Nature Power by Harry Robinson

Author:Harry Robinson [Robinson, Harry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book, Okanagan, British Columbia, Canadian literature, storytelling, aboriginal
Publisher: Talonbooks
Published: 2013-08-01T00:00:00+00:00

PART THREE

POWER TO DO THE DOCTORING

GO GET SUSAN, SEE WHAT SHE CAN DO

Susan uses her power to work on two injured men.

There’s—a long time ago,

there one lady down in Omak.

And when she was young,

that time.

Something like that Napolean’s daughter,

the one that sing.

About her age.

This woman, they call ’em Susan.

And they go to dance, you know.

Sometimes they put up a dance herself, you know.

In her house.

But sometimes they go to somewhere else, you know,

to somebody’s dance.

Like three winter.

They go to a dance.

And sing.

Then, on the third winter,

they sing in the first winter,

they never said nothing.

Then they sing, on the second winter,

for two, three night.

They never said nothing.

But on the third winter,

they sing for three, four days,

three, four night,

and then the dance is finished—

all over.

Then he say so.

He says,

“From now on—”

And they stop, you know.

Everybody is just quiet

and then they talk there.

Just like that—

Wendy: After midnight?

Well, when they finish,

before morning—

so that was—

They finished then.

Wendy: Before breakfast?

Before breakfast.

Yeah, when they just finished.

And they know they were finished.

And in morning, you know.

Towards morning.

That was the end.

No more dance after that.

Then is—everybody’s quiet.

They must’ve tell ’em,

“I’m going to speak.

And everybody quiet and listen.”

Then he stand there

and he says,

“I’m going to tell you.

You people—

what I’m going to do from now on.

I sing three winters,

and I never said nothing in two winters.

But this is the third.

This is the end.

Now I’m tell you what I’m going to be

from now on.

I’m going to be Indian doctor.

And I’m going to go and work on the sick people.

Whoever’s sick,

the woman or man,

or children,

or any sick person.

I can go over there if they call me.

They got to call me.

Then I can go and work on the sick person

and see what I can do,

whether I get them to get better,

or may not.

Can not tell.

Then, in another way,

if somebody gets hurt,

they got the blood,

they get hurt,

then, whoever they get hurt

then the blood comes inside,

and they raise up

that they come to the heart,

then they’s dead.

And, before the blood comes to the heart,

and I should suck the blood out.

And then they never reach the heart.

And they will get all right.

They healed up

and then they’ll be all right.

Or, anybody got the broken leg

or hurt somewhere,

maybe no blood in there

but it more like a—

kind of a yellow stuff, you know.

They seems to squirt in the inside.

Then that’ll come to the heart.

Same as the blood.

But it’s yellow stuff.

Something like that over there—yellow.

And they can suck that out

to keep ’em away from the heart.

And then, once they sucked them out,

or twice,

at the same time,

sucked them out and then stopped

and then after a little while,

maybe a few minutes,

suck some more.

Then they empty, like.

Then, they never go back.

After a while, whoever they were cut, you know,

they’ll heal up

and then they’s all right.”

So he mentioned that he’s got two ways.

They can work with the sick people

or they can work for who they got hurt, you know.

But some doctors, they can only work with the sick people only.

If somebody got hurt,

they can do nothing for that.

Or somebody got bit with a rattlesnake,

that’s another one.

Somebody’s got to do something about it.

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