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Martin Prechtel

Martin Prechtel's was raised on a pueblo reservation in New Mexico before moving to Guatemala to live with the Tzutijil people of Santiago Atitlan. He was first apprenticed as a Mayan shaman and rose to become the First Chief of the village. On returning to the USA, he began working in New Mexico as a medicine man. He is now an internationally recognized healer, speaker and artist who writes frequently for journals and publications.