Native American traditional healer and spiritual leader
This article is about the Native American and First Nation healers. For other uses, see Medicine Man (disambiguation).
An Ojibwe midew 'ceremonial leader' in a mide-wiigiwaam 'medicine lodge'
A medicine man or medicine woman is a traditional healer and spiritual leader who serves a community of Indigenous people of the Americas. Individual cultures have their own names, in their respective languages, for spiritual healers and ceremonial leaders in their particular cultures.
A medicineman or medicine woman is a traditional healer and spiritual leader who serves a community of Indigenous people of the Americas. Individual cultures...
religious and philosophical beliefs of local culture. For example, a medicineman would apply herbs and say prayers for healing, or an ancient philosopher...
Plastic shamans, or plastic medicine people, is a pejorative colloquialism applied to individuals who are attempting to pass themselves off as shamans...
Traditional medicine (also known as indigenous medicine or folk medicine) comprises medical aspects of traditional knowledge that developed over generations...
1: Medicine and primitive man (five chapters); Part 2: Medical man and medicineman in three North American Indian societies (three chapters)". Man's image...
yellow painted eagle feather, provided by a "sundance" medicineman, beneath his helmet. Medicine Crow completed all four tasks required to become a war...
retreating Cree "MedicineMan" lost his headdress in the South Saskatchewan River. A number of natural factors have always made Medicine Hat a gathering...
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Old Crow Medicine Show is an Americana string band based in Nashville, Tennessee, that has been recording since 1998. They were inducted into the Grand...
with another warrior. Sometimes a man named his child, but mostly the father asked a medicineman (or another man of distinction) to do so. He did this...
over, a feast is held, which is led by the chief medicineman. At the feast, it is the chief medicineman's duty to give away certain belongings of the deceased...
are called Midewinini, which is sometimes translated into English as "medicineman". Due to the body-part medial de' meaning 'heart' in the Anishinaabe...
Nicholas; December 1, 1863 – August 19, 1950), was a wičháša wakȟáŋ ("medicineman, holy man") and heyoka of the Oglala Lakota people. He was a second cousin...
Humorism, the humoral theory, or humoralism, is a system of medicine detailing a supposed makeup and workings of the human body, adopted by Ancient Greek...
reputation among tribes across the United States and in Canada as a so-called medicineman. He claimed to perform healing ceremonies and, police allege, used his...
Medicine Show Man, subtitled Pink Anderson Vol. 2, is an album by blues musician Pink Anderson recorded in 1961 and released on the Bluesville label the...
yellow underwing. Nicholas Culpeper included Foxglove in his 1652 herbal medicine guide, The English Physician. He cited its use for healing wounds (both...
Peak on August 11, 2016, honoring Black Elk, the noted Lakota Sioux medicineman and Catholic Servant of God for whom the Wilderness Area is named. In...
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