Vibration travels through the earth
The 1929 Indian Show, taking place in Parc Huron. Top row left-to-right shows Aronnienhawe Montour, Angus Jacobs, Joe May, and an undocumented Kanienʼkéha man. Sitting at the bottom row is Annie Monick, Ms. Kawennnotas Goodleaf (Mrs. Joe), Josephine Skye Day embracing an excitable Helen Skye Shipp, Alice Deer Diabo holding her daughter Frances. (Courtesy: Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center)
Story told by Geraldine Standup
I spent some time with the Blackfeet in Montana and that’s where I really started to get a handle on what was actually happening. Our community is not a spiritual one, you have to find people who are spiritual for you to be able to bring out that aspect of yourself, I couldn’t do it here.
Anyway, I spent some time in Browning, Montana where the Blackfeet have a reserve. We didn’t spend time right in the community because the community has a bar on every corner, so we were on the mountaintop. I was invited there, and I found myself at a gathering of traditional healers from across the western United States and Canada.
There were a lot of things to witness at that time, a lot of healing ceremonies that they did through sound. It was an awesome experience. They had a huge drum and when they hit the drum, it reverberates against the walls of the higher mountain peaks in the Rockies and creates a vibration.
You’re not allowed to sit on chairs; your bum had to connect with the earth. The vibration travels through the earth, through the ground, and it travels up your spinal column and into your brain stem. That is how they do healing. Each person’s vibration matches the vibration that’s coming in.
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Onhontsà:ke ia'tenwatóhetste' ne awihsonhkwáhtshera'
Vibrations are being sent to the earth as this native man shakes a powwow scene through his drums. (Courtesy: Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center)
Geraldine Standup IAKOKÁ:RATON
Kwah ken' nikarì:wes Tehonhsi'tahòn:tsis wa'akwaterakén:rie' ne Montana nonkwá:ti tánon thò:ne tontáhsawen aonke'nikonhraién:ta'ne tsi nahò:ten kwah niiá:wens. Iah tehati'nikòn:raien ne onkwanakeráhsera', entà:'on enhsheia'tí:sake ne rati'nikòn:raien ne ki' naón:ton ahskwé:ni' ahstáhko' tho nikarihò:ten ne tsi nihsia'tò:ten, iah thaonkkwénion' ne kén:tho.
Tiótkon ki', ken' nikarì:wes wa'katerakén:rie' ne Browning, Montana nonkwá:ti tsi nón:we ne Tehonhsi'tahòn:tsis thonatenonstá:ton'. Iah teionkwaterakén:rion' kheh kaná:takon áse' kenh tsik nón:we teiothióhsate kanonhsó:ton ne tsi ionthnekahráhkhwa, ne ki' tiorì:wa onontoharà:ke tiákweskwe'. Wa'onkhón:karon' ne kén:tho aontá:ke, tánon tha'katié:ren' eh ié:kes tsi nonkwá:ti ne orihwakaionhnéha rontétsen'ts tsi iontia'tarohrókstha néne teiaonhontsiià:kon tsi ia'tewatshónthos nonkwá:ti ne Wastonhronòn:ke tánon Koráhne.
Nia'té:kon kaién:tahkwe' naiontkáhtho' ne thò:ne, é:so atetsèn:tshera tsi niiorihò:ten wahonterihwahténtia'te tsi wahonterakarè:raste'. É:so tsi ion'wesèn:ne. Tó:k niken'ta'náhkwa rotiién:tahkwe' tánon nó:nen enhati'nahkwáia'ke, tsi iononto'thí:ies kontinà:skwakon tekentstenhró:ton' ia'teiaóien tetiotewennattákwas ne Rockies nonkwá:ti tánon wawihsonhkwahtsherón:ni.
Iah thaón:ton anitskwahráne ahsanitskó:ten'; entà:'on tsi ionhontsá:te tentiatékha ne sahò:kwa. Onhontsà:ke ia'tenwatóhetste' ne awihsonhkwáhtshera, tenwata'kenhrótkahwe', tánon seronhkwè:nakon néntewe' tánon tsi senonhwaróhare ienwatáweia'te. Ken' ní:ioht tsi rontetsèn:tha. Shatiia'tátshon raonawihsonhkwáhtshera tetiatén:ro ne tsi niká:ien awihsonhkwáhtshera taiotaweia'tonhátie.
Edited by: Melissa Stacey, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Translation by: Karonhí:io Delaronde