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.
ByGlynn Manyirons
Mohawk Story There was a man, his name was: Dijisdaah. who was not kind to animals. One day when he was out hunting, he found a Rattle Snake and he decided to torture it. He held its head to the ground and pinned it with his spear. When the snake could not move, the man…
ByGlynn Manyirons
Creator….Great Spirit “AHO” Creator, I woke up to a bright and beautiful day. Grandfather Sun is shining bright. Creator it is a good day to die today. I go to the battle with a good and pure heart. Creator if it pleases you, That I cross the river today, I go proudly and willingly. Knowing…
ByGlynn Manyirons
Traditional Mohawk Story As the Creator finished putting everything in place on Mother Earth, He realized that the beings on it needed sleep. So He made dark and light. One half of Mother Earth was dark and the other half light. So the people on the dark side said:”This is not fair, we have to…
ByGlynn Manyirons
Mohawk Story In my Mohawk (North American Indian) tradition, even today there is a Medicine Society, the leader of which is Crooked Nose. When we do healing there is always more than one of us there. We all wear masks, so no one knows who is wearing the Crooked Nose mask. So here is the…
ByGlynn Manyirons
Mohawk Story Tharonhiawakon (He who holds up the sky) uprooted the tree of the Standing Light. Then he placed his pregnant wife, Aientsik,( Carrying life) at the edge of the hole and asked her to look down to see what was below. But she slipped and fell into the space below. Below her all the…
ByGlynn Manyirons
Just because you look like an Indian, it does not mean that you are an Indian. 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…
ByGlynn Manyirons
O Great Spirit Whose voice I hear in the winds and whose breath gives life to all on Mother Earth Hear me I am small and weak I need your strength and wisdom Let me walk in beauty and make my eyes ever behold the sunset Make my hands respect the things that you have…
