Here on the Life of a Dog on the Rez Podcast, we share our beautiful culture, language, stories and traditions of the Pueblo people and things that shape our world. Even before our emergence of the people from the third world of Shipap, the people used the power of music and song to pass on ancient knowledge, understandings, history and teachings t…

On today’s episode, we venture back to the lands of the Jicarilla Apache people up in northern New Mexico and speak with a young Indigenous role model and aspiring nurse. We talk about her upbringing on the Jicarilla Apache Reservation, her love for family, powwows, all things Apache and her journey to becoming the 55th Miss Indian New Mexico. If y…

On today’s episode, I would like to share a story with you about our beloved, trickster, and fellow brother, Coyote. As we all know, Coyote is a tricky, sly, mischievous, envious, and vain creature that gets himself into situations to fulfill his simple desire of being the envy of the animal world. Often driven by vanity, greed, jealousy and hunger…

On March 17th 2024, the Life of a Dog on the Rez turned 2! Over the past 2 years, I released episodes of funny, cringeworthy, and inspirational stories from our beloved Pueblo homelands and Turtle Island, with truly amazing, funny, and inspirational individuals that I have had the absolute pleasure having a conversation with. Many share their, upbr…

“Welcome to the "Life of a Dog on the Rez”, Podcast a place where we share funny, cringe-worthy, and inspirational stories from our beloved Pueblo homelands. Stories that uplift the soul, provide us hope, and heal our spirits, I’m your host Michael and I am so happy that you joined me today. I'm back, your friendly neighborhood Rez Dog. First off, …

On today’s episode, I speak with another inspirational Indigenous runner, mother, coach and veteran of the armed services. We journey through her life as a young child growing up on the rez, going into the military, experiencing things that changed the world, all the while holding on to her core values taught by her parents, grandparents and commun…

Today we journey outside the Pueblo realm and head to Oklahoma by way of Tualatin, Oregon. I had the pleasure of having a wonderful conversation with another funny and inspirational Indigenous runner, mother, adventurer, and all-around amazing person; Birdie. Come journey with me through her upbringing in the Pacific Northwest, growing up, as she p…

Thank you for joining me today and listening to part 2 of my wonderful conversation, with my sister, Shayai. In part one, we journeyed with Shayai through the Miss Indian World competition, becoming the eventual titleholder in 1997. If you haven’t listened to episode 26 “My sister” MIW, my interview with Shayai Lucero, please take a listen to get c…

On today's episode, I bring you part one of my conversation with my good friend and sister, the former Miss Indian World 1997, Shayai Lucero. It must be pageant month, the current Miss Indian New Mexico graced the Rez Dog studios with her story on Episode 25. For my next interview, I have lined up, the Miss United States contestant Miss Rhode Islan…

On today’s episode, I am honored and blessed to bring you my wonderful conversation with the 2022-23 Miss Indian New Mexico, Alysia Coriz. This interview was a long time coming, ever since I became a supporter of her cause and the advocacy work she does, bringing awareness and understanding of our beautiful pueblo way of life. Alysia shares her sto…

On today’s episode, I mix up my line up and bring you my conversation with a fellow Pueblo singer, shoemaker, language keeper, Dungeness crab loving brother, and all round nice guy from the Pueblo of Laguna in New Mexico. Phillip and I have know one another for quite sometime now, we share many of the same mutual family and friends. Phillip is a fa…

On today’s episode, I am super excited to bring you my first official interview request. One day, as I was minding my own business, I got a DM from a fan who gave the show a score of 10 war cries. Side note; the war cry scale is based on a 1 to 10 rating. 1 representing, a noble but mousy war cry and 10 representing, a war cry heard after a Norther…

On today’s episode, I bring you my conversation with a self-confessed superfan of the show. Amore started listening to the show at the beginning of the year, after hearing it mentioned on KUNM 89.9 FM, The Singing Wire radio program. She has helped me with some editing, scripting and even did a guest reading of the Rezdog haikus on episode 18, “Gra…

I am excited to bring you my conversation with Daphne Coriz from Kewa. (Santo Domingo Pueblo) Join Daphne on her journey of growing up on the reservation, her traditional upbringing, life's struggles, redemption and eventual creation of an amazing Indigenous owned business, but I will let her fill you in on all the details, so sit back, relax, get …

On today’s episode, I am excited to bring you my interview with another amazing, inspirational and funny Indigenous Pueblo woman. We talk about her years growing up on the reservation, her educational journey, career path, CrossFit and finally her amazing SFX content creation, but I’ll let her fill you in on all her amazingness. So sit back, relax,…

Today, I bring you my interview with a young, beautiful, talented, and self-confessed "Little Monster" from the Jicarilla Apache Nation. I've known Nicole ever since she was a baby and watched her grow into a strong, confident and independent Indigenous woman. She shares with us her journey of growing up on the reservation in Dulce, New Mexico, goi…

The Life of a Dog on the Rez podcast is a place where we share funny, cringe-worthy, and inspirational stories from our beloved Pueblo homelands. Stories that uplift the soul, provide us hope, and heal our spirits, I’m your host Michael, and I'm so happy that you are all my amazing and wonderful listeners from around the world. This podcast of mine…

On today’s episode, I am excited to bring you several different styles of storytelling. Since our emergence, storytelling was always used to pass on cultural knowledge, ceremony, history, language, a form of entertainment and a guide for how the people were to exist in the upper world. We start off with the re-telling of two stories from the book "…

I am honored and blessed to share with you a wonderful conversation I had with Janice Lucero from Isleta Pueblo. Janice is the owner and operator of Cotton Blossom Gardens, a namesake of her Tiwa name "Tah-Khee-Pauff", meaning Cotton Blossom in the Tiwa language. I came to know of Janice through our mutual friend, he told me about several ideas and…

