house is 18 miles to the right.
My Chapter needs to start this... I've been wanting a home address for the longest time, hate to explain where we live at...
These are my people I love them it’s so sad to see how humble these people are this is what the world misses so badly.. I would love for people of this country to help them with wells being dug and electro magnet generators wind power solar energy and water filters or purification’ machines Amen
go out the county road and turn at old man Turner's barn, go passed the 3rd rock until you see the oak tree that got cut down 20 years ago and I'm ¾ of a mile down the road and the 3rd house in the old field. Those were real directions given to a volunteer fire department dispatcher. BTW old man Turner's barn fell in 30 something years after he died.
No one is going anywhere... We have too many pipelines to build.
***** and what nation do you come from? My people were in the St. Lawrence valley before the French.
+LilRando Jesus man, calm yourself. Before you tell me to go home or whatever, I live in England myself. Firstly, to some extent I sympathise with Native Americans, but you have to understand that Europeans have lived in the Americas for hundreds of years now, it's also their home too (Not to mention we don't have the space in England for everyone in America and Canada). I understand that Natives are now a minority and that isn't right, but generalising white people as criminals isn't going to help you.
It is their home. These people were born and raised in America, as were their parents, their parents' parents and so on. Just because your ancestors have been around longer doesn't mean it isn't home to others too. Would you deport an entire nation of people to countries no one in their family has seen for generations? How would you even know where to deport them to?
In relation to you calling them criminals, last I checked there is no genocide against natives anymore, and it's no longer occupation. You cannot blame the actions of someone's ancestors on the person themselves, that would be like blaming Hitler's living relatives for the Holocaust.
Your views are disgusting. I'm done here, you're evidently not going to see any sense but good luck trying to deport the entire population of the most powerful country on the planet.
I lived out there on the Rez for 3 years -- roads are fine, no need for road signs...
NAVAJO need WATER First, then ELECTRIC -- the Gods put signs in the Heavens!
Rowdy Wesley Lavender the road conditions depends on where on the Rez ya reside
Yeah water!!! And mineral rights.
First stop killing their culture by converting them for your utopian heaven and god
Thakur Varun Solanki first tell them to build their own society and stop living like bums in 2020
Go waayyy ober dere!(pointing with their lips)
That sounded like i was back n gallup🤣
That's how Filipinos give directions
They should give everyone their gps location coordinates of their homes. That way they can provide that to emergency services if needed to easily find their house.
But you need addresses for that... which they don't have
We are currently giving the people Physical Address Verification letter that has a Lat & Long coordinate on their letter stating where there home is located.
The Utah Rural Project is now helping people to have addresses and register to vote by giving them Google's Plus Codes and signs with the code.
I can understand why some wouldn't want an address Navajos, we can be difficult people to satisfy especially as a whole
Thats why it's hard to develop or bring jobs at least in my chapter. It's always someones grazing land or they claim more than their homesite area. We could have had a school, a closer gas station, and a clinic but couldn't get approval from some homesite lease residents. Then the main highway shut down to the nearest town and a 20 min drive became a 4 hour drive to get to work or school. The housing area and surrounding community became a ghost town for the next 2 years until the highway opened back up.
"over der *points w lips*" haha love my homeland. Most people on the rez don't really care about directions bc we know where we're going and bc we have PO boxes for most things, and we draw a map to where we live for certain amenities. It that mentality of "we want nice things" but also "this is why we can't have nice things", bc of shot up signs, wooden signs w paint, and that nice things we do have like street lights or signs or roads (thank god if they're paved) are neglected or vandalized. Plus our police force is more or less at 500 for the whole rez.
🤣🤣🤣
knock knock
Whose there?
'Dishes'
Dishes who?
'Dishes the Navajo police'
Respect our Navajo Culture, they do part in helping this country in many ways. Respect the people leave them alone, mind your own business... IF YOU WANT TO HELP, THEY NEED HELP WITH CLEANER WATER SOURCES
When people ask us Navajos where do you live. Well, you see, you take this road eight miles...
Heh, I remember my house finally getting an address. No matter what people say I’m happy I don’t have to write or explain my full physical address, aka full detailed instructions of where exactly I live.
