BIOGRAPHY - Page 5
In an unchronicled series of events, Shaman returned to Earth with the rest of the original Alpha Flight. By the time of their return, most of the “all-new” Alpha Flight departed the team, allowing most of the originals to return, including Shaman.
When the Decimation occurred, robbing the vast majority of all mutants their powers, the law of conservation of energy demanded that their residual energy go somewhere and it ended up in the body of a man named Michael Pointer. Driven mad by powers he could not control, Michael – soon to be known as the Collective – went on a rampage. When this energy was detected, Alpha Flight was sent to the Canadian-Alaska border to intercept. Unfortunately, the unimaginable power of the Collective was more than the Alphans were prepared to face and almost the entire team were killed, including Shaman. [New Avengers (1st series) #16]
[Note: While Shaman and Alpha Flight were in space with the Plodex, a temporally displaced version of the team were snatched from the past. For a time, it was unclear whether the Alphans killed fighting the Collective were the originals or these alternate-reality heroes. Chaos War: Alpha Flight #1 established that the Alphans killed by the Collective were the ones who came back from space. No resolution for the doppelgangers has yet been revealed.]
Following Shaman's death, his daughter, Talisman, took over duties as shaman to the remaining people living at the Sarcee Reservation. Additionally, as a member of the heroic Omega Flight, she reluctantly fought alongside, Michael Pointer, the man who killed her father.
In the afterlife, Shaman was able to keep the souls of many dead Alphans together. Months later, when the world was plunged into chaos when the Dream Dimension was destroyed by Amatsu-Mikaboshi, the Chaos King, the Underworld was torn open and the dead members of Alpha Flight were scattered. Vindicator, Guardian, Shaman and Marrina were able to stay together. When the Chaos-King set about destroying Pantheons of gods, Alpha Flight's enemies, the Great Beasts, knew they were in danger, so struck a deal with Sasquatch. In exchange for assisting them in crossing over to the Earth, they would arrange the return of the dead Alphans. Sasquatch was unaware that, with the Underworld torn open, the dead were returning anyway, and agreed to the deal. They were joyfully reunited with Sasquatch, Snowbird, Aurora and Northstar, and worked together to fight off the Chaos King's demons.
However, as the Great Beasts' started to cross over to Earth and as they regained their own powers, the Chaos King's demons attacked them, too. Tensions mounted between Snowbird and Sasquatch regarding whether or not to assist the Great Beasts. Sasquatch explained that, if they didn't help the Great Beasts, then Shaman and the others would die again. Shaman knew of the true danger that the Great Beasts would unleash and, along with Snowbird, Vindicator and Northstar fought against the other Alphans who were working to protect the Great Beasts to prevent them from unleashing true terror across the Earth. When the Great Beasts were finally destroyed, the recently returned Alphans expected to return to the Underworld. To their surprise, this didn't happen and Alpha Flight remained together, joining the main battle against the Choas King. [Chaos War: Alpha Flight #1]
Eventually, the Chaos King was defeated by Hercules and his allies, and when the world was restored to how it was before the Chaos King's reign of terror, there remained several inconsistencies, including the four dead Alphans being restored to life permanently. [Chaos War #5]
Shaman returned to his medical roots, performing surgeries at the Grand Lac Victoria Indian Settlement Hospital. It was during one such surgery that the hospital was plunged into a blackout. The cause of the blackout was the terrorist called Citadel, who was attempting to prevent the Canadian election from taking place. Shaman joined other members of Alpha Flight in apprehending the terrorist and restoring power to the people of Canada. Nevertheless, a different sort of power rose to prominence when the election results were tallied and the dangerous Unity Party was voted into government. [Alpha Flight #0.1]
When fear spread across the globe thanks to the Asgardian serpent god, Alpha Flight came to 
Canada's defence, preventing Attuma from destroying Vancouver. However, in the aftermath, the newly elected Unity Party government enacted the Emergencies Act, which gave sweeping powers to the government and suspended the operation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, all with the aim of preventing fear from spreading into Canada. Shaman and most of the other members of Alpha Flight were apprehended by mechanical Box units, and were betrayed by Vindicator, who had sided with the dangerous Unity Party in an attempt to gain back custody of her daughter. Shaman was among the members of Alpha Flight who began to undergo the Unity Process, which essentially made a person susceptible to manipulation by offering them what they wanted. In Shaman's case, he was offered reconciliation with his estranged daughter, Talisman, although in truth this was only a hallucination. [Alpha Flight (4th series) #1-2]
Shaman was among several members of Alpha Flight who were able to escape from Department H and the Unity Process, its manipulation of Shaman seemingly unsuccessful. He made no comment to any of his teammates about the process or his relationship with Talisman. Alpha Flight were then declared enemies of the state by the Unity Party. Shaman and Alpha Flight set out recruiting other high-profile Canadians who had questioned the fascist regime of the Unity Party, and set about bringing an end to the terror facing many Canadians. As part of the plan, Shaman used his mystical abilities to hide Alpha Flight's location from the government. Eventually, Alpha Flight's age-old enemy, the Master of the World was revealed to be the orchestrator of the Unity Party's success and the cause of Alpha Flight's problems. Shaman and Alpha Flight fought back and liberated their nation from the Master of the World once again. [Alpha Flight (4th series) #3-8]
When strange Mayan temples began appearing in odd locations around the Earth, including one in Alberta, Canada, Shaman and the rest of Alpha Flight became caught up in a war with ancient Mayan deities who drained the abilities of powerful super beings and used their lifeforce to be restored to life. Several members of Alpha Flight fell to the Mayan gods, although Shaman did not. He was stationed at Gamma Base in the United States and was able to use his powers to speed up the recovery of his teammates with the help of special jade necklace that was found during the conflict. He also assisted in preventing the Mayan gods from being permanently restored to life and ruling the Earth as they had planned. [Hulk (2nd series) #53-57]
Shaman became less active with Alpha Flight around the same time his daughter, Talisman, re-joined the team. It's possible they were still on uneasy terms, despite Talisman taking over Shaman's responsibilities at the reservation when he was dead. Shaman was on a side-mission 
when Canada was overrun by the Wendigo curse, and later was absent entirely for other missions. When Alpha Flight was re-purposed as the Alpha Flight Space Station, Shaman was not a member of the space-based team and was rarely seen with the Earth-based Alpha Flight members.
