shamans

In ancient Japan, Himiko, the privileged daughter of her clan's leader, fights the constraints and expectations imposed on young women and finds her own path, which includes secret shaman lessons.

Eighteen-year-old Agnes, a Mohawk Indian who is descended from a line of shamanic healers, uses her own newly-discovered powers to uncover the story of her ancestor, a seventeenth-century New England English healer who fled charges of witchcraft to make her life with the local Indians.

In the cold north, when Sixteen-Face John, a shaman, learns that his first child, a soonchild, cannot hear the World Songs that inspire all newborns from their mother's wombs, he sets out on a quest that takes him through many lifetimes and many shape-shifts, as well as encounters with beasts, demons and a mysterious benevolent owl spirit, Ukpika, who is linked to John's past.

Profiles thirteen individuals whose stories weave a colorful outline of the American Indian religious experience from the first contact with Europeans to the early 1990s, exploring the experiences of people from different tribes, regions, and times.

A young boy tells what life is like growing up in the Solomon Islands. Includes photographs and information about the geography, history, people, and culture of the islands.

Thrall, an orc shaman, discovers that the elementals on Azeroth no longer heed the call of shamans and struggles to protect his troubled people; meanwhile, King Varian Wrynn ofStormwind risks alienating his allies and son while he ponders a violent response to the increasing tension that exists between the Alliance and the Horde.

A modern Dakota Indian medicine man recounts his life and spiritual experiences.

In 1864, a Navajo shaman and his grandson seek powerful, mythical beads that can save their people from great evils, including The Long Walk forced on them by United States soldiers, and the trickster Coyote.

Eighteen-year-old Agnes, a Mohawk Indian who is descended from a line of shamanic healers, uses her own newly-discovered powers to uncover the story of her ancestor, a seventeenth-century New England English healer who fled charges of witchcraft to make her life with the local Indians.