Story Highlights
- Fort Sill held a tree-planting ceremony at the Old Post Quadrangle April 28.
- Trees were planted to replace the many trees which were damaged by the January ice storm.
Bill Voelker of the Comanche Nation performs a traditional Native American blessing ceremony of newly planted trees using cedar smoke and eagle feathers. Fort Sill held a tree planting ceremony as part of the post's four-part plan to recouperate from the massive ice storm of January. Cedar smoke is considered a medicine of protection and is used to bless, cleanse and purify an object.
