Called the Mvskoke in their language, the Creek Indians of Oklahoma
continue to practice traditional medicine. In "Creek Indian
Medicine Ways," David Lewis, a full-blood Mvskoke and practicing
medicine man, tells about the medicine tradition that has shaped
his life. Born into a family of medicine people, he was chosen at
birth to carry on the tradition. He shares his memories here about
his childhood training and initiation as a medicine man as well as
his remembrances about his father and grandmother, who trained him.
Lewis reveals part of the sacred story of the origin of plants and
he identifies some of the plants he uses in his cures. He also
describes several of the ceremonies his teachers taught him,
stressing throughout the sacredness and importance of Mvskoke
medicine.
Ann T. Jordan, a Euroamerican anthropologist, documents the
place of Lewis's medicine family in the written record. Lewis is
the great grandson of Jackson Lewis, who was interviewed in 1910 by
anthropologist John Swanton. Jackson Lewis is mentioned numerous
times in Swanton's classic works on Mvskoke medicine and culture,
published by the Bureau of American Ethnology in the 1920s. David
Lewis is the direct inheritor of his great grandfather's medicine
knowledge.
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