And he says, just follow the bear in front of you.
So it's midnight now, and where it's 28 degrees,
and they say, take off all your clothes to your shorts, and we'll paint your face.
So they did that.
So we go in a little circle of stones, and he says now we bring in the sick people.
And up to then I was just saying what is this?
And had to bring in people with cancer, and people with, and he says,
now the bears will heal him.
So you put your skin on, and the bears do the healing.
This one I knew well, because I had been working at University of Florida Arts and
Healing with bears, with artists on the river.
And suddenly my bear comes out.
I leave, and this ancient bear, which is the healer for
almost all Native American tribes does its healing.
And I come out, and I said, this is who I am.
I don't why, I don't understand this.
And now I've been dancing with the Chumash
dance group in southern California for 16 years, three times a year.