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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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Additional Authors
  • Keeney, Bradford, 1951-
  • Nickerson, Kern L.
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