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The Doctors sent Herman Williams home to die (see story on page 12), but Creator God had other plans. Herman lived for many years after that and died an elderly man. The Lord can turn your hopeless situation around, too, if you give Him a chance. He may not always take your problems away, but He promises to give you the strength to go through them. Here’s how to ask Jesus into your life: • Tell God that you want to accept His way to know true peace and joy. • Tell Him that you know that without His help, you understand that...
SANTA FE, NM (ANS)-There's only one Native American writer that has ever won the Pulitzer Prize for literature: N. Scott Momaday. He was bestowed America's highest literary honor in 1969 for his book, House Made of Dawn. Born in 1934 in Lawton, Oklahoma to a writer mother, Natachee, and an artist father, Al, Momaday is Kiowa and Cherokee. Momaday received his Ph.D. from Stanford University and has received over 20 honorary degrees. Considered by many scholars to be the...
Two pretty decent films about Native Americans (and featuring Native American actors) have recently been released on DVD. "The Road to Paloma" stars Jason Momoa, who also directed the film. Momoa, who is of Hawaiian, Pawnee, German and Irish descent, is probably best known for playing the fierce Khal Drogo in HBO's series "Game of Thrones." He's also the star of SundanceTV's series "The Red Road," which is about Ramapouh Mountain Indians in New Jersey. In fact, according to...
Hopi tribe member, Diane Humetewa (hoo-MEE-tee-wah) was born and reared in Arizona and started school on the Hualapai Reservation. Her father worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and often took Diane with him as he traveled throughout Indian country. The trips exposed young Diane to Arizona's tribes at an early age. Although she attended public high school at a time when many Indian children were sent to boarding schools far from their reservations, her ties to her family...
Coyote was hungry. Always lean and scrawny now his ribs were showing. Coyote knew if he didn’t eat soon he would starve to death. He was so hungry he was getting weak and couldn’t run fast enough to catch rabbits or squirrels, he was desperate. As coyote walked near a lake he saw ducks swimming near the shore and he licked his lips with his tongue, he could almost taste the ducks. A plump, tender duck would be delicious but they were almost impossible to catch. Ducks were very smart and as soon as they saw him they would swi...
As summer turns to autumn, shorter days and crisp air stir up visions of hearty soups and crusty homemade bread. It won’t be long before the holidays give me a good excuse to bake a spicy dessert or savor a mug of hot chocolate. Our Creator not only gave us an abundant variety of foods but He included the taste buds to enjoy them. According to Wikipedia, “taste is the sensation produced when a substance in the mouth reacts chemically with taste receptor cells located on tas...
I could see he was sad, almost depressed. He wore it heavy on his eyes. Even his walk indicated that not all was well. I didn't know much about who Max was. Although I would see him almost daily, I had never really had a real conversation with him. However, I did know two important facts about Max: he was a believer in Christ, and he wasn't much of a talker. So it was a surprise to me when he walked up to me and tried to sell me a greeting card. "I didn't know you draw!" I sai...
DAMASCUS ROAD Yes, healing does take time Mr. Uttley. Especially with what you went through. I can relate very very well. But you did a lot better than me, as for coping with those memories. Myself, light was turned to darkness. I treated those I loved with great disrespect. Doing what was done to me and using alcohol as a bandage. Now I am in prison. It took our Creator to show me the way out of that lifestyle. I feel alive for the first time. Each day is appreciated, because I wasted living my life for the flesh. Amazing...
Thirty-five years—about half a person’s life. It’s hard to believe how time seems to slip by and all we have experienced in that amount of time. With this issue, Indian Life Ministries is celebrating its 35th Anniversary this fall. However, it is actually the 46th Anniversary of the birth of Indian Life newspaper. Our history began as a challenge and a dream. A South Dakota dairy farmer was challenged by a conference speaker in British Columbia to start a publication for the thousands of Native Americans living in and aroun...
