Brenda Holder

"With medicine there's a time and a place for everything. It only comes around once.
You have to get it at the right time."
---- Cecilia Mitchell, MOHAWK

"The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart away from nature becomes hard; he knew the lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to a lack of respect for humans too.
So he kept his youth close to its softening influence."
--Luther Standing Bear, OGLALA SIOUX

My grandmother was my wisest teacher and taught me the old ways of medicine, she always said it was my path. My mother told me often of my healing hands and affinity to plant medicine passed down through my family lineage of Kwarakwante.

Through studies of my Ancestral Medicine and those of Medical Herbalism, I am pleased to exercise my sacred healing rights and under the guidance of my elders I am able to use that knowledge for healing where it is needed.