In the Spirit of Medicine
Dr. Arne Vainio is an enrolled member of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe and a family practice doctor on the Fond Du Lac reservation in Cloquet, Minnesota. His essays on life, work, medicine and spirit were published in "News From Indian Country," and you can find the link to his stories and more on our website at thenorth1033.org. In the Spirit of Medicine on The North 103.3 is made possible by University of Minnesota Medical School- Duluth Campus, Ampers, and the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
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The cemetery is far from city lights and is surrounded by tall pine trees. We are close to the same latitude as Finland and my grandmother would have seen… -
In the Spirit of Medicine features the essays of Dr. Arne Vainio, an enrolled member of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe and a family practice doctor on the… -
She was looking down into one of the barrels and once she started talking, the words came out and it was like she couldn’t stop. She was sobbing and… -
Money was short and you ran out of heating fuel in the middle of winter. I expect those were some bad days. You didn’t tell me about that until after it… -
Do the leaves remember those from last year?In the heat of summer, the bright green shimmers of forever.Then the fall.The bitter cold.They show their true… -
I was almost to my hotel and a man was kneeling on the sidewalk pulling a trumpet out of its case. I was well past him and was about to cross the street… -
You told me you didn’t feel you contributed anything to anyone anymore. My father, your brother, died when I was four years old. I have maybe three or… -
Skip Sandman is one of our spiritual leaders and he spoke for the pipe. No one was allowed to touch it or to take pictures of it, but he told us how the… -
I have no doubt this sewing machine made face masks over a hundred years ago and my grandmother would have made masks. There was a huge second wave of… -
George has always told me seeing a doctor dancing would be healing for everyone and I discovered that meant me as much as anyone else. Richard is a young…
