# medicine woman

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. A female Native American (or, any other indigenous) shamanistic healer.

## Etymology
Probably a calque of Ojibwe mashkikiiwininiikwe (“female doctor”), from mashkiki (“medicine”) + inini (“man”) + ikwe (“woman”).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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