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[[Singing]]

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
What does this song say? What kind of song is this?

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
This is more a spiritual song. A spiritual song because, it says "don't do, don't do". This man was sort of a doctor like.

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Doctor and people used to come to him for help. And the man would stand up and sing this song.

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And then he would call the spirits, because he could hear the spirits and talk to the spirits. Good spirits.

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And the good spirits would tell him just what to do. Why this person was sick, what his sickness was, and what he should take to cure it. So that's the song.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
What Valana is talking about is the man who is singing the song or who would have sung this song was a shaman.

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He was our medicine man. In our society, the highest positions you could hold were political positions and also positions of medicine.

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People who knew plants such as Valana. She is the one who has contributed in the culture bank over here.

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She's done the, she's recorded all the plants for the ethnobotany, how we use plants.

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But in our society, that was a highly respected position. So this man would ask for council if somebody were ill so that he would do the right thing and give the right medicines.