medicine-drums

Updated: July 5, 2025

As Christmas approached, their condition grew desperate. Beavers and porcupines were scarce, and the snow was not deep enough for hunting the moose. Night and day the medicine-drums and medicine-songs resounded from the wigwams, mingled with the wail of starving children.

Francis Parkman - The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century