Allan Lacoursiere

The Medicine Man Allan Lacoursiere

"In the old days, before our people came to the land," the girl began, "There was a Medicine Man of great power...." The Medicine Man is a figure from their oral tradition since the People followed the herds across the land bridge to a new land. If three groups of people come to a sacred place and make a request at the same moment the Medicine Man would be summoned. Tamara and Amy, two young girls whose parents struggle with violence and addiction, run off into the night to the sacred grove.... Susan Blackthorne, whose youngest child has died in foster care, stumbles drunk and alone into the sacred grove.... Oscar Redman, traditional chief of this band whose granddaughter has been found murdered in this isolate community of two-hundred and forty-seven, comes to the sacred grove seeking answers.... For one isolated reserve in Northern Canada, struggling with poverty, corruption, and addiction, life is about to change. The Medicine Man has been summoned....