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Younger Brother, a Navajo Indian boy, feels the calling to become a medicine man. He undergoes eight years of training in the ancient religion of his Navaho people and the practical knowledge of living on the desert land that is his tribe's homeland.
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When a close friend dies from an apparent suicide just before his family is brutally murdered, a CIA agent travels from Europe to America in search of a killer whose methods have been borrowed from Native American mysticism.
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"Deep in the future, after a human offense against the natives of Hydros, the human population of the island of Sorve are ordered to leave. Forbidden on all other islands, in a flotilla of ships they seek the semi-mythical island of the Face of the Waters. During their journey they are forced to learn more about themselves, leading to questions about both religion and the purpose of humanity, all while facing danger from outside and within"--Page...
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"The Yoruba deity of the sea, Yemaya, is brought to vivid life as she discovers the power of Black resilience, love, and feminine strength in antebellum America. Shallow Waters imagines Yemaya, an Orïsha - a deity in the religion of Africa's Yoruba people - cast into mid-1800s America. We meet Yemaya as a young woman, still in the care of her mother and not yet fully aware of the spectacular power she possesses to protect herself and those she holds...
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Morrow
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1983.
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English translations of North and South American Indian spells, prayers, and songs traditionally used in rituals associated with birth, puberty, love, travel, sickness, weather, farming, hunting, and death.
"The only up-to-date anthology of traditional American Indian poetry, The Sacred Path emphasizes the relationship between the life of the individual and the power of the spoken word. Arranged as the progression of a human life, beginning with...
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