Ida Downwind and Michael Pourier
Recorded
January 29, 2023
Archived
January 29, 2023
02:17:13
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Description
Michael "Mike" Pourier (55) tells their Hunka sister Ida Downwind (71) about their spiritual journey as a two-spirited medicine person as well as their experience with brain cancer. Ida shares about her childhood and path to meeting Mike.Subject Log / Time Code
TRACK 1 MP and ID talk about their relationship and what it means to be Hunka.
MP talks about where they grew up and some of their family history.
MP tells a story about an early and significant dream for them when they were 8: a bear bestowing the gift of healing.
MP talks about the beginning of their spiritual journey.
MP talks about waiting for the next generation of two-spirit people to arrive - waiting for the right person to share their knowledge with.
MP talks about the sacredness of two-spirit people and the dreamers.
Mic is adjusted and MP and ID and StoryCorps staff banter.
MP talks about their grandmother.
MP talks about being eight years old and going to a ceremony where they were told to prevent their brother's death.
TRACK 2 ID talks about growing up during the baby scoop era. She was taken to a Catholic "home."
ID talks about a house fire that killed her grandmother when she was 10 years old.
ID talks about her white foster parents who forced her to work on their farm and banned her from their living room. Mentions abuse.
ID talks about meeting MP when she moved to Pine Ridge where MP lived.
IH talks about raising her grandson and two daughters on her own.
MP talks about beginning to get sick while at work.
MP talks about being diagnosed with a brain tumor at 37 years old.
MP talks about dying during the first biopsy of the brain tumor.
MP talks about deciding to fight cancer.
MP talks about being so sick that they couldn't help people anymore.
MP and ID thank one another.
Participants
- Ida Downwind
- Michael Pourier