☀️Brent Blout has been a Sundancer for 20 years and taken care of a lodge for an equal amount of time. He is part of the Metis Nation of the US, the Plains Metis, who adopted the Lakota ways and didn't try to change them. Learn more at www.brentblount.com.

🪈We will do what we would do at an Inipi (sweat lodge) inside. Process: set up alter and directional flags. Load pipe, ask spirits to have compassion and help us. Sing appropriate songs. Sing prayer songs, spirit calling songs, and play flute spirit calling songs. Everyone prays. Sing spirit talking songs. People listen. Sing healing songs. Pass around stone, heal with wing. Sing thank you song for the Winter Solstice. Smoke pipe outside, sing spirit sending away song. Many of these songs haven't been sung around here in a long time, or ever.

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