american mystic
“alex mar’s american mystic is a poem of a film. ” – filmmaker magazine
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mystic native american high - steel workers in wolfen. (the mysticism aspect is not really present in the novel. )
american mystic screens at the tribeca film festival in competition in the world documentary selection. more information and showtimes can be found in the below link .
on july 16, the american ethanol mystic powerboat took home “top gun” honors at the grand lake of the cherokees shootout with a 200 - mph run .
american mystic
follows three young americans living in different parts of the country as they follow the spiritual paths to which they' ve dedicated their lives .
paintings of captain george seymore brewster and his wife mary lockwood clark brewster were recently acquired by mystic seaport museum .
fiction book review: an american mystic: a novel of spiritual adventure by michael gurian, author arkana $ 24. 95 (273p) isbn 978 - 0 - 670 - 88296 - 0
overall, american mystic is a noble effort on mar’s part and worth checking out. i left the theater wanting to learn more about the film’s subjects and any filmmaker that can spark discussion and exploration is doing something right .
a harrowing exploration of the rapid rise of american religious fanaticism after 9 / 11 .
if the native american magic comes from beyond the grave, see indian burial ground .
hermann hesse’s siddhartha, james redfield’s the celestine prophecy, michael murphy’s golf in the kingdom, dan millman’s the way of the peaceful warrior all have breathed exciting, novelistic life into metaphysical concepts. now, an american mystic joins their company .
'' mystic river'' is rated r (under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). it has profanity, abundant violence and existential despair .
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in the smallville episode
skinwalker
, the native american character kyla can turn into a wolf .
while he is a native american and occasionally discusses native american beliefs and philosophies, he also has an extensive scientific background and his' magical' abilities are the result his own research into various parasites .
i just saw american mystic at the tribeca film festival, and i have to say that my first impression was that this is a great topic for a documentary. my second impression was that i wish the subjects themselves were interesting enough to carry the film. oh well .
the primary weakness of the film is that it doesn’t go deep enough. while the slices of life were interesting, mar’s camera only captured what was on the surface. it reminded me a bit of an mtv true life episode — true life: i’m an american mystic .
in avalon web of magic, adriane' s native american grandmother dispenses mystical advice and fortune cookie sayings almost every time she appears, while a native american rock monument is a literal gateway into the magical spirit world .
, rei meets one of the engineers that made the titular aircraft. he' s unmistakably native american, but
the american ethanol mystic powerboat boat routinely finishes in the top of its field in competition, breaking its own record at the lake of the ozarks shootout last year with a speed of 217 mph. the boat is owned by don onken, a supporter of american agriculture, innovator in the industrial recycling space, and an ardent supporter of american ethanol. the boat runs on an e90 ethanol blend and is crewed by john cosker (throttleman), tony battiato (driver), and earl moorman (crew chief) .
american mystic for months. alex mar' s documentary on the deep and unorthodox spirituality of three different americans had generated a lot of buzz in the pagan community because one of those featured was a pagan. i was so eager for this film i feared it would disappoint. it did not .
celeste and annabeth (laura linney), jimmy' s second wife, are cousins, and though'' mystic river'' takes place in a modern american city, it is as thoroughly steeped in tribal codes of kinship, blood and honor as a shakespeare play or a john ford western .
“mar’s film is lyrical, drenched in a purely american atmosphere of rural and rustic wonders and meditations. ” – twitch
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the' magic native' trope is ridiculed further in
it hits the fan'' where they (rightfully) assume that a las vegas waiter could identify a mystic arthurian gemstone, simply by being british .
and that is one of the most touching aspects to american mystic; this genuine regard for people and love all three stories exude. visiting his younger brother in prison, chuck tells us that no one is a bad person, that everyone is good, sometimes good people make hurtful choices. he himself struggled with substance abuse as a teenager .
