"One of the women at the bar told him, 'You Finlanders don't have the guts to shoot yourselves.' That was the last sentence he heard."

In the Spirit of Medicine from KUMD

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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 KUMD.org. In the Spirit of Medicine on KUMD is made possible by University of Minnesota Medical School- Duluth Campus, Ampers, and the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

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