The Medicine Men: Oglala Sioux Ceremony and Healing

For the residents of the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, mainstream medical care is often supplemented or replaced by a host of traditional practices: the Sun Dance, the yuwipi sing, the heyok'a ceremony, herbalism, the Sioux Religion, the peyotism of the Native American Church, and other medicines, or sources of healing. Thomas H. Lewis, a psychiatrist and medical anthropologist, describes those practices as he encountered them in the late 1960s and early 1970s. During many months he studied with leading practitioners. He describes the healers--their techniques, personal histories and qualities, the problems addressed and results obtained--and examines past as well as present practices. The result is an engrossing account that may profoundly affect the way readers view the dynamics of therapy for mind and body.

• | Author: Thomas H. Lewis
• | Publisher: Bison Books
• | Publication Date: Mar 01, 1992
• | Number of Pages: 221 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0803279396
• | ISBN-13: 9780803279391