Nellie Bowles is trying to drive and hold a phone... ever heard of Bluetooth? Ask a Navajo. 0:27
That's my home!!!! I love it hahaha it's fun when people are confused as hell hahaha we just make fun of you a hahaha
We all need something to laugh at
Good luck allot of homes are way off the main road and are off grid. My x inlaws drove over 1 hour to get to the closest grocery store
GPS coordinates are better, those don’t change and emergency services can use them.
Does VICE have any live channel
In Saudi Arabia we have nice roads and a grid system... But no address... Lol... Before mobile phones it was very hard... Now just WhatsApp
Desert brothers💙💙☺
we need this. I am tired of people coming up to our house asking if we know this person, or 3 patrol cruiser banging on our door at 2am asking for this person. I considered carving out our last names and nailing it to our front gate. the rural addressing people came by last year to get info, but since then we heard nothing back from them. when I asked if they set up a house number for us, they said it was only for emergency personal. look up "plus codes" on youtube. I did, then I made a "estimate" on ups, and entered my plus code, and it was accepted. they are doing that in Utah for san juan county.
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Many Dineh on Black Mesa live just fine with out these signs they know where they are and who they are on earth. We travel hundreds of miles on unmarked roads, the landscape and its stories shows you where you are.
What would be more helpful is if the BIA and Hopi Police (Who are servants of Washington, not not the beautiful Hopi culture) stop watching, harassing and arresting the people of Black Mesa. 40 years of forced removal of the Dineh of Black Mesa and still no Hopis coming to live out here. All that is out here besides the Dineh resisting relocation is thousands of cows from a massive Texas based beef cattle operation. Just stupid cows everywhere, the Dineh almost gone, not even a single Hopi living on the land. Why?
There is no "native American territory" in the U.S. It's private property owned by a group of Indians. The groups is sovereign, the land is not.
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Abraham Jafer Why do you people lambaste the Europeans while ignoring the tens of millions of non-Europeans who have willfully immigrated here since 1965? Immigrants from China, India, and Nigeria are no different, correct?
What are you trying to say? There is no such thing as sovereign because the tribes still rely on the federal government. Also the reservations are all federal land too. We don't have such a thing as private property and if your name is on your homesite "lease" that's all you can use one acre.
Nicolas Leroux because they are racists who hate white people and white people only. This is why we don’t care about what our ancestors did. They use North Korea tactics of punishing the great grandchild for a crime.
Our native ppl should be HELPED & PROTECTED ABOVE ALL ELSE, THEY SHOULD HAVE WATER, ELECTRIC, FOOD, VEHICLES, BE ABLE TO VOTE!!!!!!!! MAKES ME SICK JESUS, PRAYING THEY NEED TO HELP THEM ESPECIALLY NOW WITH CORONA!!!!! DISGUSTING 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
With Amber Alert on the Rez now and human trafficking on the rise in rural Rez community's, mapped roads are life and death.
#MMIWG✊🏽
It’s always this or that way I have always had this road number and u changed it
Glad my rez is easy to navigate and most importantly not to far from the city.
Why my chapter don't do this?
Need physical address so we can have our package and mail delivered to our home.
then again, how useful will these physical address when it comes to package delivery??
It's unreal trying to give/get directions there. Fucking Window Rock.
Congratulations on catching up. Almost.
About time
I see the need for numbered homes as a direct consequence of communities weakened by modern connectivity. Neighbors don't need to talk to each other when cell phones and the internet replace traditional social connectivity with virtual relationships. In this case, the neoliberal solution to keeping people safe in communities losing their social fabric (not to mention keeping a 'benevolent' eye on them) is to create a big database connected to numbers over doorways.
Evan Watson Addresses were a thing long before cellphones.How do you think mail was sent?
What good is the ability to mail a letter, send an email, or call someone if you no longer talk to your neighbor? Maybe the community cares about you, but do they know what you need?
Evan Watson Bills are sent through the mail and the irs communicates through the mail so it's kinda important i
how much crack did you smoke to figure that out?
Give the community leader a computer that has all the places mapped with names to houses and call it a day, no need for signs.
