The Ya-Native Podcast

As I walk, as I walk The universe is walking with me In beauty it walks before me In beauty it walks behind me In beauty it walks below me In beauty it walks above me Beauty is on every side As I walk, I walk with Beauty. Do you have any suggestions? Support the show Thank you for your continuing support. This Podcast is another tool for the Ya-Native Network, This may be the last stage to share o...

May the sun bring you new energy by day, may the moon softly restore you by night, may the rain wash away your worries, may the breeze blow new strength into your being, may you walk gently through the world and know it's beauty all the days of your life. Do you have any suggestions? Support the show Thank you for your continuing support. This Podcast is another tool for the Ya-Native Network...

"Aho Mitakuye Oyasin….All my relations.  I honor you in this circle of life with me today. I am grateful for this opportunity to acknowledge you in this prayer…. To the Creator, for the ultimated gift of life, I thank you. To the mineral nation that has built and maintained my bones and all foundations of life experience, I thank you. To the plant nation that sustains my organs and body and g...

I am what I am. In having faith in the beauty within me, I develop trust. In softness I have strength. In silence I walk the higher realms. In peace I understand myself and the world. In conflict I stay calm, cool, collected In detachment I am free. In respecting all living things, I respect myself. In dedication I honour the courage within me. In eternity I have compassion for the nature of all t...

O Great Creator, I come before you in a humble manner and offer you this sacred pipe. With tears in my eyes and an ancient song from my heart I pray. To the four powers of Creation, To the Grandfather Sun, To the Grandmother Moon, To the Mother Earth, And to my ancestors. I pray for my relations in Nature, All those who walk, crawl, fly, and swim, Seen and unseen, To the good spirits that exist in...

Great Spirit of us all you have made my body strong. Please fill me with your wisdom, so I'll know right from wrong. Let me see myself as others also see me, so I'll know if my character agrees with how you say it should be. Let me be slow to anger yet so quickly to forgive. Grant me patience oh Great Spirit, so happier my life I can live. Teach me fairness so honor I can bring to you, w...

O Great Spirit of our Ancestors, I raise my pipe to you. To your messengers the four winds, and to Mother Earth who provides for your children. Give us the wisdom to teach our children to love, to respect, and to be kind to each other so that they may grow with peace in mind. Let us learn to share all the good things you provide for us on this Earth. Do you have any suggestions? Support the show T...

My grandfather is the fire  My grandmother is the wind The Earth is my mother  The Great Spirit is my father  The World stopped at my birth and laid itself at my feet and I shall swallow the Earth whole when I die and the Earth and I will be one  Hail The Great Spirit, my father without him no one could exist because there would be no will to live. Hail The Earth, my mother without which no food c...

Oh Great Spirit Father, who sits on high beyond the heavens, Creator of all life below, please hear my spiritual prayer. For I seek guidance in a world where few can lay claim to eternal peace. Grant me the vision to see beyond tomorrow's horizon, yet still accept my daily trials, that must and will be faced to survive. Give me the strength to rise each day and breathe the breath of life that...

Great Spirit Grandfather, I send these words to you, Hear my prayer. For these are my words, To Father Sun, To Grandmother Moon, To Mother Earth To all my relations, That have been Created as I. To the Four Winds, That bring us the Seasons of Life.   To the East Where Father Sun rises Bringing to us a new day A new meaning of life, A light in which to see The path before us.   To the South Where t...

Great Spirit gave me special wings, calling me to soar above, He adorned my heart and gave me earth ......so I can simply love. Great Spirit gave me friends and family, calling to my heart, He showered my life and showed me love, ......so I will never part. Great Spirit gave me compassion and patience, calling me to be, He covered my eyes with lovingkindness, ......so I can always see. Great Spiri...

Grandfather, Great Spirit, you have been always, and before you no one has been. There is no other one to pray to but you. You yourself, everything that you see, everything has been made by you. The star nations all over the universe you have finished. The four quarters of the earth you have finished. The day, and in that day, everything you have finished.  Grandfather, Great Spirit, lean close to...

