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Walking Thunder : Diné medicine woman / edited by Bradford Keeney ; photographs by Kern L. Nickerson.
- Title
- Walking Thunder : Diné medicine woman / edited by Bradford Keeney ; photographs by Kern L. Nickerson.
- Author
- Walking Thunder, 1951-
- Publication
- Philadelphia, PA. : Ringing Books Press ; Stony Creek, CT : In association with Leete's Island Books ; Chicago, IL : Distribution, Independent Publishers Group, c2001.
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- Description
- 175 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps; 26 cm. +
- Summary
- A traditional Diné (Navajo) medicine woman, Walking Thunder, tells her life story and that of her people, while describing her healing methods using native plants, sand paintings, and other traditional ways.
- Series Statement
- Profiles of healing ; v. 6
- Uniform Title
- Profiles of healing v. 6.
- Alternative Title
- Diné medicine woman
- Diné medicine woman
- Subject
- Walking Thunder
- Walking Thunder, 1951-
- Indians, North American > psychology
- Indians, North American > ethnology
- Faith Healing > psychology
- Medicine, Traditional
- Navajo women > Biography
- Women healers > Biography
- Navajo Indians > Pictorial works
- Indians of North America > Medicine
- Navajo Indians > Medicine
- Indians of North America > Medicine > Four Corners Region
- Medicine, Traditional > New Mexico > Personal Narratives
- Faith Healing > psychology > New Mexico > Personal Narratives
- Indians, North American > psychology > New Mexico
- Indians, North American > ethnology > Arizona > Personal Narratives
- Indians, North American > ethnology > New Mexico > Personal Narratives
- Indians, North American > psychology > Arizona > Personal Narratives
- Indians, North American > psychology > New Mexico > Personal Narratives
- New Mexico
- Arizona
- Genre/Form
- Personal Narrative
- Compact discs.
- Biographies
- Note
- Accompanying CD contains sampling of traditional Navajo sacred songs and stories performed by the author.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-175).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The Navajo nation ; Walking Thunder of Two Grey Hills: Early memories of traditional medicine -- The medicine way -- Sandpainting -- Being a medicine woman -- Afterword.
- ISBN
- 0918172306 (hardbound)
- 0918172322 (paperback)
- LCCN
- ^^2001132113
- OCLC
- 48960489
- SCSB-11329534
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library