Aroboa

Annabelle

"Is she held for love, treasury, or slavery? Sex?" Wakatongu asks in trror, his voice intensifies with the words sex and slavery.

"I have no idea, the chief is a woman." Dude says,

Wakatongu: "A woman...? Diné? Chief's wife?"

Duxe: "Fully possible."

Grandfather: "The Diné haven't told us anything."

"I want to bring her back, I do, but I am very afraid of retaliation." His grandfather says.
"I can talk to the woman, honest!" He says.

Duxe takes him to a Navajo house after five days of walks and breaks. There homes back then seemed more like houses.

"You are going to have to learn to live like a Diné in order to be with them and show respect, respect is different in some places." Duxe says, some things that are respectful over in other countries, but disrespectful over here, and there are some things that are disrespectful in other countries but not disrespectful over here.

This one was like a shotgun house is a house so thin that, metaphorically, if you shot it with a shotgun, everyone in the house would get shot. It's a trailer park house thin.

Duxe waited with him for an old friend, when the dude got there to see Wakatongu, nice random stranger, he screamed and asked who he was in Navajo.

Duxe: "This is a friend of mine, his Mom's here. She's a...captive." He says, not sure of the role she plays in this tribe.

the Diné, Ahiga: "OK, um, I don't know where she is."

In this story I wanted to show some Navajos not even being aware of things that happened in the past.

Ahiga: "I --" You know what he'll say -- "....didn't know there was even a new captive."

Duxe: "She's here, can you teach Wakatongu your customs."

Ahiga: "Who's Wakatongu?" Ahiga says in shock, "I am." Wakatongu says, nervously raising his hand.

Ahiga shows him their culture by action and telling,

Every culture has many different was of showing respect. In general, "in --" traditional "...Navajo culture it is considered rude to look someone directly in the eye, grab there hand and shake it strongly for a long time or put an arm around a shoulder. You don't speak loudly or with great emotion publicly. You don't tell people what to do. You may suggest what you think is correct behavior in a more indirect manner, leaving it up to the listener to decide."

Wait more than a few beats before you talk after someone has finished speaking. "...They may have more to say and it is disrespectful to jump in with your thoughts." Dude says, Personal and physical autonomy should be respected to a much greater degree than mainstream American culture. "Don't assume you know what someone would want or do, this is rude." In mainstream American culture "It might seem thoughtful but it is seen as controlling."

"You should, if you can introduce yourself first with you mother's clan or family origin, then your father's and more traditionally all four of your grandparents. Then say where you are from and then your name." Ahiga didn't just tell him that because it was traditional, it was to help him find his mom since no one knows him.

"Traditionally you don't point at people or anything else with a index finger. Usually you indicate a direction with pursed lips or a whole hand."

"There are many other things you should but this is a start for someone who is traditional." Remember some people are not traditional at all and may have more standard American manners.

To be continued...