A Sioux Indian wose name means Dancer Who Possesses Magical Power.
Dancer grew up on Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation in North Dakota, and watched with disgust as most of her people sold out for casinos or left the reservation and forgot their culture and heritage. Her grandfather, Frank Fool's Crow, had taught her much of what being Native American was all about, but she never expected to be initiated into the life of a shaman. It was rare that women entered into that kind of life.
What she did know was that all spiritual leaders amongst primitive societies tended to have one thing in particular. They all went through a trial by fire or ritualistic "death" and "re-birth" into their new lives as spiritual leaders.
Of course, Dancer never suspected that when
But her's was not a ritual.
She lay on a hospital bed while doctors attempted to revive her. She was clinically dead for 49 minutes. During that time, her mind and spirit drifted far away from her body and she met many other shamans who spoke to her in her dreams. They called thesmselves Dreamspeakers. They explained to her that she would join the ranks of those like her grandfather, as a great shaman. One who acted as vanguard and go-between, keeping the world of spirits and the world of man separate and whole. She would become negotiator, healer, mystic, riddle-solver, and more.
When she came to in the hospital, she discovered she didn't just "wake up," but that she had Awakened. She now had the power to move between the world of flesh and spirit, and talk to those creatures from beyond the veil that separated the stuff of spirit from man.
Having learned all the ceremonies and all the prayers from her granfather, and another shaman named Spotted Eagle, she left the reservation to try and find a way to bring some of those lost to the modern world back to themselves -- back to their heritage.
Recently Dancer has discovered that there is possibly a Native American grave-site in the woods surrounding Necropolis City, and she has gone there to try and find the proof necessary to get government protection for the site. She has taken a job as a professor of primitive culture antropology at the local University to earn some money and possibly even get the University's backing behind her cause. Her only problem is that now she's in a race against time. The ruthless Sen. Thoreau created a bill under the guise of "forest health" which allows logging in some National Forests. The government is considering giving a contract to the company Good House International, allowing them to conduct logging in the area that Dancer Believes is sacred.
