Turkish Neurosurgery 2002 , Vol 12 , Num 1-2
WICHASHA WAKAN: MEDICINE MAN (LAKOTA SIOUX) NATIVE AMERICAN MEDICINE AND THE ROLE OF THE MEDICINE MAN
A. Beliz TAŞÇIOĞLU1, Ali O. TAŞÇIOĞLU2
1Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Dept of Anatomy, Ankara, Turkey
2Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, Dept of Neurosurgery, Ankara Turkey
"We were and are a peaceful people. We even welcomed the wasichu [white man]. Only when we saw them building roads, forts, killing off the game, committing buffalo genocide, when we saw them ripping off our land for gold, only then did we realize that what they wanted was our land. They took away our pride, our customs, our MEDICINE. Then we began to fight. For our earth, for our children. That started what the whites call the Great Indian Wars of the West. I call it the Great Indian Holocaust" (2).

- Leonard Crow Dog (Medicine Man) - Keywords : American Indians, concepts of medicine, treatment, wise man

Corresponding author : A. Beliz Taşçıoğlu, btasciog@hacettepe.edu.tr