Newspaper clippings - Indian medicine - Transcript.
Date
1890
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UNKNOWN
Abstract
"Last year two unsuccessful medicine men of the Yakima tribe were murdered by relatives of deceased patients and their slayers were sentenced to the penitentiary where one died in confinement. It was thought that this would result in the breaking up of the customs which was so fatal to medicine men but another case has been recently reported from Klickitat county where an aged klootchman who practiced the art of healing was cut down with an ax as she was singing the death song of sorrow for one of her patients who had died of grippe. This disease was fatal to a large number of Indians, the sweathouse and cold water cure carrying them of very suddenly."
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11 page typed transcription, created by Click Relander.