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Medicine man
Native American traditional healer and spiritual leader / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the Native American and First Nation healers. For other uses, see Medicine Man (disambiguation).
A medicine man (from Ojibwe mashkikiiwinini) or medicine woman (from Ojibwe mashkikiiwininiikwe) is a traditional healer and spiritual leader who serves a community of Indigenous people of the Americas. Each culture has its own name in its language for spiritual healers and ceremonial leaders.
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