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White men have been spotted westward of the local Dakota tribe and have been struck with a new sickness many are calling “running face sickness.” Symptoms include extreme reddening of the skin, pain in the back, and intense heating of the body. If not treated, it can lead to an even bigger problem even your local Medicine Man/Woman can’t fix. Three moons ago, at the end of the seasonal hunt for the buffalo, a group of Lakota Indians interacted in fur trading with British white leader Simeon Ecuyer. He offered many of the local tribes wool coverings which led to the spreading and growing of this hellish disease. This “running face sickness” has completely demolished local trading tribes which now reminds people of the once flourishing village which was built their to a pile of destruction and sadness as many friends and families have perished due to the spread of this sickness the white men have brought to our peaceful villages. Medicine lodges have been busy for multiple moons trying to treat new patients coming in from different tribes with running face sickness. Our local Medicine Man, Koda, has told our tribe “...we must stay as far away from the white men as possible as my visions for his tribe have been foreseen as catastrophic and is filled with sadness as our tribe will fall.” Our Chief, Akule, has taken immediate action as he has prohibited interaction with white men, restricted our trading with many local tribes, and has changed the areas where we will cultivate our crops, hunt for bison, and where we will be provided with clean drinking water. He has made it clear that “white men have caused us misery and destruction to our fellow tribes and we will not allow them to take this wonderful village. We must take extra precaution and head in a different direction to a more positive and healthy future.” Many of the scouts will continue to monitor this sickness and theChief will make his new plan effective three moons from now; Could this be a growing problem among the community? We only hope the gods will bless these tribes now.

Sources

“Native American Medicine.” Edited by A. Hultkrantz and N. Bonvillian, Health and Fitness History, 2017, healthandfitnesshistory.com/ancient-medicine/native-american-medicine-health/

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Dr. Kordova here. Harvest season is around the corner and I have some recipes for those of you who live organically.  If you have a lot of Family coming over these recipes are great for a family gathering. For a drink, you could make Manzanita Juice, Orchata (ground rice drink), and a personal favorite of my family, pine needle tea. My grandmother swears by this tea. When one of us was sad, she’d make the tea for us and we would feel better after drinking it. When we were younger she would also make us thr Manzanita Juice for a hot day on the reservation.

A good spread of food would be, wild rice, Buffalo stew, Wagunabuie (Lichen) Soup, and fried rabbit. When we would have our Family gatherings My mom, grandmother, sister and I would get up really early and prepare all the food. After all the food was made, we made all the different drinks, because no one in my family liked the same tea. One year, we just made one tea for everyone and it went to waste because no one except my grandmother would drink it, after that year we just made everyone’s favorite teas. Even though it took more time that way, it was worth seeing everyone happy and having a good time.

We like to make a spread of desserts for everyone, because we usually have some extra time before everyone gets together. Some desserts are; mesquite cakes, chokecherry pudding, currant pudding, blueberry pudding, and gooseberry cobbler. All these recipes are great for the one in the family that has a huge sweet tooth or just need to keep the little ones quiet.

“Native American Food.” Eskimo/Inuit Legends (Folklore, Myths, and Traditional Indian Stories), www.native-languages.org/food.htm.

“NativeTech: Indigenous Food and Traditional Recipes.” NativeTech: Story of the Corn Husk Doll, www.nativetech.org/recipes/listindig.php?pagenum=3&searchingred=&indigid=1&letter=.

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Everyone gather around we have to celebrate the birth of a new child his name is Waka. When we do this ritual, the woman, the birth carrier has to drink this special drink to speed up the delivery of the child.And the women were told to go on a diet and watch what physical activities they do because it could affect the fetus when born. But many moons after Waka was born he came back  to our village somewhere in the southwest to tell us about a new ritual about the great Turtle Rain God gifted them a whole year of good rain for the yearly harvest ! The local tribesman said his name was Waka and he told us that we have to perform a certain type of ritual to summon the Rain God himself. For the ritual we were told we need to find a area that we need rain for, for example a area of farm land or a water hole, then we were told we need multiple people to draw a turtle in the dirt with a stick in the dirt to start the ritual. As he said that he was told to come back to his village and we followed him back to see what the setup looks like for inspiration to summon Turtle. It took a night just to get back to Wakas village and when the morning sun rose upon us we had arrived to the place. Wakas village had at least 100 or more people settled there at the time of arrival. Then he brung us to his Chief and he told us the story of Turtle The Rain God and how we summon him forth to help us further more with harvest season coming upon us. The Chief had told told us the whole story on how to do it and we thanked him and then offered him some of the crops we get from the harvest to thank him for his generosity. The next day we tried  to set up the ritual but when we got there the turtle was missing from the ground that we drew upon so we drew a new one deeper in the ground facing the west so the wind would not obstruct the Turtle and so he would come . Next we were told to drive the stick we used to draw it into where the shell would be, Then we were supposed to chant the special chant, while doing that we spun around the turtle 3 times in a clockwise pattern and then after that we wait for the rain to be blessed upon us. About a moon later we had started to get downpour and we were thanking the Turtle for all he had done for us. And that's the story kids now get back and go to sleep and make sure to thank our ancestors for performing these rituals so would have good long harvests and rain.

Sources: https://teachinghistory.org/history-content/ask-a-historian/24097

https://classroom.synonym.com/native-american-rain-turtle-ritual-12084400.html

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This past half moon during the green corn festival, Ahusaka, from the Ho-chunk tribe set a new record in the men’s high kick challenge. Ahusaka competed in the two foot high kick where he jumped off of two feet kicked the ball that was suspended eleven feet and eleven inches off the ground, and landed it. This competition truly shows the agility and strength of the true hunters.

Asusaka and his tribe, Ho-chunk, competed in the stickball tournament. Ahusaka is one of this best stickball competitors in all of northeastern alaska. In the championship game the match was close Ho-chunk with two goals and Shoshone with two goals. With the score all tied up Ahusaka knew he had to score. With the time running low the Shoshone tribe had the ball. Ahusaka is chasing down his opponents and steals the ball. The game is now in his hands. He sprints as fast as he can to get up the field. He’s running through many defenders when all the sudden it’s just him and the goalie. He does his signature move. Fakes left and then right, the goalie has seen this move before but he falls for the second fake making the goal for Ahusaka basically a free goal. He shoots it in the top right corner of the goal. The Ho-chunk tribe has won the match. They’ve won the tournament, Ahusaka is cared off by his tribe chanting is name.

Lastly the Chunkey tournament, Ahusaka competed by himself in this game. He was the closest in round one and second closest in round two. It was down to him and three other contenders all from different tribes. Before the third round started he noticed damage to his spear. Pieces of the stone head had broken off. Ahusaka knew that the spear would be off balanced due to the weight loss in the head of the spear. Ahusaka made a split second descion and decided to try and combat the weight loss in his spear. He snapped off part of the end of his spear making it slightly shorter than before. The spear was back on balance and he was ready. The stone was thrown across the ground and the first spear was thrown. Close but there was still room to throw closer. The second and third spear was thrown, they hit each other in the air. Something we’ve never seen before. Ahusaka threw his spear. Gliding through the air, then it hit the ground. But the sound it made was something we’ve never heard before. His spear had gotten so close to the stone dick that it chipped the edge of it. This is the closest you could ever possibly get. Ahusaka was crowned champion of the day with three different wins under his belt.https://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/exhibition/healing-ways/healing-communities/native-games.html

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/native-american-games.html

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