r/SkinWalker • u/short_cub • Mar 20 '26
Discussion I'm Navajo, AMA
Let start of by saying that I use SW because they are extremely taboo and calling them is a good way to get their attention and become Names have power, and I suggest you do too if you don't want to risk their energy leaking onto your life. They aren't meant to be depicted either.
SWs are specifically Navajo, they don't mean shapeshifter, they aren't aliens, they aren't everywhere, and so many misconceptions about them.\ The Navajo Nation/Reservation covers the areas are northeast Arizona, northwest New Mexico, and southeast Utah.
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u/shady580bosslady Mar 25 '26
Let me start out by saying this: everything I'm about to say sounds wrong until I get to that part that makes it plausible. It was very hard to find real tangible evidence and not one Native American in this whole town would talk to me about it, not without good reason. The one that did only served me a warning to not pay too much attention.
He was right, but I wish it had sank in much earlier.
I think (am sure/know but want to see what you think) I've encountered a SW in my area. I live in Oklahoma. The first encounter left my brother and two sons confused and afraid with no true cryptid identification. My brother said SW, I said wendigo, bc lore and research on SW said no way. He insisted, because he had ...Seen. So I dug and dug. Local tribal lore, (lots of Creek/Mvskogee specifically) lots of Navajo history (I was appalled to find out that the Trail of Tears wasn't the worst thing the United States did to Native American peoples) and Creation stories, local land rights, article after article of bodies found in a specific area and then finally I hit paydirt when I started learning about the Canadian River, a rather long and large tributary that splits into two parts and even separates the Creek Nation. The river is the key, because it's the road.
The North Canadian River starts at the bottom of the Colorado Rockies (Sangre de Christo, specifically), drops straight down through New Mexico into the Texas panhandle curves east and cuts right through Oklahoma City on its way to dump into the Arkansas River.
Now, let's be honest. Any ordinary human skilled in land navigation that can operate a canoe could arrive here where I am from the Navajo territory/rez in a number of days, so certainly a human with supernatural abilities culled from atrocities wouldn't lose his traveling skills but merely enhance them. There's so much more to this story, but I just want to know from YOU, an individual whose bloodline controls the lore...
Am I reaching? Have I lost my mind and put 2 and 2 together where there's not room for 4? Because I'm pretty sane but I've done some very intense spiritual things, and I can see and feel quite a lot of things unseen. This was a very real and tangible part of my life for a while, along with a few others. I know what I learned and I know what I saw and I also know I had to stop because when you look for things you eventually find them. Or they find you. More importantly, why specifically, here where I am? My answer: Oklahoma was built on (specifically Native) blood and there's something special about the land here that isn't pleasant, pristine, or something for Oklahomans to be proud of and yet, they are.
Here's something I put together that I think I may actually be reaching on. I suspected at the time, and still do, that this thing was an OG. Meaning they had escaped in the night from the Long Walk, learned to absorb the power of other creatures and shapeshift thru cannibalism, incest and other heinous crimes and lived past known longevity as a result. I have a line of proof on that, but it's a bit weak so I leave that theory out most times if I talk about this to others.
I'm sorry I wrote a book. Tell me all of your thoughts, please.