Storyteller Episodes

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Charles Paul (Maliseet) Part 2

Charlie’s battle with alcohol was intense and sobriety was allusive. He said, “I didn’t know how I got sober, I couldn’t figure it out; I guess it was never...

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Charles Paul (Maliseet) Part 1

Charlie’s childhood experiences of physical, mental and sexual abuse left him a hating, cold and violent person who for forty years succumbed to a life of alcohol, drugs, crime...

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Darla Shupik (Lakota) Part 2

The drinking and drugs so easily could have taken her life… and then there were the thoughts of suicide. But everything is different now. Darla tells about how God...

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Darla Shupik (Lakota) Part 1

Darla shares with painful honesty how broken and difficult life was. Hers is a story of simple survival. Abuse, drugs, poverty, anger, hatred… these marked her life. One day...

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Jimmy Hammonds (Lumbee)

War has a way of changing people. That was Jimmy’s story. He had medicated the memories for Vietnam but that didn’t lead to anything good. In fact things got...

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Ted Kejick (Ojibwe) Part 2

Living at home with his biological family was difficult. The longer Ted lived there the less hope he had. At age 15 he finally reached a point where he...

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