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The Ya-Native Podcast#56 - BoqsExplore the intriguing Northwest Coast legend of Boqs, a supernatural being who embodies both fear and reverence. Discover how Boqs interacts with the Haida people, teaching lessons about respect, bravery, and the balance between humanity and nature. This tale delves into the cultural significance of Boqs and the enduring impact of this mysterious figure on the Haida way of life.For more details, visit the full story.Support the showThank you for your continuing support. This Podcast is another tool for the Ya-Native Network, This may be the last stage to share...2024-06-2306 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#57 - The First FireIn this episode, we delve into the Great Plains legend of "The First Fire." Discover how the trickster Iktomi and other animals collaborated to bring fire to the people, facing numerous challenges along the way. This story highlights themes of ingenuity, cooperation, and the significance of fire in Native American culture.For more details, visit the full story.Support the showThank you for your continuing support. This Podcast is another tool for the Ya-Native Network, This may be the last stage to share our ideas openly.Podcasting and videos are certainly...2024-06-2304 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#54 - The Creation of the ShoshoneIn this episode, we explore the Shoshone creation legend. Discover how Coyote, a key figure in Shoshone mythology, encounters mysterious women, survives trials, and ultimately plays a pivotal role in the birth of the Shoshone people. Join us for an engaging journey through this ancient tale that highlights themes of cunning, survival, and the origins of a proud tribe.For more details, visit the full story.Support the showThank you for your continuing support. This Podcast is another tool for the Ya-Native Network, This may be the last stage to share our...2024-06-1707 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#55 - Origin of the ApacheJoin us as we delve into the captivating Apache creation legend. Discover how the world transformed from darkness to light, and how a courageous boy named Apache, with guidance from the Great Spirit, battled a fearsome dragon to protect his people. This story is a testament to bravery, wisdom, and the origins of the Apache tribe.For more details, visit the full story.Support the showThank you for your continuing support. This Podcast is another tool for the Ya-Native Network, This may be the last stage to share our ideas openly....2024-06-1709 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#53 - The EmergenceIn this episode, we explore the fascinating Southwestern legend of "The Emergence." Follow the journey of the first people as they ascend through four different worlds, guided by the Great Spirit. Learn how they overcame challenges and finally reached the surface, where they divided into groups and set out on unique paths. This tale highlights themes of perseverance, guidance, and the significance of the journey.For more details, visit the full story.4oSupport the...2024-06-1703 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#52 - Creation Story & The Importance Of DreamingIn this episode, we delve into the Abenaki legend about the importance of dreaming. Learn how the Great Spirit's dreams led to the creation of the world and its creatures, teaching us that dreams hold profound meaning and guide our understanding of life. This story emphasizes the significance of respecting and valuing our dreams.For more details, visit the full story.Support the showThank you for your continuing support. This Podcast is another tool for the Ya-Native Network, This may be the last stage to share our ideas openly.Podcasting and...2024-06-1702 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#51 - The Legend of the ChanunpaJoin us as we explore the sacred legend of the Chanunpa, the sacred pipe of the Lakota people. Learn how White Buffalo Woman brought the Chanunpa and taught its profound spiritual significance, emphasizing unity, respect, and the deep connection between the earth and the sky. Discover how this sacred pipe continues to be a cornerstone of Lakota spirituality and tradition.For more details, visit the full story.Support the showThank you for your continuing support. This Podcast is another tool for the Ya-Native Network, This may be the last stage to share...2024-06-1709 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#49 - Hiawatha - LegendThe story of Hiawatha on Ya-Native.com describes his role in the formation of the Iroquois Confederacy. Hiawatha, a leader among the Onondaga, suffered great personal loss and found guidance in the Peacemaker, Deganawida. Together, they traveled to various Iroquois nations, spreading the message of unity, peace, and democracy. Hiawatha's efforts led to the creation of the Great Law of Peace, which united the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca nations into a powerful alliance known as the Haudenosaunee, or the Iroquois Confederacy.For more details, you can visit the