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Name: Taveenovava'e

Meaning: Blue Feather Medicine Woman

Age: mid 40's

Occupation: Medicine Woman

Totem Animal: Hawk

Location: Where the river meets the forest just below the mountains.

Description: Tavee is a middle aged Cheyenne woman of medium height, slightly plump around the middle, but still strong and graceful. Her jet black hair is streaked with grey and is worn in two long braids decorated with elaborate beading created by her daughter-in-law. Her broad face is beginning to show some wrinkles but one can still see much of the handsome woman she was in her youth. Her kind brown eyes are warm and caring, with just a hint of sadness lurking in their depths.

She often wears a long buckskin skirt dyed blue and decorated with several bands of beading with a fringe around the bottom ege. Her top is also blue and is decorated with quills and shells in a pattern passed down to her from her Cheyenne mother. She always wears a blue hawk feather in her hair.

Personality/History: Tavee's parents were a Cheyenne couple who had wandered far from their tribe in pursuit of a dream. Her parents were medicine practioners who had seen a shared vision of a place where colorful and highly intelligent horses lived in harmony with humans. Though their only child, a girl, was only a few months old, they felt called to follow their visions and left their village along with a few brave warriors. Upon arriving in the Soquili lands, they eventually settled in the Kawani village where the two medicine practioners were warmly welcomed.

Tavee grew up in the Kawani village speaking Cheyenne as fluently as Kawani. Her child name was Quahneae which means 'morning dew.' As she grew, her parents trained her in the way of a medicine woman, but her talents seemed to be strongest when she worked with animals. So she eagerly learned the special magic and art of weaving soquili baskets from a Kawani medicine woman. Upon reaching adulthood, she went on a dream quest where she met her totem animal, a bright blue hawk who gave her one of his blue feathers as a sign validating her calling as a medicine woman. She took the adult name of Taveenovava'e which means Blue Feather Medicine Woman.

She fell in love with a handsome young warrior, Laughing Wolf, who was a gifted horseman and the two were married. Over the years their teepee was a haven of joy as they raised their three children, two boys and a girl. One of the two boys died in childhood, but the other boy ended up being a strong warrior like his father and married a lovely Kawani girl who makes exquisite beading and jewelry. Her daughter showed some of the gifts of her parents and ended up as apprentice to one of the many Kawani shamans.

Her husband disappeard while on an extended scouting mission to the outer edges of the Kawani lands. It is thought that he was killed by either a ravaging kalona or skinwalker, but his body was never found. Tavee lives alone in their original teepee but her children and her fellow medicine practioners keep an eye on her and help supply her needs. The teepee is set away from the village where the forest meets the river in the foothills of the mountains. Tavee now focuses her time and energy on helping the various forest animals or unpartnerned soquili that need assistance. When not collecting the herbs and plants she needs for healing, she spends much time weaving baskets for the foals of unpartnered soquili.

The laugh lines around her eyes indicate that she has smiled more than frowned throughout her life though her eyes hint at recent sorrows. She is kind and compassionate, accepting all who come to her for help. With the disappearance of her beloved husband, she is now more reserved, preferring the solitude of her teepee to the hustle and bustle of the main Kawani village where her now adult children live.