Navajo Historian Wally Brown teaches about the Navajo Language (Dine' Bizaad), and it's complexities. | Navajo Traditional Teachings

Navajo Historian, Wally Brown, teaches about the origins of the language of the Diné. The language was given to the “five-fingered being” to allow them to communicate with all creation. The “five-fingered being” began to misuse the language, and the Holy People decided to take the language back. After much begging the Holy People agreed to let the Diné keep the language under the condition that it never be a written language. Else the Five-fingered Being would pervert and misuse the sacred langu