Glynn Manyirons

Glynn Manyirons

 

       

In my younger days I used to travel the Pow Wow circuit all around Turtle Island (North America), as a professional Native dancer.

One night when I was dancing down South an old Warrior came up to me and said: ” I been watching you son, you dance good, look good, but the inner fire is not there, come to the meeting tonight and you will understand”

I was insulted, but also curious to see what he was talking about. I was enjoying my life, Had many friends, Proud of what I was doing, So there I was at the meeting looking for him, he was not there. But there were Elders and Story Tellers around the Camp fire. Talking about the Old Days. Our spiritual ways. That night I learned that beads, Eagle feathers and Buckskins or how you look do not make you an Indian, what is inside you does.

The stories I tell here I learned from the Elders and Story tellers and I am passing them on with their blessings. These stories can be anything from 4,000 to 5,000 years old.

Haida Nation Creation Story

A long, long time ago, the Creator, whose name is known in the language of the Haidas as Ne-kilst–lass, after creating and getting ready Mother Earth for Human beings, decided to go for a walk along the shore of Nai-con, or as it also called Long Nose in the language the other people. On the…

Cherokee Creation Legend

The Cherokee’s homeland was in the Appalachian Mountains. Their Elders tell this Legend to explain why there are so many Mountain Ridges and Valleys in the land of the Cherokee. They were forced to divide into four bands. The four bands spoke the Iroquoian Language, but over the ages it changed so much that they…

The Seven Dancers

Iroquois/ Mohawk Story There are several versions of this story, depending on what Nation’s Story Tellers it is told by. I know at least eight, of which five come from the Nations of the Iroquois Federation. I am positive that there are more versions around that I have not heard. I picked this version as…

How the Bat was Created

Mohawk / Ojibway Story A long, long time ago, as usual the sun started to rise in the east, in the morning. But this time he came way too close to mother Earth and got tangled in the top branches of a very tall tree. The more he tried to escape, the more he got…

Umapine – Chief of the Cayuse Nation

Wa-Kon-Kon-Wa-La-Son-Me ( Umapine ) Chief of the Cayuse Nation In 1909, not far from the Crow reservation, in Montana, the Chiefs of many Indian Nations held what was called the Last Great Council of Chiefs. One of the attendees was: Wa-Kon-Kon-Wa-La-Son-Me, who was also called in English: Umapine, Chief of the Cayuse Nation, what is…

Mohawk Prayer

“AHO” Creator….Great Spirit I ask humbly to allow me to walk, The Good Red Road, And if I fall off of it once in a while, If it pleases you, Let me crawl back on and start again, like a baby, One step at a time. Then when I come to the end of the…

Sitting Bull (1831 – 1890)

Sitting Bull, Tatan’ka Lyota’ke (Oglala Sioux) Born in 1831, passed away in 1890 Sitting Bull was and is the most famous Indian leader that ever lived. He fought to keep his people’s way of life and freedom. William F. Cody, known as Buffalo Bill, described him as ” the world’s most famous Indian”. No one…