Join me in todays episode as I unpack the events of my recent 10 day experience being a worker for the Blackfeet Indians at their Medicine Lodge for the annual Sundance which occurs during the Summer Solstice (June 21st).

• Day 1 - 16 June 

• • Build Workers Camp

  • Purification Sweat 

  • • 4 rounds (Children, Women, All living things, Warriors)

    • 4 directions (N, S, E, W)

    • 4 colors (White, Black, Yellow, Red)

• Day 2 - 17 June

• • Harvest Main Cottonwood trees for the Medicine Lodge

• Day 3 - 18 June

• • Locate Lodge Site

  • Mark Center Pole location

• Day 4 - 19 June

• • Harvest Sidewall Cottonwood trees for the Medicine Lodge

  • Place Prayer Bags at the base of Chief Mountain

• Day 5 - 20 June

• • Harvest 91 “Oke-A-Toke” Sweat Rocks

  • Workers Sweat 

• Day 6 - 21 June “The Summer Solstice”

• • The Lodge & Campsite are blessed

  • Build Camp 

  • The Feed aka The Last Meal for the Sundancers

  • Presenting of Pipes and Colors 

  • The Sing 2 AM

• Day 7 - 22 June 

• • Hunt for the Center Pole 4:30 AM

  • Harvest the Center Pole 

  • Build the Medicine Lodge 

• Day 8 - 23 June 

• • Sundance begins

  • Front Piercing attached to Center Pole

  • Back Piercing attached to 13 Buffalo Skulls

• Day 9 - 24 June

• • Sundance continues 

• Day 10 - 25 June

• • Sundance comes to a close 

  • Cleansing Sweat 

What were the 4 biggest lessons I gathered from this experience?

1. Belief
2. Respect
3. Will
4. Culture

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