Corbin Harney, Spiritual Leader

Corbin Harney is an Elder and spiritual leader of the Western Shoshone and author of The Way It Is: One Water, One Air, One Mother Earth. Since 1957 he has worked with medicine women of Battle Mountain, Nevada, running the Sundance Ceremony, the sweat lodges and helping sick people. As a medicine person, he has also been working steadily to preserve and protect the sacred sites and burial grounds of his people. As a medicine man, he has worked with nuclear victims throughout the world. His sad experience with Down Winders who are suffering horrible deaths from nuclear fallout includes mutated children in Kazakhstan hospitals who lived close to the Russian nuclear test site. He has recently returned from Japan where he was the keynote speaker at the Atomic and Hydrogen Bomb conference. The powerful message he brought of peace and respect for our planet touched the hearts of the still-recovering Japanese.

People who know Corbin have seen him communicate with the natural elements and living things, and they have seen the results. "All of us are gifted," Corbin says. "We just need to open up the gifts by praying in our own way, singing our songs and talking to everything out there with love and respect.... This will open up a totally new world for you. Amazing things will happen if you are patient. This is how we will heal ourselves and our Mother Earth."

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Mala Spotted Eagle Pope, President

Mala Spotted Eagle Pope is a Western Shoshone and Cherokee Native American. He has studied with many different medicine people, spiritual leaders and native elders. As a young man, he traveled with and assisted his father, Rolling Thunder, on speaking tours, was involved with the original Red Wind foundation, a Native American camp teaching traditional values in Southern, California, and, from 1975 to 1985, he was President of Meta Tantay, a Native American intertribal and interracial non-profit traditional camp in the desert of Nevada. The last fifteen years his work has concerned helping the youth at the Nevada Youth Training Center, at the Grand Ronde Tribe Native American Youth treatment facility as cultural Specialist and chemical Dependency Counselor, and at Woodland Park Hospital as a therapist in the youth psychiatric ward.

In addition to running Meta Tantay, his managerial skills included setting up a complete cultural program to enhance the 12 step recovery program, organizing the Native American Support Group to coordinate the resources of local tribes and native organizations and founding and implementing a telecommunications program called "Belonging to Mother Earth Communications," to create financial support for Nanish Shontie and Radio for Peace International. 43% of the profits from Belonging to Mother Earth Communications has been donated to the two non-profits. He sits on and advises many distinguished boards, including Radio for Peace International in Costa Rica, the Meeting of the Spirits Foundation in Rotterdam, Holland, a traditional healing center called Poo-Ha-Bah in Tecopa, California, the Institute of Global Education in Portland, Oregon, the Shundahai Network, Oregon and the Institute of Deep Ecology. A speaker and teacher, he participates in conferences throughout the United States and Europe talking with people about the Native way of life and its importance to the Mother Earth at this time.