Transcript: Thomas H. Begay & Nonobah Begay

Navajo healing traditions are supported by the US Department of Veterans Affairs

[Lindberg:]: How does a person know to have traditional healing practices or Western?
[Begay:]: They have diagnostician, hand trembler. That’s one of the ceremonies the VA pays for. They do hand tremblings. They find out what it is. They also—stargazing—they look in a crystal, things like that
[Lindberg:]: How does the hand trembling thing work?
[Begay:]: I don’t know. It’s a socket. It’s one of those—I don’t know. I’m not one of them, but my grandmother did. There’s a lot of other people that I know they go like this, and then they put a corn powder, and then they’re seeking information for this individual—see what is really wrong with the individual.