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The Medicine Wheel on Medicine Mountain

Fig. 1The Medicine Wheel on Medicine Mountain

Photo: U.S. Forest Service Photo · Public domain

Landform

An eighty-foot stone wheel on a high Bighorn ridge — a living Native sacred site.

Field note

Walk the path outside the rope. Do not step the spokes. Do not take stone. The wheel is not a puzzle to solve. You are a guest on Medicine Mountain.

A private leaf

Prints from Medicine Wheel


Instant paper, this copy only. Write on the white — a line the walk still owes you.

The prints

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