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Dream Gates
A singing shaman called by Owl, and dreams
By
Robert Moss
One of the classic accounts of how shamans are called to their practice by dreams comes from Isaac Tens, a Gitskan halaait (shaman) in the Pacific Northwest. The French Canadian scholar Marius Barbeau recorded his narrative and his songs at Hazelton, British Columbia, in 1920. This is a fierce story, in which dreams spill over…
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