1791 J. Long 97 Our Indians having made up huts, began to sing their medicine songs to induce the Wasses to partake of a feast.
1866 July 119/1 The spirits of the dead are appeased by medicine songs and offerings.
1951 J. Neihardt xv. 126 While they were doing this they kept dropping water into my mouth a little at a time, and Blue Spotted Horse sang a medicine song.