Woo wow
They aren't 'their' roads. They are simply paths that residents have informally put on land owned by a private association called the Navajo tribe. They aren't official roads, or public rights of way in any way. There ARE public rights of way that traverse indian tribal lands.
More like "managed" by, its federal land.
Once their found. Then they try to figure out a way take over.
it is good the Navajo has a city to manage
Street signs interrupt the skyline and scenery? Are these people claiming these clean signs take away from all the broken-down automobiles, mobile homes, and other rusted garbage laying everywhere? Anyone that has driven through Navajo Nation can attest that streets signs are the least of their problems.
Red-Blooded America only place in America where you can forget you're not in Mexico haha
It’s always this or that way I have always had this road number and u changed it it better not be us numbers
In Latin countries, in poor areas that have no addresses people use landmarks, like stores, trees, colors of buildings and other details. Haha!
The nation is a losing their young people lot of these homes old people living there once they die be abandoned. Young don't want to live on the res.
Trying to modernize the rez
Rite, here in the wealthiest country they say. What they didn't want to see coming to light. Thank god. And they used our language to win war. But, we sitting with no running water, or electric 🤔.
listen to the wind n they will tell u the direction
Supposed to be off the grid
facesmashinghammers of the POWER grid that's whare the word came from
Off the grid of the earth
facesmashinghammers that is not whare the word came from there weren't grids on maps till the late 19 century
I'm pretty sure it's past the 19th century
facesmashinghammers yes there were small electrical grids in the late 1800s and when selling house they wold you the word"on the grid" to tell if a house had electricity.
My heart inside knows the way back home to my family!
Earn Your Eagle Feathers take me back home to the rez life!
The greatest tragedy of the 2nd millenium was the displacement of the Native American peoples, from Alaska to the Pampas.
huh?
Future street or directions can be named from leaders of people nature names. 💙🌈
How do they even get mail delivery???
mxferro we go to the post offices (City people)
Post office, in town or at the local chapter house.
He still hasn't done anything. Why is he on tv? He cannot even find his outhouse.
Drones will find you.
Make rural addressing great again!
A lot of people, I guess,
they don't wanta be found.
she's pretty
2:54 is the silliest dumb shit I've ever heard.
Have you seen all the electricity poles in suburbia? I'm gonna run over all the electricity poles LOL
Same argument used against wind turbines.
STAY OFF THE MAP!!!
Let’s not build roads because it ruins the sunset lmao these people are so backwards. Thank god us Europeans arrived. They’ve had thousands of years to become civilised but choose to live like bums
The narrator’s voice is weird
has anyone heard of what3words?
hide from the repoman!
F google maPszzz it is about tracking and monitoring taxing,
Use gps
I'm Native American and I say build a wall give us the money back from the immigrate .
Reservation property out sides. Want infection
love me natives
what the point in living there,? there nothing there at all.
Their own land?
tinaUNDAcova so?
Mister Mood There isn't much better than nothing at all.
SavageInstitute why do you say that?
some of these reservations have casinos. But most likely, these are native americans that are trying to isolate themselves or they have been pushed out
We Go by Place N' Names that Are said in Our Language , We dont Need that Address if youR Native. You Understand! !!
There is no Native American "Nation" or "territory" in the U.S. Indian reservations are land that indian tribes own. Indian tribes do not have sovereign authority over any land or over those who are not members of their tribe. They own land as you or I own land. When I enter "Navajo Nations" I am in the U.S. not a foreign country.
Just calm down. You already slaughtered them. How about you give them a little respect on the internet at least.
That, is incorrect.
No it is not. My statements are correct. Indian tribes are sovereign in their internal relationships. They have no sovereignty over land or over non-tribal members who might happen to be on their land. Maps that show the Navajo Nation as part of the U.S. (which ALL maps do) are correct.
I was born in 1968. I didn't kill anyone. The truth isn't disrespectful.
Every one knows that ASSHOLE!!
How about freeloader st or drunken Ave or fat and lazy freeway? feel free to use any of those
People are doing something great by going out and doing projects well you on the computer criticizing
It’s always this or that way I have always had this road number and u changed it it better not be us numbers