Kimimela

A Lakota name from the Native American Indian language family.
Kimimela means butterfly. Butterflies are creatures of lively spirit and they fly with beautiful wings dancing from flower to flower. They have a sweet spirit full of the goodness of nature and its wonderous rejuvenative and renewable properties.

Butterflies were once carterpillars, that become winged angels after a metamorphosis. So butterflies (Kimimela) also goes through the cycles of nature, changes from inside out, and achieves true spiritual liberty, freedom, and attains beauty. Butterflies represent spiritual transformation as well as a person transforming into his or her potential in beauty, talent, and christian wholesomeness. Butterflies (Kimimela) are winged spirits of the sweetness and joy of life, light, sunshine, and natural beauty.

Kimimela is very hardworking. She loves sewing clothes, forage for wild herbs and vegetables in the forests for her family, and cooks food by the camp fire. She also likes making beautiful handmade moccasins.