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Book SynopsisTracking Dr. Lonecloud: Showman to Legend Keeper, by Ruth Whitehead, Nova Scotia Museum ethnologist, is a book that includes the memoir of Jerry Lonecloud, a Mi''kmaw hunter, healer, and showman. Co-published by Goose Lane Editions and the Nova Scotia Museum, the book offers to readers, for the first time, the earliest known Mi''kmaw memoir.
Jerry Lonecloud was born Germain Laksi, on 4 July 1852 in Belfast, Maine, to Mi''kmaw parents from Nova Scotia. As a youth, he lived in Vermont. Orphaned at the age of fourteen, he set out on a two-year adventure to bring his two brothers and one sister back to Nova Scotia. Trained in the use of herbal medicine by his parents, Laski fell easily into the role of Doctor Lonecloud in the American medicine shows of the 1880s, including Healey and Bigelow''s Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company, Buffalo Bill''s Wild West Show, and his own company, the Kiowa Medicine Show, for which he made the medicines. During the rest of his remarkable l
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"Tracking Doctor Lonecloud is a short book, but it contains more information than most books twice its size, and much of the content isn't documented anywhere else ... captivating . . . Whitehead lets [these stories] stand alone, and her economy is the reason for this volume's success. Lonecloud's voice is a true original, and this book is a singular accomplishment." * Quill & Quire starred review *
