Doug Tales 125: Fools Crow and Poppa Johns

On August 16, 2008, Doug Mendenhall spoke in Sandy, Utah, at a seminar he playfully called “the Johnson Family Reunion.” He spoke on various subjects, with part of his focus on what we can learn from the healing and blessing work of two men, Frank Fools Crow (1890-1989) and Allen “Poppa” Johns (1918-2004). Fools Crow was a Lakota medicine man, and Poppa Johns was an English-speaking LDS patriarch in the country of Tonga. Doug learned of Fools Crow through the book, Fools Crow: Wisdom and Power (1991), and he had personally received blessings voiced by Poppa Johns.

Here is a link to a 16 minute audio recording of an excerpt from Doug’s talk:

https://infinitycontent.net/Mendenhall/DougMendenhall8.08BlogEdit.mp3