The shadow puppeteer flicks his wrist as he beats a stumpy stick against a wooden box and begins a dramatic introduction to a story about Kunti, a mother who fights for social justice. This is Pucung, a remote Indonesian village where skeletal leather puppets, some of Indonesia's best-known handicrafts, are made. The character has a mass of black hair. Ann Dunham, too, was famous for her shock of black hair, which she claimed came from a trace of Cherokee blood in her veins. Barack Obama's mother also did more for social justice in her adopted Indonesia than her son's accounts suggest.>>>

On Thursday the SCSU American Indian Center and the Nursing Science department collaborated to host Navajo Healer Johnson Dennison.

“The idea was to introduce future nurses to another culture. So we brought Dennison here to talk about the interconnections between western medicine and spirituality,” said Jim Knutson-Kolodzne, the Director of the American Indian Center.>>>

he Horse Boy, a father-and-son story with a scenic backdrop, follows a Texas couple who take their autistic son on a horseback trip to Outer Mongolia seeking some kind of peace for their child.

The family's journey in search of shamanic healing also is documented in the Rupert Isaacson best-seller of the same name, which features joyful cover art of Isaacson and his son in a triumphant pose on a horse. >>>

lad in multifarious costumes, performers from all over the globe gathered on South Korea's Jeju Island Wednesday to show off their artistic traditions during the third International Delphic Games.

Under the theme "Turning into Nature," the event will run from Wednesday through Sept. 15 on this resort island with performers from 54 countries taking part in six artistic categories including music and acoustic art, the performing arts, craft, architecture and social arts, according to the Jeju Delphic Committee.>>>

Kresge Art Museum celebrates Korea with two concurrent exhibitions. Gods, Demons and Generals: Icons of Korean Shamanism, an historical look at Korean culture and Haeri Yoo: Paper Deep, an intensely contemporary installation. The exhibitions are on view at Kresge Art Museum , Michigan State University, through October 18, 2009.>>>