TY - BOOK AU - Kusugak,Michael AU - Krykorka,Vladyana TI - The Curse of the Shaman: a Marble Island Story SN - 9780006395126 U1 - F KUS 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Toronto PB - HarperTrophy Canada KW - Inuit KW - Fiction KW - Shamans KW - Blessing and cursing KW - Islands KW - First loves KW - Marble Island (Nunavut) KW - Nunavut KW - bisacsh KW - FICTION / Indigenous KW - FICTION / Fantasy / Action & Adventure N2 - Sometimes even shamans get cranky. That was baby Wolverine’s misfortune—to be cursed by an out-of-sorts shaman frustrated by his own babydaughter’s incessant crying. Not only has shaman Paaliaq forbidden the future marriage of Wolverine to Breath, Paaliaq’s beautiful but teary baby girl, he has cursed Wolverine, banishing him when he becomes a young man. And even when acontrite Paaliaq later revokes the curse, the shaman’s even crankier magicanimal will not. Now Wolverine finds himself stranded on a barren island, locked in a life-or-death struggle to return to his home, his family and a very special young girl ER -