Adawehi

Adawehi is a Cherokee healer and elder living near the Frasers' new settlement on the frontier, a woman whose knowledge of medicine and the spirit world commands quiet respect. She meets Claire as something like a colleague, sizing her up with calm, unhurried curiosity, and shares what she knows without deference or suspicion.

Tantoo Cardinal gives Adawehi a stillness that reads as authority rather than mystique, refusing the show's occasional pull toward exoticizing its Native characters. The writing lets her meet Claire as an equal in expertise, and Cardinal plays that equality plainly, so the scene feels like two professionals talking shop across a real cultural distance.