Missing Witches - MW Lozen - This Power Is Mine

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00:00:49.860 In this story, we have to push past the settler faces dynamited into sacred ground 0.77

00:00:56.440 to get to the missing history of real American heroes.

00:01:01.660 Real witches whose names aren't told in school,

00:01:04.680 but whose magic has shifted the culture we inhabit.

00:01:08.680 Hidden, moving in shadows and behind the scenes.

00:01:13.060 Today we'll meet Lozen, a warrior, healer, and prophet of the Cheyenne Shirikawa Apache

00:01:21.380 who, when the Indian Removal Act was passed in the USA in 1830,

00:01:27.020 was a ten-year-old girl whose power and difference was already beginning to show.

00:01:34.800 Here's what I want you to know about Lozen right from the jump.

00:01:38.760 She is said to have had a psychic ability, that she was gifted.

00:01:44.480 But when we work very, very hard, learn, commit, and sacrifice, do we call a return on that energetic investment a gift, or did we earn it?

00:01:58.820 By me, Lozen was not gifted.

00:02:02.900 She earned her power in ways I'll tell you about, but keep in mind as you listen to her story from beginning to end.

00:02:11.020 Your witch power is not a gift that you either receive or don't.

00:02:16.240 We don't wake up on Christmas morning to find it under a festive tree.

00:02:20.340 It isn't in an envelope delivered by an owl.

00:02:24.540 Your power is a wage you earn when you put in the work.

00:02:29.020 It is a birthright, but it is activated by your learning and your labor.

00:02:36.240 Much of the information I gathered on Lozen's life comes from Warrior Woman,

00:02:42.160 The Story of Lozen, Apache Warrior and Shaman by Peter Alishire.

00:02:47.640 As one reviewer on Goodreads noted,

00:02:51.040 the book is written by white eyes, but it's better than nothing at all.

00:02:55.060 And I think that's how Risa and I feel when we tell these stories.

00:02:58.560 We go looking for the lives we didn't know about.

00:03:02.200 The names we hadn't heard in school.

00:03:03.940 Not to become authorities, but to learn for ourselves.

00:03:08.280 And pass these tidbits onto you, our Missing Witch's Coven.

00:03:13.620 We are trying to know better.

00:03:16.720 Like Maya Angelou said, when you know better, you do better.

00:03:20.200 And that, for us, like the Goodreads reviewer wrote, is better than nothing at all.

00:03:26.940 Lozen was born in late 1840 within sight of the Sacred Mountain near Ojo Caliente.

00:03:34.020 Spanish for hot eyes, one of the oldest natural health resources in the United States.

00:03:40.840 The area is home to hallowed hot springs, where legend states that a Tewa hero once

00:03:47.780 accessed the underworld via the warm water. The hot springs' varying temperatures and

00:03:54.000 mineral contents mean that these pools are not just holy, but healing.

00:03:59.360 so of course this spot is now a resort and spa created around a bathhouse built in the 1800s

00:04:09.880 by a territorial representative to congress in 2020 a fire at the spa destroyed the historic

00:04:17.180 bathhouse but it's rebuilt and reopened now for a soak to as the ad states heal yourself

00:04:24.380 body, and soul, with a retreat to Ojo. If you can afford it.

00:04:31.920 Colonial capitalism is like tinnitus, a constant ringing in our ears, a ceaseless high-pitched

00:04:39.420 frequency that demands to be heard above all else. We go looking for sacred stories and find a holy

00:04:47.880 spot where our connection to nature, our bodies and souls, and to the spirits of the land is bought

00:04:54.740 and sold. Holy places with ticket prices. Regarding Mount Rushmore, in the Treaty of 1868,

00:05:03.740 the U.S. government promised the Sioux territory that included its site, the Sacred Black Hills,

00:05:10.840 in perpetuity. Perpetuity lasted only until gold was found in the mountains.

00:05:19.860 We've talked a lot on the podcast about how our treatment of women is echoed in our treatment of

00:05:25.440 the land, how capitalism, exploitation, and prejudice require each other, how it's all linked,

00:05:32.900 and these links are perhaps most clearly visible when we note what Aaron Wise calls

00:05:39.480 the frightening way fossil fuels and violence against Native women are connected.

