Medicine Man Creates a Ceremony to Heal Navajo Bureaucrats
Tsaile- Three years ago, Navajos discussed the meaning of the monsters and their representation in Navajo society. There was a consensus among the people that these monsters represented the ills of the Navajo people.
Yet, Tony Goldlips believes that Navajo stories needed to be updated to deal with the growing beast, Navajo Bureaucracy.
It was a dark and stormy night when the beast emerged from the white man’s romantic action. A mad social scientist, known as Max Weber, made love to a curvy rock and Navajo bureaucracy was spawned.
It came into fourth world looking for trees to consume and people to work its bowels. Since its conception, the beast has grown and melded into the Navajo government. It attached itself at any Navajo working in the government and even bystander looking for permits, news, and accountability.
Many delegates are blinded by the presence of the beast, its magic easily dupes political actors who are easily distracted by resource revenues.
Tlo’chi’iin received news that a medicine man created a ceremony for cleansing individuals of the beast on their back.
“I saw many bureaucrats looking sad. The ones who looked happy were obviously under the spell of the beast. The beast chews on your soul like a prairie dog who nibbles at the bugs in his area. It’s a slow death. It’s a problem and it disrupts the balance between the people and the world. Dooda bureaucracy”.
Many bureaucrats were relieved to hear this.
“I am glad that I can receive healing for this. I felt paralyzed and disempowered. I couldn’t help my people because I was stuck in the belly of the beast”.
“It sucks. I wish I could just be a sheepherder but I can’t support myself on it. I would prefer a wide field full of sheep rather than a room with Rusell Begaye’s picture on the wall”.
“I don’t understand. I thought that bureaucracy was supposed to ensure accountability and efficiency but I see people stealing from the people. I had to fill out a complaint about corruption but they lost the paperwork and it doesn’t count anymore”.
Goldlips created a ceremony to heal the bureaucrats who have suffered from the monster.
He plans to do it for a small gifts as a means to restore balance in the world.
