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among certain Indian tribes, a solemn initiation ceremony admitting novices to higher knowledge of medicine (def. 1)
Quotations
1801
[We] found the Indians busy making the grand medicine--a ceremony performed every spring, when they meet and there is some novice to be admitted into the mysteries of this solemn affair.
1864
Last evening we went over to the Lodges to see a "Grand Medicine Dance."
1956
Among the Ojibwa and, to a lesser extent, among their neighbors the Cree, membership in the midewewin, or Grand Medicine Society, was eagerly sought.