• How the Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company Had Nothing to Do With 'American Indians' or 'Medicine'

  • Apr 30 2024
  • Length: 33 mins
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How the Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company Had Nothing to Do With 'American Indians' or 'Medicine'

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  • John Healy wasn’t a real doctor. Charles Bigelow was never a scout in the United States Army. And, the products they sold weren’t actually based on healing secrets of the Kickapoo people. Yet, the two men made a fortune from their Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company patent medicines – which, while named for them, not a single Kickapoo was involved with the company or its remedies. The story of Healy and Bigelow is one of quackery, lies, native cultural appropriation, and ... wait, did we call out the cultural appropriation? Yes? Well, then, let's talk about this.

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