The Musician Healer : Transforming Art into Medicine Mohawk Language Robert’s daughter

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The Musician Healer : Transforming Art into Medicine Mohawk Language Robert’s daughterBy author Islene Runningdeer with a foreword by Tanya Maggi. Islene Runningdeer is a musician, therapist, educator, and writer who lives and works on the Acadian coast of Maine. She draws upon her French and Mikmaq Abenaki First Nation roots to make music a joy. For more than forty years she has used music as medicine, to teach students about their own capacity for creative freedom and health, to aid and comfort patients and families during the dying