Indian medicine man
| Description: |
Indian medicine man (title from verso of first page)AMs, 4 p. (handwritten; on paper with embossed seal reading L.L.B. & Co.) Description of a curing ceremony performed at Potawatami Mills upon M-joquis wife, who had some disease of the head. The medicine man made a cut on her head and then pretended to suck out some small bones which were supposedly the cause of her illness. Other medicine men go into trances to obtain news of absent tribe members. In the Cass manuscripts of 1723, there is a description (quoted) of various tricks practiced by medicine men. Similar tricks are used by contemporary circus performers. The use of the term medicine to refer to spiritual activities comes from the French.The Indians have no indiginous greeting; they have adopted the phrase Bonjour nic.List of several Sioux words. |
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| Created By: |
Winter, George, 1810-1876; |
| Publisher: |
Tippecanoe County Historical Association |
| Source: |
http://earchives.lib.purdue.edu/cdm/ref/collection/gwinter/id/457 |
| Collection: |
George Winter |
| Copyright: |
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| Subjects: |
Medicine Indians of North America--Health & welfare Shamans Salutations Sioux Nation |
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