Badger (south)—healers, aggressiveness, perseverance

Bear (west)—healer, strength, introspection

Buffalo—strength, endurance to rise above one’s weaknesses

Butterfly--Butterfly directs the medicine man to ingredients that can be used in medicine. The Butterfly Kachina brings together unmarried men and women. During the butterfly social dance they appear as a pair, one female and one male.

Deer—abundance in the natural world

Eagle (zenith or sky)—spirit, a connection to the Divine

Hawk—see things differently, Change

Owl—wise, smart, patient, the unseen

Raven—healer

Snake—a force in life, death and rebirth

Wolf (east)—teacher, pathfinder on the journey of survival, family