Don Shugak (Sugpiaq) Part 2
Don tells about the 1964 tidal wave that hit his village of Old Harbor, and about the people that gave their lives to save his village. He a...
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The Storyteller is a 15-minute weekly radio program and internet broadcast featuring true stories from First Nations people across North America who are following Jesus Christ without reserv...
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20 of 124 episodesDon Shugak (Sugpiaq) Part 1
Don grew up in Old Harbor, Alaska on Kodiak Island. He knew what it was like to live off the ocean, to hunt seal and bear. He also knew the...
Jeanne Dennis (Omaha/Hopi) Part 4
Jeanne's teenage son was murdered. She lived with great anger and hurt... and spent years trying to keep the killer behind bars. Despite her...
Jeanne Dennis (Omaha/Hopi) Part 3
When Harlan walked out, Jeanne was going to reach for the bottle again to ease her pain. But instead, she reached out to Jesus. She realized...
Jeanne Dennis (Omaha/Hopi) Part 2
Jeannie and her husband, Harlan, were being driven apart by alcohol, and she finally divorced him. When nobody else wanted him, he came back...
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...
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 preac...
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 wh...
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, li...
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 vo...
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 troub...
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...
Ernie McDougal (Cree) Part 2
On a flight from Winnipeg to Garden Hill, Manitoba, Ernie was paralyzed by fear because he couldn't get this question out of his mind. "If y...
Ernie McDougal (Cree) Part 1
Because of a sickness when he was a little boy, Ernie was unable to do things that other kids could do. Early on he learned that education w...
Carroll Hill (Mohawk)
Abuse almost pushed Carroll over the edge. "I remember this one night, I said, This is enough of this, and so I loaded up the rifle when we...
Tammy Jackson (Cherokee) Part 2
Tammy prayed to receive Christ as her Savior when she was a teen, but without spiritual guidance, there was no lasting change. She got into...
Tammy Jackson (Cherokee) Part 1
Her childhood was shaped by growing up with an alcoholic father. Listen as Tammy shares openly about her journey from hatred to forgiveness....
Gilbert Bekkatla (Dene) Part 3
The loss of their son in a car accident was a heavy blow to Gilbert's family. Questions go unanswered and the pain is hard to bear. Is it po...
Gilbert Bekkatla (Dene) Part 2
The love and concern of Christian friends for his family in a time of crisis made an impact on Gilbert. So did his wife's rekindled interest...
Gilbert Bekkatla (Dene) Part 1
Gilbert grew up in an alcoholic home, and despite his intention not to be like his parents that way, drinking took hold of him. A bout of ap...