aboutme

I have been following the Native ways since my 1st vision in Yosemite National Park in 1992. That same year, I met Dreaming Wolf while working in Tuolumne Meadows and was adopted into the Lakota Sioux way of life. I was given the name Mountain Coyote. I have since evolved from the days as a young & curious trickster, through the teachings of other Lakota and spiritual guides across the US on this sacred journey.
Among these influences and teachers have been: Wankan Tanka, Charles Fast Horse, Art Grey Wolf, Leland Spotted Eagle, Greg PlantE and the Badland Singers, Cecil White Hat, Ed Schmidt, Bob Kelly, Robin Gayle, Marta-Maria Marriccini, Albert Foote, Lowen, Paha Mato, all the people at Three Buffalo's, Indian Star, Slim Buttes, and mother Tara.

During our lives, certain events shape out ideas and philosophies more than others.
These are moments that I feel have made an impact on my life that helped to define who I am and what I learned.

1969 - Being re-born, being adopted.
Early stages of development - realizing that I was adopted and not having anything in common with the
        "parents" that I was living with. (Later in life realizing why my "parents" should have never had children).
1975 - Began playing organized soccer.
1987 - Jack Glasgo & Lorriane Haynes passing on to the spirit world in a car accident, April 8th.
1987 - Getting hit by a car and breaking both of my wrists. First realization there is something wrong with
           the health care system.
1987 - Going to school away from home for my senior year of HS.
1988 - Graduating from Eliot Pope High School.
1992 - Having my first vision on Cinco de Mayo.
1995 - Going on a vision quest across the U.S.
1996 - Metting Pastor Schmidt, and Getting Married.
1996- Going back to school at Bemidji State University, Mn.
1997 - Meeting Pastor Kelly @ the People's Church, Bemidji, Mn.
1999 - 9 day fast, ending in Holy Baptism, August 14-22.
1999 - My x-wife leaving me on my 30th birthday (leaving the university with relative sanity).
Christmas 1999 - Dying the Shaman's Death.
Summer 2000 - Coming back home to California, meeting Crescent Bear.
Winter 2000 - Moving to Sugar Bowl, getting caught in an Avalanche April 8th, 2001.
Spring 2004 - Re-institutionalized @ CSUS, March 2004, Opening The Quest for Vision. Berkeley, Ca.
Summer 2004 - Items sold @ Alpaca Advantage, Rock Your World: South Lake Tahoe, Ca.
August 2005 - New items displayed @ Awakenings, Carmichael, Ca.
Summer 2004-Meeting Dancing Golden Otter Hawk, Sister Fire, a truly Divine Inspiration & gift to Mother Earth.
Spring 2005 - Finding Sun Hills Church, Holy Baptism July, 2005.
October 2005 - Fast, Mourning, Medicine Wheel and Vision Quest
November 2006, Januarary 2007, October, 2007- Medicine Wheel Ceremony, Mount Shasta, Castle Lake, CA.
2007 - "Griffin of Absence" Returns, San Francisco, CA.
April 2007: Hired @ Native American Friendship House, SF, CA.
Finding Biological Mom, dad, and sisters.
June 2007: Divine Union with Sister Earth, Everywhere. August 2007: Made 2nd medicine drum.
October 2007: Group Medicine Wheel. June '08: Sundance, Pine Ridge, SD. July '08:
June 2008, 2009 Vision Quest, Paha Mato, SD.
Sundance Drummer with Badland Singers, Fort Peck, MT. (1st year Sundancer). Leland Spotted Eagle.
July 2009 Sundance drummer Badland Singers, Mendocino County, Albion. Durwin White Lightning.
July 2009 Finding my Sundance Arbor home in Northern CA. w/ Charles Fast Horse and camp.

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1. Sdonja & Tara, Pluto Cave, October 2007. Photo: Rosie.

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2. Sdonja @ Middle Falls, McCloud River, CA.
Photographer: Mueller.

MY MISSION IS TO CREATE A SACRED SPACE THROUGH CEREMONY.
THROUGH CEREMONY WE CAN CONNECT MORE COMPLETELY WITH THE FOUR LEGGED AND MINERAL KINGDOMS. BY RETURNING TO THE NATURAL WAYS, WE BECOME SELF-EMPOWERED TO HEAL OURSELVES AND THE WORLD WE LIVE IN ON A CELLULAR LEVEL.