medicine man

poppamies A Native American shamanistic healer. The term is also used to refer to traditional healers of other indigenous peoples.
1855, (w), (w), XIV,http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19/19-h/19-h.htm

And the Jossakeeds, the Prophets,

The Wabenos, the Magicians,

And the Medicine-men, the Medas,

Painted upon bark and deer-skin

Figures for the songs they chanted

Sitting Bull is commonly thought of as a warrior. In point of fact he was not. He was a “medicine man;” which means that he included within himself the three professions of the priesthood, medicine and law.

After the death of Ekwefi's second child, Okonkwo had gone to a medicine man, who was also a diviner of the Afa Oracle, to enquire what was amiss.