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Sunny Dooley who is a Native Dine' (Navajo) storyteller, poet, playwright, lecturer, and folksinger who has traveled throughout the US, Canada, Europe, and West Africa sharing her culture’s rich artistic heritage. She is from the Four Corners region of the southwest from a community called Chi Chil' Tah (Where the Oaks Grow). She has been telling the Origin and Creation Stories of the Dine' people for the past 9 years.
The traditional stories that Miss Dooley recounts are the same stories that have been handed down from one generation to the next in her family. The stories that she tells are stories that have been told from her matrilineal clan of the Saltwater People Clan.
The Dine' stories create the worldview of its people and their relationship to their surroundings. The stories carries within its context an understanding of why people, places, and things are the way they are; they share a wisdom and an understanding of the past and present. They also make a linkage to the future. The Stories, call Hane', in its re-telling is believed to recreate the world each time it is told and therefore is considered an art form that is not only precious but sacred.
Having Dine' (Navajo) as her first language, Miss Dooley is one of the primary storytellers to interpret her People’s stories with all of its rich cultural, traditional and historical context into English. She is the first in her family to interpret these stories of the Dine People for everyone to enjoy.
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Last updated july 7, 2006.
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