all three of the people who are featured in american mystic believe in having a deep, committed connection to something outside of themselves, something related to their ancestors and the past. particularly in the cases of chuck and morpheus, they are willing to make sacrifices in order to maintain a connection that would be considered unthinkable by most americans, and to commit not only themselves but their families as well. these are the things that we say that people no longer want. that we must make religion easy; that religion must adapt to modern lifestyles and must give way to new ideas. while there are certainly times where this is true, that trope does not comfortably fit the people we hear speak in american mystic .
meatyard also experimented with multiple exposures, motion blur, distortion, and other methods of abstraction, as in the blurred landscapes of his “motion - sound” images. in addition, american mystic will present a group of shimmering photographs of kentucky’s red river gorge, which were featured in the 1971 book the unforeseen wilderness, accompanied by text by his friend wendell berry .
another episode has a monstrous wolf attacking ranches. molder suspects that a native american is shape shifting but it turns out to be a subversion .
has had two named native american characters throughout its run, both of whom possessed stands (psychic powers formed from the person' s spirit) .
in the stand alone novel sacred ground, the main character has magical powers explicitly because she' s a native american shaman - in - training .
the main character of the short - lived fox show new amsterdam was made immortal by a native american shaman after taking a bullet meant for her .
john blackstar is fanonically considered american indian. that said, the original intention was for him to be african - american, but this in conjuncture with naming both the show and the character
blackstar
was deemed a little beyond the pale. it seems to be its own trope for filmation .
in the gallery’s accompanying publication ralph eugene meatyard: american mystic, alexander nemerov examines meatyard’s creative process through a series of short texts paired with 48 of meatyard’s photographs. the 100 - page, fully illustrated hardcover book will be available at the gallery and at urltoken ($ 45). fraenkel gallery will host a reading and book signing with the author on saturday, march 11, at 2pm .
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new york director and producer, graduate of harvard with degrees in journalism and film production. mar produced mtv news, has published in' rolling stone',' new york magazine', and was a correspondent for cbs, abs and bbc. her articles on art and culture have been published in' frieze',' art review' and' artforum'. american mystic is her directorial debut .
growth energy ceo emily skor praised the onken racing team for their continued success. “don onken and his team are phenomenal ambassadors for ethanol, ” skor said. “you can’t argue with the results they get in competitions, year after year, but beyond that, they understand why ethanol is such an important part of our nation’s fuel mix. don onken has been a pioneer in recycling and agriculture, and we are proud to have him and his entire team as part of the american ethanol family. we look forward to many more victories for the american ethanol mystic powerboat. ”
the freedom fighters have black condor in the john trujillo version. he' s a native american man who received his powers from an ancient spider - goddess .
in mike resnick' s the buntline special native american magic has been powerful enough to keep the united states of america east of the mississippi as of 1881 .
it is a film of magisterial, slow - burning power, one of the finest examples of recent american cinematic storytelling and certainly eastwood' s most mature film .
) into offensive or defensive tactics. he' s given more characterization than devo, with his status as a native american as actually part of his character, considering
the passengers of revival were raised by a hindu ritual, but a native american is able to use his own tribe' s rites to understand and trap them .
mulder gets brought back to life by a native american ritual after getting gassed in a boxcar full of dead alien hybrids, and later on fights a reanimated south american shaman. the plot thread with the alien boxcar is subverted a bit, however, when skinner has the idea to work with some navajo world war ii vets who were in the codetalker program to
store
an account of what happened. making it not a case of native american magic saving the day, but language .
fraenkel gallery is pleased to present ralph eugene meatyard: american mystic from march 9 through may 6, 2017, featuring more than 40 works by this enigmatic and legendary photographer. the exhibition is a rare opportunity to view both iconic and lesser - known photographs by meatyard alongside the artist’s notebooks and annotated volumes from his personal library. the exhibition coincides with the publication a major new monograph on the artist by the esteemed art historian alexander nemerov .
american mystic includes a number of photographs in which meatyard cast family members and friends in central roles, often masked and enacting symbolic dramas, such as romance (n .) from ambrose bierce # 3, 1962. among the highlights of the exhibition are selections from meatyard’s memorable series the family album of lucybelle crater, which features his wife, madelyn, in a grotesque mask, accompanied by a friend or relative in a similarly disfiguring translucent mask .
