medicine man
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Alternative medicinemedicine manˈmedicine man (also medicine woman) noun [countable] MAa person in a Native American tribe who is considered to have the ability to cure illness and disease → shaman, witch-doctorExamples from the Corpusmedicine man• On the Reservation, being a medicine man meant literally that these days.• Forbes is a one-bottle medicine man.• He spoke Navajo and once sang with a Navajo medicine man at the bedside of a sick girl.