Storyteller Episodes

Programs from the weekly radio broadcast

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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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