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medicine woman
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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among Indians and Eskimos, a female angakok or medicine-man.
See: medicine-man
Quotations
1935
The girl became a great medicine-woman and lived to a very old age. Often she restored the dying to life, and was summoned from great distances to heal the sick.
1953
[Caption] Obeluk was one of the few remaining medicine women, who still communed with the spirits. . . .