Strong Medicine: History of Healing on the Northwest Coast

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Strong Medicine: History of Healing on the Northwest Coast

By Robert E. McKechnie

From Shaman to Modern Medicine: A Century of the Healing Arts in British Columbia

By T.F. Rose

Review By John Norris

November 4, 2013

BC Studies no. 18 Summer 1973 | p. 79-82

PDF – Book Review, BC Studies, Summer 1973

We acknowledge that we live and work on unceded Indigenous territories and we thank the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations for their hospitality.