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NATIVE AMERICANS & Medicine

Exhibiting 96 entries found in the GMN corpus.

YearTitle & TagsAuthor(s)
2003 CENative American ethnobotany. A database of plants used as drugs, foods, dyes, fibers, and more, by native peoples of North America.
2002 CENative American healing: A Lacota ritual.
1941 CENavajo Indian medical ethnobotany. University of New Mexico Bulletin, Anthropological Series, Vol. 3, No. 5.
1939 CENavajo medicine man. Sandpaintings and legends of Miguelito from the John Frederick Huckel Collection
1822 CENew guide to health; or botanic family physician, containing a complete system of practice, upon a plan entirely new; with a description of the vegetables made use of, and directions for preparing and adminstering them to cure disease. To which is prefixed a narrative of the life and medical discoveries of the author.
1672 CENew-Englands rarities discovered: in birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, and plants of that country. Together with the physical and chyrurgical remedies wherewith the natives constantly use to cure their distempers, wounds, and sores…
1862 CENotes on arrow wounds.
1885 CENotes on diseases among the Indians frequenting York Factory, Hudson's Bay. Read before the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Montreal, February, 1885.
1886 CENotes on the anomalies, injuries and diseases of the bones of the native races of North America.
1979 CEOnly one man died. The medical aspects of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
1908 CEPhysiological and medical observations among the Indians of Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico.
1940 CEPlants used as curatives by certain Southeastern tribes.
1805 CE​–1806 CERemarks on the management of the scalped-head.
2001 CERotting face: Smallpox and the American Indian.
1891 CEScatologic rites of all nations. A dissertation upon the employment of excrementitious remedial agents in religion, therapeutics, divination, witchcraft, love-philters, etc., in all parts of the globe. Based upon original notes and person observation, and upon compilation from over one thousand authorities. Not for general perusal.
2021 CEStrong hearts and healing hands: Southern California Indians and field nurses, 1920-1950.
1972 CEStrong medicine: History of healing on the Northwest Coast.
1622 CETabacologia: Hoc est, tabaci, seu nicotianae descriptio medico-cheirurgico-pharmaceutica: Vel eius praeparatio & usus in omnibus corporis humani incommodis.
1886 CEThe "medicine-man"; or, Indian and Eskimo notions of medicine. Reprinted from the "Canada Medical and Surgical Journal" for March and April, 1886.
1801 CEThe American herbal, or materia medica.
1672 CEThe American physician : or, a treatise of the roots, plants, trees, shrubs, fruit, herbs, etc., growing in the English Plantations in America ; ... whereunto is added a discourse of the Cacao-nut-Tree, and the use of its fruit ; with all the ways of making Chocolate
1861 CEThe breath of life; or mal-respiration, and its effects upon the enjoyments and life of man.
1945 CEThe effect of smallpox on the destiny of the Amerindian.
1900 CEThe ethno-botany of the Coahuilla Indians.
1911 CEThe ethno-botany of the Gosiute Indians of Utah.
1936 CEThe ethnobiology of the Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache: A. the use of plants for food, beverages and narcotics. Ethnobiological studies in the American Southwest, Vol. 3. Biological series (Vol. 4, No. 5); Bulletin, University of New Mexico, whole, (No. 297).
1935 CEThe ethnobiology of the Papago Indians. Ethnological Studies in the American Southwest II.
1932 CEThe ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians. M.A. thesis.
1994 CEThe health of Native Americans: Towards a biocultural epidemiology.
1775 CEThe history of the American Indians; particularly those nations adjoining to the Missisippi [sic] East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia: containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases and method of cure... With observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, & c. Also an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Missisippi [sic] lands, with their productions--the benefits of colonizing Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians--and the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the mother country....
1836 CEThe Indian vegetable family instructer: Containing the names and descriptions of all the most useful herbs and plants that grow in this country, with their medicinal qualities annexed; also, a treatise on many of the lingering diseases to which mankind are subject, ... with a large list of recipes, which have been carefully selected from Indian prescriptions ... Designed for the use of families in the United States.
1923 CEThe medicine man: A sociological study of the character and evolution of shamanism.
1990 CEThe medicine men: Oglala Sioux ceremony and healing.
1935 CEThe medicine-man of the American Indian and his cultural background.
1892 CEThe medicine-men of the Apache.
1977 CEThe native population of the Americas in 1492. Edited by William M. Devevan.
1737 CEThe natural history of North Carolina. With an account of the trade, manners and customs of the Christian and Indian inhabitants. Illustrated with copper-plates, whereon are curiously engraved the map of the country, several strange beasts, birds, fishes, snakes, insects, trees, and plants, &c.
1938 CEThe peyote cult.
1947 CEThe ranks of death: A medical history of the conquest of America
1932 CEThe Swimmer manuscript. Cherokee sacred formulas and medicinal prescriptions, by James Mooney, revised, completed and edited by Frans M. Olbrechts. Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 99.
2009 CEThe tainted gift: The disease method of frontier expansion.
1988 CEThe use of medicinal plants by the Alaska natives.
1980 CEThe way of the shaman: A guide to power and healing.
1928 CEUse of plants by the Chippewa Indians. Smithsonian Institution-Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Report 44.
1919 CEUses of plants by the Indians of the Missouri River region. Thirty-third annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1911-1912.
1979 CEUses of plants for the past 500 years.