About Raven

   

Greetings I am Donna Raven Long ( AKA Raven ) 

 I came from a medicine family.

My great- great grandmother was a medicine woman who healed with herbs and sometimes stones or crystals. But mostly she was known for hands-on healings, which is the majority of our medicine. In our family our medicine was passed down from grandmother to granddaughter.

My Grandmother taught and passed the Family medicine to me.

 

I remember my awakening to the medicine.

I was 11 years old and went on a field trip to a reservation in Wisconsin. I was so excited taking a tour of the reservation. After the tour there was a big tent set up with tables and chairs in the middle of this field. On the edge of the field where cliffs looking out over the ocean. I stood on the edge of the cliff looking out to the ocean. I suddenly had an overwhelming feeling of being home. As I stood there the feeling of home wrapped me up like a cocoon in a loving embrace. I had a vision of myself dressed in buckskins standing on that very spot. The whole world disappeared around me as I stood in silence and embraced the feeling of being home.

It was honestly the first and only time in my life where I felt and knew I truly belonged.

The whole time I was there I felt like there was two of me and we were connected. So much so that when it came time to do the craft set out for us which was weaving a placemat for a dinner table. I had mine completed before anyone else without any help. It was perfect! When we boarded the bus, I remember the sadness that came over me. I did not want to leave this place or the feeling it had given me.

 

I silently cried the entire bus ride back to school.

When I returned home from school that afternoon my grandmother came home from her job. My grandmother handed me a small hand beaded turquoise medicine bag. She said someone told her to give it to me, but she never told who. It was then that she told me we came from a French Mohawk Medicine family.

 

She explained the medicine was passed down to grandmother to granddaughter.

She also told me about her grandmother Geneviève Tremblay who taught her the medicine ways. It was my turn to receive the medicine and so the journey began. Having visions and experiences and my grandmother telling me the medicine stories. I could listen to them forever and I cherished every teaching she gave.

 

It was also then that I started communicating with a spirit who claimed to be a grandmother.  

my Grandmother passed years ago . To this day I still receive insights ,visions, guidance and knowledge from both grandmothers. I believe we must always honor our Ancestors. They are the ones who paved the way for us to be where we are today.