Mourning Dove Salish 1888-1936
Children were encouraged to develop strict discipline and a high regard for sharing. When a girl picked her first berries and dug her first roots, they were given away to an elder so she would share her future success. When a child carried water for the home, an elder would give compliments, pretending to taste meat in water carried by a boy or berries in that of a girl. The child was encouraged not to be lazy and to grow straight like a sapling.
...... everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of
Karen Ivey, Crystal Healing and Readings. Pastel paintings of Native Americans.