medicine man
Example Sentences
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Jim Walker, her great-great-grandfather and a respected medicine man, rode mustangs all the way to Florida, visiting tribes along the way to exchange medicine and horses.
From Los Angeles Times
His breakthrough came in 1990 when he played Kicking Bird, a Lakota medicine man, in Dances With Wolves.
From BBC
As a young mother, Ms. Rabha was told by a local medicine man that her mentally ill son would soon die; he didn’t.
From New York Times
Law enforcement authorities say in the decades since starring in the Oscar-winning movie, Chasing Horse became a self-proclaimed medicine man among tribes and traveled around North America to perform healing ceremonies.
From Seattle Times
She spent all her nonschool days at the medicine man’s, learning how to make foul-smelling medicines and treating injuries and illnesses.
From Literature
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