00:05:45.620 She writes,

00:05:46.180 A boom in the oil industry had introduced many small towns to an influx of non-Native male pipeline workers.

00:05:54.600 This caused the ratio of men to women in said communities to change drastically.

00:06:00.620 On average, the ratio is around 10 to 1, and in some places it can be as high as 20 to 1.

00:06:06.860 As Christine Nobis of Seeding Sovereignty has previously written, the rise of violent crime

00:06:13.180 is directly coincident with the oil boom. It may not be obvious to non-Native people,

00:06:19.540 but the health and safety of Native American people is directly linked to the health and

00:06:24.920 safety of our land. Aaron drops some statistics. According to the U.S. Government Accountability

00:06:31.440 office, U.S. attorneys reportedly declined 50% of the indigenous cases deferred to them between 2005

00:06:39.820 and 2009, of which 67% were sexual abuse and rape-related. 70% of violent victimizations

00:06:48.520 experienced by indigenous peoples are not committed by persons of the same race,

00:06:53.680 according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Attempted suicide has been reported by more

00:06:58.800 than 20% of girls surveyed. Erin concludes the essay by saying,

00:07:04.440 A catastrophic web has been woven between extractive industries and Native communities,

00:07:10.640 and we are each called upon to observe issues of broader concern. It is evident now, more than ever, 0.98

00:07:17.900 that extractive industries are having disproportionate adverse effects on Indigenous

00:07:23.080 peoples, particularly on the well-being of Native women. The continued desecration of unceded

00:07:30.300 Indigenous territories and sacred resources resulting from extraction projects have

00:07:35.980 contributed to disease, birth defects, reproductive health issues, and delayed early childhood

00:07:42.660 development among many community members. More attention needs to be given to Indigenous women

00:07:48.640 living near points of extraction.

00:07:50.820 This is the land we inherited from our ancestors. 1.00

00:07:53.960 We are still here, intrepid and indigenous, 1.00

00:07:58.140 and we are moving forward. 1.00

00:08:00.720 Christine Nobus said,

00:08:02.480 Our stories about colonial violence and environmental destruction

00:08:07.000 are key to moving forward in the fight to stop

00:08:10.100 the systemic destruction of our environment.

00:08:14.280 See, witches, the universe operates in patterns,

00:08:18.300 webs, connections. You can think of it literally or metaphorically, but we are the Earth.

00:08:26.240 Lozen's power, in my view, wasn't so much that she was psychic, but that she was listening.

00:08:32.840 Connected to the Earth to such a degree that it sent her messages.

00:08:37.580 The Apaches did not refer to themselves as Apache. This was a word that translated to

00:08:43.160 enemy in Zuni and was later adopted by the Spanish. Apaches instead referred to themselves

00:08:48.560 with variants of Ende, meaning the people. The name Lozen was an Ende war title, meaning

00:08:55.540 one who has stolen horses in a raid. This reminded me of a German turn of phrase, a compliment.

00:09:02.720 Jemand mit deinem Fjernem stehlen kann. It refers to someone who is reliable, trustworthy,

00:09:09.400 a friend with whom you can do something extraordinary, difficult, or crazy. Someone

00:09:16.560 who is game for everything. Literally translated, somebody with whom you can steal horses.

00:09:24.660 And Lozen was all that. Strong, loyal, and trustworthy. Someone you could steal horses with.

00:09:32.080 Her brother, Victorio, called her his right hand in battle, saying she was strong as a man,

00:09:37.960 but braver than most, and cunning in strategy, he said Lozen is a shield to her people. Of course,

00:09:45.340 it helped that she had the ability to detect the movement of her enemies. According to legend,

00:09:51.580 Lozen would stretch out her arms with her palms facing the sky. Then she would follow the sun, 1.00

00:09:58.680 praying to Usen, the Ende creator of life. When she felt a tingling in her hands,

00:10:04.900 and when her palms darkened, Lozen would know the direction from which her enemies were coming.

