SANDRA (SKY) POPE
Treasurer

Sky is a member of the Tlingit Alaskan Native Nation. She has been married to Mala Spotted Eagle Pope who is of Western Shoshone and Cherokee descent for 27 years. Sky and Mala has raised four children, Michael Thunder Eagle, Red Wolf, Winter Sparrow and Hunnan Siton (means Badger Claw in Western Shoshone).

She co-directed an inter tribal and inter racial traditional camp for 10 years under the direct supervision of John Rolling Thunder Pope, a once well known spiritual leader and native activist, and his wife Helen Spotted Fawn Pope, a clan mother.

Sky has received intensive training in clan mother teachings and women issues from various spiritual native elders and medicine people. She has periodically traveled and assisted on speaking tours for Rolling Thunder, as well as her husband Mala Spotted Eagle.

She has worked for the past five years as an educational specialist at a Native American adolescent treatment facility in Oregon. She has helped to integrate the traditional Native American teachings and values into the classroom setting as well as through experiential learning.

Among her past employment experiences, she has worked for Healthy Start of Oregon as a Family Support Worker helping first time Native American moms to get a healthy start and know what resources are available to them.