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Bear Medicine Woman

by Gerald Musinsky
She was born with the spirit of a bear, after her father killed a bear while she was still in her mother's womb. She is the origin of the Bear Medicine Ceremony invoking healing powers by actions of a bear based on her narrative myth.

[Plains, Pawnee]

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