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Brooke Medicine Eagle is a non-traditional Métis singer/songwriter/recording artist, author, and sacred ecologist. Although she is an enrolled member of the Crow Indian tribe, her primary identification is as an Earthkeeper with a global family of Earth caretakers and healers. She has blood lines from other native tribes as well as European and Scandinavian ancestry. Her offerings have generated controversy among fundamentalist Indian circles.

Brooke was raised in a half-breed rancher subculture on the Edwards family ranch in the high mountain country of the Crow reservation – an off-grid homestead where water was carried from a spring, horses were used for farming and transportation, and food was produced through gardening and hunting. She attended school in nearby Bridger where she was valedictorian of her high school class, and went on for the BA from the University of Denver, where she was a Centennial Scholar, Ford Foundation Fellow, and graduated with Summa Cum Laude honors. She pursued doctoral work in Somatic Therapy at the Humanistic Psychology Institute in San Francisco during the consciousness awakening of the early 70’s. Brooke has contributed chapters to many books, and hundreds of articles (see bibliography and current information about Brooke at www.MedicineEagle.com). She is the author of her spiritual autobiography Buffalo Woman Comes Singing, and a book of deep history and inspiration for this awakening time, The Last Ghost Dance.

Her formal education was enhanced by study with native elders and master teachers across the United States and around the world. She vision quested under the guidance of the Keeper of the Sacred Hat Lodge of the Cheyenne’s; trained with amazing Israeli healer and body therapist Moshe Feldenkrais in his first organized program; received Permaculture certification from Bill Mollison; learned Neuro-linguistic Programming from Bandler and Grinder; spent time with sustainable builders like the famed EarthShip creator Mike Reynolds (architect); studied the profound Somatic Experiencing trauma release work of Peter A. Levine; and carries a Peruvian Incan energetic healing way called Healing the Light body.

Although she is a Montana native and still considers that home, Brooke lives a quiet life at her FlowerSong orchard/garden sanctuary in the Okanogan Valley area of north central Washington, where she raises food and flowers and creates waterfall beauty.