what is a navajo wedding about?

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i just wanna know what navajo weddings are all about. since i am a navajo and i dont know much about it.

Answer 1

The ceremony for a traditional Navajo wedding is simple, while the preparation for it isn't. Traditionaly, marriages were arranged by the groom's parents. An offering of some type to the bride's family was customary. After the arrangement was made, the bride's family became responsible for building a hogan to hold the ceremony in and to live in after the ceremony. It was customary for the groom to go live with the bride's family since Dinè(Navajo) are traditionally a matrilineal culture.

Those practices aren't used that much anymore these days though. Typically, a ceremony involves the use of white or blue corn meal in a wedding basket that the bride and groom feed to each other. They then pass the basket clockwise around the hogan so that each guest may eat a little bit of the corn meal. The last person to receive the wedding basket is supposed to keep the basket, however that is rarely done these days. The last person is usually a honorific position and is the equivalent of a best man or best woman. The basket is more often than not kept by the couple. A hitaathli, chanter/singer, usually presides over the wedding and it's important to note that a hitaathli does have legal authority to submit a marriage license. After the ceremony, guests at the wedding typically offer advice to a newly married couple. There really isn't much other than that. It's kept really simple and lacks the pompoustry seen in western marriage ceremonies.

You can read a little more about Dinè marriage ceremonies here.

http://www.gallupindependent.com/2005/nov/111905spnvwd.html

Answer 2

Navajo Wedding Basket

Answer 3

Most Indian tribes followed simple weddings once the bride was won from her father. The Navajo may have started the tradition among the Plains Indian when the man wrapped a blanket around his bride. The chief pronounced them married and told them to make babies and enjoy life.

In Indian Sign Language, the Navajo is depicted by rubbing the top of the left hand with the right fingertips, meaning Indian, and then, with both hands, depict wrapping a blanket about your shoulders.

Because of the Navajo's exquisite artistery in their blankets they became known to the Plains Indian as the Blanket People.

p.s. Because the asker is Navajo, I would expect him to capitalize the name of his Nation.

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what is a navajo wedding about?
i just wanna know what navajo weddings are all about. since i am a navajo and i dont know much about it.

Answer 5

This ceremony is actually done quite a lot these days still. It has to occur when the sun is going down around evening and goes through the night. A medicine man will pray for everyone and the couple and bless everyone there. Tobacco from the mountains is smoked by the couple a d couples parents. The ladies family will provide gifts for the man's side of the family while the man's family pays for the entire wedding. The women's family is also responsible for providing food. Each person eats corn mush from the newly made basket and the woman gives to the mother of the groom. All and all its a lengthy ceremony done with the sun and moon. Very common on therreservation if you k ow where to look.

Answer 6

It's about two Navajos getting married. ;-)

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