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Mad Bear : spirit, healing, and the sacred in the life of Native American medicine man / Doug Boyd.
Penn Museum Library E99.T9 M333 1994
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boyd, Doug.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mad Bear, -1985.
- Mad Bear.
- Tuscarora Indians--Biography.
- Tuscarora Indians.
- Shamans--Biography.
- Shamans.
- Spiritual life.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 366 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster, [1994]
- Summary:
- Mad Bear was a member of the Bear Clan of the Tuscarora Nation of the Six-Nation Iroquois Confederacy of the United States and Canada. A Native American rights-activist, he was also a medicine man and a leader with great power and influence both among his own people and cross culturally. In this personal and captivating narrative, Doug Boyd recreates Mad Bear's tales of magic, his healing powers, and Native American legends. Mad Bear creates a rich and colorful portrait of the fascinating life of this vibrant, spiritual man.
- Notes:
- "A Touchstone book."
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0671759450
- OCLC:
- 30813334
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