Shaman was the first of a pair of native North American heroes introduced by John Byrne for the franchise ALPHA FLIGHT. Shaman, a member of the Sarcee tribe, was the mystical expert on the all-Canadian team of heroes, but Byrne didn't really put much depth into any of the characters. Thus Shaman comes off as a fairly simple magical hero, with no insight into the function of shamanic practices in the Sarcee culture.
His daughter Elizabeth proved more interesting, even after Byrne left the comic. Though originally estranged from her father for involved reasons, she gets sucked into his mystic superhero activities, and is transformed into another super-type, Talisman, with her own special powers. While Shaman soon faded out, Talisman remained with the super-group for a few more years in the original series. She had a little more dimension, in part because she was a modern city-girl struggling with her occult powers, and she certainly had the better costume of the two.
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