Restoring a Sense of Wholeness & Harmony
Listening to my intuition, several years ago I began to make journeys around this country. These journeys were not vacations but more like pilgrimages or sacred adventures. The one in 2018 lasted three months and was focused primarily in northern California, Oregon, and Montana. The one in 2022 ended up being six months long, and when tracing the route on a map, looked rather like a huge crooked oval around the continental U.S. Then in early 2024, I completed a shorter journey down to Florida and back. And again in June and July of 2025. And again in December 2025 and January 2026.
My travels typically entail:
- Visiting sacred sites.
- Visiting pre-Columbian sites, such as earth mounds.
- Offering prayers at places of sorrow–especially where there were massacres of Native Americans and Black Americans.. There are records of about 100 brutal massacres of indigenous people all around the country. Of these, anywhere from 100-800 women, children, and men were killed. It is also very likely there were countless more massacres about which there are no records.
- Offering prayers at native boarding schools where children had been abducted, taken from their families, communities and tribal nations and placed in residential schools where they were forced to abandon their names, language, customs, and beliefs. These schools were rife with abuse. Many children died from disease, neglect or abuse. It also disrupted the continuity of native culture for many generations.
- Reveling in the peace of Nature.
Between travels, I write about what I have learned, give talks and presentations, and lead prayer rituals.
Journey of 2025
Hi everyone.
I was called to do another journey. It ended up being shorter than intended, primarily due to insufficient funds. However, I learned quite a bit, and offered prayers wherever I could. Here are some highlights:
- Visited and offered prayers at the town of Rosewood, Florida, where racial violence destroyed an entire middle class black town, killing quite a few African Americans in the process.
- Learning about the great Seminole leader Osceola and the Seminole Chief Micanopy.
- Learning about the many enslaved people who escaped and found shelter and community within indigenous villages.
- Learning more about the Muskogee people (Creek), many of whom migrated to Florida and became Seminoles.
- Visited the Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine, Florida, where Osceola, Micanopy and others were captured and imprisoned after being lured there with talk of peace negotiations. Also a large number of Apache were imprisoned there following their eventual surrender after forty years of brave fighting against U.S. forces trying to take over their land. A number of Plains Indians were also imprisoned there for the “crime” of resisting occupation. of their land. Some of those imprisoned included survivors of the brutal Sand Creek Massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho people.
- Offered prayers at New Echota, Georgia, a holding place for the Cherokee prior to their brutal forced walk on the Trail of Tears.
- Visited the earth mounds at Crystal River Archaeological State Park in Florida.
- Tried to visit a shell mound at Cedar Keys in Florida, but it was closed due to hurricane damage.
- Revisited Nikwasi Mound in Franklin, NC and Etowah Mounds in Georgia.
Going on a journey like this is a big commitment. There are many costs involved. If you feel moved to make a donation to this educational/spiritual journey and any of the upcoming ones that will continue to happen, I would be very grateful. Please know that I share much of what I learn and experience—on my blog on this site, on Facebook, in books in process, in occasional videos, and in speaking engagements, presentations, and webinars. I do this both because I want to help educate us all, and because most of our schools do not cover these sorrowful events nor these cultural accomplishments.
I was encouraged by friends to create a Go Fund Me for these journeys. If you would like to contribute, please click HERE.
Journeys in 2018 and 2022
In 2018, I found myself discovering new things about several tribes/people with whom I was unfamiliar. There was a lot of serendipity, grace, and peace as I slowed down to the “pace of nature,” offered prayer at places of sorrow, and had some unexpected mystical encounters. It was an incredibly rich time.
In 2022, after again receiving a strong message to travel, I chose 6 sacred or significant places I wanted to visit (or in two cases, revisit) and then let myself be guided to everything before, after, and in between those places. Those six places included: the amazing Serpent Mound in Peebles, OH; site of a massacre of Christianized Lenape and Mahican in Gnadenhutten, OH; Wounded Knee, SD; Bear Lodge (aka Devil’s Tower), WY; Bighorn Medicine Wheel in Wyoming; and sacred Mt. Shasta in California. Along the way, I ended up discovering many ancient earth mounds and earthworks I’d never heard of before. I learned there were thousands of these mounds. I was continually struck by how inadequate our education is if such significant creations are never even mentioned to our children. There are also way too many sites of battles and massacres where hundreds of native people were killed—not only men, but always women, children, and babies, too. These events were absolutely horrific and brutal and have also been glossed over in our history classes.
One day during a conversation with a nurse practitioner at a routine doctor visit in Pennsylvania, I realized that the average American knows very little about, not only the history of Native Americans, but the lives they live now and the issues they care about now. For instance, did you know there are 574 federally recognized tribes? That’s a huge number! And native people say there are many, many more that the government doesn’t recognize. Since that conversation in the doctor’s office, part of my mission has become the sharing of what I have learned these past several years. And to that end I have been writing quite a bit (see my blog and stay tuned for a book in process), giving workshops and presentations both in person and online, and speaking at area churches, retirement centers, etc.
Native Americans have been both villified and glorified, but many Americans have never even had a conversation with a Native American. There is so much for each one of us to learn, so many ways to grow, and certainly much to atone for. I want to help facilitate all of these things.