Scatter Medicine

25/05/2026

Meet the elder guiding this online learning series.

Teachings shared may include:

Prayer
Plant knowledge
Drum teachings
Cultural history
Community values

These teachings come from lived experience, cultural preservation, and generations of knowledge.

24/05/2026

What does “Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ” mean?
All My Relations.”

This teaching reflects the understanding that humans are deeply connected to:

The Earth
Water
Animals
Plants
Ancestors
Future generations

Connection is not only spiritual —
it is responsibility.

“What does connection to the Earth mean to you?”

23/05/2026

A New Online Teaching Series Is Coming

We are preparing a live online teaching series with Lakota elders and knowledge keepers focused on:

Prayer
Herbs
Drum & song
Cultural teachings
Balance and relationship with the Earth

These teachings are shared respectfully within appropriate cultural boundaries and offered in a spirit of learning, humility, and community.

More details coming soon.

22/04/2026

22/04/2026

Long before artificial electrolyte drinks, desert runners survived fifty-mile races without a single canteen.
But indigenous survivalists mastered internal hydration using a wild botanical secret.

Meet the forgotten art of Sonoran desert chia foraging.

Tarahumara runners harvested wild Salvia columbariae seeds before brutal heat exposure.
Consuming these tiny seeds generated a massive hydrophilic mucilage barrier inside their stomachs.
This thick gel physically locked in moisture against scorching temperatures.
It slowly released pure hydration drop by drop directly into the bloodstream.
They achieved perfect endurance without carrying any external water sources.
Corporations deliberately buried this biological mastery to sell synthetic sugar water.

Save this post to resurrect the lost skill of botanical hydration.
Industry sells fragile dependency while the earth provides perfect endurance.

18/02/2026

Crazy Horse once dreamed of a world beyond this physical one — a world where nothing exists except the spirits of all living things. He believed that this spiritual realm is the true reality, and the world we see around us is only a shadow of that deeper, unseen world. What we touch and experience here is temporary, but the spirit behind it is eternal.”
— Black Elk, Oglala Lakota

16/02/2026

I wanted to share a bit of Native American wisdom with you today.

Like many of the teachings that come from indigenous culture, the 10 virtues below are intended as a roadmap for living a more balanced and connected life.

The beauty of these ancient pillars of existence is that they always remain relevant, regardless of how evolved or learned we think we’ve become.

10 Ancestral Teachings
1) The Earth is our mother, care for her.
2) Honor your ancestors through your actions.
3) Open your heart and soul to the Great Spirit.
4) All life is sacred; treat all beings with respect.
5) Take from the Earth what is needed and nothing more.
6) Put the good of all before your own interests.
7) Give constant thanks for each new day.
8) Speak the truth; but only of the good in others.
9) Follow the rhythms of nature; rise and retire with the sun.
10) Enjoy life’s journey, but leave no tracks.

They seem so simple right? But somehow these core concepts are easy to forget or take for granted when life gets challenging.

I’ve come across this list of ten before, but as I read through it again I was struck by one item in particular that really hit home. Today it was number nine, but who knows what it’ll be next time!

I hope you too find benefit in these native commandments.

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15/02/2026

From a Native American perspective, this message reflects a spiritual belief rooted in nature rather than written texts.
Many Native American traditions pass knowledge through oral teachings, stories, ceremonies, and lived experience, not books.
Nature itself—wind, rain, rivers, mountains, animals, and seasons—is seen as the true teacher.
Unlike printed words that can fade, tear, or disappear, nature is living, ongoing, and eternal.
The statement is not necessarily an attack on Christianity, but a contrast:
Written religion vs. living spirituality
Man-made paper vs. the natural world
Fixed text vs. wisdom carried through generations
In this view, the land remembers, the wind speaks, and the rain teaches—making nature itself the sacred guide, or “bible.”

13/02/2026

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Natural antibiotic and folk penicillin, a plant people used long before modern antibiotics were everywhere. In this recipe I show how sage tea is traditional...