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Holy Ones

Holy Ones is the term used by Vine Deloria Jr to refer to indigenous people "who had lived a more rigorous and disciplined life because they had been in contact with the higher powers."[1]

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Notes

Deloria suggests this is a better term than "medicine men" since medicine men were focussed primarily on healing.

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Footnotes

  1. Deloria, Vine Jr. God Is Red: A Native View of Religion. Colorado: Fulcrum Publishing, 2003. xxv-xxvi