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Travels Of The Corn Priest's Bundle
Author: Karen Herzog Source: Bismarck Tribune (ND)
Title: TRAVELS OF THE CORN PRIEST'S BUNDLE
Seeds and plant parts, wrapped in cloth or leather, and an ancient pipe, comprise the Mandan corn priest's medicine bundle. In that bundle is the accumulated wisdom of many lifetimes - knowing plants that healed, plants that fed, the what and how and why of the ancient cycle of gardening the earth.
The corn priests provided new seeds for growing. This was considered holy or sacred, said Calvin Grinnell, resource specialist at Three Tribes Museum in New Town.
For 31 generations of corn priests and further back than that, the bundles were handed down in the traditional way.
Down the centuries, the bundle passed from one corn priest to the next, usually when someone was visited by a vision or a dream to come forward to take responsibility for the bundle. Sometimes it went from father to son, or was purchased by an interested party, Grinnell said.
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