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Adam Yellowbird |
The Elders and Youth Council Wisdom Keepers in these pages are some of those that have honored us with their acceptance of our invitation to attend the
"Bridging The Americas: Coming Home Reuniting the Eagle and the Condor Gathering"
Thank You!
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Yavapai Grandmother
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Yavapai Director of Cultural Preservation,
Yavapai Bird Singer
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Delores Plunkett |
Monica Marquez |
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Carmen
Spanish Translator |
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Don Alejandro Cirilo Perez Oxlaj |
Don Alejandro Cirilo Perez Oxlaj
Is a 13th Generation Quiche Mayan High Priest. Early in life Don Alejandro was recognized by members of his Mayan people as a messenger to carry the traditions. Since a number of years he is president of the Mayan Council of Elders, a body of 440 male and female elders of wisdom in Guatemala, representing 23 different ethnic groups and has the authority to speak on its behalf. His Mayan name "Wakatel Utiw" means Wandering Wolf and he travels the world together with his wife Elizabeth Araujo, together sharing ceremonies and Mayan traditions and prophecies. Don Alejandro is also the head of the Indigenous Council of the Americas, which has member tribes from Tierra de Fuego, to Alaska and serves as a gathering point for shamans and elders of many peoples. Don Alejandro and Elizabeth live in Antigua, Guatemala.
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Grandmother Margarita Nunez Garcia |
Grandmother Margarita Nunez Garcia
Grandmother Margarita comes from Old Mexico to remind us of our ancestors' teachings. She was born in Jalisco, Mexico where she learned the mysteries of cultivating sacred corn with her father since she was 3 years old. As a child she lived very close to her great-grandmother, an Olmeca medicine woman. Margarita then taught pre-school and retired after 30 years of teaching children. As an Elder she has participated in many Native American gatherings in Mexico, Brazil, Peru, the United States, Europe and Canada. She belongs to the Native Council of Elders of America and regularly participates in Sundance Ceremonies, the Dance of the Earth, the Dance of the Moon, Vision Quest, Sweat Lodge and other Native teachings.
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Laura Espinoza |
Laura Espinoza
Earth Dance8 International Multicultural Gatherings' Head Female dancer since 1999. Actively involved in her community, Laura has established a women's circle focusing on alternative healing, empowerment, unity,and the balance of the spiritual and material worlds as an everyday way of life.
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Elizabeth Arujo
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Elizabeth Araujo
was raised in El Salvador. She is a warm, compassionate person manifesting a discernment that crosses cultural boundaries. As the wife, soul mate and translator of Don Alejandro Cirilo Perez Oxlaj, she travels extensively throughout the world to wherever they are called to do ceremony and hold council with Elders in the process of bringing unification, balance and harmony to Mother Earth. Her gentle spirit and clear intent creates an atmosphere of acceptance, love and allowance for all who come into her presence to enjoy. Elizabeth works through the Mayan traditional healing ceremonies with the Sacred Fire and is a guide for spiritual journeys to sacred sites.
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Vidal Ayala Sinchez |
Vidal Ayala Sinchez
A Native of Huancayo, his is the Founder and Directore of the Spiritual Centre Inti Ayllu, in Ollantaytambo, Cusco, Peru. Together with other Granfather Wisdom Keepers, he is a founder of the Grandfather Wisdom Keepers of the Planet to give the new order of the Chakana, Andean Cross. He gives guiding light to create a better Planet.
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Q'enqo Harawi Qespeq |
Q'enqo Harawi Qespeq
Born 1936 in Talana, very near to Lares, Province of Calca, Cusco "My parents lived with what they harvested from their fields, like all country people. We were two sons from my Mothers first marriage and two more from her second. I spoke Quechua in my home. I began to learn Spanish when I was 18 years old. I have a son who is 23 years old... he's in Japan his Mother is a music investigator who I met in Cusco, with whom I share knowledge about the Quena (Andean Flute). I've turned 70 and I am going to start my second life".
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Rufino Hasqui Chambi
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Rufino Hasqui Chambi
Amuata Grandfather of the Lupaka Nation, Chicuito, Puno, Peru. He is a well known spiritual guide. Very treasured for the work he realizes in defense of the Aymara-Lupaka nation.
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Mariano Pachaguaya |
Mariano Pachaguaya
Born 1932 in Rosapata, Tiwanaku, Province of Ingavi, La Paz, Bolivia. He is from a ancestral lineage of Amautas, Aymara Priests. It has been five years since he as left the presidency of the Council of Amautas that realized the Ceremonies of Inti Raymi (Solstice) on the 21st of June; he left this responsibility convinced that the young people now had to learn and occupy the places of high honour to ensure millennial continuation. Since then he has begun his path with the Grandfathers to transmit his teachings to all of the brothers of the Planet.
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Isabel Callisaya Huanca |
Isabel Callisaya Huanca
Born in the community of Rosapata, six Km. from Tiwanaku, Provence of Ingavi, La Paz, Bolivia. She is very well known in her Community and the Aymara Nation for her ability as a healer "chosen by lightning". She has assisted the Elders Gatherings for 2 years, to give her messages and suggestions to all of the sisters, asking us always to respect our Mother Earth, Pachamama, which is to respect ourselves, with humility and dignity. Her presence has been of great help to the tasks that the Grandfather Wisdom Keepers have set.
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Apolinar Ramos Flores |
Apolinar Ramos Flores
Born in 1949 in the State of La Paz, Province of Bautista Saavedra, community Luntaya Charazani. At 8 years old, he began his path learning with his father, who was a Kallawaya Medicine Man. Our brother Apolinar lives in La Paz helping a lot of people thanks to his Wisdom and Knowledge of traditional medicine and our old ceremonies. He travels constantly to his community and all of the surrounding countryside which contains our Kallawaya Grandfathers; doing curations, ceremonies dedicated to our Achichilas, Sacred Ancestors. He was also present in various international Elders Gatherings including the 1st Sacred Circle in Ollantaytambo, October 2006.
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Max Chura Mamani |
Max Chura Mamani
Born one 8th of abril in 1953 the State of La Paz, Province of Bautista Saavedra, community of Chari Charazani. He began his spiritual life as a Watapurishij, at age 8, assisting his father, a Kallawaya medicine man, a being selected by our Mother Earth, Pachamama, one who has been struck by Lightning. At 9 he was chosen by his Grandfathers to begin this path and since the age of 25, he has been walking the path of a Kallawaya, giving medical-spiritual services. He has participated in various gatherings and films, all in the path of sharing his Kallawaya Knowledge.
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Salvador Huanca Chambi |
Salvador Huanca Chambi
Born in April of 1934 in the community of LLacasa, canton Mecapaca, in The Peace, received teaching like Yatiri (faith healer) for ancestral
Teachers of its community and it traveled for all the sacred mountains (Apus) where it was initiate and played by the Grandfather I line for three times.
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This page last updated: Thursday, August 7, 2008
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