Title: Medicine trails
Subtitle: a life in many worlds
First published: 2009
Description: "Sometime in 1933, in Northern California's lush Humboldt County, a Karuk medicine woman named Daisy Jones had a vision identifying the tribe's next medicine woman. Later that year, Mavis Smither (McCovey) was born, and in the first twelve years of her life she was groomed by a designated group of medicine women to become a spiritual healer." "Medicine Trails is Mavis McCovey's honest and lively account of the many worlds in which she moves: the Indian and white cultural worlds, and the day-to-day and visionary reality of the medicine woman's world, as well as trips to what she calls "the other side": one of the responsibilities of a medicine woman is to bring back a medicine man's soul if he gets lost on the trails of the world beyond - a task McCovey has been called upon to do." "One of very few first-person accounts of Native American healers, Medicine Trails is invaluable for its insights into the experiences of a modern-day medicine woman. And McCovey is a warm and engaging guide not only to her life, but also her family's history and the history of the Karuk, Yurok, and Hupa peoples of the region."--Jacket.
Subjects: Karok Indians, Biography, Indian women healers, Karok women, Indian women shamans, Religion, Social life and customs, History, Indian women, California, biography, Women in medicine, Shamans, Indians of north america, religion, Indians of north america, history, Indians of north america, social life and customs
Places: California
People: Mavis McCovey (1933-)
LC classification: E99.K25 M33 2009