00:10:12.200 But before she came into her power, Lozen came of age. By seven, she had demonstrated her

00:10:18.520 proficiency with horses, her ability to win foot races, and keep up with not only the boys,

00:10:24.080 but with her tribal leaders. Alishire wrote,

00:10:27.980 At first, Lozen was like many other girls. She gathered the firewood, waited to eat until her

00:10:34.020 father and her uncles were finished, and spent long hours with the women preparing the food.

00:10:39.320 She chewed sinew, tanned buckskin, gathered food, and she thought often that she would like to become

00:10:46.040 an apprentice to a warrior. She learned the names of all the places around the Ojo Caliente and up

00:10:53.920 on the Sacred Mountain. Each hill, outcropping, spring, stream, cluster of trees, and canyon had

00:11:00.700 a name given to it by the first people. She traveled along with her mother, her father, her

00:11:05.620 uncles, and Nana whenever she could, hoping they would tell her the stories of the naming of each

00:11:11.640 place. Each story taught a lesson. Because everyone knew all the stories, they could make almost any

00:11:19.620 point by bringing up the right places, all without ever offering a direct criticism to wound a

00:11:26.400 person's pride. Nana said she must learn all of the place names she could and remember each story.

00:11:33.400 Nana explained that Lozen must go to these places and sit there a long while and listen. These

00:11:39.620 places would know she was listening. The places themselves could correct one's thinking, and they

00:11:47.060 would help her to smooth out her mind, to let go of fear and emotion and ego and self-importance.

00:11:55.560 Only places could impart the calm, focus, and attention that came with wisdom.

00:12:01.540 Lozen yearned for wisdom so she might serve her people.

00:12:05.720 So she eagerly sought the names of every place she encountered and traveled constantly about the Ojo Caliente and up and down the Sacred Mountain,

00:12:15.080 repeating the names of each place and sitting quietly for hours at a time to let the wisdom of those places soak into her.

00:12:22.980 Soon, it was time for Lozen's Sunrise Ceremony.

00:12:26.440 A quick note, for over 70 years, the Sunrise Ceremony was banned by the U.S. government,

00:12:34.380 as were most of Native spiritual practices and rituals.

00:12:38.600 With the American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978,

00:12:42.440 the Sunrise Ceremony could openly be practiced on reservations again.

00:12:46.420 But it is impossible to even imagine the devastation of your sacred, ancient, ancestral traditions being taken and criminalized.

00:13:00.000 The four-day ceremony that Lozen passed through marked a girl's transition into womanhood, acknowledging the power of her blood.

00:13:08.820 Each of the 96 hours is filled with specific prayers, songs, dances, the painting of faces,

00:13:15.960 and the testing of resolve. These four days were followed by four more days of meditation.

00:13:22.740 Alishire wrote, Lozen remained in prayer, like a dream, and when the full four days of meditation

00:13:29.980 had passed, she got up, taking nothing but a water skin, and went up to the sacred mountain.

00:13:36.420 She found a place that seemed right to her and sat alone, not eating, barely moving, hoping for a vision.

00:13:45.660 Alishire describes how days passed, the sun rose and set.

00:13:51.780 Lozen began to feel despair, no vision was coming, all she could hear was the crow, all she could see were the clouds.

00:13:58.800 And then she realized that this despair as well is a form of pride.

00:14:03.160 and so she returned to listening. She waited, patiently, for her power.

00:14:11.020 Alishire wrote, power pervades all things. It is the animating force in everything,

00:14:17.620 the life force. In this sense, everything is alive, even the rocks and the wind.

00:14:23.980 And so, finally, power spoke to her. She saw visions. A horse came to her and spoke to her,

00:14:31.860 saying she should have horse power. The horse carefully and tenderly taught her a song.

00:14:37.640 The sun's horse is a yellow stallion. His nose, the place above his nose, is of haze.

00:14:45.960 His ears, of the small lightning, are moving back and forth. He has come to us. The sun's horse is

00:14:54.640 a yellow stallion, a blue stallion, a black stallion. The sun's horse has come to us.

00:15:02.820 This song would give her power over horses and an understanding of them and the ability to heal

00:15:08.120 anyone who was affected by horse sickness or injured by a horse. She also saw other things

00:15:13.980 and heard other voices, things about which she did not speak again, and that she did not describe,

00:15:21.120 nor question nor ever forget she told victorio and nana she had been given a ceremony to locate the

00:15:29.360 enemy she had been told she must stand in a clear space and sing the song she had been given if an

00:15:36.400 enemy was near she would feel his presence in the heat on her palms when she faced the direction

00:15:41.840 from which the enemy would come the greater the heat of her hands the closer the enemy

00:15:48.020 She sang the song.

00:15:50.300 Upon this earth, on which we live, Usain has power.

00:15:55.460 This power is mine.

00:15:57.640 For locating the enemy, I search for that enemy, which only Usain the Great can show me.

00:16:04.600 And Lozen's people needed her. 0.88

00:16:06.860 The Indian Removal Act was being enforced as Lozen was coming into her power. 0.97

00:16:13.500 and as alishire wrote the white eyes had come among the people everything depended on the

00:16:23.440 character of a man but who could know how it stood with the white eyes the nantan said they could not

00:16:30.080 make a decision themselves bound by the promises written down on paper which seemed almost like

00:16:37.180 witchcraft. Let's take a look at one of those promises written on papers, the Indian Removal 1.00

00:16:43.380 Act. Some trivia, Davy Crockett, who I didn't even know was a congressman and not just king

00:16:50.300 of the wild frontier, voted against the Indian Removal Act, stating that his decision would

00:16:57.080 quote, not make me ashamed in the day of judgment. The Indian Removal Act was signed into law

00:17:05.480 on may 28th 1830 by united states president andrew jackson who appears on the american

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00:19:35.340 paypal.me slash missingwitches. So the Indian Removal Act mandated the forced displacement 0.87

00:19:44.400 of thousands and thousands and thousands of indigenous people, removing them from the

00:19:50.500 land that they had inhabited for thousands and thousands and thousands of years, to extract 1.00

00:19:57.880 resources, get paid.

00:20:01.120 We call part of this story the Trail of Tears, but we could equally call it the Trail of

00:20:06.440 Blood, the Trail of Oil, the Trail of Gold, the Trail of Greed.

00:20:13.080 Of course, many tribes fought back, and Lozen's was one of them.

00:20:17.480 She rode alongside her brother, Victorio.

00:20:20.740 Lozen was an expert strategist and military leader,

00:20:23.740 but she also had a determination and a courage that inspired the people around her.

00:20:29.740 James Coakla, a child at the time, remembers riding behind his grandmother

00:20:34.280 as the band fled and fought American forces.

00:20:38.760 Coming up against the Rio Grande, they were frozen, terrified to cross the torrent.

00:20:43.640 I saw a magnificent woman on a beautiful horse, he said.

00:20:47.660 Lozen, sister of Victorio. Lozen, the woman warrior.

00:20:53.440 High above her head, she held her rifle. 1.00

00:20:55.900 There was a glitter as her right foot lifted and struck the shoulder of her horse.

00:21:00.020 He reared, then plunged into the torrent.

00:21:04.620 She turned his head upstream and he began swimming.

00:21:07.840 Once Lozen had led the people across the river, she returned to battle, a nurturer and defender.

00:21:15.800 And because she was deeply connected to the earth, she possessed a wealth of knowledge

00:21:20.860 about the medicinal properties of plants and minerals, making her a renowned medicine woman

00:21:26.580 and healer as well. Some have speculated that part of the reason that Lozen isn't as well known

00:21:32.400 as names like Geronimo or Crazy Horse, is that she was an actual secret weapon, and her comrades

00:21:39.880 feared that to speak of her power would make her a target. Faced with arrest and forcible relocation,

00:21:46.740 Victorio led a guerrilla war, fought many battles and skirmishes with the United States Army,

00:21:52.520 and raided several settlements until the Mexican army killed him and most of his warriors in October

