Chapter 16
They arrived at the camp, and the Great Council was called, made up of tribe’s elders and warriors, and before whom the matteer would be presented.
Inside the special tepee, they all sat down cross-legged on soft skins in a large circle: Golden Falcon occupied her husband's place. The shaman is also the custodian of the medicine pipe which is used to establish harmonious relationships between the sacred powers and humans. He took the two parts stored separately inside out of a deer skin case, adorned with colored porcupine spines.The long and narrow mouthpiece, made of maple wood, was adorned with ermine fur and eagle feathers, the tubular stove was made of red stone, catlanite.
Everyone watched the man’s actions in respectful and religious silence, for the act of uniting the
