'White man's medicine' is secondary
to time-honored customs
"When a chronically depressed 9-year-old girl at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota became so sad that she stopped eating, Ethleen Iron Cloud-Two Dogs came up with a treatment plan: not antidepressant drugs, but a spiritual assessment, followed by a healing ceremony at a Lakota purification lodge that represents the womb.
"'There is a hole dug in the middle and rocks that are heated,' she said. 'Because we believe that everything has a spirit, rocks are addressed as grandfather spirits. The water is taken in and poured on the rocks -- the steam that results is the breath of the grandfathers which then purifies and renews us.'
"Over the next three months, the girl recovered, said Iron Cloud-Two Dogs, who treats emotionally disturbed and suicidal children at a federally funded Native American mental health program called Nagi Kicopi (Calling the Spirit Back).'The healer dismissed those who demand evidence that her techniques work.
"'They will say, "Where's the proof, where's the research base, how can you document this?'" -- all the Western aspects of clinical interventions,' she said. 'We understood from the beginning that we would get those reactions, so our stance is, "We are Lakota people and these are Lakota children, and we will use the methods that have worked for thousands of years and that's all there is to it."'"
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"'There is a hole dug in the middle and rocks that are heated,' she said. 'Because we believe that everything has a spirit, rocks are addressed as grandfather spirits. The water is taken in and poured on the rocks -- the steam that results is the breath of the grandfathers which then purifies and renews us.'
"Over the next three months, the girl recovered, said Iron Cloud-Two Dogs, who treats emotionally disturbed and suicidal children at a federally funded Native American mental health program called Nagi Kicopi (Calling the Spirit Back).'The healer dismissed those who demand evidence that her techniques work.
"'They will say, "Where's the proof, where's the research base, how can you document this?'" -- all the Western aspects of clinical interventions,' she said. 'We understood from the beginning that we would get those reactions, so our stance is, "We are Lakota people and these are Lakota children, and we will use the methods that have worked for thousands of years and that's all there is to it."'"
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'White man's medicine' is secondary
to time-honored customs
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