This page maybe a little long, but I need to let you know how and why the
Medicine Lodge and
the Healing Hoop will survive.
I am 46-years old single and a grandmother of 3, I was in the process of
getting a divorce
settlement when my ex-husband died suddenly at 50. I lived
with my mom then when I lost my
job because of illness, which is better now, she
moved to town and my daughter and grandson
lives in the house. I live in my
23-foot camper, Have for the past two years. Mom moved
because she was afraid of
losing the home place, which in this Nationally Acclaimed Poverty
stricken area
of western PA has become a common thing.
I am a survivor always have been. At age 18, I was kidnapped and gang
raped, abuse and lost
my loves ones to many different things, one to AIDS (my
boyfriend), one to heart problems
(my dad), one to heart and kidney failure (my
ex-husband). I was injured in 1991 and was told in
1998 that I would never walk
again, without major surgery, that involved re-breaking my back
and bracing it
with done. I still have that vertebrates pulled out of my spine by 1/2 inch. I
dance
3 1/2 hours on Fridays and put myself through Massage School by working
home construction.
The semester before I graduated.
After I had admitted myself to rehab because of the work comp. and SSI
doctors over
medicating me in pain killers, I went back to the reservation, back
to the natural way I did
things as a child. Made an herbal that keeps me walking
and dancing. I use the Green Stuff as
a rub on my chronic pain clients. Except
for tension headaches and allergies, I have no other
medicine in my cupboard.
I've held a full time job since I was 14 years old, I am skilled in many
fields,
"Jack of all trades". I have endured many hardships, like the year my
girls where little and we
had no meat for a month nor had we seen any game
because of poachers. I loaded the rifle,
handed it to my husband and told him to
shoot the smallest pony we had and I would do the rest.
My husband went out and
three shots rang out. I held back the tears and thought God did he
miss the pony
2 times. My husband rushed in and said that three deer came out above the barn
and he got all three. This is when I truly knew we were being looked after. This
was also the
time my gifts started to develop and that my mom being a
genealogist fiend, we had Native
blood . Blood or not, I and all of us are born
with a gift. And in every person or situation, good
or bad is a lessen, its how
you use that new knowledge is what counts.
I want the Lodge to be a free clinic if I get the funding (in progress) I
thank the many wonderful
people that have made donations of supplies and items.
I had asked to granted permission to seek council of the sacred fire at
midnight with the full
moon at our Native Gathering in October. I was granted
just as the vision told me, so I asked to
be given a sign or vision what I was
doing what I was meant to be with the Lodge and Healing
Circle. The sign came as
a Roman Catholic Nun, who came to me to have her spirit cards read.
She asked
for the animal guide spread and after the shock of this request, because most of
the
churches around me condemn me for the readings, I did the spread and she
hugged me and she
said she wished for a Native name . I called her She who
Honors the Earth, for to me the Great
One honored the earth with her presence,
she then blessed me and I honored her back. As she
stepped out, then one of the
elders honored me with a hand carved rattlesnake ceremonial
rattle and said the
rattle knew it belonged to me now.
Bother seers (I hate the word physic) told me, that others like me will
seek me, for I am a
teacher. And to build or make a place of healing and those
who need me (us) will come.
I have been through and seen many unexplainable miracles.
So I'm asking for donations of items needed or by joining the Healing Hoop
(social or active
member). The monies are spent on educational and building
supplies. Funding or not the
Medicine Lodge will survive, just like the ones
that need us.
Give me a call, I love to talk to people
May the spirits and angels of the heavens and earth protect you and all you love,
Dancing Medicine