I am honored to have a young, strong, respectful, and humble Tamayame woman, Janiece Garcia come on my show today to share her life story of growing up on and off the reservation with you. Coming from three different tribal communities, Janiece explains how that has shaped who she has become and her journey of starting up a cookie company. The titl…

Today, I bring you my interview with my friend and brother Korey Herrera from the Pueblo of Cochiti, one of the 19 Pueblo tribes in the state of New Mexico. Korey and I go back a few years working with the youth from the surrounding communities. We collaborated on many projects bringing experiential learning to the students. Korey was the first per…

Today I'm honored to bring you my interview with Mrs. Alberta Lente of Isleta Pueblo. Alberta just celebrated her 100th year on mother earth back in July and is still going strong. I came to know Alberta through her grandson David who I became friends with after meeting him down in Phoenix at the Heard Museum Indian Market back in March of this yea…

Today I bring you a bonus episode as a follow up to my interview with my friend and fellow content creator Aisha Smith on her wonderful Podcast, "You’re on Mute with Aisha." As you know, I’m from the Pueblo of Tamaya born and raised, I explained to Aisha what I know about growing up on the reservation, the life path I have chosen and the inspiratio…

This week I’m playing for you an episode from another podcast i think you’d really like. The show is called You’re on Mute with Aisha, I had the opportunity to be interviewed by my friend and fellow content creator Aisha smith. In her words, Aisha was born at home in upstate New York in a very small town. She recently learned that the town got its …

I continue my interview with my brother Faron. We talk about covid, becoming grown ass men, language, culture, traditions, and of course powwow. Faron loves to sing and in this episode he shares several songs with us, some that he composed, and some that were given to the Rio Grande Singers. I truly appreciate his gift and his willingness to share.…

I bring you part one of my interview with my good friend and brother Faron. I've known Faron for many, many years, and our connection goes back to our grandmothers. They met at Santa Fe Indian School and became close friends. I remember going to Acoma Feast with my grandma and she telling me, we were going to visit her friend. Little did I know, th…

I am excited to bring you my first podcast interview with my daughter Taneya. After months of asking, scheduling and rescheduling, the stars finally aligned and, the rest is history. Taneya is the oldest of my three children and pretty much the only girl in our family of many, many boys. In her words, “I wouldn’t trade those hooligans for anything”…

Back in May of this year, I was asked by the Notah Begay Foundation NB3, to be part of their team at the 2022 Ragnar Zion Trail Relay located just outside of Zion National Park at the Zion Ponderosa Resort located in Orderville, Utah. Up until that point I had no clue as to what Ragnar was. A couple if their teammates got injured while training and…

“An Indian reservation is an area land held and governed by a federally recognized Native American tribal nation whose government is accountable to the US Bureau of Indian Affairs and not to the state government which it is located. Some of the country’s 574 federally recognized tribes govern more than one of the 326 Indian reservations in the Unit…

Well, it has happened, life got in the way. Let me explain, I usually release a full new episode every Thursday, but I had a very busy week, plus a change in my daily routine threw me off my game. But don’t fret, like any Rez Dog, I got up, dusted myself off and continued to live my best life. Also, the episode I am working on for next Thursdays re…

"The moral of the story is…" We’ve all heard that saying, but what does it really mean? The dictionary defines the word, moral, as a noun to mean, a lesson, especially one concerning what is right or just, that can be derived from a story, a piece of information, or an experience. We as natives use storytelling to teach these principals, to bring g…

I am Tamayame! I was born and raised for the people of Tamaya. My identity goes back to the beginning of our emergence. Almost all cultures of the world have an origin story, a telling of our collective journeys, and our purpose on this earth. This knowledge and understanding is told to us through our elders, ceremonies and songs. It connects us to…

The pueblo people have a deep connection to running. When we emerged from the third world into this fourth world, we were instructed to find our place of readiness. The people migrated from the north, walking southward in search of places they would call home. On their migration, they ran to pass on urgent information, they ran to catch food to fee…

"Sayings, Story, and Song" are the three things I find myself always looking towards when I need direction, motivation, and inspiration. Sayings, are the little things that are told to us by our families, and friends, whether it’s in Indian or English, words that give us the motivation to not give up. Story, is expressing cultural knowledge and ora…

The Life of a Dog on the Rez Podcast went live on Thursday, March 17, 2022, St. Patrick’s Day. It was a year and two days from the point, that my life changed forever, and I felt it fitting that I release my podcast on that day, also to hopefully garner some of the luck of the Irish. This podcast has been a long time coming. I was always fond of th…

“Life of a Dog on the Rez!" A place where we share funny, cringe-worthy, and inspirational stories from our beloved Pueblo homelands. Stories that uplift the soul, provide us hope, and heal our spirits. Join me on this journey of life on the rez, and how it has shaped who we have become. This is the, "Life of a Dog on the Rez" podcast, and these ar…

What is a Rez Dog? How does the spirit of a Rez Dog inspire us as Native People? In this inaugural episode, meet "Yah-Schay", (Mike Garcia) and hear his story about how the life on the reservation, inspires him as a storyteller and pod-caster. Life of a Dog on the Rez, is a place for funny, cringe-worthy and inspirational stories from the rez, that…

Ever wonder what Rez Dogs truly are? We go straight the source and ask the people that have intimate knowledge of these creatures - In this episode, we are going to talk about Rez Dogs. There is no exact definition of what Rez Dogs are, I guess that’s what makes them almost mystical. I asked many of my family and friends this question, “In your own…