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whiskey jack in neil gaiman' s american gods. though he actually is magical, being a culture hero from native american mythology (wisakedjak), most of the time he acts like an average joe. subverted with samantha black crow. she' s part cherokee, and one of the few characters who is not magical in any way .
averted with kicking wing from joe dirt. joe assumes he' s magical because he' s native american, but wing says he' s just some guy selling fireworks .
there has been ongoing conversation in religious communities about the
rise of the nones
as more and more people describe themselves as religiously unaffiliated. while i am certain that a significant number of these people simply do not find religion relevant to their lives, many i believe are actually seeking something more and something different. the big question is: what is this something more? what is this something different? i think american mystic provides one answer to this question .
freedom of religion is one of the fundamental liberties our country was built on, but is that freedom unlimited? yeah, you can worship whatever or whomever you choose, but stray from one of the more popular and socially acceptable monotheistic religions and you’re certain to butt up against prejudice, intolerance, and ostracism. the documentary “american mystic” captures how three young people of three different faiths — spiritualism, lakota and witchcraft — deal with the realities of their unusual religious choices .
walken, from baoh: the visitor. a giant native american, last of his tribe, and the most powerful psychic of the world, with tetsuo - like telekinetic attacks .
in the gathering by kelley armstrong, maya is adopted, but is said to be part native american, and she also is discovering mysterious abilities coming from her paw print birthmark .
this project was sparked when i came across a description of marian moore’s personal narrative in the mystic seaport collections research center online catalog. i wanted to know more about this “melancholy” woman who presented as a man at sea, and the harrowing details of her experiences with cannibalism and shipwreck, but there was no …
this project was sparked when i came across a description of marian moore’s personal narrative in the mystic seaport collections research center online catalog. i wanted to know more about this “melancholy” woman who presented as a man at sea, and the harrowing details of her experiences with cannibalism and shipwreck, but there was no digital version of the text available at that time. thus, a partnership began between the university of rhode island and the library at mystic seaport museum which allowed me to collaborate with the museum in an effort to make several compelling narratives of shipwrecked women at sea available to scholars and enthusiasts around the globe through digital access .
in midori days the native american medicine man is the only one of the spiritual experts called in for midori' s
illness
to actually have some idea of what' s going on .
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dave' s abduction is an act of inexplicable, almost metaphysical evil, and this story of guilt, grief and vengeance grows out of it like a mass of dark weeds. at its starkest, the film, like the novel by dennis lehane on which it is based, is a parable of incurable trauma, in which violence begets more violence and the primal violation of innocence can never be set right.'' mystic river'' is the rare american movie that aspires to - - and achieves - - the full weight and darkness of tragedy .
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it is in many ways eastwood' s tightest movie for some time, and certainly his darkest since unforgiven; indeed, the ending offers as corrosive an assessment of the limits of american justice as anything in his career .
a runaway young man in beasts of burden can understand and speak animal. the only reason he gives is that his
people
do that too, and given his tattoos and explanations about them, he' s native american .