Ya-Native page on Hiawatha.Support...2024-06-1722 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#50 - Little People of the Cherokee - LegendThe Cherokee legend of the Little People describes small, spiritual beings living in rock caves. They are kind-hearted and enjoy music, but do not like to be disturbed. There are three types: the mischievous Laurel People, the vengeful Rock People, and the benevolent Dogwood People. Each group teaches lessons about respect, joy, and selfless help. The legend includes a story about a boy, Forever Boy, who joins the Little People to avoid growing up, symbolizing eternal youth and playfulness.For more details, visit the full story.Support the showThank you for your...2024-06-1707 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#48 - Creation of the First Indian - LegendHere's a short Legend that may interest you.The Chelan Indians' legend describes how the Creator made the world, animals, and birds. He promised to return and create humans, but delayed due to the animals' complaints. The Beaver was cleansed in water and later divided into twelve parts by Youngest Wolf Brother, forming different tribes. The story also explains how these tribes learned essential survival skills from the Creator's rock paintings at Lake Chelan.For more details, visit the full story here.Support the showThank you for your continuing support...2024-06-1712 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#47 - The Origin of Curing CeremoniesThis his how ceremonies started among us for the curing of sick people. Long, long ago, the earth was made. Then the One Who Made the Earth also planned for each person to have a piece of land that he could live on and call his own.Support the showThank you for your continuing support. This Podcast is another tool for the Ya-Native Network, This may be the last stage to share our ideas openly.Podcasting and videos are certainly outside my comfort zone, but it's a necessary means to help find a...2024-05-2002 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#46 - The teachings of the Seven Fires prophecyOriginally, the prophecies were given by eight prophets in seven different time periods. According to oral tradition, all Algonquian nations located in the Wabanaki heard the first prophet. The remaining seven prophets appeared before and were recorded by the Anishinaabeg. A prophecy of each of these seven periods were then called a “fire”. The teachings of the Seven fires prophecy also state that when the world has been befouled and the waters turned bitter by disrespect, human beings will have two options to chose from, materialism or spirituality. If they chose spirituality, they will survive, but if they chose mate...2024-05-2012 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#45 - The Story of LacrosseLacrosse was a gift to us from the Creator, to be played for his enjoyment and as a medicine game for healing the people. The Haudenosaunee people know that all creatures, no matter how big or small, are significant and have a contribution to make to the overall cycle of life. Long ago we were told the following story about a great ball game that took place between the four-legged animals and the winged birds…The captains for the four-legged animals were: The Bear – whose weight overpowers all opposition, The Deer – whose speed and agility to stop and go...2024-03-3004 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#41 - Yokut's Creation StoryA Great Flood had occurred upon Earth long, long ago. While Earth was still covered with water, there were no living creatures upon the land. Then out of the sky one day glided an enormous Eagle with a black Crow riding upon its back, searching for a place to light.Around and around Eagle flew until he discovered a projecting tree stump, or what appeared to be a stump, upon which he landed to rest. There was a home at last upon the flat surface, which was amply large enough for Eagle and Crow to roost upon...2024-03-3009 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#42 - Apache Creation StoryAnimals, elements, the solar system, and natural phenomena are revered by the Apaches. That which is beyond their understanding is always ascribed to the supernatural.In the beginning nothing existed--no earth, no sky, no sun, no moon, only darkness was everywhere.Suddenly from the darkness emerged a thin disc, one side yellow and the other side white, appearing suspended in midair. Within the disc sat a small bearded man, Creator, the One Who Lives Above. As if waking from a long nap, he rubbed his eyes and face with both hands.When he...2024-03-3009 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#43 - The Legend of the FluteOnce many generations ago, the people had drums, gourd rattles, and bull-rorers, but no flutes. At that long-ago time, a young man went out to hunt. Meat was scarce, and the people in his camp were hungry. He found the tracks of an elk and followed them for a long time. The elk, wise and swift, is the one who owns the love charm. If a man possesses Elk Medicine, the girl he likes can't help sleeping with him. This young man