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THE JONES BENALLY FAMILY

 

 

From the Dine' (Navajo) Nation, The Jones Benally Family has garnered national and international recognition performing their traditional cultural dances. World champion Hoop dancer and traditional Navajo consultant Jones Benally, mesmerizes the audience with the storys and dance of the Dine' (Navajo) culture.

With his children Jeneda, Klee and Clayson, the program enchants and teaches audiences about the traditional Dine' ways that are allowed to be seen by the public.

The Jones Benally Family retains the traditional form of dance, song and story that has been carried on from the beginning of time. Their repitoire is extensive including histories of ceremonys, hunting, agriculture and the foundation of the Dine' Culture.

The Jones Benally Family has performed in all corners of the planet from the tip of the arctic circle to the Sahara desert beyond Timbuktu. They have also do residencies in schools and universities throughout the world. The Jones Benally Family has been featured on national and international television and radio and has been part of countless documentaries.

biography

Jones Benally

Jones Benally is ageless. He was born in a traditional hogan on the Navajo Nation on Black Mesa, Arizona. His grandparents and parents began teaching him the traditional dances, ceremonies and the use of plants and herbs when he was seven years old. Jones Benally is the historian of his Navajo Culture and was the first Medicine Man to be employed as the Traditional Consultant at Winslow Rock Indian Hospital. Jones is a ‘world champion Hoop Dancer”, touring the world for over fifty years, sharing his culture. Jones Benally is also an accomplished silversmith, trick roper, artist, dancer, actor, musician and storyteller. Jones also has many movie and television credits and is in the archives of the Smithsonian Institute.
 

Jeneda Benally

Jeneda Benally is Jones daughter. Jeneda was ‘Miss Flagstaff Indian Days Pow-wow Princess’, she is a national Native American Honour Roll Society member, a spokeswoman for the Navajo Nation Tribal Employee Program a volunteer with the Save the Peaks Coalition, the bassist in the rock band Blackfire with her two brothers and one of the founders of the ‘Indigenous Youth Network’. Jeneda Benally is also an accomplished storyteller, actress, model, artist and jewellery maker. Some of the dances she performs include Northern Fancy Shawl, Changing Woman, Feather, Corn Grinding and many more.
 

Klee Benally

Klee is a Jones son and a champion Fancy War Dancer, artist, silversmith, filmmaker, songwriter and guitarist of Blackfire. Klee has also been involved in modelling, film and television. Klee Benally has garnered many awards for his art at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona and has won ‘Best Show’ at the prestigious Navajo Show at the Museum of Northern Arizona in 1991. This was the first time in the museum’s 64 year history a student won the award. Klee is also a volunteer with the Save the Peaks Coalition and one of the founders of Indigenous Action Media, working with Native American youth to make their own films.
 

Clayson Benally

Clayson is Jones youngest son, a traditional storyteller, a Northern Traditional Dancer and award winning Hoop Dancer. He is also accomplished artist, silversmith, drummer and orator of Navajo legends. Clayson Benally has been lecturing to colleges since his early teens. Clayson has also been very active with movies, television, acting and modelling as well as playing the drums with his siblings as part of the contemporary rock band Blackfire. 
 
jeneda, klee and clayson are continuing their fathers heritage of carrying on and sharing their traditional navaho heritage and culture.

 

 
 
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