A Blood Covenant Before Preparing the Center Chanupa

I will always remember this night. Before we prepared the Center Chunupa, Tyrone Eagle Bear and I gave flesh offerings. They were taken by my spiritual Ate, my father's Koda, Lionel Kinunua, Comes Home Swimming, from Cheyenne River. Ate Lionel cut deep. With this blood covenant on our hands we staked ourselves down and prepared the Sacred Pipe.