Joining you on this magnificent journey...
David Carson, Greta Carson, Bertram Tsavadawa,
Alan Osborne, Martin Gray

DAVID CARSON, this year’s (2006) Grammy winner for Native American Music, is a novelist who has written for newspapers, films and social reform publications. He is the co-creator of Medicine Cards: The Discovery of Power Through the Ways of Animals, and author of the recently released Crossing Into Medicine Country. His newest work is 2013 Oracle: Ancient Keys to the 2012 Awakening. Raised in Oklahoma Indian country, David learned from many tribal elders and medicine carriers. He is of Choctaw descent and has lived on various reservations in Montana and Canada.

He has been involved in sacred ceremony throughout the US and many other countries and has traveled worldwide at the invitation of shamans from Siberia and Hawaii. David has taught seminars throughout the world on "Animal Teachings Around the Sacred Medicine Wheel." He has lead dances in Iceland at the foot of glacier, Snaefelsnes, which is said to be the crown chakra of the earth. He has done ceremony with the Mardi Gras Indians in New Orleans, leading to the establishment of White Buffalo Day, a yearly celebration.

In 1999, David brought a medicine wheel ceremony and animal medicine teachings to Israel before joint Israeli and Palestinian audiences. More recently, he has attended shamanic conferences in Northern Italy.

David has given animal consultations and Medicine Card readings to thousands of people world-wide guiding them to their own personal truth.
www.crossingintomedicinecountry.com
medicinecards.com

GRETA CARSON, MA, also this year’s Grammy winner with her father, was born at Crow Agency, Montana and spent her early life on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. Her family moved to Iowa, Oklahoma and then New Mexico. Greta received her Bachelor of University Studies, with emphasis in Psychology and Health Education, and her Master's of Education in Counseling from the University of New Mexico. Greta lives and practices in Taos, New Mexico.

Greta was blessed when she was four days old by a medicine man during a then illegal Sundance. Thence forth she has been involved in Native American culture, ritual and ceremony. A seeker of spiritual truth, Greta has also participated in Judaic, Buddhist and Hindu spiritual systems. Greta is an advisory board member to Walkingstick Foundation, a Judeo-Native American retreat center dedicated to inter-cultural learning and spirituality. For the past ten years she has traveled and co-facilitated workshops, with her father David Carson, throughout the United States and Europe.

Greta is a Sun Dancer and an accomplished ceremonial leader who will be leading us in ceremony throughout our Southwest journey.

BERTRAM TSAVADAWA, an Oraibi native, will guide you through the oldest continually inhabited settlement in North America, sharing with you the village’s history, Hopi culture, and the secrets behind petroglyphs.

Hopi Petroglyphs 6000 B.C.E. - 600 C.E.
photo by Hopi guide, Bertram Tsavadawa

ALAN OSBORNE is the cofounder of Southwest Seminars, a nonprofit cultural education organization which offers public lecture series in the fields of American Indian culture and history, Hispanic culture and history, Southwest archaeology, art and literature. He has lectured or toured for educational study travel groups sponsored by: The American Orient Express/American Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Travel Associates, Clipper, Special Expeditions, Saga Road Scholar/Tony Hillerman Program, Yale University Alumni Association, UCLA Alumni Association. He has provided museum docent and educational training lectures for Museum of Indian Art and Culture, Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian and The Palace of the Governors.
www.southwestseminars.org

MARTIN GRAY is a photographer of sacred architecture and sacred pilgrimage sites whose work has been featured in National Geographic. During the last 20 years Martin has photographed over 1,000 sacred sites around the world. A colorful presenter, Martin will share with us his experiences and images of sacred sites in the Southwest.
www.sacredsites.com