ARTICLES June 13, 2023, The Press Democrat “Bad Medicine: Betrayal and assault on the trail of Nathan Chasing Horse.’

She was having a hard time at 15, in the way a lot of 15-year-olds do.

She was Native American and lived in Sonoma County. It wasn’t until her mother encouraged her to attend her first sweat, a tribal purification rite, that something shifted.

“I knew what sweat was, and when they invited me, I knew immediately that I wanted to go,” she wrote last year in a social media thread, recalling a scene from 22 years earlier.