Two Toms [electronic resource] : lessons from a Shoshone doctor / Thomas H. Johnson and Helen S. Johnson.

ISBN:

9781607819868

Title:

Author:

Johnson, Thomas Hoevet, 1943-

Personal Author:

Johnson, Thomas Hoevet, 1943-

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

1 online resource (90 pages)

General Note:

Includes index.

Contents:

The pink phone -- Hat and shoes -- Peyote -- Another way -- Tom the listener -- A visit with Bill Shakespeare -- Politics -- The sweat solution -- What I learned from Tom -- Glossary.

Local Note:

eBooks on EBSCOhost

Personal Subject:

Wesaw, Tom, 1886-1973.

Johnson, Thomas Hoevet, 1943-

Subject Term:

Shoshoni Indians -- Biography.

Indian physicians -- Biography.

Indian religious leaders -- Biography.

Anthropologists -- Wyoming -- Biography.

Shoshoni Indians -- Social life and customs.

Intercultural communication -- Wyoming -- Case studies.

Friendship -- Wyoming -- Case studies.

Geographic Term:

Wind River Indian Reservation (Wyo.) -- Biography.

Wyoming.

Added Author:

Johnson, Helen S.

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

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Publication Date:

2010

Publication Information:

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In 1969, Tom Wesaw was an 83-year-old Shoshone doctor and religious leader on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. He could no longer drive, which posed problems in making house calls. The arrival of young anthropologist Tom Johnson changed that. Johnson would drive Wesaw, and cook, pump water, and build fires for sweat lodges. In exchange, the elder Tom would show the younger Tom his work. The two were together so often that the people of Wind River began to refer to them affectionately by one name: Two Toms. By the light of the lamp Wesaw gave him, Johnson would write down what he learned. The Shoshone doctor wanted his student to share everything he saw and heard. Now, in Two Toms: Lessons from a Shoshone Doctor , he has.

Presented as an engaging narrative, Johnson's book reveals details about the Shoshone culture and it chronicles the story of the friendship between these two men of different backgrounds. Filled with valuable anthropological information, this book is also highly readable and entertaining.

Author Notes

Thomas H. Johnson is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Steven's Point.

Helen S. Johnson assisted Thomas with fieldwork on the Wind River Reservation and is co-author of Also Called Sacajawea: Chief Woman's Stolen Identity.

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