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Name: Taveenovava'e

Meaning: Blue Feather Medicine Woman

Age: 60's

Occupation: Medicine Woman

Totem Animal: Hawk

Location: Where the river meets the forest just below the mountains.

Description: Tavee is an elder Cheyenne woman of medium height, slightly plump around the middle, but still strong and graceful. Her grey hair is worn in two long braids decorated with elaborate beading. Her broad face is beginning to show some wrinkles, but one can still see much of the handsome woman she was in her youth. Her kind brown eyes are warm and caring.

She often wears a long buckskin skirt dyed blue and decorated with several bands of beading with a fringe around the bottom edge. Her top is also blue and is decorated with quills and shells in a pattern passed down to her from her Cheyenne mother. She always wears a blue hawk feather in her hair.

Personality/History: Tavee's parents were a Cheyenne couple who had wandered far from their tribe in pursuit of a dream. Her parents were medicine practitioners who had seen a shared vision of a place where colorful and highly intelligent horses lived in harmony with humans. Though their only child, a girl, was only a few months old, they felt called to follow their visions and left their village along with a few brave warriors. Upon arriving in the Soquili lands, they eventually settled in the Kawani village where the two medicine practitioners were warmly welcomed.

Tavee grew up in the Kawani village speaking Cheyenne as fluently as Kawani. Her child name was Quahneae which means 'morning dew.' As she grew, her parents trained her in the way of a medicine woman, but her talents seemed to be strongest when she worked with animals. So, she eagerly learned the special magic and art of weaving soquili baskets from a Kawani medicine woman. Upon reaching adulthood, she went on a dream quest where she met her totem animal, a bright blue hawk who gave her one of his blue feathers as a sign validating her calling as a medicine woman. She took the adult name of Taveenovava'e which means Blue Feather Medicine Woman.

She fell in love with a handsome young warrior, Laughing Wolf, who was a gifted horseman and the two were married. Over the years their teepee was a haven of joy as they raised their son who, as he grew, showed some of the gifts of his parents and ended up as apprentice to one of the many Kawani medicine men. Tavee and her beloved husband live in their original teepee, but their son has set out on a journey to find his own way. The teepee is set away from the village where the forest meets the river in the foothills of the mountains.

Tavee focuses her time and energy on helping the various forest animals or unpartnerned soquili that need assistance. When not collecting the herbs and plants she needs for healing, she spends much time weaving baskets for the foals of unpartnered soquili. She is kind and compassionate, accepting all who come to her for help.