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Transcript: Kenneth H. York, Ph.D.

A story about the woodpecker; an analogy for the work of the traditional healer

[York:]
My dad used to say the woodpecker taught some of our Native healers. The woodpecker would peck the tree when it’s dying, and before it dies, the woodpecker finds that problem which normally is the insect inside the tree, so they would pull that out. So the Native healer would do the same thing. They would feel your body and find the problem, and then they would extract that problem.