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Jim Rickteroff (Athabascan) Part 2

After drinking for a while, it begins to take it’s toll on a man’s body. Jim knows… he drank for forty years. He was a wreck. But something happened...

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Jim Rickteroff (Athabascan) Part 1

Jim was on a quest for revenge on the one who abused him in his youth. “You can break up a man and not kill him. And so I...

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Mario Swampy (Cree) Part 4

“Drugs are a horrible thing. I mean, I’ve hurt my family members, I’ve hurt friends… because I was so self-centered; I was very selfish, and that’s what sin basically...

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Mario Swampy (Cree) Part 3

The next day I was alive. I woke up, and it was just on my conscience heavy; “You prayed to God and you asked God, ‘get me through the...

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Mario Swampy (Cree) Part 2

Mario thought, “What am I doing with my life? I’ve got no future. I could not see a future for myself; all I could see was darkness, and the...

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Mario Swampy (Cree) Part 1

When Mario was growing up, he got into alcohol, drugs and trouble like many he knew on the reserve did. With the deaths of two of brothers, Mario began...

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Chug Garreau (Lakota) Part 4

I’ve encountered other Native Americans who look at Jesus Christ as the Whiteman’s Gospel – as something that is harmful and hurtful to them. And so they try to...

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Chug Garreau (Lakota) Part 3

The road to recovery can be long. Everywhere he turned there was alcohol. If you’ve ever been there, you know what Chug is talking about. So how did he...

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Chug Garreau (Lakota) Part 2

After spending the night in jail for a DWI, and with his wife in the hospital after giving birth to their son, the shame and pain of life had...

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Chug Garreau (Lakota) Part 1

“I remember sitting in the evening at the Silver Spur in Pierre. And I remember looking up and watching the crowd and hearing the music. I could see the...

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