Description
The creator combines the Yuwipi ceremony with two ancient Sioux rituals continuously performed along with it, the vision quest and the sweat lodge. Wayne Runs Again, affected by alcoholism and worried about his father’s health, seeks out a shaman who, At the same time as bound in darkness, calls on supernatural beings to free him and to keep up a correspondence. At the same time as the young man undergoes purification in a sweat lodge and waits on a hill for a vision, the community prays for him and his father. The ceremony serves not only to cure the ill but also to reaffirm the continuity of Oglala society.