Spirit-talker is a healer, communicating with spirits that cause good or bad conditions within the body.
With no wheels, no boats, no paved roads, and no beasts of burden, the tandem tumpline is the only way to move supplies between villages.
A hard-packed trail, following the course of the river, is the only way to send messages between villages.
Boy packs travel the same paths, but can't count on meeting each other to exchange information. Deliberately placed objects keep other boys informed of conditions along trails and in villages.
Woman Woman keeps her work and her life separate by having a house just for holding meetings in.
