Book by David E Young Grant Ingram Lise Swartz
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'Compelling and highly informative reading.' -- Dale Stelter, Edmonton Journal
After a vision in which he beheld himself as a leader in the revitalization of native medicine and culture, medicine man Russell WIllier began to share his healing practices and world view with three anthropologists. In this volume they describe how WIllier treats chronic, stress-related condition and physiological dysfunctions with herbal remedies, sweat-lodge therapy, religious ceremony, and other techniques. Cry of the Eagle also discusses the process by which the anthropologists experienced the medicine man's work. That process required change in both Willier and his observers. One of the most powerful events in their three-year association occurred when David Young's wife suddenly became critically ill. In the hospital her condition quickly worsened, and doctors were unable to diagnose the problem. Young surreptitiously brought the medicine man to the hospital, where a combination of native remedies and Western medical techniques worked together to restore her health. Young, Ingram, and Swartz describe a process of shared vision and mutual change. They provide a rare insight into an aspect of native culture little known to the outside world.
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Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. B/W Photographs (illustrator). Reprint. SUBTITLED : `Encounters with a Cree Healer '. Russell Willier is a Wood Cree medicine man who lives on the Sucker Lake Reserve near Lesser Slave Lake, Alberta. He uses traditional native treatments for disease such as herbal teas and sweat-lodge invocations. He also knows a great deal about curses - both how to place them and to return them. He came to prominence in 1985 when national radio zoned in on his successful cures of skin conditions. These 145 pages (including INDEX) touch on his views on social, medical, ethnological and biological issues. Section of b/w photos after Preface. LEARN more about : roots, Red Cloud, Michiko Young, Flora Cardinal, and medicine bundles. Cond : Paper wrapper is buff in colour with black lettering. No cover graphics. Light bumping along top edge. Spine fine, not faded. Minimal soiling. No names, marks, creases, nor tears. Volume square. Binding tight. Quote (p. 09) : " ._._. in the Woods Cree way of tanning hides and is a skilled hunter, trapper and professional guide.) As trust and friendship developed, Russell gradually began to talk about his involvement with native culture and religion. In 1984 the healer agreed to participate in an experiment involving ._._._. ." Size: 8vo. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 009139
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