Oklevueha Native American Church - History Read More on the Mother Church Website Many of these stories and others that are not part of this paper are being shared because of Oklevueha Seminole Chief Little Dove’s desire to have them told. Items 1 and 2, The Survival of Indigenous spirituality and The Making of a Medicine Man are a collection of stories that are accepted to be reasonably accurate. More than seven years ago, because of James’s limited ability to express his personal thoughts, experiences, and; of world history, the Holy Bible and Book of Mormon, by the written word, he first dictated most of these stories, first to Alyssa Wolf and then later to Lianne Bremer. He finally made this writing, with some additions, that were supplied to him by Federal Attorneys and investigators. Item 1, The Survival of Indigenous spirituality, information was first dictated to Alyssa Wolf ,and then Alyssa wrote results of this dictation. This was given to Lianne Bremer. Lianne added some other stories that I had not initially shared with Alyssa. I have altered the draft that Lianne completed simply to make it more accurate to the stories in the way they were shared with me. In the last seven years, my writing ability has improved, enabling me to write this report. Item 2, The Making of a Medicine Man is the introduction to my personal development into being a Medicine Man. This entire paper in actuality is a study of my development in the Medicine. Item 2, also, went through the writing process as the Creation and Survival of the American Native Ceremonies story. Item 3, James Warren “Flaming Eagle” Mooney – Genealogy acknowledges the people and material that finally substantiated, in my mind, the many experiences and stories about me and in my relationship to other Medicine People. Osceola Genealogy – Chart (9th document down), was one of the major pieces of evidence that I studied. It was not recommended by Chief Little Dove but assisted me in my final analysis of accepting Chief Little Dove’s understanding of my relationship with the medicine, and my lineage of ancestors, specifically Billy “Osceola” Powell. However, the results of the DNA test showing 9% sub-Saharan African (which the Utah Federal Defenders Office had me submit) is what confirmed in my mind, the accuracy of Chief “Little Dove” Buford’s, oral history of my ancestors. I am truly a descendent of Osceola and his escaped African slave wife. During a meeting “In 2000, I met with a Guatemalan Medicine Woman. She shared with me her culture’s ways of dedicating an infant through an earthen Sweat Lodge ceremony just like the one Chief Little Dove had shared with me. Upon hearing this, the Guatemalan woman words made a major impact on in me accepting Chief Little Dove’s words as authentic. Chief Little Dove had stated very strongly that many of our Seminole Ceremonies have their roots in Central America. You will not find in this paper any other reference to this meeting, for I do not remember much about her, other than, she is a friend of Margarita Gutierrez, and that the meeting was a sharing of breakfast with Linda and Margarita. This meeting was in a restaurant on Ana Corpus, Island of the San Juan chain of Islands in the State of Washington. Margarita interpreted the entire conversation between this Medicine Woman and me.