, played by famous native american actor ned romero. he' s a local college professor of agriculture who at times tells of what his ancestors taught him and plays up the role, but then averts it, usually with snark .
the elves in elf quest are arguably modeled on native americans and are literally magical. the elves are a varied bunch, and none of them are strict fantasy counterpart cultures. the sun folk seem vaguely native american (maybe central american), and the go backs clearly show some eskimo / inuit traits. the wolfriders seem a little more like european myths of forest - dwelling elves, and they' re certainly drawn to look european. the gliders are kind of unclassifiable .
an episode of so weird takes place on a reservation and includes a tale of the coyote spirit who helps those lost in the woods. at the end of the episode, the coyote turns into the native american who told the story .
see the episode where lois loses the car to corrupt native american casino owners. they realize they are being jerks, give the car back and wonder what the hell is wrong with them. the fact they are very rich is a comfort .
while averted in one must fall: 2097 in that raven, the (apparently) native american character is a purely urban kickboxer and bodyguard to the big boss, he seems to somehow have become a magical native american by the sequel game, appearing as the boss of the first tournament with his now - well - known mystical defensive power... which also protects the robot he' s remotely piloting (omf doesn' t do flesh - and - blood combat). ookay .
this gives several types of spiritual paths & the people who who are living them. sadly, the
witch
path, the magical path is portrayed is the only one where you glimpse the
mystical freedom
and someone living it. the other examples were not as certain in their ultimate outcome. being a mystic is a vocation of total surrender to love. it is a calling. those shone were trying, but need a spiritual mentor for direction. i recommend those who are interested in
american mystics
to watch this & see what you think of the examples presented. but it is not satisfying as it could have been .
in 1970, a young musician walked away from the american dream of rock' n' roll stardom. he sold all his possessions and moved from the suburbs of new york to the foothills of the himalayas in search of happiness and a little - known saint .
in the 60s, dc had a short lived comic about prez rickard, the first teen president. prez' s longstanding friend, companion and fbi head was eagle free, a native american who continually dressed the part and was surrounded by a group of animals .
aquaman archnemesis ocean master was both half - native american and an evil sorcerer in the post - crisis continuity, yet subverts the trope—his magic powers come not from his native heritage, but from having sold his soul to the (very christian) demon lord neron .
unsun has signed a worldwide deal with mystic production (home label of behemoth and riverside, among others). the band, who released their debut album ,
the end of life
in september 2008 via century media records, has entered studio this spring to record sophomore album. vocal tracks were recorded in studio x in olsztyn and soon after unsun moved to hertz studio (behemoth, vader, decapitated) to record all instruments .
as with most murder mysteries, the densely woven narrative of'' mystic river'' is a skein of coincidences and somewhat implausible connections. what gives the movie its extraordinary intensity of feeling is the way mr. eastwood grounds the conventions of pulp opera in an unvarnished, thickly inhabited reality. there are scenes that swell with almost unbearable feeling, and the director' s ambitions are enormous, but the movie almost entirely avoids melodrama or grandiosity .
in deadlands, native americans and those who have been welcomed into their tribes are the only characters eligible for guardian spirits or leaning rituals and favors from the spirits, at least in the american west. (oddly enough, native americans who had been raised by white people could not learn these things unless they became a tribe' s blood brother later in life, which makes it sound like your
magical native american
- ness can be revoked; as it' s a function of religion, not birthright, this is probably intentional. )
the tribes and spiritual motifs continue in the successor game, werewolf the forsaken, but the native american themes are downplayed. furthermore, the werewolves in this game aren' t so much protectors of the spirit world as they are protectors of humanity from a rapacious spirit world .
this was a major disappointment. i was so excited to be following three american mystics, however, i couldn' t get through half of the documentary because it focused on things unrelated to the purpose of this film, and i had a hard time finding these people noteworthy .
in the california voodoo game, black elk is the army team' s principal spell - caster, and his magic - user / cleric character is patterned on his native american heritage. outside the game, he' s just an ordinary mid - 21st - century military man .
in the buffy the vampire slayer thanksgiving episode
pangs
, buffy faces a native american vengeance spirit who can shapeshift, and summon ghostly native american warriors. arguably this is an aversion / subversion / deconstruction. magic is hardly limited to native americans in the buffyverse, and this trope is sort of examined—willow feels sympathetic to the spirit since it' s avenging legitimate wrongs, while everyone else points out that, you know, it' s still a murderous vengeance spirit that kills people and gave xander magical syphilis. they wind up destroying it at the end .
