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1Author:  Russell, FrankRequires cookie*
 Title:  An Apache Medicine Dance  
 Published:  2001 
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 Description: There are at present no men or women among the Jicarillas who have power to heal the sick and perform other miracles that entitle them to rank as medicine men or women—at least none who are in active "practice and are at all popular. This being the case, medicine feasts have not been held for several years on the reservation; but in August and September, 1898, two such feasts were conducted by Sotlin, an old Apache woman who now resides at the Pueblo of San Ildefonso. Sotlin made the journey of nearly a hundred miles to the Jicarillas on a burro. She was delayed for some time on the way by the high waters of Chama creek, so that rumors of her arrival were repeatedly spread for some weeks before she actually appeared. For festive dances the agent or his representative, the clerk at Dulce, issues extra rations of beef and flour, and the Indiana buy all the supplies their scanty means will permit from the traders. Supplies, at least of things edible, do not keep well in an Indian camp, and the successive postponements of date threatened to terminate in a "feast" without provision, when at length Sotlin arrived.
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