Meta Tantay was started by Rolling Thunder, a Cherokee Medicine Man and his wife Spotted Fawn, a Western Shoshone Native. Spotted Fawn had become a Clan Mother to the many peoples whose lives that she touched. Rolling Thunder saw that there were many people looking for a better way to live their lives and realized that there needed to be a place to be able to teach others by giving them a chance to live it.

Mala Spotted Eagle, one of Rolling Thunder’s and Spotted Fawn’s son and his wife Sky were asked to live there from the beginning and to help on the daily guidance of the community under Rolling Thunder’s and Spotted Fawn’s guidance. The camp grew quickly and before too long there were around 50 people living there in the Winter and around 100 people in the Summer. There was also a steady stream of visitors from all over the world both Indigenous and non-indigenous.

Although everyone had many lessons to learn coming from either a foreign or mixed cultural lifestyle, we experienced many wonderful opportunities. We saw the power of prayer over and over, we saw how the Mother Earth responded when we honored and respected her again and we were able to learn many earth based values. We were given the opportunity to use these values in our daily life.

In 1985 Spotted Fawn crossed over into the spirit world. Rolling Thunder at that time felt he could no longer continue in the way that he had before. Within a few short months the community was closed up and people moved on. The land has since been lost to one who is trying to make it into their own vision.