In our second conversation with Elder Leon Louis, he shares syilx teachings on the true meaning of medicine, not just as something we take when we’re sick, but as a living relationship with land, water, plants, ceremony, and community. Guided by the Medicine Wheel, he speaks to balance across the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual parts of our lives, and the responsibility we carry for the natural world.

In Loving Memory of

CEWEL’NA

Leon Louis

17 October, 1951 - 21 March, 2026

“Way kulenchuten, thank you grandmothers and grandfathers for this life”