Brooke Medicine Eagle
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Brooke "Medicine Eagle" Edwards is a New Age
author and workshop presenter, specializing in her personal views and interpretations of Native American
religions. She is a frequent workshop-presenter at New Age events.
Edwards is based in Montana
, where she lives with her partner Sunny Baba. While she claims to be of the Montana Crow Indian lineage, there is controversy about whether she has any Native American heritage or training at all, and she has been accused by Native Americans of exploiting and misrepresenting Native American culture.
New Age
The New Age movement is a Western spiritual movement that developed in the second half of the 20th century. Its central precepts have been described as "drawing on both Eastern and Western spiritual and metaphysical traditions and then infusing them with influences from self-help and motivational...
author and workshop presenter, specializing in her personal views and interpretations of Native American
Native Americans in the United States
Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as...
religions. She is a frequent workshop-presenter at New Age events.
Edwards is based in Montana
Montana
Montana is a state in the Western United States. The western third of Montana contains numerous mountain ranges. Smaller, "island ranges" are found in the central third of the state, for a total of 77 named ranges of the Rocky Mountains. This geographical fact is reflected in the state's name,...
, where she lives with her partner Sunny Baba. While she claims to be of the Montana Crow Indian lineage, there is controversy about whether she has any Native American heritage or training at all, and she has been accused by Native Americans of exploiting and misrepresenting Native American culture.