Interview · North Dakota · Eugene Hale · NDNAEU 6
Themes: Kinship & family, Storytelling & oral tradition, Spirituality & ceremony, Listening & observation, Children & young people, Intergenerational learning
Learn About questions
What does it mean to be in 4 th Stage Cancer?
Why does Eugene think it’s important to pray when someone asks?
What is prayer?
Learn From questions
Have I ever known someone struggling with cancer or another life-threatening disease? What was that like?
How do I feel about prayer and spirituality?
Who is God to me?
Do I see God as someone who can hear me?
What role does prayer have in my life?
Transcripts
God is Listening to Me with Eugene Hale NDNAEU 6
Watch this interview on YouTubeA lady came up to me and she said are you Jean no they did not do you I know you run meetings but can you help me out so what is it they said oh I remember what it was anyway I said yeah I could try but I can’t make any promises and I did she was a thot yeah but what I had to do a death you know Santa’s disease that was gonna take her life so she says oh that was cancer for stage cancer and she says well you know I’m so scared you know so was I when the chest me do that would my great-grandmother I said somebody asked you to do something to pray to try your best and do it you know so that’s what we’re going on my age so I did I prayed for a ceremony we should have all night in the morning we have breakfast regular breakfast didn’t a meal didn’t go in their own directions and that’s what kind of ceremony it was that last night or the other night and full that Vaidya but four months later five so I said she came back and she says I’m cancer-free so you know but I know I’m not saying I’m doing that there’s a bunch of us in your prayed for all together one prayer and so that was what happened you know so that was for me to understand God is listening to me and all of us there so I first I used to think this religion was uh just something that you know don’t grandma says make sure you know what you’re doing before you if we join them she said so uh you know these the stories know very much she told me and I lost her 1977 at ninety years old so beautifully I was remember all the things you tell me this is that don’t do this and then no I’m doing those today you know before you know I’m a recovering alcoholic I’ve been sober 30 the almost 31 years and on I quit smoking 28 years ago because of my wife and my wife is the one that I tried to be I have tried to help her out and she was bossy so I’m gonna quit drinking I get my kids back during foster homes suicide told her I said I’ll good with you so some a couple months later we got married and she said she wants a doctor and doctor toys and your longest claps and you were to stop smoking so we did that together and we’re still together we said I learned that I went towards her religion what she does I’m a Catholic I grew up Catholic yeah you know I believe in no any religion that doesn’t praise to God and it’s beautiful to know that is a is a really unison see if you pray from here free from here your things come about
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NDNAEU document credits: Eugene Hale — Spirit Lake (Dakota).
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