How many Utah tribe get red spots now?

Deseret News Oct 01, 2025

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* Utah. How many sick with spots? * Big sick happen? * Where most spot-sick in Utah-place? * Utah-tribe, Arizona-tribe shaman talk-talk. Fight spots together.


Big trouble in Great Salt Rock Valley! Big Healers say many suns and four more suns of people have Red Dot Sickness this sun-cycle. On the Big Healers' tally-stick, they mark forty-four sick people. Last sun-cycle, tally-stick empty. No one sick. Now, many sick. Is bad. Red Dot Sickness make skin have many red dots. Make head hot. Make chest make barking sound. Sickness like little cave-people best. Also like people with no strong-blood magic. Big Healers say stay in cave if have dots. Do not share mammoth meat with sick cave-friends. Keep sickness in one cave, not all caves. Grokk, a local mammoth hunter: "Me see neighbor Ugg. Ugg covered in red dots. Ugg no hunt mammoth now. Ugg just lay in cave and grunt. Bad for hunt. Bad for tribe." Zola, a river-side rock painter: "Me see little ones no play by river. All stay in dark cave. Hear much coughing. No happy shouts. Zola sad. Zola paint sad picture on rock now." Shaman Kor, Keeper of the Healing Herbs, say: "This big bad sickness! If have dots, stay in cave! No spread bad spirits! Need strong-blood magic from sharp stick. Keep tribe strong! Ugh!" Story by Bork from Caveman Talk Fire, on the scene.