I'm talking about had no Elk Medicine.After many hours he finally sighted his game...2024-03-3009 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#44 - The Magic Horse of Ku-Suk-SeiaOnce upon a time, before the white men drove them away to Oklahoma, the Pawnee Indians lived in Nebraska, where their sworn enemies were the Sioux. There they lived all the time in villages, where they were skilled farmers and potters.In one of the Pawnee villages lived a poor woman with her grandson Ku-suk-seia, which means 'left-hand'. She was a helpful old soul, and the boy was pleasant and friendly. Yet the two of them were not well thought of in the village, for while there was no shame in being poor, there was no glory...2024-03-3014 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#40 - The Legend of Devil's TowerOut of the plains of Wyoming rises Devil's Tower. It is really a rock, visible for a hundred miles around, an immense cone of basalt which seems to touch the clouds. It sticks out of the flat prairie as if someone had pushed it up from underground.Of course, Devil's Tower is a white man's name. We have no devil in our beliefs and got along well all these many centuries without him. You people invented the devil and, as far as I am concerned, you can keep him. But everybody these days knows that towering...2024-03-2505 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#39 - Legend of the White Raven SpiritAt the beginning, when the Earth was fresh and new, the Great Spirit, sent down His Raven to enjoy this new creation. As Raven soared down from cloud to cloud he began to take the color of the snow crystals that touched his wings, each crystal being different, like the creation on the earth. The Great Spirit told him, you will be like the snow flakes you have gathered on your wings, a part of everything new, everything that I have created. You will be for all people. As White Raven soared in the clouds the cool air rushed...2024-03-2510 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#30 - Cheyenne Prayer for PeaceLet us know peace.For as long as the moon shall rise,For as long as the rivers shall flow,For as long as the sun shall shine,For as long as the grass shall grow,Let us know peace. Support the showThank you for your continuing support. This Podcast is another tool for the Ya-Native Network, This may be the last stage to share our ideas openly.Podcasting and videos are certainly outside my comfort zone, but it's a necessary means to help find a...2024-03-2400 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#31 - Prayer - As I Walk with BeautyAs I walk, as I walkThe universe is walking with meIn beauty it walks before meIn beauty it walks behind meIn beauty it walks below meIn beauty it walks above meBeauty is on every sideAs I walk, I walk with Beauty.Support the showThank you for your continuing support. This Podcast is another tool for the Ya-Native Network, This may be the last stage to share our ideas openly.Podcasting and videos...2024-03-2400 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#32 - Apache BlessingMay the sun bring you new energy by day,may the moon softly restore you by night,may the rain wash away your worries,may the breeze blow new strength into your being,may you walk gently through the world andknow it's beauty all the days of your life.Support the showThank you for your continuing support. This Podcast is another tool for the Ya-Native Network, This may be the last stage to share our ideas openly.Podcasting and videos are certainly outside my comfort zone, but...2024-03-2400 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#33 - Prayer - All My Relations"Aho Mitakuye Oyasin….All my relations. I honor you in this circle of life with me today. I am grateful for this opportunity to acknowledge you in this prayer….To the Creator, for the ultimated gift of life, I thank you.To the mineral nation that has built and maintained my bones and all foundations of life experience, I thank you.To the plant nation that sustains my organs and body and givesme healing herbs for sickness, I thank you.To the animal nation that feeds me from your own flesh and offer...2024-03-2401 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#34 - A Warrior's PrayerI am what I am.In having faith in the beauty within me, I develop trust.In softness I have strength.In silence I walk the higher realms.In peace I understand myself and the world.In conflict I stay calm, cool, collectedIn detachment I am free.In respecting all living things, I respect myself.In dedication I honour the courage within me.In eternity I have compassion for the nature of all things.In love I unconditionally accept the evolution of others.In freedom I have...2024-03-2401 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#35 - A Humble PrayerO Great Creator,I come before you in a humble mannerand offer you this sacred pipe.With tears in my eyes and an ancient song from my heartI pray.To the four powers of Creation,To the Grandfather Sun,To the Grandmother Moon,To the Mother Earth,And to my ancestors.I pray for my relations in Nature,All those who walk, crawl, fly, and