medicine man
Example Sentences
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When a measles outbreak started killing the Cayuse, and the Whitmans’ medicine failed to cure the ill, thus making Marcus a “failed medicine man,” the fatal events were set in motion.
From Los Angeles Times
Sometimes, a tribe’s “medicine man” tending to the sick on a reservation spread the disease.
From Washington Post
“We experienced genocide, assimilation, colonization, conversion policy by the government,” said Amos McNac, 77, a justice on the Nation’s Supreme Court and heles-hayv, a medicine man.
From New York Times
Chief Seattle Club also invited a traditional medicine man to bless each of the buildings so residents felt the community had prepped and cleansed the spaces for them, preparing them for a new beginning.
From Seattle Times
His father was a medicine man and he was well-versed in the spiritual and healing properties of the plants dotting the course.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
