Readings in Amerindian medical literature

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Caitlin G (183?)Letters and Notes on the North American Indians in Carmichael AG and Ratzan RM (1991) Medicine in Literature and Art   Konemann  pp176-7 

Coulehan JL. Navajo Indian medicine: implications for healing.  J Fam Pract. 1980 Jan;10(1):55-61. 

Coulehan J www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/prevmed/mns/imcs/contexts/

altmed/coulehan.html  (essay on Navajo experience and alternative medicine good and bad) 

Coulehan J: His poetry books are The Heavenly Ladder and Medicine Stone.


Cronyn GW(ed.) (1918/1991) American Indian Poetry: An Anthology of Songs and Chants  Fawcett Columbine NY There are numerous fragments in this collection. 

Lame Deer & Erdoes R (1972) Lame Deer Seeker of Visions   Washington Square Press  chs 3 and 9

Neihardt JG (1932, 1972) Black Elk Speaks  Pocket Books NY p180 

Sarris G 1993  Keeping Slug Woman Alive    University of California Press

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updated: 22/03/2010