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Indian Healing Beliefs
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Believing that evil spirits caused diseases, the Indians used
charms and magic to remove the evil influence. The magical procedures were
usually preformed by those supposed to have the power to control spirit
forces. Indians might call them suc .... Middle of Term Paper
... still possible to provide several general statements about traditions;
medicine among American Indians that can be used as guidelines in understa
nding tribal beliefs about illness and healing. Most tribes have the
beliefs that their medicine people have “extra” that others don't. This
power comes from varied sources: a visionary experience that leads one into
the study of medicine, or being born into a family that includes
generations of medicine people. Many tribes have both men and women
medicine people, but some tribes have only medicine women. Many medicine
people have a specialty, such as herbalist, bone setter, midwife, or
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