Word: afterbirthers
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...Easy, old girl," says Herriot as he cleans out a cow's afterbirth. He removes the arm-length plastic gloves. "Wonderful things, these. In the old days I was up to my arms in blood and dirt. And no time to write more than a prescription. No antibiotics then, and the farmers very witchcrafty. Full of folk remedies and possessed of hands too big for their animals." He regards his own small fingers. "That's why they came to me: I could operate on a sheep or goat without mangling the poor thing. Then it was large beasts...
Tribal councils are upset by passages referring to sexual practices, including homosexuality, oral sex as part of the marriage ceremony, the sodomizing of war prisoners and a brief mention of a woman who delivered a child and then ate some of the afterbirth. For the straitlaced Sioux, these references are a bit much. "The Lakota, next to the Cheyenne, were one of the most sexually restrained native societies that have been documented," says Sioux Anthropologist Bea Medicine. Adds JoAllyn Archambault, a Lakota Sioux studying for her Ph.D. in anthropology at Berkeley: "No one's objecting to what did happen...
Most students of Indian history agree that Hill is right about the male homosexual (winkte in Lakota) having ritual status in Sioux society. The reference to oral sex is more elusive; Hill says she got it from John Gates, a prominent Sioux leader who is now dead. The afterbirth incident. she insists, actually occurred: "Don't tell me the placenta thing puts down Indians. It's a beautiful ceremony symbolic of the life force...
Speaking on the article--which discussed racial schisms on his team--Coma said, "You bet it's a distortion. Just like an afterbirth is a distortion. They didn't play like they hated me, did they...
...mother stopped lowing and took a long time eating the afterbirth, a wretched flag, but the calf got up promptly and seemed inclined to feel...