The Story of Red Leggings with Carol Davis

He started to tell me this really nice story this lady’s name was red leggings she had a try a regular name her name was Elizabeth DeLorme Russell and she um she ran a hospital right in Belcourt she also had a hospital in Winnipeg so she was in two different places at different times she lived in Belgrade then she moved to Winnipeg and then she came back to Turtle Mountain that’s where she died in Belcourt but he said her she would the cancer had to be like a lump so it she didn’t it didn’t sound like she did internal cancers it was like if you had a cancer someplace on your body and he said from what I understand there was two processes one of them she made a poultice and she would put this on that on that cancer and it would be like fire it was like burning the person’s body and then when the PO when the cancer died then she had another poultice and she put the poultice on that cancer and she when it when it took hold she would take it off and the cancer looked like a spider he said it had long tentacles and it would just lift it right off I was telling that story in Grand Forks one time and it hit the newspaper and I got a call from Roger Jordan he was a chairman at Red Lake at the time he said Carol do you speak the language I said no he said do you know the word for cancer in Ojibwe and I said no he said the word for cancer is the same word as Spider