Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current, October 20, 1999, Page 22, Image 22

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October 20,1999
IN P R IN T
Lakota Woman
An Excerpt: The Aztec wordfor the
sacred herb was pevotl, meaning
caterpillar. Our Sioux word fo r
medicine is pejuta. Peyote, pejuta,
that sounds very close. Maybe it is
just a coincidence. It is certain that
pevote came to us out o f Mexico. In
the 1870s the K iow as and
Comanches prayed with this medi­
cine and established what they
called the Native American Church.
By not the peyote religion is com­
mon among most tribes all the wav
An ancient mystical experience, the Vision Quest was undertaken by Native American up to Alaska. Since peyote does not
Indians as an odyssey of self-knowledge and fulfillment - a spiritual journey into the grow farther north than the Rio
wilderness and the soul. The peace, insight and sense of well-being they gained on the Grande, we must get our medicine
from the border re­
Vision Quest is a lasting testament to man’s relationship with nature.
gion. It is in the
Now, America’s most respected outdoorsman re­
Southwest that we
veals the secrets of this dramatic and profoundly mov­
have our "peyote
ing ritual. Tom Brown, Jr., who has completed many
garden."
Vision Quests, simply and eloquently shares the
beauty and enlightenment of his own spiritual awak­
ening...
An Excerpt: I met Stalking Wolf, whom 1 have al­
ways called Grandfather, when I was seven. I called
him Grandfather, not only out o f respect fo r his age
and knowledge, but also because, to me, he was. and
remains, mv spiritual Grandfather and guardian; fo r
years he was both my teacher and my best friend.
For ten years, from the ages o f seven to seventeen,
I was taught by him the skills o f survival in the woods:
how to stalk, how to observe the flow o f life, how to
track and read signs, and how to heal with wild plants.
Let us meet your
Grandfather s lessons o f survival were, however, only
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Mary Brave Bird grev up fatherless in a
one-room cabin, without running water or
electricity, on a South Dakota reservation.
Rebelling against the aimless drinking, pun­
ishing missionary school, narrow strictures
for women, and violence and hopelessness
of reservation life, she joined the new move­
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