DVDs

"Dine Weaving" ($15.99)
This DVD covers the origin, philosophy, history, procedures, meanings and aesthetics of Dine (Navajo) weaving. Movie actress, fine artist and singer Arlene Nofchissey Williams hosts this video and explains the history and aesthetics of Navajo weaving. This DVD is the first of its kind to place Dine weaving in the context of Dine culture. Here Dine woven compositions are viewed as fine art. Contemporary weaver Bernita Nez demonstates the process of weaving as a creative art form. Click here for more details about the Dine Weaving DVD

"Explorations in Southwestern Landscapes and Aesthetics" ($15.99)
This DVD contains artistic interpretations, representations and comprehensions of the colorful and magnificent landscapes and natural environments of the American Southwest or, more particularly, the Colorado Plateau of the Four Corners region. These comprehensions come from two principal cultural perspectives, those of the Native people of this area, principally the Diné (Navajos), and those of non-Native descent who have found homes and sources of artistic inspiration in this captivating region. This latter group include Dr. Glen Peterson, longtime professor of art at Diné and Yavapai Colleges, and three of his students who have developed distinctive careers of their own: Bonny Stouffer, Diane Gilbert, and Carol Rawlings. The Diné perspectives come primarily from Bernita Nez, Arlene Nofchissey Williams and Joe B. Begay. Click here for more details about the Explorations in Southwestern Landscapes and Aethetics DVD

"Summer Solstice Sunrise" ($15.99)
This DVD is original in that it is the first of it's kind to offer the sunrise exactly as it happened without doctoring or enhancing. This is not a collection of nature clips that move from scene to scene. This is the sunrise, plain and simple. Our suround sound recordings provide realistic audio soundscapes that give the illusion of being in the great outdoors. Our DVD offers you the option of hearing only pure nature sounds, with no voices, music or human-induced sounds. Or you may choose to listen to gentle traditional Native American music accompanied by natural sounds of crickets, bird song and water, while you view in real time a summer solstice sunrise. Click here for more details about the special features of the Summer Solstice Sunrise DVD.

MUSIC

We are One with Nature CD, ($9.99) by Arlene nofchissey Williams.
She is known as the Navajo Nightingale with the artistic abilities and gifts she inherited from her ancestors. She has created music into an art form which she calls her "poetic songs.” Arlene wrote and performed the majority of the material on the album, Proud Earth, featuring herself and Chief Dan George (of Little Big Man fame).  The 1977 Album Proud Earth was nominated for a Grammy Award by the National Academy of Recording Arts in the Ethnic-Traditional Category.
Her Biography can be found here at
http://www.tinyhummingbird.com/about.htm
and her professional Credits can be found at http://www.tinyhummingbird.com/professional_credits.htm.
The Album We are One with Nature is a collection of her finest music.
Listen to 30 second sample of each song: 1. Song of the People,
2.Awake and Arise, 3. Plain and Simple, 4. Spring, 5. Mountain Air,
6. Kindred Spirit, 7. I Walk in Beauty, 8. Ute Mothers's Lullaby,
9. Go My Son, 10. One Eternal Round, 11. Riding on the Wind,
12. I Dreamed the Dream

Sound Track from Summer Solstice Sunrise
52 minutes of all the actual natural sounds recorded during the sunriuse! This is very relaxing and inspiring. Listen to 2 or 6 miniute samples of Natural Sounds

Sound Track from Explorations in Southwestern Landscapes and Aesthetics
This is 30 plus minutes of American Indian Flute music composed and performed by Gary Witherspoon, Jr.

Tradional Navajo Songs, by Joe B. Begay.
Listen to Mountain Creation Song

Music from Gary Witherspoon, Jr.
Listen to the Song "Kill the Indian not the Man"

BOOKS

Language and Art in the Navajo Universe
Studies Navajo culture as reflected in its art and use of language.
Available from the Universoty of Michigan Press

Navajo Kinship and Marriage
"This is an important work on Navajo kinship and marriage."
David F. Aberle, American Anthropology
Available from the Universoty of Chicago Press

Dynamic Symmetry and holistic Asymmetry in
Navajo and Western Art and Cosmology ($19.99)
Available from Vision Quest DVDs, Synopsis of book PDF
The Navajo are a Native American soiety of about 250,000 people residing in the southwestern portion of the United States.  The Navajo are famous world-wide for their beautifully and delicately woven rugs, their finely sculptured jewelry, and their ceremonial painting in the sand.
In Navajo society, the artistic emphasis is placed on creation rather than consumption, production rather than preservation, and design rather than display.  Correspondingly, nearly everyone in Navajo society is an artist of one sort or of many sorts, but very few Navajo buy or display works of art. 
In Native American societies, art is not viewed as marginal, unessential, or extracurricular.  Instead, art is viewed as a way of seeing the world, and a way of being in the world.  Art is an essential act of living, and an act essential to living:
To begin a study of Navajo art, we must explore Navajo artistic expressions in the context of Navajo culture and from the perspective of the Navajo philosophy of art.

WOVEN TAPESTRIES

Yei Bi Chei Images
from Katheryn Begay.
To be added

Traditional Images
from Bernita Nez.
To be added

PHOTO PRINTS

Southwesten Landscapes
To be added

Winter Landscapes
To be added

Natural Stress-Reduction
Our creationss will help you disconnect from your daily activities and reconnect with nature.

For most of us, the world we live in is filled with alarm clocks, rush-hour traffic, and hectic schedules.... How often in our busy lives do we make time to enjoy somthing as natural and available to us as the sunrise. In such a stress-filled world we sometimes forget that one of the greatest healers and stress-reducers is Nature herself. Perfect for quiet time, reflection or meditation, the sounds and sights of nature have been proven to aid in relaxation and meditation. We created videos, sound, and pictures to allow you to put the Nature back into your day to reconnect with that relaxing and healing event basic to human experience.

Why go on a Vision Quest?

Native Americans went on vision quests to find and deepen spiritual understandings, to acquire personal endowments of knowledge and power, and to build confidence and self-esteem. We believe that if you periodically remove yourself from the hustle and bustle of your everyday stresses and seek renewal in communion with nature, you will be able to positively alter the pace, direction, and quality of your life, health and overall well-being.

People have always sought periodic separation from the rigors and stress of human civilization, searching for meaning and renewal in personal communion with the natural world as a source of relaxation, inspiration, rejuvenation, and meditation. We created these DVDs to allow you to put the Nature back into your day to reconnect with that relaxing and healing event basic to human experience. These allows the modern urban and surburban person to experience the vision quest in their homes and other places of solitude, and thereby achieve and acquire many of the healing, inspiring and renewing benefits of the vision quest without actually going on a nature retreat for a month. This is done virtually through a DVD experience which visually and audibly immerses one in the natural world settings and events portrayed on the screen and heard in surround sound. These DVDs provides the viewer with a relaxing and provocative experience. These experiences can be used for relaxation, reflection, stress reduction and meditation. These DVDs are best experienced in a quiet, secluded environment where one can imaginatively transplant oneself into nature’s symphony.