Nephi Craig
speaker
419 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 25 Jul
Nephi Craig’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
Someone drew a line.
Hey, Mr. President, can't you see what is going on?
They've taken the heart and soul from the land.
Well, first off, thank you Terry for bringing my dad into this because he is such a monumental figure in my life and hearing him was refreshing and my dad not only sang that song to audiences on the Navajo Nation
and the Southwest, but he would travel to as far away as Alaska to communities that had suffered the same thing.
Um, so it was very much a set, a common sentiment that our land is minimized and stolen and there's consequences for us if we cross these boundaries.
And, um,
The grief that ensues.
So that song was very well known.
My dad also sang many happy songs and he was a humorist, he called himself.
He says, I'm not a comedian, I'm a humorist.
Yeah, my dad created the first Navajo superhero called Mutton Man.
Mutton Man got his superpowers from that uranium spill near Church Rock, New Mexico back in the 70s.
And he and his sheep walked across some contaminated waters.
And so Mutton Man was a comic strip that ran in the Navajo Times, the Fort Apache Scout, and it grew.
And he ultimately took Mutton Man and do an exhibition at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.
called Mutton Man Discovers Columbus.
And it was a collection of all these great comics that my dad had drawn about mutton men and other comics that poked at the oppressor in funny ways and poked at colonization and really serious topics, but they were humorous.
I grew up watching him sing to a wide array of audiences and carry his message through song and art and laughter.
And I feel like sometimes I do that with food now.
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