Shamans and Kushtakas By Mary Giraudo Beck Handcrafted the natives of the North

the natives of the North were soon overwhelmed by a force mightier than the fiercest Arctic winter: the twentieth century

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Shamans and Kushtakas By Mary Giraudo Beck Handcrafted the natives of the NorthShaman and Kushtaka, both struck terror in the hearts of the Tlingit and Haida, for both possessed frightening supernatural powers. Among the Natives of the Pacific Northwest Coast, the shaman was honored as a person who could heal the body and spirit as well as see into the future. In his struggles to protect his people, he fought the kushtakaan evil spirit being who was half human and half land hotterfor the souls of dying persons. Theirs was a