Abstract:
An interview with Rufus Goodstriker, born in 1924 on the Blood Indian Reserve and attended a residential school. He tells of the origins and significance of the transfer of Indian names, especially within his own family. He also talks about Indian medicine and the power of faith; the Indian spiritual way vs. the Western technological way;of herbs, animal spirits, sweat bath in healing etc.
Description:
28 p. transcript of an interview with Rufus Goodstriker conducted by Christine Welsh and Tony Snowsill on February 14, 1983. Tape number IH-007, transcript disc 5.