swim,Seen and unseen,To the good spirits that exist in every part of Creation.I ask that...2024-03-2401 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#36 - A Prayer for GuidanceGreat Spirit of us all you have made my body strong. Please fill me with your wisdom, so I'll know right from wrong.Let me see myself as others also see me, so I'll know if my character agrees with how you say it should be.Let me be slow to anger yet so quickly to forgive. Grant me patience oh Great Spirit, so happier my life I can live.Teach me fairness so honor I can bring to you, with fairness you will judge my life when my days are finally through.When war...2024-03-2400 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#29 - Prayer - Children Are The FutureChildren are gifts of the Creator and of ourselves. By raising them to the best of our ability, we are reciprocating that gift and showing our thankfulness for life and for the blessings of the Great Spirit. This requires much time, love, forgiveness, and understanding on the part of the parents and grandparents-- but the rewards for the child (and for the community as a whole) are immeasurable.Also, it is not enough to raise your own children and grandchildren. You should bestow what you can to all children of the earth.It is strictly...2024-03-2401 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#28 - Prayer - Circle of LifeEverything the Power of the World does is done in a circle. The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours. The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle. The moon does the same, and both are round. Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing and always come back where they were. The life of a man is a...2024-03-2400 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#27 - Prayer - Dance to Heal the EarthWhenever you dance, wherever you dance, dance to heal the earth!Dancing is power. Dancing is prayer. Some say that all is dance. Maybe. Now there's a big dance coming, a dance to heal the earth. If you're reading this, you're probably part of it. You take part whenever you do whatever you do to help heal the earth. When you recycle. When you choose to show love, to fight for justice, to bring healing, to bring out what is good in others. When you avoid cruelty and dishonesty and waste. When you are outraged. When you speak...2024-03-2405 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#26 - Prayer - Earth Healing CeremonyGreat Creator, I come before you in a humble manner and offer you this sacred pipe. With tears in my eyes and an ancient song from my heart I pray. To the four powers of Creation, To the Grandfather Sun, To the Grandmother Moon, To the Mother Earth, And to my ancestors. I pray for my relations in Nature, All those who walk, crawl, fly, and swim, Seen and unseen, To the good spirits that exist in every part of Creation. I...2024-03-2401 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#25 - Earth PrayerGrandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice. You lived first, and you are older than all need, older than all prayer. All things belong to you -- the two-legged, the four-legged, the wings of the air, and all green things that live. You have set the powers of the four quarters of the earth to cross each other. You have made me cross the good road and road of difficulties, and where they cross, the place is holy. Day in, day out, forevermore, you are the life of things. Hey...2024-03-2401 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#37 - A Prayer for PeaceO Great Spirit of our Ancestors, I raise my pipe to you. To your messengers the four winds, and to Mother Earth who provides for your children. Give us the wisdom to teach our children to love, to respect, and to be kind to each other so that they may grow with peace in mind. Let us learn to share all the good things you provide for us on this Earth.Support the showThank you for your continuing support. This Podcast is another tool for the Ya-Native Network, This may be the last stage...2024-03-2400 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#38 - A PrayerMy grandfather is the fire My grandmother is the windThe Earth is my mother The Great Spirit is my father The World stopped at my birth and laid itself at my feet and I shall swallow the Earth whole when I die and the Earth and I will be one Hail The Great Spirit, my father without him no one could exist because there would be no will to live. Hail The Earth, my mother without which no food could be grown and so cause the will to live to starve. Hail the wind...2024-03-2401 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#24 - Prayer - For All PeopleIt is true that many of the old ways have been lost. But just as the rains restore the earth after a drought, so the power of the Great Mystery will restore the way and give it new life. We ask that this happen not just for the Red People, but for all people, that they all might live. In ignorance and carelessness they have walked on Ina Maka, Our Mother. They did not understand that they are part of all beings, the Four-legged, the Winged, Grandfather Rock, the Tree People, and our Star Brothers. 