Medicine Bags

Season 4 • Episode 10

Chickasaw Culture Keepers

Chickasaw elder Pat Greenwood Cox makes medicine bags to preserve the culture and traditions of her ancestors. "I try to keep my traditional ways that my mother and my father taught me way back when I was younger," she says. "Everything is changing so fast in our world. I believe that some of us older ones should teach the children what the meaning is behind all this stuff." Handcrafted with leather and thread, Pat explains her step-by-step process to make medicine bags and why it is important to her to keep this tradition alive. "I'm just very proud that I can make something that they had way back in our history," she says. "When something turns out real pretty and I'm satisfied with it, I am proud of it. And I think whatever you make, whatever you do, always be proud."

EPISODES

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Medicine Bags

EPISODES

Pottery

Stickball Sticks

Beading

Regalia

Metalsmithing

Shell Carving

Weaving

Horticulture

Baskets

Traditional Foods

Quilting

Flutes

Beaded Collars

Drum Making

Storytelling

Bow Making

Brent Greenwood Art

Beaded Jewelry

Flint Knapping

Stomp Dancing

Beadwork

Turkey Calls

Traditional Stories: How Day and Night Were Divided

Woodturning

Bead Artisan

Textile Art

Quilt Making

Jewelry

The Legacy of Bow Making

Bead Artistry

Painting

Woven Mats

Metalworking

Photography

Pashofa

Deer Toe Shakers

Stickball Sticks

Shell Carving

Medicine Bags

Natural Dyes

Twinning

Bladesmithing

Fish Nets

Porcupine Quillwork

Pottery Burnishing

Shell Carving

Duck Decoys

Traditional Arrows

Fine Gourd Art

Traditional Flutes

Turtle Pottery

Turtle Shell Shakers

Pucker Toe Moccasins

Chunkey

Tattoos and War Paint

Leggings and Breechcloths

Hide Brain Tanning

River Cane Harvesting, Splitting and Peeling

Stories of Kullihoma

History of Beads