00:21:59.780 1880 in the Battle of Tres Castillos. Her brother killed in battle, a distraught Lozen rejoined

00:22:07.420 Geronimo to exact her revenge in true warrior fashion, returning to the warpath quickly 0.93

00:22:13.780 and purposefully. Lozen had epic power and courage, fought longer than Crazy Horse or Geronimo,

00:22:23.160 and, as Alishire wrote, she fought more effectively than Custer, evaded a full one-quarter of the

00:22:31.200 United States Army. Lozen, the war shaman of the Apache, represents one of the most successful,

00:22:38.920 respected, and influential woman warriors in history. Yet historians have almost entirely

00:22:45.740 overlooked her remarkable life story. And there is the thread that weaves in and out of every

00:22:52.580 episode of the Missing Witches podcast, we may be overlooked, but we will not be forgotten.

00:22:59.360 Whether or not they know our names or acknowledge our contributions, they will live inside the world

00:23:05.020 that we witches helped create. In fact, most of our names won't go down in history books,

00:23:12.640 but we can be secret weapons, changing the world from the shadows and the light.

00:23:19.080 Geronimo went on the run with 140 followers, including Lozen,

00:23:23.480 after rumors began circulating that their leaders were to be imprisoned at Alcatraz Island.

00:23:29.480 Lozen, and another woman, Tadotze, began negotiating peace treaties.

00:23:35.500 Self-described queer indigenous activist Erin Wise, whom I quoted earlier,

00:23:41.420 claims that Lozen and Tadotze were two spirits who were in love

00:23:46.480 before being violently separated by colonization.

00:23:50.280 And I applaud this take.

00:23:52.200 Lozen never married, so it's comforting to think of her finding true love within a lifetime of war.

00:23:58.720 Aaron wrote,

00:23:59.380 According to Cristoso Apache, writing for the Kaila Folk Encyclopedia of Gay Folklife,

00:24:06.060 Tadatsi was also a warrior since her youth and, despite being married with children,

00:24:10.560 spent a significant amount of time riding with Cochise's band against the current of Western

00:24:16.100 expansion. Some years later, she joined Geronimo's band and rode alongside both him and Lozen.

00:24:23.080 The American leaders dismissed them, but Lozen and Tadotze carried on with their attempts to

00:24:29.300 negotiate. The rebels believed that they had a strong resolve until it was revealed that all

00:24:35.420 the Chiricahuas had been rounded up and sent to Florida. If they wanted to rejoin their kin, 0.99

00:24:41.620 the Ende needed to head east toward captivity. The warriors agreed to surrender and laid down

00:24:47.880 their arms. Five days later, they were on a train bound for Florida. Lozen was separated from

00:24:54.660 Tadatze, taken into U.S. military custody as a prisoner of war and sent to Mount Vernon

00:25:00.360 barracks in Alabama. She never returned to her home and died in confinement of tuberculosis

00:25:07.360 on June 17th, 1889. At 49 years old, she had been fighting for almost literally her entire life.

00:25:18.020 Sometimes I wonder about the high road, about negotiation and respectful discourse,

00:25:24.000 agreements, concessions, compromises, and of course these things are very good.

00:25:29.540 But only when there is mutual trust and respect between the two parties. 0.91

00:25:34.800 Lozen spent her final active years negotiating, in good faith, that the White Eyes could show reason, compassion, a willingness to bend. 0.83

00:25:45.020 But instead she was imprisoned and infected. 0.60

00:25:47.740 And we modern witches get a tiny echo of this feeling when we go out into the world seeking common ground and mutual benefit,

00:25:55.560 only to find a regime that believes life is a zero-sum game

00:26:00.240 where there is a winner and a loser and nothing in between.

00:26:05.960 How do we reason with people who want to destroy us?

00:26:09.800 Who want us to lose?

00:26:12.700 How do we compromise with a society that would rather we didn't exist?

00:26:17.720 And a question that perhaps the earth spirits are asking themselves.

00:26:21.980 how do we talk to those who won't listen?

00:26:26.440 And I'm reminded of the world-shattering Stokely Carmichael quote

00:26:30.260 that broke my heart and blew my mind the first time and every time I read it.

