Spirit Walker Rise Of The Thunderbird

In this page-turning young adult fantasy adventure, the life Nakoma has known is torn apart when she is chosen to be the new Spirit Walker. She loves a man who is the Thunderbird. But his father, Chief Red Cloud, stands between them, trying to control this new fate. With the aid of ancient spirits, and embracing her new powers, she must make an impossible choice: Will she destroy the Thunderbird, or help fight for the man she loves.

The Thunderbird Beliefs: The Ojibway believed the thunder to be a great massive bird called a thunderbird, whose eyes shoot out lightning and thunder. The first thunder in early spring was something good to hear, for the Ojibway welcomed their protector again from its home in the south where it had been all the winter. Offerings of tobacco were placed on the ground or on water or put into the stove to burn, or sacred pipes were smoked by the elders to the thunderbird in the early spring. It is known among the Ojibway that the thunderbirds had a huge nest on the mountains of the earth and large blankets of clouds were always seen to cover the nest. Although the thunderbird was never seen to come and go from its nest, it was known to be there. Lightning and thunder were heard only at these places. At Lake Nipigon in the olden times there was a mountain across the old Sand Point Indian Reserve where the thunderbirds had a nest made of stones that was always seen by the Ojibway. No one ever went to find out what was really up there but Indians did not need to find out, for the Ojibway knew it was the thunderbird and considered that place sacred. About thirty years before the coming of the white man into that area of Lake Nipigon the blanket of clouds seen at the mountain began to lift and moved away forever, and the Ojibway saw a huge nest. Later that summer the thunderbirds destroyed every trace of the place and pretty nearly levelled half the mountain in order to leave no evidence.I was told that the thunderbirds were believed to have a great nest on one of the mountains by Lake Superior. Some eighty-five years ago two young boys started to climb this mountain to find out if a thunderbird really was there although they had been told never to go up that mountain. When they got to the top they saw big newly hatched birds who were still hairy and whose eyes blinked light like flashes of lightning. The frightened boys ran down the hill and told what they had seen. An Indian who in his youth had seen these boys died at Heron Bay some years ago. Later this same story was told to me by a relative who said that the birds moved away, where it is not known. Huge stone nests of these majestic birds are still seen in some parts of Ontario. One is located in Manitoba, another in the Deer Lake area in the wilderness north of Red Lake. -Legends of My People the Great Ojibway, Illustrated and told by Norval Morriseau - A Great Native Artist

People are supposed to be thrilled about getting shiny new magical powers. At least, that's what reluctant shaman Joanne Walker always imagined. But shamanic healing comes with expectations and duties way beyond her comfort zone, and she would like nothing more than to stick her head in the sand and hope it all goes away rather than adapt to her unexpected new gifts. (Spoiler alert: playing ostrich never makes the problem go away.) When her cryptic spirit guide Coyote disappears, Joanne, still hoping to find her way back to a non-magical life where she only has to worry about herself and her beloved classic Mustang, looks for help from other sources...and is relieved to find a gathering of witches eager to accept her into their coven. Their approach to magic is different from what Joanne has learned so far, but there are other guides in the magical Lower World, and Joanne begins to feel that she can handle this-as long as other people are in charge. But the harder she pulls away from her alarming new talents, the farther Joanne moves from the path that she's meant to be on. As demons rise from the Lower World, and dangerous spells are cast, it's the people around her who will pay the price...unless Joanne stops searching for a way back to the life she used to know.

When a deadly illness begins to afflict the clans, twelve-year-old Torak, with help from Renn and Wolf, embarks on a journey to find a cure, in the follow-up adventure to Wolf Brother

Dreams disappear when morning comes. They are not supposed to kill you at lunchtime. Adi has to stop the hallucinations before they get her expelled. But when her dreams start coming true, she's desperate to find answers before she loses her sanity. Honi is the last of the spirit walkers, able to traverse the human and spirit world. He searches for an apprentice, desperate to train another so the secrets of his people are preserved. He has sworn off love and knows only duty. Adi doesn't want help from some smug dude, no matter how good he looks with his shirt off. Yet working with the intriguing Native American man and his wolf companion might be the only way to stop the supernatural attacks that will claim her life.

"Spirit Walker tells of a time when the spirits walked with the living, resistance never stopped, and dreams lived when the dreamers lay cold. After the exile of the Northern Cheyenne from their homeland, spirit warriors arose in defiance: Rides a Crow, a Spirit Walker who vowed to return to her home even if she were the only one left alive to make the journey; Hunter, an outcast who walked outside the laws of men; Talks to Horses, a spirit horse who has roamed the Plains; and Dead Face, a warrior scarred for life. From the squalor of a reservation and to the race for freedom with death riding on their shoulders, they refuse to admit defeat, even at the point of death"--