ByGlynn Manyirons
Pauline Johnson is one of my kinfolk, who was a well known actress and writer of poems in the 1800s and early 1900s. She was born on the Six Nations Iroquois Territory, close to Brantford, Ontario, Canada, in 1862. Her father was the Head Chief of the Six Nations, and her mother was Emily S….
ByGlynn Manyirons
The ancients all had greater powers and cunning than either animals or people. Beside the ancients, real people lived on Mother Earth at that time. The Old One made the people out of the last balls of mud He took from Mother Earth. Those people were so ignorant that they were the most helpless of…
ByGlynn Manyirons
A man was wandering around about an island, where he was abandoned and marooned by his evil brothers. looking for a place to stay for the night, He came across a door in the middle of the forest. He knocked on the door, the door opened and upon entering, He found himself among a big…
ByGlynn Manyirons
When the winter winds blew and the heavy snow fell, the Elders gathered the young ones around the fires in the long houses, telling them stories that were passed down from generation to generation from the distant past. Every story had a teaching in it, and at the end the young ones were asked to…
ByGlynn Manyirons
The favor of the Creator was placed on the Caddo Nation, on abundant forests, flowers, the birds big or small, and big or small animals on these quiet hills, that was our home land. But then a fierce Dragon devastated the land. Bringing disease, pestilence and hunger on our people. The Indian Nations pleaded with…
ByGlynn Manyirons
On my travels I spent some time in Mexico, part of which was, a long time ago, the territory of the Aztec Indians. I was fortunate enough to learn the Aztec Creation Story from an Aztec Elder. The ancient Aztecs believed that the Gods tried to create the Mother Earth four times. Each time something…
ByGlynn Manyirons
Cree Nation Story When all was finished, that He planned, the Creator was tired and decided to take a rest. All the animals were happy, but after a while they realised that there was something missing. As all was new to them they did not know what it was, until Brother Bear called a meeting…
ByGlynn Manyirons
At the time Kloshkurbe, the Maker of all (also known as the Creator), lived on Mother Earth, there were no people living here yet. But as time passed, a young Warrior appeared. He was made of the foam of the waters of the rivers and lakes, and after a while he became Kloshkurbe’s chief helper….
ByGlynn Manyirons
Iroquois/ Cayuga/ Seneca Story After the Creator finished his work on Mother Earth, creating all the Standing People (Trees and Grass), the Swimming People (Fish), the Crawling People (Snakes), the Flying People (Birds), the Four Legged People (all Animals) and the Two Legged People (all Human beings), He was sitting on his rainbow and admiring…
ByGlynn Manyirons
At the start of life on Mother Earth, the Navajo People walked through four worlds, before they found a reed to climb up on, from the bottom of the Lake of Changing Waters, to start their life here. The First Woman and the First Man led the people and with them came their children, the…
ByGlynn Manyirons
Ojibway Nation Story Many years ago, before the settlers and the black robes came to our land, people had plenty of meat, fish, roots and berries to eat. If the animals and other things just about ran out, people moved to another place. But after those other people arrived our people were made to settle…
ByGlynn Manyirons
Haida Nation Story One day a father of a girl returned from fishing on the ocean, he gave the fish to his wife, who cut up and cleaned the fish. The girl took the fat and the liver of the halibut and gave it to the Raven. Every time the father came back from fishing…