Storyteller

The Story of Carla Parnacher (Creek/Cherokee)

Family is important. Growing up, Carla had many cousins, and getting together was a part of life. Generations are important. She recalls the faith of her Grandpa and the influence that he had on her… and how what was important to him would become important to her.

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Jeanne Dennis (Omaha/Hopi) Part 1

Jeanne grew up in an alcoholic home. It wasn’t a safe place and she suffered terribly because of it. Things like this leave scars. Later, as a young mother of three, she left an abusive marriage. She managed to complete her education and support her family… but she eventually had her own trouble with the…

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Florence Flett (Cree) Part 2

Florence’s husband said to her, “Flo, you know what happened is that I got saved, I got saved.” And you know, and of course he started preaching to me, “You know, you need the Lord too, you need to be, you need to know the Lord, you need to be forgiven.” And I’m like,Yeah right….

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Florence Flett (Cree) Part 1

Florence was raised up north in Manitoba in the small community of Red Sucker Lake. She bounced around between relatives until she was 17 when she met Conrad. He asked her to marry him. What happened next was interesting.

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Thank God I’m Alive – The Story of Carla McKay (Ojibwe)

“I was going through a lot of hurt and loneliness; I didn’t feel like I added up. I had one very close friend, and I was thinking about suicide; we talked about it, like I told her, “Maybe it’s the only way out.” And then I heard somewhere later, that if you do that, you…

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Lord, help me change this life. The Story of Ted Murdock (Cree)

When alcohol is your master, it effects every part of your life. For some, it comes on slow. But eventually you begin to realize the grip is not you on the bottle, but the bottle on you. Ted speaks candidly of his journey to find freedom, and the demons he faced along the way… including…

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Gordon Thayer (Ojibwe) Part 3

Gordon’s problems with the spirits weren’t over just yet. “When I went home, the stuff was still in my home; the odors, the foul voices, literally torment…”

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Gordon Thayer (Ojibwe) Part 2

Gordon tells the story of a strange incident while in the hospital recovering from a heart attack: “I was laying in bed and I heard these voices call out to me, ‘Gordon, Gordon, Gordon’. I thought somebody was by the window; I got up. I had a heart monitor on – I wasn’t connected to…

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Gordon Thayer (Ojibwe) Part 1

“Early on, in Milwaukee, I got into trouble as a young man with a lot of other friends. We weren’t a gang as such, but we had a lot of trouble that we got into, to the point where it took me before the judge when I was 16 years old, 17 years old. And…

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Ernie McDougal (Cree) Part 3

When he arrived home in St Theresa, Ernie was so troubled by the thought of dying that he couldn’t rest. He decided to go to Garden Hill and talk with someone who he thought could help him with his problem. It was a man he heard talking about Jesus on the radio.

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