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medicine woman

American  

noun

  1. (among North American Indians and some other aboriginal peoples) a woman believed to possess magical or supernatural powers; a female shaman.


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Zhao sees the moment as a collective expression of pain, with Buckley channeling the emotion of the community like a medicine woman.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025

She’s one of the people the Clan thinks of as “the Others,” but the Neanderthal medicine woman, Iza, is unable to leave the hurt and helpless girl behind.

From Slate • Apr. 18, 2023

“We’re losing people who are elders and were carriers of our traditions and culture,” Robbins tells The Verge a day after the death of a medicine woman on the reservation.

From The Verge • Jul. 6, 2020

Lozen was not only a fighter, but a well known medicine woman.

From The Guardian • Aug. 23, 2015

He needed the medicine woman to wrap it in healing leaves, but no one seemed concerned about his injury.

From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper

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