but mr. penn, as gifted and disciplined as any of his precursors, makes them all look like, well, actors. he has purged his work of any trace of theatricality or showmanship while retaining all the directness and force that their applications of the method brought into american movies .
whateley academy, who actually possesses the spirit of the first shaman. as a subversion, there' s also a superpowered mutant native american at the school who isn' t magical: skinwalker has the power to possess people and take over their bodies, but isn' t a shaman .
werewolf wasn' t the only game in the old world of darkness to work the native american motifs. mage the ascension had the dreamspeakers, a mystical tradition made up of shamans of all types (aborigines, native americans, african bushmen, even modern technoshamans) who showed a mastery over the spirit world. changeling the dreaming had the nunnehi, changelings who took after native american myths the same way the kithain took after european (and african) myths, and whose relationship with the kithain ranged from
friendly, but keep your distance
to
fucking white man .
the wolves tribe of digital devil saga wear stereotypical native - american clothes, can shape shift, use magic, are big on honor, and have unwavering loyalty to their leader. the last two can be excused by all but one person in the game world doing it as well however .
dharma and greg has an old native american who shows up to die in their apartment building because it was built over an ancient burial mound. he returns in at least one later episode as a ghost / spirit guide - or possibly a dream. it' s up to the viewer to decide .
a recent acquisition by the library has links to both the local area and our own collections. the document pictured below, a mediterranean passport, pertains to the ship orris of new york in 1809. the orris was built in old mystic with christopher leeds as the master carpenter. she measured 249 tons and was 87 feet in length. the signature at the bottom right belongs to the collector of the port of new york, david gelston, whose digitized collection of papers is in our library .
averted in mans favorite sport, john screaming eagle talks in stereotypical indian talk, hinting that he knows things only indians know, until he' s found out, then he becomes a normal american man in speech and' knowledge', and willingness to help out his fellow man - for a price .
parodied in ntsfsdsuv. alphonse bearwalker is an alaskan african - american / inuit, which, according to him, is why he can telepathically communicate with his dog. his father alonzo is ridiculously spiritual, claiming that he can read trees like books (and furthermore that they' re better than real books anyway) .
a searching and respectful inquiry into the
other ways
of american spirituality, far outside of the familiar mainstream: the lakota sun dance, modern - day spiritualism, and the pagan revival. this beautifully photographed documentary poetically conveys the hope and desperation of people turning away from consumer culture in an impassioned pursuit of meaning .
a few episodes of roswell feature an elderly native american called river dog, who leads a ceremony in a smoke hut that allows him to identify the alien present. he also knows how to heal said alien when the ritual makes him sick. in all fairness, he learned this from the last alien who showed up .
the metaplot for shadowrun has native americans as the first to use magic properly after the awakening, with the reasoning being that they never really left it behind in the first place. the circumstances around this are less pleasant than it sounds, as most of the native american population were rounded up into prison camps after protesting their land being seized by the us government on behalf of the nascent mega corps. their magical talent manifested a year later and provided them a much needed edge in escaping and in the brief war that followed, and resulted in the fracturing of the us and canada, and the emergence of the native american nations as regional powers .
romeo in no songs for the dead is native american, and inherited his magical powers due to his father being a messenger of the primordial, an entity who is also the source of black magic. he does not wear any of the stereotypical clothing or any warpaint, though he does go around bare - chested most of the time .
native american man: you white boys are all the same. i' ve got dark skin, so i must dance with the bears and listen to the spirit of the wind! i got news for you, pal: i work for a living, i' m a baptist and i' m proud of it! oh, and by the way, i have only one word for snow... snow !
