Choose your Experience:

One Day Adventures, 3 Day Weekends or 6 Day Retreats.

Customize your Adventure or choose a Group trip: See our August Montana Retreat under Schedule

Our 6 Day Tipi Retreat Offers:

• Spend a week immersed in the tipi culture of the Northern Plains.
• Experience the Integrity of life within the sacred circle of the Four Directions.
• Explore the origins of Plains Indian art and culture.
• Be inspired by the majesty of the Mountains, Badlands, and Prairies and the huge geography that shaped the Native Americans and their spiritual beliefs.
• Find the sacred in the everyday and discover your own relationship within it.
• Create your Medicine bag, ornament it with beadwork, and infuse it with power.

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OPTIONS:

A tour of the West from the Plains Indian point of view:  an Indigenous cultural experience.

• Tipi living, Native Food and living in the round.
• Campfire tales, Stories of Creation that tell us the Reasons Why.
• Mountain excursions: walking in a sacred manner. Allow the plants, trees, stones and the Earth speak to you. From Yellowstone Park to the Badlands and Black Hills of SD to Northern New Mexico.
• Tour Historic Native American Museums and historic sites with an expert guide.
• Meet local native craftsmen, ranchers, and musicians and their families, visit their reservations.
• Learn traditional Plains Indian Beadwork and create your own Medicine Bag.
• Gain an understanding of the Sacred nature of the Pipe.
• Learn how to participate in Sacred Ceremonies.

WHERE:

Red Lodge, Montana. Gateway to the Beartooth Mountains and the famous Beartooth Pass into Yellowstone National Park.    Fly into Billings, MT.      

JULY 26-31,2009

The Black Hills, South Dakota.  The sacred land of the Sioux and Cheyenne.     Fly into Rapid City,SD   AUGUST 24-30, 2009.

Santa Fe, New Mexico. Cultural capitol of the Pueblo tradition.    Fly into Albuquerque, NM.  OCTOBER, 2009