Family tree narrative. Lavallee of the Piapot
From his home on the Piapot reserve in Saskatchewan's Qu'Appelle Valley, medicine man Ray Lavallee has spent his life preserving and sharing the spiritual traditions of his Cree ancestors. He talks about his reverence for his grandfather, who could communicate with spirits, and his grandmother, whose work as a medicine woman focused on delivering babies. He gathers many of his medicines on the patch of virgin prairie that he and his wife Tillie h...
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