Life of a Dog on the Rez

Bonus Episode: "The Rez Dog Turns 2!"

Michael Garcia

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, upbringings on and off the REZ, their educational journey’s, struggles, heartaches, life work, causes and organizations that they support, with words of encouragement, wisdom, all with funny and cringeworthy moments. A few share haikus and definitions of what a Rez Dog means to them.  I truly appreciate their willingness to share their stories with the world.  Some of the episodes are scripted accounts of my experiences, thoughts, struggles, and realizations of my life as a Pueblo man, father, language teacher, and song stitcher, as well as the beauty of our Pueblo way of life, though, language, culture, traditions, stories and song.  Today, I would like to recap the past two years of this podcast with inspirational, funny and cringeworthy snippets from each of my episodes.