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Circle Legacy Center - Advisors
Circle Legacy Center uses Indigenous advisors for guidance and support for its projects and cultural events. We also share their messages, give voice to their concerns and support their needs.
National
Advisors
Carolyn Cook-Rittenhouse
Lakota name: Ho Wasté Winyan - Lakota Sioux
Member of Cheyenne River Sioux of South Dakota
Resides in Lancaster, PA. Works at Millersville University in the Educational Foundations Department. Married with 3 children and enjoys spending time with family. Has worked for 20 years promoting Native American awareness particularly that of the Lakota Sioux through dance and cultural presentations. Has presented at state and local organizations, churches, schools, and college/universities. Has sat on various planning committees for local native American cultural events and initiated fundraisers for Lakota on both Cheyenne River and Pine Ridge Sioux reservations as well as for other native tribes/nations. Acts as a cultural liaison for local students and organizations desiring to study or work on reservations in South Dakota. Co-presented on the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (1876-1918) at the Museum of the American Indians Smithsonian Institute of New York in November 2000. Developed and coordinated a Lakota Immersion Program at Millersville University and took faculty, staff and students to study/travel on Cheyenne River in South Dakota during the summers (1999-2002). In 2001, West Chester University students participated in the immersion program. Since the close of the immersion program, she has been a student double majoring in Anthropology and Nursing and will graduate in 2011 continually doing liaison and fund raising work for native people. Her biggest achievements have been able to raise along with her husband, Thad, strong, healthy & happy children, teaching them to appreciate their cultural heritage and to seek balance and harmony.
Jeffrey Worley
Aassociate attorney with the law firm Gibbel Kraybill & Hess LLP. He is a graduate of the University of Arizona’s James E. Rogers College of law. He has lectured on the doctrine of discovery. He works with the Return to the Earth Project. He serves as general counsel for the Circle Legacy Center.
International
Advisor
David
Courchene - (Neeghani Aki Innini - Leading Earth Man)
Anishnabe Nation, Eagle Clan (Manitoba,
Canada)
A leader descended
from a long line of Indigenous chiefs of Turtle Island (America),
Neeghani Aki Innini has taken on the ancient Indigenous role
as a Messenger of Peace. His greatest focus has been to inspire
young people of all nations to find their own visions, holding
many Youth Gatherings throughout Canada and the USA. Neeghani
Aki Innini has been an invited speaker on wide ranging issues
related to the Indigenous communities, including education; Indigenous
traditions; the environment; health and Indigenous medicine;
peace; spirituality, governance and decision-making. He has been
invited to serve as an Indigenous and spiritual advisor in television
and film documentaries. He has been invited to speak at
world gatherings in Brazil, Japan, Israel, the Philippines, the
US and Canada. In August 2000, he was an invited speaker at the
2000 Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual
Leaders, hosted by the United Nations in New York, USA. David
recently spoke at Cambridge University, England.
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