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Article Open Access http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/jhass.2023.03.018

Empire’s Colonization in American Plague Era: Colonial Medicine and Native American Medicine in Shaman

Li Yang, Tianping Jiang*

School of Languages and Literature, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, China.

*Corresponding author: Tianping Jiang

Published: April 28,2023

Abstract

Noah Gordon, a Jewish American writer, is very popular in the United States for his famous historical novels “The Cole Trilogy”. As the second book of “The Cole Trilogy”, Shaman was declared “Best Historical Novel of 1991” by the Society of American Historians, which awarded Noah Gordon the first James Fenimore Cooper Prize. It talks mainly about the life of Dr. Robert Judson Cole and his son “Shaman” in the 19th century. They help native American Sauks, and absorbed the culture of Sauks, enriching western medical education system by studying indigenous remedies. The Sauks struggled to survive. In a post-colonial context, this paper explores the competition between colonial medicine and native American medicine in American Plague Era, revealing the European powers’ am-bition of conquering the native Americans through violence and medicine. Native American medicine was finally hybridized with colonial medicine to form a new kind of medicine, folk medicine, to survive itself, overthrowing the absolute authority of colonial medicine.

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How to cite this paper

Empire's Colonization in American Plague Era: Colonial Medicine and Native American Medicine in Shaman

How to cite this paper: Li Yang, Tianping Jiang. (2023) Empire's Colonization in American Plague Era: Colonial Medicine and Native American Medicine in ShamanJournal of Humanities, Arts and Social Science7(3), 574-580.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/jhass.2023.03.018