Medicine Men heal Richard Oakes
About This Item
KPIX's Mike Lee interviews a group of American Indian medicine men on June 24th 1970, who describe how they visited activist Richard Oakes in hospital and successfully assisted with his recovery from a head wound. Wallace "Mad Bear" Anderson explains that: "The power is not within the medecine men, the power is within the creator. We work through the creator. We're only the tools of the creator. Without him, Indian medecine can't work."
- Event
- Occupation of Alcatraz
- Type of material
- archival news film
- Duration
- 2:20
- 16mm color magnetic sound film
- Rights for this video belong to
- CBS5 KPIX-TV
- Date aired
- 6/24/1970
- Originally aired on
- KPIX Eye on the Bay News
- Identifier
- KPIX 102423
- Views
- 9486
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