00:26:35.640 Dr. King's policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States.

00:26:41.760 His major assumption was that if you are nonviolent, if you suffer,

00:26:46.520 your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart.

00:26:51.740 That's very good.

00:26:53.040 He only made one fallacious assumption.

00:26:56.600 In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience.

00:27:02.760 The United States has none.

00:27:06.220 I mean, I'm certainly not advocating for violence here, and I don't think Stokely was either.

00:27:11.800 We're just asking, under these circumstances, what do we do?

00:27:19.000 Lozen tried it both ways.

00:27:20.900 The war path and the path of peaceful negotiation.

00:27:25.220 And while it's tempting to feel like she failed at both, we can't.

00:27:30.140 Because we don't know how many lives or maybe even generations she may have saved.

00:27:36.560 What America might look like if she hadn't tried.

00:27:39.680 What the future might look like if we don't try.

00:27:44.580 Lozen could have and we can sit back and watch or we can fight.

00:27:48.660 educate, donate, celebrate, do something, anything. Anything is better than nothing at all.

00:27:59.920 Lozen had powers that most of us don't, but we modern witches too have powers that Lozen did

00:28:05.060 not. The internet has given us the possibility of a global voice. Feminist and civil rights

00:28:11.460 leaders have secured us some modicum of self-determination, autonomy, and agency. 0.80

00:28:18.860 It's better than nothing. We can organize the baby steps that will become the journey of a

00:28:24.660 thousand miles. It's better than nothing. And all the while, we have to keep in mind that a word

00:28:31.440 like compromise has two meanings. One, a deal where both parties give a little and get a little

00:28:39.100 in an effort to secure a mutual benefit or agreement.

00:28:43.420 And two, a lowering of one's standards or integrity.

00:28:49.580 So we can see Lozen in her final years, and maybe ourselves as we negotiate our paths,

00:28:54.980 as looking to compromise while simultaneously being very uncompromising.

00:29:00.760 Such is the world of magic, right witches?

00:29:03.580 Contradictions without binaries at every turn.

00:29:06.260 Here's another one.

00:29:07.080 We can hear our human stories when we listen to non-human entities. 0.96

00:29:13.440 We can learn about our humanity if we listen to the mountains and trees. 0.98

00:29:19.380 Get quiet and listen to the wind and stream.

00:29:24.920 Living in the woods has taught me so much about what it means to be a singular being while also a tiny part of a whole universe.

00:29:33.720 It's hard to put into words, but I nurture my happiness just by noticing.

00:29:39.040 I give what I can.

00:29:41.140 Try to reduce my harm.

00:29:43.620 Know better.

00:29:44.780 Do better.

00:29:46.360 It's better than nothing at all.

00:29:48.240 So I want us to think of Lozen and her warrior spirit and go outside, city, suburb, or country.

00:29:56.800 Everything is alive.

00:29:58.840 Feel the life force.

00:30:00.660 Stand and raise our hands.

00:30:02.880 palms toward the eastern sky. Affirm our connection to the land. Turn slowly in a

00:30:10.360 circle and feel the energy of the directions. Understand that places have power to shape

00:30:16.900 thoughts and behaviors. Try to sense what messages the breeze and clouds and rocks and trees and sun

00:30:25.720 are sending, knowing that it may take moments, years, or generations to learn their language.

00:30:32.880 to feel their wisdom, the magic and spirit of places.

00:30:40.600 Seek the wisdom that sits in places.

00:30:44.140 Yearn for it so we might serve our people.

00:30:48.420 The places will know we are listening.

00:30:51.960 Make listening our superpower.

00:30:54.980 Let's acknowledge and cultivate our forces of perception.

00:30:59.220 Compromise without compromise.

00:31:01.220 eyes. Let's steal horses and fight for the land and people and what we know is right,

00:31:08.440 dancing and singing Lozen's words all the while. This power is mine.

00:31:20.800 You must be a witch.

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Missing Witches - September 26, 2021

MW Lozen - This Power Is Mine

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