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Lori Boess, was raised here in the Northwest in Olympia area where it has been here home for over 16 years. She is an artist of focusing on her Cherokee tradition. She create drums, rattles, fans, and other art. Lori also participate in local festivals, pow wows, and other ceremonial gatherings.
She teaches people to make drums in the ceremonial way, taught to her by GrandMother Berniece Falling Leaves.
Honoring her teacher
Reverend Berniece Falling Leaves, is a third generation meta-physician who received most of her early training from her Grandmother, and from growing up in a Spiritualist Church. She is a Metis, half Lakota Sioux and half Danish, who received training from many Native Americans of different Tribes, Bands, and Nations. She is also guided by her Non-Physical Spiritual Teachers. She has been actively working and teaching for more than 60 years.
Lori was taught to make drums by Berniece Falling Leaves, fans by Bonnie Pemberton, and rattles are self-taught
Lori is a highly gifted intuitive, artist, masseur and medicine woman. She also does amazing house clearings.
Berniece takes her Hopi given name, Falling Leaves, as her last name, then adds Crowfoote. She neglects to report name change to the SSA. Therefore, SSA and Medicare continue to relate to her as Bernice Simard.
As I prepare for Pipe Ceremony, I think of all the seeds BFL planted.
Today as I honor her and respect her, LOUDLY She gives me new information.
Grandmother reminds me and all those connected by her teachings.. IT IS MORE IMPORTANT NOW THAN EVER, TO DO OUR WORK. TO PRAY FOR WATER, TO DO WATER CERMONY, TO HEAL MOTHER EARTHE ~HO
She added to my personal pipe ceremony. I'm am so honored to continue to be her granddaughter... Ho
I am an adopted Granddaughter, she lives on thru her hundreds of students.
She came to Phoenix for a few years. She came to the University Of Life church. She did all the classes that you said. She rented a old home on a hill in Cave creek and we are spent lots of time there. It was a big pleasure to have her here. Was sad when she went home. She spent time on the Hopi reservation. She brought the chief down here. Grandfather David. She came to my home and got along with my mom. Yes we miss her a lot.
Thinking of you on your birthday, Sophia Noad. Thank you for everything.
GBFL
Grandmother Falling Leaves of the Blue Moon Medicine Lodge, a great friend, told me the following. In Native American tradition, a less well known use for herbs, whether wild or in a garden, is that they are just as healing left as they are. As the wind blows through and plays with the herbs, their healing and beneficial qualities blow them to.the four corners of the earth, bringing peace, healing and harmony. In this way the healing essences of the herbs are given to the whole world; the air, the wind, the earth and all elements present. A wind sock or wind flag is essential so that the wind has something to play with, as it is a child by nature, and if it becomes bored it will create havoc with its strength and in its boredom seek something, sometimes destructive in our eyes, to keep it occupied. What a lovely way to think of the plants and elements.
She mixed in pendulums, metaphysics, "orgone energy accumulators", "muscle testing", and other new age/theosophical trappings. Active in WA and AZ.
The medicine wheel ceremony I participated was at VanDusen botanical garden. Elder Phil L’Hirondelle led the ceremony based on the teachings from Bernice Falling Leaves.
A lady named Bernice Falling Leaves introduced me to it. She was quite an amazing woman who traveled all over the world, making networks. She’d go up to Alaska and put a stone there and then she’d take a stone from Alaska down to Mexico. And she made a kind of worldwide wheel you might say. She always said, “These rock people are very alive!” Because we consider everything to be alive, and we call the stones the old record keepers.
