Long before any European ever set foot in North America, a young boy was about to enter manhood in his powerful tribe located in the Ohio Valley. It was 250 A.D. There was only one problem: the boy had been determined by tribal members to be the cause of bad luck. His efforts to redeem himself by participating in dangerous tribal ceremonies ultimately backfire making matters much much worse.
With his very life now at stake, he is magically reborn and transformed against his will into a shamans apprentice. He starts the process of learning his new role with his new family and gradually begins to understand the magic in all of nature and in the parallel universe of the spirit world. He is acquiring the profound and crucial powers of a shaman of a mighty people; but also the humility and responsibility that comes with such power. The story is replete with descriptions of the daily activities of an early eastern woodland culture together with the native plant and wild animal interactions that often occurred to a people living in such close proximity to nature on a daily basis.
Over de auteur
Michael R. Hall is a Harvard Law School graduate with a passion for botany and Native American culture. The author is an amateur naturalist who has lectured extensively on Ohio’s native plants and animals both past and present. He was born and has lived in Ohio most of his life and is familiar with the historical sites and archeology of the Ohio Hopewell Indians as well as other Native American peoples. The author’s extensive research of the literature on the Ohio Hopewell culture and his knowledge of Native American stories and spirituality made it possible to make reasonable and educated inferences of the belief system of these remarkable people. These inferences are based on the archeological record and the beliefs of their genetic linear descendents: Algonquian and Siouxian speaking peoples.
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