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kublai is studying to be a medium and healer in the spiritualist church. chuck is a young lakota man whose family has reclaimed traditional lakota ways. morpheus is a priestess and teacher in the american - founded feri witchcraft tradition. the director does not give us an in - depth, scholarly introduction to their beliefs but instead invites us to sit with them companionably. we visit with these three people and experience their energy, their passion and their yearning .
charles delint has an entire collection of novels and short stories of urban fantasy based on the idea that the various native american spirits (coyote, raven, etc) are still around and active in people' s lives, particularly in one town. further, once you encounter one of these individuals, their magic is
contagious ,
and you will almost certainly encounter more and become more aware of the magic surrounding everyday life than you probably wanted to be .
subverted in the plot of the mystery science theater 3000 - mocked film puma man. an aztec gives the hero a magic belt that gives him all the powers of a puma, including flying. subverted because the actual native american is a badass normal and the
magic
is alien super - technology. despite having the belt and super - powers, the hero stays only one notch above utter coward, while his aztec sidekick does all the work of actually defeating the bad guy .
in prey 2006, aliens start their invasion of the earth with a reservation and the main character ends up using spirit magic to fight them off. the main character' s grandpa fits the bill better, though. before getting abducted, the hero thought all that stuff was just so much eyewash. the
( frequently native american) character who thinks all that stuff is hoohah but has to take on his grandfather' s shamanic mantle
is a trope in its own right .
following the release of the film, mar continued to study american witchcraft. she published the book witches in america, both praised by the press and criticized by the pagan community. her trips into the communities and inner lives of fringe religious practitioners pose real questions about the nature of belief, and she takes these questions seriously. her work seems to be motivated by genuine curiosity and empathy and is not contrived, too rare for recent religion docs. mar will appear at the screening .
in the elder scrolls, as seen in morrowind' s bloodmoon expansion and skyrim' s dragonborn dlc, the noble savage skaal people of the frozen, inhospitable island of solstheim. they have much in common culturally with various native american and inuit tribes, including their speech patterns. their magic is of a shamanic / druidic nature as well. they live in harmony with nature, making sure to never waste by, for example, needlessly killing for sport or chopping down live trees for firewood .
in the dcu, silver deer, an erstwhile firestorm villain from the cherokee nation, used magical shapeshifting abilities. she even
enlisted
a former firestorm adversary, black bison, to help her scheme. she also had luck powers. as christopher bird said ,
her powers are turning into spirit animals and super - gambling skills. if her weakness turned out to be liquor, how wrong would that be ?
the black bison is himself a native american with an impressive command of magic .
in the old world of darkness game werewolf the apocalypse, the garou follow a tribal structure, with two of the tribes, the uktena (exploratory mystics) and the wendigo (warriors who still weren' t over colonization) being native american. then again, the game also had tribes of urban primitives, amazons, irish warrior - poets, and egyptian travelers, so it was a bit of a grab bag. also, werewolves gained their particular form of magic, gifts, by making deals with spirits .
mar' s film is lyrical, drenched in a purely american atmosphere of rural and rustic wonders and meditations. her directorial hand is, at most, subtle; she gives the utmost regard for her subject' s extracted lifestyle, but nothing feels forced or generally shaped to fit an agenda. it is not uniformly informative either, opting out of any talking heads or experts chiming in or rounding out the faith' s histories or current climates. all we know is from what we witness in these quietly unfolding tales .
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toyed with in the wonderfalls episode
totem mole .
it is subverted through most of the episode, when jaye tries to force the utterly unremarkable accountant grandson of a tribe' s recently - deceased medicine woman into his grandmother' s former role, though every
test
he undergoes signifies that jaye herself is the rightful successor. in the end, however, the brilliant native american trial lawyer (who serves as an antagonist through most of the episode) experiences a heat exhaustion - fueled vision of the medicine woman and becomes her tribe' s new spiritual leader .
when the revenge western seraphim falls veers into magic realism in the third act, a native american man played by wes studi appears to each of the two main characters by a water hole in the middle of a barren desert. he trades pierce brosnan' s character some water for the horse that brosnan had stolen from liam neeson, then gives neeson the horse for free. when neeson gives him money anyway, he discards the coins. his name is listed as charon in the credits, and the film suggests that he' s a demon who is engineering a final confrontation between the two nemeses .
