And they would always have a pot of that Indian tea. If we didn't have the Indian tea, they'd have rose hip or rose bush. Before we'd go out and take one of those little bundles and rub ourselves all over. We rubbed ourselves and the little needles would stick to our body. And our grandmother would say, 'when you go out of the sweatlodge, you talk to the water.
Water is powerful.
Get in that water, and you talk to the water as you wash the needles off . And that's part of our cleansing. And always remember your bloodline. And we would do that, again. And when we were ready to go out and rub ourselves with those fir bow.