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Chapter 2: “Lightning Followed Me”: Contemporary Navajo Therapeutic Strategies for Cancer
From: Religion and Healing in Native America

2 : African Americans and Medicine: A Historical Perspective
From: Secret Doctors

3 : Secret Doctors Tell Their Stories
From: Secret Doctors

4 : Madame Neau and Ethnopsychiatry
From: Secret Doctors

Akikita
From: Distinguished Native American Spiritual Practitioners and Healers

Aripeka
From: Distinguished Native American Spiritual Practitioners and Healers

Bibliography
From: Distinguished Native American Spiritual Practitioners and Healers

Black Hairy Dog
From: Distinguished Native American Spiritual Practitioners and Healers

Brave Buffalo (Tatan´ ka ohi´ tika)
From: Distinguished Native American Spiritual Practitioners and Healers

Bull Lodge
From: Distinguished Native American Spiritual Practitioners and Healers

Chapter 3 : African American Alternative Medicine
From: African American Alternative Medicine

Coocoochee
From: Distinguished Native American Spiritual Practitioners and Healers

Curley Headed Doctor (or Curly-Headed Doctor)
From: Distinguished Native American Spiritual Practitioners and Healers

Emily Hill
From: Distinguished Native American Spiritual Practitioners and Healers

FLOREZ, ENCARNACIÓN VILLARREAL ESCOBEDO (1898–1968)
From: Latinas in the United States

CHAPTER 12: Healing Hearts and Broken Bodies: An African American Women’s Spirituality of Healing
From: Faith, Health, and Healing in African American Life

Healing Practices, Spirituality, and Religious Beliefs
From: Encyclopedia of Latino Popular Culture

Health and Healers
From: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS

Henry Crow Dog II
From: Distinguished Native American Spiritual Practitioners and Healers

Introduction
From: Distinguished Native American Spiritual Practitioners and Healers

James Blue Bird
From: Distinguished Native American Spiritual Practitioners and Healers

JARAMILLO, PEDRO (c. 1850–1907),
From: Mexican American Biographies

John (Fire) Lame Deer
From: Distinguished Native American Spiritual Practitioners and Healers

John Trehero (“Rainbow”)
From: Distinguished Native American Spiritual Practitioners and Healers

Josie Billie
From: Distinguished Native American Spiritual Practitioners and Healers

Kicking Bear
From: Distinguished Native American Spiritual Practitioners and Healers

Low Horn
From: Distinguished Native American Spiritual Practitioners and Healers

Mabel McKay
From: Distinguished Native American Spiritual Practitioners and Healers

Mamanti
From: Distinguished Native American Spiritual Practitioners and Healers

Molly Ockett
From: Distinguished Native American Spiritual Practitioners and Healers

Mountain Wolf Woman
From: Distinguished Native American Spiritual Practitioners and Healers

Nakaidoklini
From: Distinguished Native American Spiritual Practitioners and Healers

Passaconaway
From: Distinguished Native American Spiritual Practitioners and Healers

Peter Catches
From: Distinguished Native American Spiritual Practitioners and Healers

Piapot
From: Distinguished Native American Spiritual Practitioners and Healers

Pretty-Shield
From: Distinguished Native American Spiritual Practitioners and Healers

Recent Titles in Religion, Health, and Healing
From: Faith, Health, and Healing in African American Life

Ruby Modesto
From: Distinguished Native American Spiritual Practitioners and Healers

Sanapia
From: Distinguished Native American Spiritual Practitioners and Healers

CHAPTER 10: Seeking Help for the Body in the Well-Being of the Soul
From: Faith, Health, and Healing in African American Life

CHAPTER 4: Spiritual Illness and Healing: "If the Lord Wills"
From: Faith, Health, and Healing in African American Life

Susan La Flesche Picotte
From: Distinguished Native American Spiritual Practitioners and Healers

Suwi
From: Distinguished Native American Spiritual Practitioners and Healers

Thomas Yellowtail
From: Distinguished Native American Spiritual Practitioners and Healers

URREA, TERESA (1872–1906)
From: Latinas in the United States

URREA, TERESA (1873–1906),
From: Mexican American Biographies

Urrea, Teresa (1873–1906).
From: The Borderlands

White Bird
From: Distinguished Native American Spiritual Practitioners and Healers

Wovoka (Jack Wilson)
From: Distinguished Native American Spiritual Practitioners and Healers

MAMMY FORBES, THE HEALER

Indigenous behique (shaman) treating patient; hammock in the background. From Girolamo Benzoni, La historia del Mondo Nuovo (1565).

Legendary healer Teresa Urrea. Courtesy of the William Curry Holden Papers, the Southwest Collection, Texas Tech University.