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•{He was a doctor- also, wasn'.t: he — sort of a'herb doctor?) .. He was the doctor of the tribe. And he doctored of course with the root— -2- T-620-3 there. 'Course there wouldn't be seen or you couldn't f.ind them now because it's good many years ago. _ ' (What was your mother's name?) My mother's name was Julia Ann Sactaw. That was—Sactaw was her Potawatomi name." She^'was a'Potawatomi, member of the Quapaw-Potawatomi tribe from St. Marys, Kansas. And it seems though, the history goes,- I believe that there was a/,preacher that worked among the Indians at that time and he happened to be*"up• around St. ^Marys, Kansas and he said he would like to go down south and see where he could find a reservation where he could work. And he'd like to take some people down therewith him, because'they helped him when he was in his prayers,' and in his singing—they all learned how to sing. And so he wanted someone you know, to go along with him and to help him. So there was a bunch of; people--I don't know how many families left, but -they did— v they migrated dowi south tbward Kansas. And I don't know much about the history, but it seems though that they camped along the northern part of Kansas and small.Tpox broke out. Ancf that's where we lost quite a number of the Quapaws there. But they* finals came on in--further into Oklahoma and began to settle around, and of course, around north of Baxter Springs, Kansas and , / • • s l\ .• - - then further 1 on south. And—but they always wanted water and they always I *' ' * saw to it that they would camp along the river so that they would have plenty • . / * * ' - • • * . ' of water fcjr what little stock that they had--left, you know, coming down toward Oklahoma. And of course then I was born there at the village black-, smith sho£>, as'I told you there at the little ford. (What"was your father's name?) , > 0 * My father'.: name was George Lane, but he had a nickname—he .was a^ir; feli^.v and they--his friends nickname'd him "Big George Lane." He was always-.known thtt: ' ,
-3- . - T-62Q-3 with the herbs and sometimes the flower. But the flower—the flower, I have " / , forgotten the name, but I can just see it and it has a beautiful odor. And it was made more for a tea, for a bath like you have a sore throat and you ''have a headache, you put this tea, you'know across your head. And this tea, • * i why you bathed in it and where ever it hurt Tou. And they used that quite a lot for medicine too. (You don't remember it's' name ?) - f Well, I don't remember it's name, but it's a long stem and it's has a—it's a,purple—purple flower and the leaves are real slender. There are a whole lot of leaves around that little center part. And they are-purple and they have a beautiful odor. I can't--! don't know, it doesn't smell like camphor, 'but I don't remember the name. But I know that my aunt used that cyjite a lot in headaches, and wherever your' leg aches arid whatever you had that was, paining ^ou, why they just made kind of a planter like and put there. (Do you remembe» arty of the roots they used?) Well, no, I don't. I don't remember any of the rpots, but there were plenty I know, that, they-have for indigestion for their stomach trouble, why they dug' and they had—they'd make tea out of that too and they would chew some of that. And that way it seems though they• were.-quite relieved. ' They used to •
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