Film Date
6/24/70
Film Reference Number
KPIX 102423
Description
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 medicine men the power is within the creator. We work through the creator. We're only the tools of the creator. Without him Indian medicine can't work."
Format
16mm newsfilm
Copyright
CBS5 KPIX-TV