self-pride

He said he was motivated by “self-pride. ... I just don’t believe in doing anything less than my best, and I don’t like doing things the wrong way,” he said.

Navajo are not chest-thumpers; showy self-pride is not rewarded in their culture.

Its social and political implications were muted for what Variety called “the importance of human commitment, loyalty and self-pride.”

For Hall, the album has been another form of self-pride and a way to give others who aren’t as bold a reason to try and do so.

“We got a lot of self-pride, but not a lot of self-love,” Long added.