In fact, Shaman became more involved in other magical goings-on around the world, and started meeting with Doctor Strange, the Scarlet Witch and Doctor Voodoo at a magicians-only lounge called the Bar With no Doors. It was during one such meeting when Doctor Strange reported on an encounter with a soul-eater who spoke about a “coming slaughter.” Shaman answered the call along with many other powerful mystics, including his daughter, Talisman, when the coming slaughter was revealed to be an inter-dimensional crisis in which sorcerers supreme from other realities were being murdered by a mysterious enemy called the Empirikul, who had made their way to this reality. Robots with large eye-ball heads launched an assault on the mystics of Earth, and Shaman was at the North Pole when he and Talisman were attacked. As Magic began to disappear from the Earth, Shaman and the other mystics gathered what remnants of magic they could find to keep the enemy at bay. When they finally gathered the last magic objects on Earth, they armed themselves with weapons to fight back against the Empirikul. The mystics eventually defeated Empirikul, although it appeared that magic was still “dead.” [Doctor Strange (4th series) #1, 4, 6-7, 9-10]
Later, Shaman was shot by Ethan Slaughter who had a gun that was designed to take out magic-users as part of a plan by Dormammu. Fortunately, Shaman survived the assault. [S.H.I.E.L.D. (3rd series) #5] Shaman continued his alliance with Doctor Strange, the Scarlet Witch and Doctor Voodoo, working with them and other mystics during the second superhuman civil war to teleport a Celestial away from the Earth. [Civil War II crossover] When a desperate Old Man Logan was seeking for a way to be transported back to the Wastelands, he contacted several mystics, including Shaman, who declined to assist him. [Old Man Logan (2nd series) #19]
Shaman continued to work with other members of the Earth-based Alpha Flight, notably following Wolverine's death. For instance, when Shaman was among the group of Alphans who arrived to take the Reavers into custody in Alberta, after they attempted to steal Wolverine's body, but were thwarted by the X-Men. [Hunt for Wolverine #1] Shaman was with Alpha Flight when they encountered Old Man Logan. Shaman had been discussing Old Man Logan's medical issues with 
Cecilia Reyes of the X-Men, and informed Logan that the adamantium that coated his bones was poisoning his system. In fact, it was breaking down and releasing toxins which would likely have killed Logan, if not for the Regenix which Logan had introduced to his body. Shaman also told Logan that mysticism could not reverse the evil that science had done to him and suggested he find a way home so that, when the time came, his spirit would be able to find its way to where it belonged. During this reunion, Shaman, Alpha Flight and Old Man Logan also battled an alien lifeform that had consumed a small town. [Old Man Logan (2nd series) #46-47]
Michael soon paid a visit to the Alpha Flight Space Station to mystically assess Sasquatch after he was stabbed during a fight. Sasquatch was concerned that he may have become possessed by the Great Beast Tanaraq once more, but Shaman determined that something much worse had latched onto Sasquatch's body – the One Below All, who drained Sasquatch of the gamma energy that powers him. [Immortal Hulk #6] Shortly after, Shaman represented Canada at the International Super-Summit, led by the Black Panther at Avengers Mountain. The purpose of the summit was to discuss how their various countries could make a more concerted effort to work together on an international scale to save the world from the many dangers that threaten it. [Avengers (7th series) #11] Shaman also began teaching as a guest lecturer at the new school for young magic users, the Strange Academy. [Strange Academy #1-2]
Later, Shaman's friend Sasquatch was later killed following a rampage, and Doc Samson's wandering spirit took over the soulless Sasquatch body, becoming “Doc Sasquatch,” while Sasquatch's spirit entered Doc Samson's body. Shaman accompanied Puck and Doc Sasquatch to Gamma Base in an attempt to retrieve Doc Samson's original body and use his mystical abilities to return the men to their true bodies, but Doc Samson's body had gone missing. During this time, an encounter with a gamma-irradiated Rick Jones (who had merged with Del Frye) enabled Shaman to help a reporter who had been involved in the adventures of gamma-beings, Jackie McGee, to use her newfound abilities to see the true forms of gamma beings. After they helped ease Rick Jones' pain, Puck asked Shaman if he would stick around with them given how useful his mystical powers were in dealing with gamma beings. Shaman declined the invitation, however, preferring instead to focus his time on the reservation and teaching at the Strange Academy. [Immortal Hulk #43-46]