the simpsons had an episode where bart is shown his somewhat unpleasant future (as a drunken, washed - up rock star living with ralph wiggum) by the head of a native american casino after he tries to sneak into the casino in the great gabbo' s dummy case. at first, this is a double subversion: when they meet, bart is very surprised that the casino owner knows his name and thinks he' s this trope, before revealing he knows it because homer put bart down as collateral while taking out a second mortgage on the house. he then reveals he really is this trope .
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in the swedish ios / android game last hope td, you control a native american tribe fighting zombies with bows, spears, axes and the occasional magical help from nature spirits. while the initial heroes of your tribe are an indian princess and a brave, you can do an iap to get a caucasian ultra - tech sniper and engineer. the more palatable part of this game (besides having native americans as the main heroes) is that your tribe are engineering geniuses with access to high tech and magic so while their first turrets are basically automated crossbows, you will fairly quickly be researching machine guns, cannons and golems for turrets .
subverted somewhat in an episode of bones. the investigative team is being introduced to a case by a small - town sheriff who mentions the remains were found by a native american who will be assisting in the investigation. when someone asks if he' s a
indian tracker
the sheriff remarks sarcastically that since the man is a park ranger and found the remains in the course of his normal duties he
didn' t have to use any of his indian powers .
later on that same sheriff asks the ranger if an apparent indian ritual site is legitimate, to which he replies ,
what am i, a shaman ?
mainline 40k also has the native american - themed space marine chapter known as the raven guard. it can be a bit hard to tell by looking at them as a genetic mutation results in them having albinistic skin. it does give a striking look in combination with their inky tribal facepaint, though. there' s also the space marine chapter known as the rainbow warriors. the name is inspired by what is usually claimed to be an indian myth (usually identified as either hopi or cree), but was in fact invented wholesale by two evangelical christians in 1962, and was, if anything, a bald - faced attack at indian belief systems .
war of the worlds featured an episode set on a native american reservation, complete with shaman, who uses magical powers (assisted by what may be an alien artifact) to destroy an alien ship. he also manages, depending on your interpretation of the final scene, to play into a much older and more offensive stereotype about native americans as dishonest traders, as he gives blackwood the alien crystal he had used in his
magic
, but then later reveals to his son that he' d actually substituted a different crystal for no clear reason. (the scene is not entirely clear on this point; it may actually be that he had several identical crystals) .
she hulk' s native american boyfriend wyatt wyngfoot turns out to have a rich magical heritage. initially just human torch' s muggle buddy from college (a great athlete at the school, he was an expy of famed olympic athlete jim thorpe), he had no magic powers. he claimed to be good with dogs but couldn' t handle lockjaw. on the other hand, this trope was averted by scalphunter and harpoon, two members of the marauders, opponents of the x - men. neither one did anything magical, one being a technology - builder and the other being able to charge things with explosive energy, and like the rest of the marauders were evil .
in december 2006, as part of the very last gimmick he performed before mysteriously disappearing from wwe, tatanka, enraged at having supposedly been repeatedly cheated out of in - ring victories by biased officials, tapped deep into his native american psyche and gained access to a
vengeful warrior
persona that induced him to paint his face white and draw a black horizontal band over his eyes, and to talk in a dark, angry, mystical manner. he had only two matches in wwe after that, but the first match was a draw and the second resulted in a victory for him (his first victory in many weeks), suggesting that he somehow drew on supernatural power to win his final match .
tonto has elements of this in the lone ranger, especially in his manner of dress and during his plot exposition. subverted later on when john meets the rest of the comanche, who inform him that tonto is insane and the native american myths that he' s been reciting throughout the film are just that, simply myths. (even so, there' s something... off about tonto. he seems to know when
nature is out of balance
just from observing animal behavior. then there' s that spooky makeup on his face that makes him look like a paleolithic street mime, and that never comes off (even when he' s underwater !) until he decides to take it off .
