The Pollen Path, Indigenous Appropriation
I've attached the portion of "Seeing with a Native Eye" edited by Walter Holden Capps containing the story about the Deer death by suffocation. Capps describes a ritual that I think Simon expanded on. The themes are the same in the book, same process, same philosophy about life/death, he sings, he knocks it over, prayers, ritual dismemberment, then creating a sacred object etc. The Major difference is that the "Path of Pollen" is bee pollen, and the Navajo Pollen Path is corn pollen The sacred object created by the Navajo man is a pair of Moccasins, rather than a part of an ancestral rick. If you have a kindle version of Shamanic Way of the Bee, you can easily search up this part of the book (or any part) and review. It's featured in the chapter titled "Vitamin Pan". Simon also writes that he carries the deer out of the forest on his back, and while they are lighter after gutting, an adult Red Deer stag (as described) is an...