Shannon Thunderbird
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Shannon Thunderbird, is a Coast Tsimshian First Nations
singer-songwriter, storyteller, educator, speaker, playwright and novelist.
She is an Elder of the Giluts'aaw
tribe, Royal House of Niis'gumiik, Gispwudwada
(Orca
) Clan. She is the President and Artistic Director of Teya Peya Productions, an Arts/Education company. Thunderbird has worked with thousands of youth all over North America. Her latest presentation is titled "Sweet Thunder Medicine Wheel."
BOOKS: Medicine Wheel and Character Education in the 21st Century, by Shannon Thunderbird, Teya Peya Books, 2010,
CDs: "Wind Centre" (released, March, 2011); "May Your Spirit Be Strong", "Medicine Wheel Dreams Meditation Her touring shows include "Sweet Thunder Medicine Wheel", "West Wind and Woodland Sisters", "Daughter of the Copper Shield", "Thunder Rolling in the Mountains" and a variety of "Spirit Thunder Drumming and Vocal workshops and presentations about cultural diversity and North American Indigenous Tsimshian
culture.
Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast
The Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Pacific Northwest Coast, their descendants, and many ethnic groups who identify with those historical peoples. They are now situated within the Canadian Province of British Columbia and the U.S...
singer-songwriter, storyteller, educator, speaker, playwright and novelist.
She is an Elder of the Giluts'aaw
Giluts'aaw
The Giluts'aaẅ are one of the 14 tribes of the Tsimshian nation in British Columbia, Canada, and one of the nine of those tribes making up the "Nine Tribes" of the lower Skeena River resident at Lax Kw'alaams , B.C...
tribe, Royal House of Niis'gumiik, Gispwudwada
Gispwudwada
The Gispwudwada is the name for the Killerwhale "clan" in the language of the Tsimshian nation of British Columbia, Canada, and southeast Alaska. It is considered analogous or identical to the Gisgahaast clan in British Columbia's Gitksan nation and the Gisk'ahaast/Gisk'aast Tribe of the Nisga'a...
(Orca
Orca
The killer whale , commonly referred to as the orca, and less commonly as the blackfish, is a toothed whale belonging to the oceanic dolphin family. Killer whales are found in all oceans, from the frigid Arctic and Antarctic regions to tropical seas...
) Clan. She is the President and Artistic Director of Teya Peya Productions, an Arts/Education company. Thunderbird has worked with thousands of youth all over North America. Her latest presentation is titled "Sweet Thunder Medicine Wheel."
BOOKS: Medicine Wheel and Character Education in the 21st Century, by Shannon Thunderbird, Teya Peya Books, 2010,
CDs: "Wind Centre" (released, March, 2011); "May Your Spirit Be Strong", "Medicine Wheel Dreams Meditation Her touring shows include "Sweet Thunder Medicine Wheel", "West Wind and Woodland Sisters", "Daughter of the Copper Shield", "Thunder Rolling in the Mountains" and a variety of "Spirit Thunder Drumming and Vocal workshops and presentations about cultural diversity and North American Indigenous Tsimshian
Tsimshian
The Tsimshian are an indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast. Tsimshian translates to Inside the Skeena River. Their communities are in British Columbia and Alaska, around Terrace and Prince Rupert and the southernmost corner of Alaska on Annette Island. There are approximately 10,000...
culture.