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Spotted Fawn Dodges Arrows
Dreamed 1998 by Amanda Strong
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--Amanda Strong / Spotted Fawn / Gidagaakoons
EDITOR'S NOTE
Strong tells this dream to open and close her book Four Faces of the Moon, telling two centuries of her family's history--really her people's history, as the Metis struggled, for generations, to be acknowledged as a people at all.
This dream points has several lessons for serious dreamworkers:
- There's a good reason one of the World Dream Bank's dream-types is The Power Of Names.
- Ditto for initiation. It's not just an old custom to please your elders or link you to ancestors. Initiation works. Gives you power, gives you insight. If you let it.
- You don't have to cut yourself, climb a mountain or starve to have a life-altering dream. That's just guys talking guy dialect. You do have to listen. Many won't! Picture a white dude at a paid shamanic retreat dreaming this! He'd demand a better power animal or his money back. "A fawn?!" As pathetic as Plenty Coups' famous dream 141 years earlier, showing him his life-guide was... a chickadee.
In fact, Fawn and Chickadee teach similar lessons. Stay alert! You have to be quiet to listen. Recognize predators. Learn to dodge, not fight. Learn to... learn.
--Wayan
Source: Four Faces of the Moon by Amanda Strong, 2021, Annick Press, pp.6-24, 170-75. The graphics are stills from the stop-motion film of the same name.
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