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start playing for her. It’s like I inspire her and it’s about knowing each other’s feelings and
respect that.

In Stoney it’s a different way of saying I’m going to teach you mine. It’s similar to them it’s
have a nice day and us it’s have a good day, it’s similar. What my grandfather was telling
me is it’s time, well my cousin was saying it’s time to have a Sundance of our own. He was
telling me, my grandfather, to have a Sundance. The time will come for me to do that. I
told Bruce about it and he said we’ll see what happens and we’ll know when.

Right now I’m making new crosses for my parents because I made them twelve years ago.
I’m making new ones out of pine. When I go home I’m going to start drawing it and
things like that, carving it.

My grandfather gave me the healing song. That’s what he gave me and I know that
already today. It’s a unique song. My wife told me when I use my drum don’t beat it to
loud so my voice is over the drum. So I play the drum slow and I play that song. I can sing
it without a drum. This is the forefather’s and the foremothers who talk to me. It’s a song
from high above, the Creator.

It’s a song for healing, it heals the mind and the soul and the body. That song was given
to me in March when I was coming back from Enoch. My wife and I went up there for a
conference for the program she belongs to, and it’s called the Wellness Program.
Jeannette and Gloria Runner use to run the Wellness Center, when my wife ran the
program in Morley.

So we went up to Enoch and had a conference for that. It’s even the feelings that you feel.
They told us to pick pictures and I picked the ones of horses, mountains and animals. The
ones about freedom. In city you feel locked up, even in a room like this. When you’re out
in the country you feel free. You spirit is free. This song is meant to free you.

Sometimes, you feel negative from listening to these things and that’s a song I sing to
heal. Bruce lets me sing in his sweat. My wife wearing her traditional coat. She held a mic
for me and I sang that song. It was for everyone that feels down in life and my cousin lets
me sing that song in the third round for the healing and he has a song it’s called the horse
song. He has songs of his own and I have songs of my own.

You have to realize something. Before you go somewhere, anything you feel bad about,
you got to give your garbage to God. The way you do it is to go to the river and get some
tobacco, put it in the river and you are giving your problems to the river and to the
Creator. It’s called river of life.

You have to realize that we’re all unique in our own way but that’s what I do. Sometime I
put tobacco and maybe a color and put it in the river. Yellow’s for bravery, black is for
night, blue is for sky and purple is for night time too. The colors in my house are light
brown. The dark colors are the dark soul but I like bright colors. I don’t wear dark too
much.

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