Thank you Creator and Mother Earth for our new day

Medicine Song - Geronimo --- #YaNative

Medicine Song - Geronimo --- #YaNative: Medicine Song - Geronimo

The Origin of Curing Ceremonies -- #YaNativeLegends

The Origin of Curing Ceremonies -- #YaNativeLegends: This is 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.

The Star Husband -- #YaNativeLegends

The Star Husband -- #YaNativeLegends: There was a camp-circle. A party of women went out after some wood for the fire. One
of them saw a porcupine near a cottonwood tree and informed her companions of the
fact. The porcupine ran around the tree , finally climbing it, where upon the woman tried
to hit the animal, but he dodged from one side of the trunk of the tree to the other, for
protection. At length one of the women started to climb the tree to catch the porcupine,
but it ever stopped just beyond her reach. She even tried to reach it with a stick, but with
each effort it went a little higher

Southwest Legends of Native America -- #YaNativeLegends

Southwest Legends of Native America -- #YaNativeLegends: Here are some Southwest Legends I have located on youtube.

The Magic Horse of Ku-Suk-Seia -- #YaNativeLegends

The Magic Horse of Ku-Suk-Seia -- #YaNativeLegends: Once 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

Charles Alexander Eastman --- #YaNative

Charles Alexander Eastman --- #YaNative: We were taught generosity to the poor and reverence for the Great Mystery. Religion was the basis of all Indian training.

The First Moccasins -- #YaNativeLegends

The First Moccasins -- #YaNativeLegends: There was once a great Chief of the Plains who had very tender feet. Other mighty chiefs laughed at him; little chiefs only smiled as he hobbled past; and though they did not dare to smile, the people of the tribe also enjoyed the big chief's discomfort.

The Two Inquisitive Men -- #YaNativeLegends

The Two Inquisitive Men -- #YaNativeLegends: There were two men in the old days by the names of Acha-yuongch and Ach-goyan. They lived together, but spoke and looked at each other only when they were compelled to do so.

How Thunder and Earthquake Made Ocean --- #YaNative

How Thunder and Earthquake Made Ocean --- #YaNative: Thunder lived at Sumig.
One day he said, “How shall the people live there is just prairie there?
Let us place the ocean there.” He said to Earthquake, “I want to have
water there, there so that the people may live. Otherwise they will have
nothing to live on.” He said to Earthquake, “What do you think?”

Great Plains Culture --- #YaNative

Great Plains Culture --- #YaNative: Even those people who know little about Native Americans,
their numerous tribes, and many different ways of
life, are familiar with the Plains Indians. Their horsemanship,
buffalo hunting, tipis, and warbonnets are the most
commonly represented symbols from Indian history.

A Tachi Yokut Myth --- #YaNative

A Tachi Yokut Myth --- #YaNative: A Tachi had a fine wife who died and was buried. Her husband went to her grave and dug a hole near it. There he stayed watching, not eating, using only tobacco. After two nights he saw that she came up, brushed the earth off herself, and started to go to the island of the dead. The man tried to seize her but could not hold her. She went southeast and he followed her. Whenever he tried to hold her she escaped. He kept trying to seize her, however, and delayed her. At daybreak she stopped.

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Legend of the White Raven Spirit

Legend of the White Raven Spirit: At 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 under his wings, he was singing and shouting songs of praise to his Creator.

Dance of the Dead

Dance of the Dead: Once a year the People of Kamak left their village and went up Palomar Mountain to gather acorns. Everyone went, young and old, and even the ill were carried along on litters so that the village could stay together at this important time.

Origin of the Thunderbird --- #YaNative

Origin of the Thunderbird --- #YaNative: This is a legend of long, long ago times. Two Indians desired to find the origin of thunder. They travelled north and came to a high mountain. These mountains performed magically. They drew apart, back and forth, then closed together very quickly.

Solitude Walker

Solitude Walker: There was only water, and over it a fog. On the water was foam. The foam moved round and round continually, and from it came a voice. After a time there issued from the foam a person in human form. He had wing feathers of the eagle on his head. This was Taiko-mol. He floated on the water and sang. He stood on the foam, which still revolved. There was no light.

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