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I'm going to keep this as short as possible because otherwise I'll get a headache.

My girlfriend's mom has always been very proud of who she is and encouraged her kids to be as well, ensuring they spoke Navajo fluently and engaged with community, family, and culture as much as possible. But as long as I've known her she's always been very accepting, she didn't mind her daughter and I dating even though I'm non-Native and a woman, she helped shelter a nephew who came out as gay. She did not get upset about her son marrying a white lady and even attended the wedding which was all the way in NY.

And this lady, lets just say she's my sort of sister-in-law, is a very nice girl who has been doing her best to engage and respect the culture of her husband. GF's bro is a great laid back guy, good at Total War: WH, basically immune to any insult or misfortune ruining his day, never even heard him upset before all this.

Everything seemed okay! Then my gf's bro announced he and his wife were expecting a child in April. We were all happy, my gf's mom seemed happy. Baby was born healthy but with complications for my sort of sister-in-law. My gf's mom congratulated her son and then just out of nowhere hit him with 'it's just a shame the baby's not one of us'. GF's bro is going "why not?" and his mom said since the sister-in-law is a white woman then the baby's basically just a white person since they're clanless.

Bro calls my GF, who goes "well that can't be right wouldn't she just be our mom's clan?". They ask grandma who says that since it's matrilineal gf's mom is technically right but as far as she's concerned the baby's still Navajo. The grandma calls the mom, they get into an argument, now they're not talking. GF is getting increasingly upset, telling her mom that this is her granddaughter and she can't be so cold. We've been helping take care of this baby because sort of sister-in-law hasn't been recovering very well so we're all extremely stressed which I think isn't helping.

My GF asked her mom what would happen if we had kids, such as through IVF, and she said "oh well as long as you (my gf) have it, it'll be fine. It doesn't matter what the father is."

I'm, again, not Navajo myself. But I want to support my gf and her bro and my sort of sister-in-law and my sort-of niece. My GF's dad is of the opinion the baby should be counted as part of the community but doesn't want to argue with his wife and will just agree with her when she's in the room and apologize when she's gone. I don't know what I can say or do to help, besides being emotional support at this point.

This baby hasn't done anything wrong but the grandma basically doesn't see her as worthy of really being in the family. It's like she suddenly realized her son was serious about his relationship with a white lady only after the baby was born.

Is the mom in the right here? Since the baby can't be part of a clan, does that mean she can't be considered Navajo? Where can we go from here? What can I even say?

Navajos resisted Spanish occupation, Mexican occupation and American occupation for 180 years until the Treaty of 1868 was signed at Bosque Redondo. 158 years after Hwéeldi, and we are still here. Our existence is still a resistance. Here's to 338 years of Navajo–Diné resistance.

My mother's side of the family gave up their Indigenous ancestry long ago (Great, Great, Great grandparents' time) and thus I dont' really lay any claim to that ancestry. While it was done for protections, it was still done. I wanted to do my research with the understanding that I know Indigenous individuals keep many things such as This Creature on the very down low and I have no one in my family to pass down information nor really anyone near me to go to. I want to learn more about the Indigenous folklore, stories, history, ect. I also will admit I have a podcast where I talk about true crime, cryptids, paranormal, ect. I saw on here that a few years ago, someone asked about the Navajo's feelings on people such as myself talking about them on the internet. They said to check out Chilluminati since it was the closest correct information they had found. I have also skipped Google and tried to go to Indigenous creators only. I'm not really asking for more information on the ritual or anything like that and I know that talking about them directly is forbidden (which is why I try to not say Sknwalkr much). Is there anything else we should know NOT to do? I'm not interested in going looking for one. I'd very much like to avoid them tbh even though I'm way up in WI where The Creature isn't really known to be. I'm also Wiccan and I believe that the more knowledge I have... the safer I am (since I can make wards and keep certain things from entering my home.)

This is a poem after the last 250 years of the United States being a country.

There were once lands as far as the eye can see.
You wanted it all in the name of Manifest Destiny.

The same fire we used to keep you warm was the same one you used to burn us.
The same women you take are the same ones you didn't want to discuss.

We will be ok, but that day is not today.

We are reminders of your ancestors failures, we lived and thrived.
You did your best to separate us to conquer and divide.

From Trail of Tears to Long Walk, its something you don't want to talk.
We lived to tell our stories, but you mainly highlight the European glories.

We thrived and survived for those 250 years, a lot was lost and we shed countless tears.

I hope every cousin is doing well, today isn't the best day for us.

What exactly is the difference?

Im try to learn more but what exactly is the difference?

Hello, I’m reaching out to see if anyone in the northern Los Angeles or Ventura County area of California has any Tadidiin I can purchase?

I just lost my masani this morning in Utah and will need some in the coming days. I only have bitter medicine she gave me in January when I visited her home so that will suffice if needed but would like Tadidiin if possible.

Thanks

I am decendent from the original Babbitts of Flagstaff Arizona. I heard good typical trading relationships with the Natives of the area. Was it positive. Negative. Both at the same time?

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Hi everyone — hope this kind of post is welcome here.

My grandfather was Diné (Navajo), somewhere in southern Idaho in the late 60s — that's essentially all I know about him. My mother never pursued finding him, and my biological grandmother has passed, so I'm starting from almost nothing. The records I've found online have mostly been dead ends.

I'm not here to claim anything. Growing up I was told I had native blood and to mark myself Native American for diversity purposes — and honestly, that always felt wrong to me. I don't want to leverage a heritage I know nothing about. I want to actually understand it.

If anyone has advice on where to start looking — records, resources, anything — I'd genuinely appreciate it.

Now I know this may sound hella weird as I live in south asia, but in 2024 I came across these stories about navajo witches(I don't want to even mention the name because of the sheer chaos in my life it may have brought) but I used to listen to compilations of it and I remember being super fascinated about it and kept seeing more and more of them and I even had a dream about me opening my house door at night to a dark cloud like creature which basically looked like pure negativity not aggressive or have but pure negativity and then after that I remember my life basically collapsed in early 2025. I got it back onto track but I researched and listened to countless documentaries stories (just out of curiosity)over that stuff again and had a huge ass fuck up in 2026 too not even months after seeing these things. Are those creatures capable of causing chaos directly or indirectly even though I live thousands of miles alway in south asia and somebody please give me advice on this!!!