onken said of the victory, “i am proud of the skill the american ethanol team displayed at the gloc shootout. we have had an excellent run of success out on the water lately, and we’re looking forward to what we can do next month at the lake of the ozarks shootout. i have been involved in the agriculture and recycling business for decades, so i know how important ethanol is to the farming community, and how important it is to all americans. it’s a clean - burning fuel, so it’s good for the environment, and, as evidenced by how our boat has performed, it clearly has potent engine performance benefits. ethanol is a fuel that delivers power, performance, clean air, and savings—it’s the smart choice for people everywhere. ”
in the ravenloft campaign, the nightmare lands are home to the abber nomads, primitive humans who have a culture and general appearance similar to north american tribes. (their language is described as
absolutely unique
and unlike
any tongue spoken by any other race in any known land
, hinting that they may have origins with actual native americans, like the inhabitants of odiarre, whose language is described the same way, as it is gothic earth' s equivalent of italian .) while they can' t outright use magic (unless they gain levels as druids, and some do) living in the nightmare lands have made their minds tough enough to withstand a place that tends to drive visitors insane; they don' t dream, and can distinguish illusion from reality with ease. (one source gives a flat 25% chance of such magics failing against them, while other sources say it depends on several factors. )
the two main characters of dead man play around with this a bit. the first, nobody, is a native american but there really isn' t that much mystical about him other than the fact that he' s an indian who hasn' t been westernized (despite spending time in england). william blake on the other hand is a fairly normal white guy until he' s shot. he becomes more and more mystical seeming as the bullet works its way closer and closer to his heart, or at least nobody' s view of him does. the trope is played fairly straight in that nobody believes his companion to be that william blake, somehow returned to the world in an almost messianic capacity (in the original meaning, at least) :
you were a poet and a painter, and now you are a killer of white men !
then he makes it his personal mission to help blake in his journey to the spirit world—
the place where william blake is from .
the story of chuck particularly impressed me. i am vaguely aware that there are first nations people who are trying to reclaim their own lost traditions, some whose traditions are as lost and murky as native european traditions. to actually hear someone speak of going back to those traditions and claim them as their birthright generations after they were outlawed and uncommon in communities long converted to abrahamic faiths is truly inspirational. his connection to his family and community gives me hope. i felt honored that he shared his story with us through this film .
kublai is the person i felt i had the most in common with. he is the youngest person featured and his searching and hunger for spiritual depth and connection reminds me of the teenager i was, and the spark of yearning that still lives within me. while i felt disconnected from his values and some of his statements, i had a lot of compassion for his yearning. yearning for something better, higher, more authentic in young people is something to encourage and support .
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mar’s feature debut avoids talking heads and exposition in favor of wide landscapes and careful compositions that were designed to observe these lives, not explain them .
mar: from the very beginning of casting to now it took about two and half years. we were shooting in a very strategic way; it was not a typical verite approach. two and a half years ago, i was still working in journalism and tv, and i started the process of traveling around the country, kind of surreptitiously, trying to find the cast for the film. midway through casting i left my job and started living full - time with different communities and traveling to different parts of the country. i was in tennessee, and then crazy parts of california, in rural alabama, i was all over the map .
filmmaker: it’s interesting that you had the idea before you started casting. what did you set out to look for? what was the initial idea?
american mystic is a 2010 american documentary film by writer-director alex mar . it premiered in the documentary competition at the 2010 tribeca film festival . 
american mystic is a 2010 american documentary film by writer-director alex mar. it premiered in the documentary competition at the 2010 tribeca film festival.
american mystic is a 2010 american documentary film by writer-director alex mar. it premiered in the documentary competition at the 2010 tribeca film festival.