Songs for Indian Medicine is a riveting and perplexing story of the fragmentation of American Indian communities, families and culture. Written by an American Indian counselor and psychotherapist, the story merges the complex lives of three women and their families in a way that leads the reader into a maze of Native life on and off Indian reservations. The reader is challenged to separate reality from mysticism as the three women journey into the disappearing culture of medicine-men and women who are slowly vanishing. The story is about the confusing and bewildering tracks of those who survive poverty, abuse and neglect.