Musigisg Membertou

Early Life Musi as she is commonly known in Presque Isle where she grew up as a child her farther was from the Chippawa Crane clan his name was Ray Thunderbird his spirit guide was said to be the yellow bird her mother was a Mi'kmaq and Abenaki woman from Maine who was known as Malian Atu'tuej of the squirrel clan. She had one older brother who was Standing Wolf Man which she called Paqtism for short which meant wolf in their language. Together they traveled to Boston to escape the boarding school living at their grandmothers. In their teenage Paqtism had left and went to New York to join the white mans army while Musi had learned how to become a medicine woman and leading woman among the Mi'kmaq in Boston. A few years after her brother left she would leave Boston to she traveled to New York where she met the veteran who had recruited her brother she traveled west from New York arriving in Iowa where she lived among the local native population until she was around 20 she was a healer among the people.

Living in the West

After leaving Iowa after her village was attacked and many had died due to a conflict in the local region she was forced further west she arrived in Kansas and settled on the Cherokee reserve there she would work at the local church knowing many Catholic ceremonies from her schooling days she only worked as a maid but earned enough to survive while living in Kansas. She spent five years living on the Cherokee reservation until she got tired of reservation life and once again traveled further west she came upon Paha Sapa and the Black Hills. She befriended a local elder and clan mother Elder joining the community of Siha Sapa here she would work with a group of healers and woman to gather resources and medicines it seemed they where free here. She would eventually reunite with her brother who had been living among the Cheyenne and came a week later to the Black Hills. Musi feels complete living among the Lakota.