{"id":1136,"date":"2023-07-28T14:47:22","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2024-09-23T09:21:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T15:21:26","slug":"gentle-footsteps-in-canyon-de-chelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/?p=1136","title":{"rendered":"Gentle Footsteps in Canyon de Chelly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2016, I led an EarthWalks group to Canyon de Chelly, Arizona.\u00a0 We were guided by a wonderful group of people from the area who had called this amazing place home for generations.\u00a0 One of our participants, Sallie Bingham, wrote an account of the experience for a Public Broadcasting System (PBS) show &#8220;To the Contrary&#8221; with host Bonnie Eribe.\u00a0 Bonnie Erb\u00e9 was a nonpartisan, award-winning American journalist and television host based in the Washington, D.C. area who covered national politics for decades. She was a columnist for 25 years with Scripps Howard Newspapers wrote columns for PoliticsDaily.com and USNews.com.<\/p>\n<p>You can find Ms. Bingham&#8217;s wonderful full account of our experience in the canyon at:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/to-the-contrary\/blog\/6427\/the-beauty-way\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/to-the-contrary\/blog\/6427\/the-beauty-way <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ms Bingham is an accomplished writer and her work can be found at:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/salliebingham.com\/\">https:\/\/salliebingham.com\/\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><span id=\"pf-author\">By Sallie Bingham<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"pf-content\" class=\"pf-12\">\n<div>\n<p class=\"added-to-list1\">The Navajo\/Din\u00e9 traditional prayer is called \u201cThe Beauty Way.\u201d Here it is in Din\u00e9\u2014the Navajo name for their nation\u2014and translated into English.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"added-to-list1\"><em>In beauty I walk<br \/>\nWith beauty before me I walk<br \/>\nWith beauty behind me I walk<br \/>\nWith beauty above me I walk<br \/>\nWith beauty around me I walk<br \/>\nIt has become beauty again<br \/>\nIt has become beauty again<br \/>\nIt has become beauty again<br \/>\nIt has become beauty again<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"added-to-list1\"><em>H\u00f3zh\u00f3ogo naash\u00e1a doo<br \/>\nShitsij\u00ed\u2019 h\u00f3zh\u00f3ogo naash\u00e1a doo<br \/>\nShik\u00e9\u00e9d\u00e9\u00e9 h\u00f3zh\u00f3ogo naash\u00e1a doo<br \/>\nShideigi h\u00f3zh\u00f3ogo naash\u00e1a doo<br \/>\nT\u2019\u00e1\u00e1 altso shinaag\u00f3\u00f3 h\u00f3zh\u00f3ogo naash\u00e1a doo<br \/>\nH\u00f3zh\u00f3 n\u00e1h\u00e1sdl\u00ed\u00ed\u2019<br \/>\nH\u00f3zh\u00f3 n\u00e1h\u00e1sdl\u00ed\u00ed\u2019<br \/>\nH\u00f3zh\u00f3 n\u00e1h\u00e1sdl\u00ed\u00ed\u2019<br \/>\nH\u00f3zh\u00f3 n\u00e1h\u00e1sdl\u00ed\u00ed\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This past weekend, I was blessed to join eleven comrades on an expedition to Canyon de Chelly in Arizona, sponsored by the amazing\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/earthwalks.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Earthwalks<\/a>, dedicated to a growing understanding, for us, of Native American ways, especially their spiritual traditions (the ones that can be shared), and to service\u2014and to laughter and good food and cooperation and camping out under the stars.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>(Read more by clicking on the link above)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2016, I led an EarthWalks group to Canyon de Chelly, Arizona.\u00a0 We were guided by a wonderful group of people from the area who had called this amazing place home for generations.\u00a0 One of our participants, Sallie Bingham, wrote &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/?p=1136\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthwalks-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1336,"href":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions\/1336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}