The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing literary criticism Long after the Anishinaabeg first

Long after the Anishinaabeg first inhabited and voyageurs plied Lake Superior's North Shore in Minnesota

and learn the truth about his father’s death

Celebrated Ojibwa writer Basil Johnston invites us to go into the woods and meadows

There are 'conversations' to address concerns familiar to the Native community

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The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing literary criticism Long after the Anishinaabeg firstThe first Navajo woman surgeon combines western medicine and traditional healing. A spellbinding journey between two worlds, this remarkable book describes surgeon Lori Arviso Alvord's struggles to bring modern medicine to the Navajo reservation in Gallup, New Mexico and to bring the values of her people to a medical care system in danger of losing its heart. Dr. Alvord left a dusty reservation in New Mexico for Stanford University Medical School,