Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 7, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba 2 Winnipeg free thursdays August cupid no match for Medicine Man by Bob Lowery Winnipeg free press Cross Lake Indian Medicine than John Daniel Blacksmith has a cure for almost including Ching blood Poison and Bald of the Cross Lake Indian even dispenses love me says he can also cure venereal but Doest do it because its most of his medicines Are derived from herbs and but the exact 1 contents Are a Well known bushed once came to him with a bad Case of blood poisoning in the eds fingers were so swollen that the skin was starting to Black Smith i used some of the roots and herbs 1gathered to fight the Poison and it was Only a couple of Days afterwards that the swelling went Down and de was ready to Fly mayor George Milvor of Cross the pilots backs the Story i saw the swollen hands and i saw them when they were the mayor deep roots Blacksmith is one of several medi Cine men and women Are deeply rooted in this Community of treaty indians and 450 Many people in the Community Tell of cures resulting from blacksmiths Blacksmith says Hes not competing with the Federal health services nursing when people come to me i always ask them if Treyve been to the nursing station if they have and still need help i try my he adding he wishes the nursing station could look after a health services official in Thomp son says patients Are referred to Black Smith from the nursing station on re the official says she wishes the Legal situation could be cleared up so medical services could pay Blacksmith for his is a practising Catholic and says he finds no conflict Between his religion and Medicine Howe recalls that there were Many More Medicine men operating Agov before religion Mohed into our inherited much of his knowledge from his father and grandma he recalls his fathers Power to Han dle demented once one of my uncles went crazy and it took eight men to hold him to the my father got them to set my Uncle free and just of putting one hand on the Man he calmed him Down and set him gently on the unusual Power my father had some kind of Power to do things like Blacksmith this Power cant be its a gift a Man is Given to use to help Blacksmith has demonstrated hand Healing Power once he cured a Hal crazy woman by placing his hand on her on another occasion a Friend of Donald asked him to help a boy who was having the child was screaming and hollering when i put my hand on his Blacksmith after five minutes he broke into a then he began to relax and quiet right today the boy is 18 years old and is a Normal at a trappers Camp in Blacksmith was asked to help a woman who was Haemorrhaging she had been bleeding at the nose for three Days and nights and had lost a lot of Blacksmith some one in the Camp had two pails of Moose milk which they gave me to drink to give me strength to do my then i set out into the cold night wondering where id find the Flowers and herbs to heal the the Plant he was seeking was the lady Jane lace which blooms in the North during the a it was a he the Snow was four feet deep on the ground and All at once i found one Flower sitting just As if it was summer when i got Back to the Camp i held some of the Flower and leaves under the woman then i got her to Chew a bit the Root and boiled up the rest for her to the Haemorrhaging Black Smith about is years Blacksmith got an emergency Call to come to Wabowden where a Little girl had a Beer bottle Cap stuck in her the child was unconscious when i got there White As Black Smith i thought she was he took the child outside and gave her a Good slap on the the Cap flew out of her he 1 think if 1 haunt been there the child would have in his 25 years of Smith says none of his patients has Many of the treatments Are based on centuries of Medicine Man but in other cases its the inspiration of the he you look at a person and Start imagining what might help then you think of you try it and it he Doest try to do anything for crippled i guess there just meant to be that he killer concoction for toothaches the cure is a nerve killing concoction of carbolic acid and something it hurts like hell when i first apply he but after a few minutes the nerve has cure for blood poisoning is derived from the under skin of Spruce bark boiled for three or four High fever is controlled by a sub stance known in Cree As ape Chisa Kewa boiled in sugar and it seems to be something like Peni he once on a Winter Blacksmith himself was stricken with a heart prob which he says was probably poor blood he lie in his sleeping bag for three vomiting heavily and unable to a plane flew overhead and spotted his the Pilot loaded Black Smith into his plane and flew him to but instead of taking him to a nursing station the Pilot took Blacksmith to the local he ordered me a hot the waitress put the bottle on the stove and afterwards i drank it worked like a respiratory fitness scheme planned for teenagers j Xiv City Calendar autumn programs for Winni Eggers concerned with respiratory problems have been announced by the Manitoba lung the organization of parents with children will begin an eight week series 24 at Sargent Park recreational there is no charge but participants must have physicians a respiratory fitness program for Young 12 and who have breathing problems will open at 16 at the Nymha Community a physicians consent is a smoking cessation program will Start 24 at Miles Macdonell Call Manitoba lung association for More weather breast self examination will be taught to Winnipeg women this the workshop will include a discussion and Contact the Owca to arrange for Gle Lawn collegiate class of 40 reunion will be held 9 and registration will begin at saturday at Nia Kwa the pan am Pool will hold a family fun Day and Barbecue weather permitting from 2 to 6 10 at the Pool 25 Poseidon activities and games Are a special film entitled Dweire will be shown at 7 10 at Bethel Baptist 205 Roseberry the film depicts the stories of survivors of the Jonestown a new year round youth recreation Centre program offered by the lord Community Parks and recreation Branch will open at 1 11 in Machray 320 Mountain activities will in clude games and Contact the Branch for further Western express five tickets Worth each and five Worth each were picked in the Western express lottery draw wednesday the tickets Are 3360354 and 2084949 the tickets Are 2667806 and there Are prizes of for tickets with the last six digits of the top for the last five digits and for the last tourist Alert Cloudy with showers Winnipeg area forecast mostly Cloudy tonight and Brief showers or Thunder showers both High today near Low tonight near High Friday near extended weather Outlook Southern Manitoba frequent Cloudy periods with tempera Tures a in tote below Normal sunny with near Normal temperatures sunday and highs near lows near Northern Manitoba frequent Cloudy periods on mainly sunny sunday and near Normal tempera highs near lows near 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