Essay On Navajo Religion

From my childhood I’ve been only popular by being the only native american in the whole elementary school, though I was born as any regular modern american. Around those years, I’ve been doing my own research of what kind of native american am I. In my search, I have only looked into a fog of confusion about myself, until my parents told me that my religion is navajo culture, which were only the basics were what I gotten out from my parents. Even so I was only interested in finding out about what kind of religion I was part of, so I didn’t continue my search about the topic of Navajo tribe. As years passed on, it was the start of high school when I moved to New Mexico, the birthplace where all navajo culture is popular and recognized by any race there. Having to be intrigued by that, I wanted to learn more of my heritage, including the events that are part of my religion, like I had back in my childhood with the meetings, pow wows, visiting a medicine man for prayer or to be healed. Though through the excitement I have learned that they don’t really do as much of those events like they did in the later years of my childhood. It was either the weather wasn’t right or some other family problem that everyone doesn’t want to be part of, but

then my dad always told me that it was mainly because not much of us still do the old ways or traditions because they are to shy or embarrassed to do the old ways.
Having to hear that my people who are navajo that do not want to preserve our old ways just filled me with confusion of why wouldn’t anyone want to do so?.

From then on I started to take up navajo class in high school so I could better understand my religion and perhaps speak it a little more often instead of a few words. Up to the end of the class I mostly just learned the history and what we do was what we did to survive and the way of life, I would guess most of it would be sacred. I learned what I could but I felt as if I was only going to recognize my culture. For that I always wonder if I should’ve been born as a navajo like my family that live here, instead of being taught english and being treated like any other

american.
I then came to a realization that it couldn’t of been just Native American culture that is fading away but perhaps other culture as well, such as indians in india, african tradition, and then south america along with mexico reading the fact in history that it had the same situation that america had but except the europeans coming, it was the spanish people coming. Even when it's said by me, I am not a 100 percent sure that each of them have some major culture changes, but perhaps it's slowly fading away. But I know their is somewhat the same cases out there that their old ways are slowly fading away and it’ll have the same situation like mine, by having lesser and fewer events than before. Pretty soon that those culture’s would be completely be gone and cannot be looked up anymore or to be taught by anyone because it's either people don’t want to record what their culture is about and teach its way to their future generations, or it's either because most don’t know how to go about recording and preserving their culture to future generations that would want to know their culture. For this, I came up with one question, that I would like to know of how could anyone better preserve their culture/ traditions so that it could at least be looked up for the future generation.

Today is April 11th, to this day I begon my research of the topic of whether or not that culture is fading away violently or just fading away in general of slowly going away without notice until now. Towards that question, I wanted to start my search with a quick interview with my dad who shares a more deep feeling of his thoughts of how our old ways are changing and how it was back before the year of 2000 came and changed how navajo people become more adverse with their culture.