2024-03-2400 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#18 - Spiritual Prayer - ChoctawOh Great Spirit Father, who sits on high beyond the heavens, Creator of all life below, please hear my spiritual prayer.For I seek guidance in a world where few can lay claim to eternal peace.Grant me the vision to see beyond tomorrow's horizon, yet still accept my daily trials, that must and will be faced to survive.Give me the strength to rise each day and breathe the breath of life that you have provided for me.Touch my spiritual soul, so that I may use every moment to spread your sacred message...2024-03-2402 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#19 - Prayer - Great Spirit GrandfatherGreat Spirit Grandfather,I send these words to you,Hear my prayer.For these are my words,To Father Sun,To Grandmother Moon,To Mother EarthTo all my relations,That have been Created as I.To the Four Winds,That bring us theSeasons of Life. To the EastWhere Father Sun risesBringing to us a new dayA new meaning of life,A light in which to seeThe path before us. To the SouthWh...2024-03-2403 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#20 - Prayer - Great SpiritGreat Spirit gave me special wings, calling me to soar above, He adorned my heart and gave me earth......so I can simply love.Great Spirit gave me friends and family, calling to my heart, He showered my life and showed me love,......so I will never part.Great Spirit gave me compassion and patience, calling me to be, He covered my eyes with lovingkindness,......so I can always see.Great Spirit gave me special wings, calling me to soar above, Earth is such a special place that...2024-03-2401 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#21 - Prayer - Grandfather, Great SpiritGrandfather, Great Spirit, you have been always, and before you no one has been. There is no other one to pray to but you. You yourself, everything that you see, everything has been made by you. The star nations all over the universe you have finished. The four quarters of the earth you have finished. The day, and in that day, everything you have finished. Grandfather, Great Spirit, lean close to the earth that you may hear the voice I send. You towards where the sun goes down, behold me: Thunder Beings, behold me! You where the Wh...2024-03-2402 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#22 - Prayer - Give us hearts to understandGreat Spirit, Give us hearts to understandNever to take from creation's beauty more than we give, Never to destroy want only for the furtherance of greed, Never to deny to give our hands for the building of earth's beauty, Never to take from her what we cannot use. Give us hearts to understandThat to destroy earth's music is to create confusion,That to wreck her appearance is to blind us to beauty, That to callously pollute her fragrance is to make a house of stench,That a...2024-03-2401 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#23 - Prayer - For Land and Life"Great Spirit and all unseen, this day we pray and ask You for guidance, humbly we ask You to help us and fellow men to have recourse to peaceful ways of life, because of uncontrolled deceitfulness by human- kind. Help us all to love, not hate one another.We ask you to be seen in an image of Love and Peace. Let us be seen in beauty, the colors of the rainbow. We respect our Mother, the planet, with our loving care, for from Her breast we receive our nourishment.Let...2024-03-2401 min
Banner BearersEpisode 020c Scenario Competition WinnersAnother shorter episode this time, as Ben and Elliot reveal the winners of their scenario design competition.Ben also discusses the champion design team he is looking to set up on the Godtear Discord Homebrew channel.Winners:Overall: Plenty (Diced Ham) and Trade (Ben)Scenario Rules: Betrayal (Mark Lloyd)Theme: Light (Little Ghost)Map: Pincer (Reamus) Links:Scenario Competition Entries Document: Download hereGodtear Discord: https://discord.gg/ZhS3VxaV9CDrumroll SFX: SpanacMusic: purple-planet.com2024-01-2733 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#17 - Anywhere is the Center of the World - QuoteThen I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight...2023-11-1100 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#16 - The Legend of the Dream CatcherLong ago when the world was young, an old Lakota spiritual leader was on a high mountain and had a vision. In his vision, Iktomi, the great trickster and teacher of wisdom, appeared in the form of a spider. Iktomi spoke to him in a sacred language that only the spiritual leaders of the Lakota could understand. As he spoke Iktomi, the spider, took the elder's willow hoop which had feathers, horse hair, beads and offerings on it and began to spin a web.He spoke to the elder about the cycles of life...and how we...2023-11-1102 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#15 - The Trickster Kills the Children - LegendNihansan was traveling down a stream. As he walked along on the bank he saw something red in the water. They were red plums. He wanted them