Official: Skinwalkers halted construction on Navajo facilityYazzie believes the current obstacle has something to do with Navajo witchcraft. “Since the very first day they’ve been doing that to us, to this day. Every time everything runs smooth, here they come again; and it’s going to be like that until that thing is built and people are walking in there and putting in their money.
“I won’t let any skinwalkers, witchcraft, Godless people try to stop what we are doing,” he said.Comment: It's silly and stereotypical to equate witches with "godless" people. What's next...skinwalkers as Commie subversives?
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ReplyDeleteOnly one kind of person uses "Godless" in a sentence of that kind -- a Christian sellout to Euroman who opposes the culture and beliefs of his own people. Money talks, and tradition walks...
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So, someone is not a real Indian if they are Muslim, Christian, or Atheist?
ReplyDeleteI don't have a problem with Yazzie's being a Christian. But Yazzie seems to imply that real Navajos can't be atheists. I don't agree with that.
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ReplyDeleteSo, either you are, or you're not. But WHO makes that decision?
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ReplyDeletePOSTSCRIPTUM: Islam, Christianity, and even atheism are ALIEN doctrines to the NovaMundian continents. Just as non-Natives are alien to this soil. Such ideas also are alien, but we all know that...
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