And the Jossakeeds, the Prophets,The Wabenos, the Magicians,And the Medicine-men, the Medas,Painted upon bark and deer-skinFigures for the songs they chanted
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1855, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha[1], section XIV:
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Sitting Bull is commonly thought of as a warrior. In point of fact he was not. He was a “medicine man;” which means that he included within himself the three professions of the priesthood, medicine and law.
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1891, W. Fletcher Johnson, Life of Sitting Bull and History of the Indian War of 1890-’91[1], Edgewood Publishing Co., page 41: