Book Description

Aunt Betty's words "you are Indian, be proud", began a lifelong quest for author Deborah Clairmont, as she takes her first steps in learning about the ways of her Native American heritage. To walk a spiritual journey with author Deborah Clairmont, we will have to open our minds to the in-explainable phenomena along the way. We will journey through a true-life story of several near-death experiences and explore a connection with the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe and Sitting Bull that will expound the mind. In the summer of 1989, we will travel to a Lakota Sun Dance Ceremony on the Green Grass Reservation in South Dakota. Deborah Clairmont walks us down the prepuberal path of her childhood, along the way we will meet several Medicine Men and tribal traditions that connect us to the spirit world and help us understand what it is like to be a Native American descendant that did not grow up on an Indian Reservation and how the law prohibited learning the culture.Cover Photo: Lance Ross- www.lancerossphoto.comMEDICINE PRAYER WOMAN (Deborah Clairmont) is a photographer, artist, writer. A graduate from Salish Kootenai College with a bachelor's in Environmental Sciences and Restoration Ecology. A descendant of the Muscogee Creek and French-Canadian Cree Tribes. She writes her life story for her son who is the 17th Great-Grandson of Sitting Bull to leave a path that will explain his heritage.