Navajo Historian, Wally Brown, teaches about the unique relationship between uncle and nephew. The uncle is specifically, your mother's brothers. Some may think the fathers brothers are also uncles. Traditionally that is not the case and the fathers brothers play a different role. In an unfair world the uncle is the one who prepares the nephew. It is his role to give the serious lessons and not hold anything back. He is the one who prepares the nephew for what the world will throw at him. The un