The doctor was talking to my mother as they stood beside my bed. She was upset and the doctor was trying to comfort her. "I'm sorry, Mrs. Williams, but we've done all we can for your son," he said. "He has a heart problem that we cannot correct. I think you should take him home and let him rest. Make him as comfortable as you can so he can enjoy his last days with his family." Although I was five years old at the time, I couldn't understand what they were saying. I only know...
Bernice Sondrup, who has had contact with thousands of prostitutes over her years of ministry, says Crossfire volunteers would have talked to everyone of the 54. Scanning a sheet of their photographs, the 63-year-old grandmother and former missionary to the Shuswap people reminisces about the ones she knew personally: this one stayed at the Crossfire safe house; that one accepted the Lord; this one was consumed by drugs. Many of the women had been struggling to make changes...
When Karen Meekis first heard about a support group for survivors of sexual abuse, she jumped at the opportunity. “I felt like it was my last resort or I was going to go crazy. I wanted healing so bad I was prepared to fight for it. It was a miracle that this service was available for me.” From the age of three Karen and her two older brothers, grew up in a series of foster homes in Oregon, where Karen’s brothers were beaten viciously and Karen was sexually abused. “I had to watch my brothers getting beaten. They’d line them...
I remember how I helped my mother and loved working in the garden with her as a young child. It gave us time together. As we worked, she always told a story. I guess what I didn't realize then, was the way she was teaching me life's lessons, in parables. All plants need pruning. Sometimes I thought she was wrong when she cut off first blossoms and extra foliage. "Why do you take off the nicest parts?" I continually asked. Her answer was always the same: "Because I love them....
WINNIPEG, MB-Aboriginal Justice Inquiry Commissioner and a former Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench associate chief justice Al Hamilton died on July 27 at the age of 87. Born and raised in Winnipeg, Hamilton became a lawyer and then court justice helping the province create its family court division. Perhaps his greatest achievement and the one he will be best remembered for was being co-commissioner along with Murray Sinclair of the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry (AJI). Hamilton...
TURNER, OR-Aldersgate Conference Center and Campground was once again the beautiful setting for 2014's "Wiconi Living Waters Family Camp" and "The Richard Twiss Memorial and 10th Annual Living Waters Powwow." A special time and place where people from all across Turtle Island of varied heritages, ages, and experiences come together for four days of teachings, testimony, storytelling, food, music, powwow and FUN. What makes this family camp and powwow unique? Jonathon Maracle...
"I love you, my girl!" That was the farewell spoken by Tina Fontaine's mother, who shares the name of her 15-year-old daughter whose body was found in the Red River on Sunday, August 17. Fontaine hadn't seen her daughter in two years. She choked on her words, letting her tears flow freely as she addressed more than 1,000 people at the Oodena Circle at The Forks on Tuesday evening, August 19. She described having detectives come to her door to tell her Tina was dead. The only...
The body of Faron Hall was found in the same river from which he rescued a teen and rose to national celebrity as Winnipeg's "homeless hero." He was recovered from the Red River on August 17, police sources confirmed. Foul play is not suspected. Hall, who was in his late 40s, rose to national prominence in 2009 after he rescued two people from the river in separate incidents, five months apart. His honors included medals, an endowment fund, a room at an expensive hotel,...
GJOA HAVEN, NUNAVUT-One of Sir John Franklin's ships has been found off King William Island in what is today Nunavut. The two ships in the Franklin expedition disappeared during a search for the Northwest Passage that went terribly wrong in 1846. Inuit oral history says that they saw two ships near King William Island. One that was crushed by the ice and the other drifted south. "It's proving the Inuit oral history is very strong," Louie Kamookak, a historian in Gjoa Haven,...
WASHINGTON, DC-Women warriors have always existed in many tribes across Indian Country. Their fearless feats in combat and security for their tribes have long been told in historic and contemporary storytelling. One such woman warrior who has Crow, Hidatsa, Gros Ventre and Northern Cheyenne heritage, has been recognized by the White House as a Champion of Change. "Champions of Change," honors veterans and their families who are doing extraordinary work across the country as le...