Great Spirit,  Give us hearts to understand Never to take from creation's beauty more than we give,  Never to destroy want only for the furtherance of greed,  Never to deny to give our hands for the building of earth's beauty,  Never to take from her what we cannot use.  Give us hearts to understand That to destroy earth's music is to create confusion, That to wreck her appearance i...

"Great Spirit and all unseen, this day we pray and ask You for guidance, humbly we ask You to help us and fellow men to have recourse to peaceful ways of life, because of uncontrolled deceitfulness by human- kind. Help us all to love, not hate one another. We ask you to be seen in an image of Love and Peace. Let us be seen in beauty, the colors of the rainbow. We respect our Mother, the plane...

It is true that many of the old ways have been lost. But just as the rains restore the earth after a drought, so the power of the Great Mystery will restore the way and give it new life.  We ask that this happen not just for the Red People, but for all people, that they all might live. In ignorance and carelessness they have walked on Ina Maka, Our Mother. They did not understand that they are par...

Then I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being. And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of t...

Nihansan was traveling down a stream. As he walked along on the bank he saw something red in the water. They were red plums. He wanted them badly. Taking off his clothes, he dove in and felt over the bottom with his hands; but he could find nothing, and the current carried him down-stream and to the surface again. He thought. He took stones and tied them to his wrists and ankles so that they shoul...

Long ago when the world was young, an old Lakota spiritual leader was on a high mountain and had a vision. In his vision, Iktomi, the great trickster and teacher of wisdom, appeared in the form of a spider. Iktomi spoke to him in a sacred language that only the spiritual leaders of the Lakota could understand. As he spoke Iktomi, the spider, took the elder's willow hoop which had feathers, ho...

In the latter half of 1838, Cherokee People who had not voluntarily moved west earlier were forced to leave their homes in the East. The trail to the West was long and treacherous and many were dying along the way. The People's hearts were heavy with sadness and their tears mingled with the dust of the trail. The Elders knew that the survival of the children depended upon the strength of the...

Great Spirit of Light, come to me out of the East (red) with the power of the rising sun. Let there be light in my words, let there be light on my path that I walk. Let me remember always that you give the gift of a new day. And never let me be burdened with sorrow by not starting over again. Great Spirit of Love, come to me with the power of the North (white). Make me courageous when the cold win...

Once a hunter in the mountains heard a noise at night like a rushing wind outside the cabin, and on going out he found that an eagle had just alighted on the drying pole and was tearing at the body of a deer hanging there. Without thinking of the danger, he shot the eagle. In the morning he took the deer and started back to the settlement, where he told what he had done, and the chief sent out som...

"Yet hear me, friends! We have now to deal with another people, small and feeble when our forefathers first met with them, but now great and overbearing. Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them. These people have made many rules that the rich may break, but the poor may not! They have a religion in which the poor worship, but the r...

As an elder said, "We are an extension of nature, and she is an extension of us. We are one with everything. We cannot breathe without the trees and plants, and they cannot live without us." This exchange goes beyond oxygen and carbon dioxide; it is about an energy that connects us to the spirit of all things. This represents the sacred fire that we call.. life  Do you have any suggestio...

O Great Spirit of our Ancestors, I raise my pipe to you. To your messengers the four winds, and to Mother Earth who provides for your children. Give us the wisdom to teach our children to love, to respect, and to be kind to each other so that they may grow with peace in mind. Let us learn to share all the good things you provide for us on this Earth. Do you have any suggestions? Support the show T...

Welcome to Episode 8 of our podcast, where we dive deep into the remarkable journey of a Native American merchandise store that has quietly thrived for over four years without any advertising. Join us as we explore the intriguing story behind its success and its ambitious future plans. NativeAmericanMerchandise.com This store, which has already garnered what we believe to be the largest online Nat...