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Believing that evil spirits caused diseases, the Indians used charms and magic to remove the evil influence. The magical procedures were usually preformed by those supposed to have the power to control spirit forces. Indians might call them such names as “myster ....

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.... tribal beliefs about illness and healing. Most tribes have the beliefs that their medicine people have “extra” that others don't. This power comes from varied sources: a visionary experience that leads one into the study of medicine, or being born into a family that includes generations of medicine people. Many tribes have both men and women medicine people, but some tribes have only medicine women. Many medicine people have a specialty, such as herbalist, bone setter, midwife, or counselor. The Hopi tribe has Effie, a medicine women who learned the art of using herbs. Each person is effective and useful at what he or she does, and they each ....