badly.Taking off his clothes, he dove in and felt over the bottom with his hands; but he could find nothing, and the current carried him down-stream and to the surface again. He thought. He took stones and tied them to his wrists and ankles so that they should weigh him down in the water.Then he dived again; he felt over the bottom, but could find nothing...2023-11-1101 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#14 - Legend of the Cherokee RoseIn the latter half of 1838, Cherokee People who had not voluntarily moved west earlier were forced to leave their homes in the East.The trail to the West was long and treacherous and many were dying along the way. The People's hearts were heavy with sadness and their tears mingled with the dust of the trail.The Elders knew that the survival of the children depended upon the strength of the women. One evening around the campfire, the Elders called upon the healer, ga lv la di e hi. They told Him of the People's...2023-10-2601 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#13 - Prayer to the Four DirectionsGreat Spirit of Light, come to me out of the East (red) with the power of the rising sun. Let there be light in my words, let there be light on my path that I walk. Let me remember always that you give the gift of a new day. And never let me be burdened with sorrow by not starting over again.Great Spirit of Love, come to me with the power of the North (white). Make me courageous when the cold wind falls upon me. Give me strength and endurance for everything that is harsh, everything...2023-10-2601 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#11 - Legend - The Eagle's RevengeOnce a hunter in the mountains heard a noise at night like a rushing wind outside the cabin, and on going out he found that an eagle had just alighted on the drying pole and was tearing at the body of a deer hanging there.Without thinking of the danger, he shot the eagle. In the morning he took the deer and started back to the settlement, where he told what he had done, and the chief sent out some men to bring in the eagle and arrange for an Eagle dance. They brought back the dead...2023-10-2501 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#12 - Yet hear me, Friends! - Quote"Yet hear me, friends! We have now to deal with another people, small and feeble when our forefathers first met with them, but now great and overbearing. Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them. These people have made many rules that the rich may break, but the poor may not! They have a religion in which the poor worship, but the rich will not! They even take tithes of the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule. They claim this mother of...2023-10-2500 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#9 - LifeAs an elder said, "We are an extension of nature, and she is an extension of us. We are one with everything. We cannot breathe without the trees and plants, and they cannot live without us." This exchange goes beyond oxygen and carbon dioxide; it is about an energy that connects us to the spirit of all things. This represents the sacred fire that we call.. life Support the showThank you for your continuing support. This Podcast is another tool for the Ya-Native Network, This may be the last stage to s...2023-10-2500 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#10 - Prayer for PeaceO Great Spirit of our Ancestors, I raise my pipe to you. To your messengers the four winds, and to Mother Earth who provides for your children. Give us the wisdom to teach our children to love, to respect, and to be kind to each other so that they may grow with peace in mind. Let us learn to share all the good things you provide for us on this Earth.Support the showThank you for your continuing support. This Podcast is another tool for the Ya-Native Network, This may be the last stage...2023-10-2500 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#8 - Native American MerchandiseWelcome to Episode 8 of our podcast, where we dive deep into the remarkable journey of a Native American merchandise store that has quietly thrived for over four years without any advertising. Join us as we explore the intriguing story behind its success and its ambitious future plans.NativeAmericanMerchandise.comThis store, which has already garnered what we believe to be the largest online Native American audience, is a testament to the power of authentic products and community support. We're excited to share our insights and experiences, as we haven't even scratched the surface when it...2023-10-1903 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#7 - Exposing Fake Online Native American StoresWelcome to the "Ya-Native" Podcast that dives deep into the disheartening world of fake online stores masquerading as proudly Native American-owned businesses. In this digital landscape, hundreds of such impostors compete with genuine enterprises, all while preying on unsuspecting customers seeking authentic Native American products.Through this podcast, we embark on a journey of discovery and investigation, shining a light on the deceptive practices