Martin High Bear Biography Update

By Rose High Bear, Founding Director

Martin High Bear

We are happy to report that the Martin High Bear Biography is continuing to be distributed out there into the world. I received a few messages recently including from a woman who knew Martin in the 1980’s and 1990’s and had just purchased a copy. She is willing to include her message in our newsletter.

Rose, I was looking through Kindle listings when I came upon a photo of Martin High Bear....I knew that face instantly. Martin put me on the mountain twice, both at Mt. Hood and in Southern Oregon. Many pipe ceremonies in Portland, women's talking circles, and pow wows. I also taught in Indian Ed for Portland schools and at Nanitch Sahallie adolescent treatment center, operated by the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde in Keizer, Oregon.

I am so glad you wrote a book to record Martin's teachings. I just purchased it and look forward to a fresh visit of walking on the Red Road. We are definitely aging, and I immediately recognized you in a photo at the elderberry farm website, as another woman with white hair. I guess that makes us Twisted Hairs.

I recall so many of Martin's teachings, sitting on the ground around the Sundance arbor in the heat with Martin sharing the teachings, while my children, along with a pack of other children, were off visiting campsites to see who had the best food or drinks in their coolers.

Again, my gratitude to you for putting the teachings of Martin High Bear into print.

- Mi Takuye Oyacin, Fiona MacNeill, Twilight Autumn Woman