NATIVE AMERICAN MEDICINE WHEEL

CAROL

Will Carol find healing through the birth of the White Buffalo?

Carol is asked to believe, understand, forgive, accept, and to “see”

AbbyMike

John

Wilkes

• Will Carol take the money?• Will Abby fall for John?• Will we find out what

happed to Trevor?• Will Abby forgive her

father?

INTEREST

Is it worth your soul to sell out?TH

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MOVEMENT and STAGINGAs Carol journeys to heal- guided by the chorus- the four locations move circularly. The Chorus (myth) with Natural elements (fabric, sticks, stools) create the environment. Carol is staged in the center (house) until the last moment when she “sees”. At the moment she joins the entire company of believers off of the center platform. She moved on lines and the rest move in circular patterns.

1.Canupa: The Sacred Pipe Ceremony

2.Inipi: The Sweat Lodge3.Hanblecha: The Vision

Quest4.Wiwangwacipi: The Sun

Dance5.Hunkapi: The Making of

Relatives6.The Keeping of The Soul7. Preparing a Girl for Womanhood

These ceremonies occur during different stages of human life, and seasonal change. Though different in nature, the common focus among all of them was the health and healing of individuals and the community. Proper, regular involvement in the essential community ceremonies was, and still is, seen as fundamental to Lakota healing

CAROL’s journey to

“see” guided by

the CHORUS

RITESCanupa: pg. 18Inipi: Hanblecha: pg. 20Wiwangwacipi: pg. 27Hunkapi: pg. 57Soul pg. 70Womanhood pg. 76

• Do You Have a Clear Vision for Abundant Health? (North)

• A vision isn’t just a picture or concept of how you’d like things to be, it’s so much more than that!

• It literally communicates to not only your inner world, but the outer world, what you are calling forth. It activates a powerful connection between you and the Universe.

• It’s an appeal to your Higher Self, your higher Intelligence. It’s an appeal to the Four Sacred Directions and the Native American medicine wheel. And it’s a call that you are committed to become something greater than what you currently are.

• Your Body Longs To Be Loved (South)• It’s a scientific fact that people long to be loved. From the day

you were born, you long to be touched, held … and cared for. You need to start accepting yourself, loving yourself, forgiving yourself.

• And when you start accepting yourself and giving yourself the love you really crave and long for from others, everything starts to turn around. Rather than the other way, instead of seeking that from outside, if you start doing it from the inside miraculous things begin to happen.

• The first part of connecting abundant health to the Native American medicine wheel is about creating a gentle, loving, nurturing, nourishing relationship with yourself, with your body. And realize that longing you have to be loved is something YOU can provide.

• Gain the Courage to be Healthy (East)• It takes a lot of courage to DECIDE to be healthy. So many people today are

obsessed with their How do they look? How much do they weigh? How do their clothes fit? Do they have a ‘beach body’?

• Often people are caught up in JUST the physical appearance of their body, but the commitment to be TRULY healthy — to claim abundant health and wellness — is something that takes a LOT of courage. And it takes stepping OUT of a relationship that keeps you feeling separate from your body.

• If you’re dealing with a health condition, whether it’s life-threatening or what’s been called permanently debilitating… whatever it is, that’s not something you did consciously and said, “Gee, I really want to be sick.”

• That’s not the way that it works. But that doesn’t mean that you haven’t somehow cooperated or participated in the creation of it.

• So the turning point for many is accepting responsibility. For a long time in my life I didn’t like that word because I felt that it implied some sort of blame. But at that point in my life, when the ‘rubber hit the road,’ I had to come to an understanding that it was simply my “ability to respond” … so now I hyphenate it (response-ability).

• Make Peace With Your Body (West)• The first step that you will want to take in your

journey to abundant health is making peace with your body. Making peace with your body means accepting responsibility that your physical being is composed of judgments that have manifested into your interpretation of what a perfect body is. The fact is, the ‘perfect’ body doesn’t exist. It is an illusion created by society — to manipulate society. Now that you know the truth, you can relax and begin to appreciate the unique and original body that you have.

• Our Native elders teach that everything is about relationship. So it is important to begin with the internal relationship, and lay the groundwork for calling in Abundant Health. Without this, it is very hard to sustain health because there is too much stress in the body.

• How Does This Connect to the Native American Medicine Wheel?• As was stated before, the first step towards achieving abundant health is

making peace with your body. This is represented in the West on the Native American medicine wheel. Honesty resides in the sacred direction of the West, and by being honest with yourself and realizing that you are blaming and shaming yourself, you will be able to forgive yourself and ask for your body’s forgiveness.

• Courage resides in the sacred direction of the East on the medicine wheel. It takes a lot of courage to decide to be abundantly healthy. By choosing to be abundantly healthy you are using courage to see a brighter, healthier future for yourself.

• Love resides in the sacred direction of the South on the medicine wheel. Fulfill your longing to be loved by loving and accepting yourself — just as you are.

• Wisdom resides in the sacred direction of the North on the Native American medicine wheel, which you access by consciously creating a bigger vision for your abundant health.

CHARACTERS

CAROL GELLING, 40, a robust and energetic woman. Still attractive, but beginning to show her age. MIKE GELLING, 41, Carol’s ex-husband. Wiry and tough, but gentle. ABBY GELLING, 18, their daughter, a very intelligent and attractive young woman who has been experimenting with the counterculture. JOHN TWO RIVERS, 24, a young Lakota Sioux businessman from Chicago. ANDERSON WILKES, 50s, owner of a large ranch out west.

FIRST MANFIRST WOMAN/White Buffalo WomanFIRST BOYFIRST GIRLAdditional CHORUS of musicians 2-6 (flute, percussion, etc.)

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Fertility

MIKE

Peace Offering

JOHN

Integrity

ABBY

Beginning

Middle

Courage

UIL OAP SET

• 2 4X4 plat forms• 2 4X8 plat form

• Build four extensions to make the center round- they can pull out and be used for levels and seats.

LIGHTS

White Light SPECIAL

Define Locations

Center Home

Mythical Story Color SPECIALS

Blue Cyc for sky

MUSICLIVE from drums and flute and other instruments played by the chorus

COSTUMES

White Buffalo Woman

very little color accents

First Man and First Boy

Heavier on the Yellow

First GirlHeavier on the Red

Additional ChorusHeavier on the

Black

Details: Leather, feathers, and other natural

textures.

WHITE baseRed

YellowBlack

ARTWORKHeld by the chorus and on stable fence structures.

Prop Structures

CAROLWill you please get the door I’m on the phone! ABBY (upstairs)This is why we need a new phone! CAROLPlease!

(ABBY comes down the stairs as CAROL continues speaking into the phone.) ABBYYou know everyone in the whole world has a cordless phone and we just sit here with this Alexander Graham Bell model from 1902— 

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