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

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