employed by these pseudo-Native American businesses. We reveal how a short investigation can unveil the truth about their origins and motives.We firmly believe in an individual's right to earn a...2023-10-1805 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#6 - The Ya-Native Podcast: Unveiling Our Multifaceted MissionWelcome to "The Ya-Native Podcast," where we embark on a multifaceted journey that leverages the power of podcasting to advance our longstanding objectives. With extensive experience in the realm of social media, we recognize the unique potential that podcasting offers to engage, educate, and inspire.Our podcast operates on numerous levels, each designed to inform, entertain, and connect with our audience. In every episode, we delve into a range of captivating topics, offering diverse perspectives and insightful conversations that reflect the heart and soul of Native American culture and contemporary issues.As we continue to...2023-10-1804 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#5 - Leonard Peltier's Support GroupWelcome to "The Ya-Native Podcast," that unravels the compelling and challenging journey of one of the most significant Native American causes that the world should know about. We delve deep into the story of the largest online support group for Leonard Peltier, who has been a symbol of Indigenous rights and justice for decades.This podcast is an unfiltered look at the relentless dedication, hurdles, and sacrifices made by those who stood up for what they believed in. Hear about the hundreds of hours spent, personal funds invested, and the countless attempts to create awareness, all for...2023-10-1808 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#4 - The Network Unveiled: 'FB' StatsWelcome to "The Network Unveiled," your window into the fascinating world of digital growth and statistics, with a particular focus on our main 'FB' page. In each episode, we peel back the layers to reveal the insights, strategies, and trends that have propelled our online community to new heights.As we navigate the ever-evolving digital landscape, your support and listenership are invaluable. Simply by tuning in, you're making a significant contribution to our network's success. We're deeply grateful for your involvement and enthusiasm.Join us as we dissect the numbers, trends, and stories that underpin...2023-10-1708 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#3 - Indian Residential Schools: Uncovering the Hidden HistoryWelcome to the "Indian Residential Schools" podcast, a platform dedicated to shedding light on one of the darkest and most haunting secrets in the history of Canada and the United States. Our mission is to confront the painful legacy of Indian Residential Schools, exploring their deep impact on Indigenous communities and the broader societies in both nations.Join us as we delve into the stories that have long been buried, stories of cultural oppression, forced assimilation, and unimaginable hardships endured by generations of Indigenous children who were forcibly separated from their families and communities. Through interviews, expert...2023-10-0804 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#2 - Legends of Native America: Preserving Our HeritageWelcome to "Legends of Native America," where the rich tapestry of indigenous cultures comes alive through the power of storytelling and preservation. Our mission is simple yet profound: to create a sanctuary for the legends, myths, and stories that have been passed down through generations in Native American communities.In the heart of this digital space, we strive to capture these invaluable narratives before they slip away into the mists of time. Many elders, the keepers of these sacred stories, are aging, and their wisdom is at risk of being lost forever. It is our solemn duty...2023-09-2902 minThe Ya-Native Podcast#1 - Thank you to all the supporters of the Ya-Native Network.Welcome to the inaugural episode of The Ya-Native Network Podcast. Our journey began in 2009, and throughout the years, we've been fortunate to receive support from countless individuals like you.Every donation made has been a crucial investment in the growth and progress of our network. Your generosity has played a pivotal role in making this network what it is today, and for that, I am immensely thankful.As I embark on this exciting podcasting venture, I couldn't think of a better place to begin than right here with all of you. So, let's dive into...2023-09-2701 min
Bedtime Stories with R.A. Spratt'Romulus and Reamus' as told by Nanny Piggins - LIVE from the Riverside TheatreNanny Piggins reveals the true history of Romulus and Reamus and the creation of the city of Rome.This episode was recorded live on stage at the Riverside Theatre in Parramatta, Sydney.Support the show at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/storiesraspratt If you enjoyed the podcast please like, review and/or subscribe!Support the showFor merchandise use this link... https://www.cafepress.com.au/shop/rasprattTo buy one of my books use this link... https://amzn.to/3sE3Ki2 To b...2023-09-0519 min