medicine man
Example Sentences
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Chasing Horse had gained a reputation among indigenous tribes across the US and Canada as a medicine man who performed healing ceremonies and spiritual gatherings.
From BBC
Moon married a native Chilula woman, the daughter of a blind medicine man, and they had eight children.
From Los Angeles Times
It also claimed that the late Lakota medicine man Nicholas Black Elk, who converted to Catholicism and continued to practice Lakota ceremonies, had a “racist vision.”
From Seattle Times
Then the medicine man took her to a sweat lodge on the reservation.
From Seattle Times
In the 1600s, they lived in 69 villages, each with a chief, or sachem, and a medicine man.
From Seattle Times
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