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🗓️ 2 August 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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While Dan is at the compound of good friends and prominent members of the Blackfeet Traditional Medicine community, the Heavyrunner family, he learns just how important it is to practice good medicine.
Thanks to Dan SaSuweh Jones for sharing your story with us! Learn more about Dan.
Produced by Chris Hambrick, original score by Leon Morimoto, artwork by Teo Ducot
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0:00.0 | Snap Studios. A friend in need is a needy friend, but if he wraps upon my door again, then maybe I'll have |
0:18.7 | one less friend that no one ever sees again. |
0:24.0 | You're listening to spoot. |
0:29.0 | Stay true. True. |
0:59.0 | From KQED and PRX, you've crossed over to Spoot. The start of so many ancient texts tells us plainly that in the beginning was the word |
1:07.2 | before everything was the word and even those that don't know they know this they know this |
1:10.4 | that simple words alone have a power |
1:16.5 | peace be to you Walk in the light you have my blessing. You are forgiven. These are powerful words but this is a two-sided coin. |
1:24.0 | When wrong, when humiliated, when threatened, when needing that final revenge, |
1:29.0 | people reach for the last weapon left to them. |
1:32.0 | The word. for the last weapon left to them. |
1:33.2 | The word, I hate you. |
1:37.8 | Damn you! |
1:39.8 | F-you, cursing a person calls upon the most ancient of powers and the more purpose we give |
1:47.3 | our words the more likely the universe will bend around them. |
1:54.0 | Spooks Dods. Spook starts |
3:00.8 | Now So, Oh, Curses, curses, curses, we begin in the early 1980s, where Dan Sasawake Jones, he's living in a scenic national park in Montana. It's also Blackfeet Indian land. |
3:07.0 | He's a member of the Ponica Nation, but he's about to get an education in the ways of Blackfeet Medicine Society. |
3:16.0 | Spoot. One day I was visiting a friend of mine in East Glacier. |
3:37.0 | Mr. Bird, he was kind of a collector of American Indian Arts. At the time I was doing writing and also my artwork. And he |
3:50.2 | invited me in and I just happened to notice across the room there was an Indian man. |
3:57.5 | Tiny Man Heavy Runner. |
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