Category: CA Indians

In this episode, Mavis and her family return to Orleans from their journey to Elk Valley, stopping first at the

In this episode, Mavis and family, each member sustained only with a half a cup of “acorn water” twice each

Mavis and her family make their journey following the old trails to Elk Valley to prepare “the medicine” for the Brush

In this episode, Mavis has been chosen to serve as Medicine woman for a Brush Dance. She shares her  story of

In 1998, Mavis begins having visions of a home in Orleans that is burning. The visions are not clear enough for

In this episode, the year is 1968. Mavis, 3-months pregnant, suffers major injuries in an automobile accident, loses the baby

Mavis reflects back to her early years of being trained by the medicine women, recalling  some of her visions of

In this episode, Mavis describes her role as a medicine person, “kind of a psychological medicine person,” helping those with

Mavis describes for us in this episode, of the duties of the Fatawanun’s women. Mavis tells of her medicine powers given to

In this episode, Mavis takes us on her journeys along “the high trail” with medicine men, the Fatawanun, always while in