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I am a published poet, dramaturge, performing artist and private teacher of Cherokee descent. I am concerned with telling the truth about native issues and developing reconciliation between Native Peoples and others who now live in this place. I was born in the Chickasaw Nation Capital of Ada, Oklahoma and grew up in the Tar Creek area of the Quapaw Nation. I graduated from the University of Tulsa (originally the Cherokee Henry Kendall College) and Manhattan School of Music in New York City. I was a member of the Armed Services during the Vietnam War with a White House Security Clearance. My family has been concerned with traditional education, the arts and traditional Cherokee culture since always. Since 1978 I have become a part of the flow of those who returned to the spiritual ways of our ancestors and follow now a more logical mode of life than religious manuals written for desert peoples that have little relevance to our lives in the present. I am a member of a traditional community of Cherokee Artists and Professionals in the New York City area where I have lived and worked over the last 38 years. I am the community librarian and a published scholar and lecturer in cross cultural problems.
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