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The Medicine Man is an 1899 bronze equestrian statue by Cyrus Edwin Dallin located on Dauphin Street, west of 33rd Street, in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia. [1] The statue portrays an indigenous American medicine man.
Joseph Medicine Crow (October 27, 1913 – April 3, 2016) was a Native American writer, historian and war chief of the Crow Tribe.His writings on Native American history and reservation culture are considered seminal works, but he is best known for his writings and lectures concerning the Battle of the Little Bighorn of 1876.
Chasing Horse gained a reputation as an erstwhile medicine man among tribes across the United States and in Canada. He claimed to perform healing ceremonies. He claimed to perform healing ceremonies. Police allege that he used his position to abuse young Native American girls; he was charged in 2023 with sexual assault by the North Las Vegas ...
Black Elk came from a long lineage of medicine men and healers. His father was a medicine man, as were his paternal uncles. Black Elk was born into an Oglala Lakota family in December 1863 along the Little Powder River (at a site thought to be in the present-day state of Wyoming).
It portrays a Native American on horseback facing skyward, his arms spread wide in a spiritual request to the Great Spirit. It was the last of Dallin's four prominent sculptures of Indigenous people known as The Epic of the Indian, which also include A Signal of Peace (1890), The Medicine Man (1899), and Protest of the Sioux (1904).
The Lakota medicine man Black Elk described himself as a heyoka, saying he had been visited as a child by the thunder beings. [5] A survivor of the Wounded Knee Massacre , Black Elk toured with Buffalo Bill's Wild West in Europe and discussed his religious views, visions, and events in a series of interviews with poet John Neihardt , collected ...
Encouraging Bear, also known as Horn Chips (Lakota: Ptehé Wóptuȟ’a), was a noted Oglala Lakota medicine man, and the spiritual advisor to Crazy Horse, a Lakota war leader of the Oglala band in the 19th century. [1] Horn Chips was born in 1824 near Ft. Teton. [2] [1] He was orphaned as a young child and raised by his grandmother. [1]
Little Wolf/Little Coyote in Fort Laramie, in May 1868.. Little Wolf (Cheyenne: Ó'kôhómôxháahketa, sometimes transcribed Ohcumgache or Ohkomhakit, more correctly translated Little Coyote, c.1820—1904) was a Northern Só'taeo'o Chief and Sweet Medicine Chief of the Northern Cheyenne.