SACRAMENTO, Calif. — When her mother was in a Placer County hospital with the kidney infection that would take her life, Geri Camp received a final request.
“I’m dying,” Camp’s mom told her, so matter of fact through the tears. “Will you do my ceremony?”
Now 59 and an elder of the Colfax-Todds Valley Consolidated Tribe, Camp has carried on her mother’s treasured moon ceremony for girls starting their menstrual cycle in the backyards of family and friends — whoever has the most space.
