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Cherokee Bird Clan Messenger. Student and teacher of Traditional medicine & culture.
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Eagle Medicine: The Beauty of Love
We must let love rule in the deepest places within our heart, we must only give it with no hidden agenda. For truly only in the hearts of man has love been manipulated from it’s true purpose, for it is not love in itself that has hurt us or given us pain but those who try to possess and control it.
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Sacred Medicines: Tobacco
Tobacco is the most sacred of plants for it is this dear brother who has given his very life for us to use in communicating with the Great Spirit. When we are in prayer, in ceremony, or healing times, tobacco carries the words from our hearts and minds to the Great Spirit through his sacred smoke.
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Cherokee History: Trail of Tears
Opposition to the removal was led by Chief John Ross, a mixed-blood of Scottish and one-eighth Cherokee descent. The Ross party and most Cherokees opposed the New Echota Treaty, but Georgia and the U.S. government prevailed and used it as justification to force almost all of the 17,000 Cherokees from their southeastern homeland.”
All honor and respect to our great ancestor, Chief John Ross.
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Glad Tidings . . .
đ„đŠBehold! We have powerful #HawkAndCrow #Medicine for you! Yellow and Red Quadrants on the Medicine Wheel – Mind and Body, Intellect and our Blood-Line Ancestors working to bring MASSIVE change to all people. Saddle Up, famđđđ
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Crow Medicine: Where There is Sorrow, There is Holy Ground
This is the sacred cycle of life-death-rebirth that humans have lived for our entire time on Earth, and which we must all experience, usually many times during our lives. For it is only through this sacred process that we become free from our old programming, our old wounds, and the definitions others have placed on us.
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The Path to Wisdom
When we pray to receive wisdom and knowledge, we must be prepared to have our lives turned upside down. For it is only through experiencing the great challenges and pain of walking on the Earth that we can truly understand… Read More ›
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Relaunch: From Wise Woman Rising to Bird Clan Messenger
I haven’t written in awhile and for very good reason. Over the past year, my Medicine Walk really ramped up – literally removing me from the life that I was living in 2018 and taking me through a series of… Read More ›
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Chi Miigwetch: The Replicating Super Power
Here in Tkaronto, Chi Miigwetch is the first word that many of us learn when we join the Anishnawbe Health Traditional Indigenous healing community. And, those of us who are taking our Medicine Walks very seriously have learned that Chi Miigwetch opens peoples’ hearts in a way that other medicines cannot.
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Swimmers: The Gifts of Salmon
Salmon comes to us during times of great transformation, giving us her fierce determination and will and the strength Creator has given her to equip her for her upstream journey to return to her home.Â
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Obstacles on our Path
When we use our Good Mind to explore and understand the obstacles in our paths (often brought to us through conflict with our brothers and sisters), then the Spirit will slowly lead us to see the blockages within our Selves – in the different quadrants of our Medicine Wheel – that are asking for our attention.
