Eagledancer Agency: Cross-Cultural Competency

Since 1995, the Eagledancer Agency has been providing pragmatic and "hands-on"educational approaches and curriculum in working with a wide variety of communities in the United States and Internationally. This includes bilingual education as well as doing outreach to groups that have been historically under-served. For example, I've worked with St. Christopher's Hospice in London to help work more effectively with Afro-Caribbean populations. I've also served the Saskatoon Catholic School District in involving First Nations students and parents.


My original background was with the Center for Indian Teacher Education at the University of Washington, where I provided college level courses on American Indian reservations within a 90 mile radius of Seattle. I later served as Area Director for American Indian Head Start Programs on reservations in Alaska, Washington State, Oregon, Nevada and Utah. From there I assumed the position of the Alaska Field Specialist at the National Bilingual Training and Resource Center. I've served as a consultant for education and mental health programs across the United States and other countries. Please contact me for letters of recommendation and evaluations of my work.
I am a USA Today and NY Times Best Selling Author, and under Ty Nolan, I have also received the 2014 BP Readers Choice Award for Short Stories and Collection for my book Coyote Still Going: Traditional Native American and Contemporary Stories.A few years ago I started to lose my sight and have gone through seven major eye surgeries. I have since begun to resume my consulting work, although I am unable to drive at this point. I've also been working with the National Science Foundation's flagship project "Synergy" to help colleges deal with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) issues in a more effective way through the use of traditional storytelling.
If you'd like more information, please contact me at: Eagledancer4444@gmail.com or call me at: 623/217-1943

Coyote Still Going: Native American Legends and 

Contemporary Stories

Winner of the 2014 BP Readers Choice Award for "Short Story Collections and Anthologies" by the NY Times and USA Today Best Selling Author, Ty Nolan

Here are some Stories (Traditional Native Legends) and some stories (personal history.)

I am a professional storyteller and a therapist. Coyote Still Going retells the mostly Sahaptin and Twana traditional legends I was taught by my relatives. It's also a memoir of how I have told these stories, from celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of Mr. Rogers to using the Sahaptin legend of the Butterfly at an International AIDS Conference in discussing grief and loss. Traditional Native American legends are powerful teaching tools.

The book also contains recipes. Food, spirituality, and community are always woven together—you can’t understand one without the others. I was raised with the importance of the sacredness of food and the legends that explain why we celebrate the First Salmon Ceremony, or why we understand taking a sip of water before a meal is a type of prayer.

Many Native Nations begin a Coyote legend with some variation of “Coyote Was Going There.” Trust me—Coyote? Still Going. It’s about time Ebooks caught up with that crazy Trickster.

Memoir of a Reluctant Shaman

(A Story of American Indian Magical Realism)

From the NY Times and USA Today Best Selling Author Ty Nolan 

“My grandmother's song would make her wooden dolls dance without strings, something I have sought to do in my own relationships without much success. Perhaps my song is not strong enough, or perhaps I would be better off with stiffer relationships than the blood and bone-based lovers I've chosen--or that have chosen me.

Living in cities that are so bright they blot out the stars at night, my lovers have had skin washed pale as fish bellies back home, and I have never quite figured out how to explain to them what happens on our reservation, where stars look new and are strong enough to burn our bodies brown.

How do I explain to my vegetarian significant other that he can buy a t-shirt in the tribal store that reads, "Vegetarian is an Indian word for poor hunter." How do those for whom meat is something wrapped in plastic you use plastic to buy, make sense of my siblings hacking meat off a still-warm carcass? Do they really understand that the smooth hardness of the drums of mine they touch and admire is the flesh of the animal scraped clean?”

Thus begins a coming of age story of Native American Magical Realism. The first chapter was a finalist in National Public Radio’s Short Fiction Contest under “Dolls.” Now discover the full story of a most remarkable family.

(includes Coyote's Condoms, created for the Real Story Safe-Sex Project)