Wisdom of the Elders
Abstract
The life and work of Beaver Berry, a Choctaw medicine man, is in keeping with the legacy of Clemmont Vontress. Vontress saw great value in the work of indigenous healers (Vontress, 1999). He went so far as to delineate several different types of healers. He saw indigenous healers - medicine people and seers of manys sorts - as the original healers of the body, mind and spirit (Vontress, 1991). The information presented here on Beaver is excerpted from an extended interview in which he describes his life's work as an American Indian healer (Beaver & Hightower, in press).
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