Nevada blessing ceremony carries traditions forward Indian Country Today (Lakota Times) | May 18, 2005| | . Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Fogarty, Mark
Indian Country Today (Lakota Times)
05-18-2005
DESERT CREEK, Nev. - In an ancient rite of spring that may date back
thousands of years, tribal members from Nevada and California gathered on a
mountainside in Nevada to bless this year's growth of pinon pines to bring
in a good harvest of pine nuts this fall.

I was honored to be invited to attend the blessing ceremony, which this
year had the added distinction of seeing the granddaughter of Wovoka, the
Paiute medicine man and prophet of the Ghost Dance movement, say the
blessing in her native dialect.

Spring comes late this far north in ...

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