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Creek Indian Medicine Ways: The Enduring Power of Mvskoke Religion

Creek Indian Medicine Ways: The Enduring Power of Mvskoke Religion

Jordan, Ann T.
Lewis, David, Jr.

Paperback

Medical ReferenceNative American History

ISBN10: 0826323685
ISBN13: 9780826323682
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: Aug 1 2008
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.29 Depth: 8.85
Language: English

Called the Mvskoke in their language, the Creek Indians of Oklahoma continue to practice traditional medicine. In Creek Indian Medicine Ways, David Lewis, a full-blood Mvskoke and practicing medicine man, tells about the medicine tradition that has shaped his life. Born into a family of medicine people, he was chosen at birth to carry on the tradition. He shares his memories here about his childhood training and initiation as a medicine man as well as his remembrances about his father and grandmother, who trained him. Lewis reveals part of the sacred story of the origin of plants and he identifies some of the plants he uses in his cures. He also describes several of the ceremonies his teachers taught him, stressing throughout the sacredness and importance of Mvskoke medicine.

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