The RiverWind Foundation
		KINDRED SPIRIT WRITINGS

Welcome to our community library of Kindred Spirits stories, fiction and nonfiction; poetry; essays; and musings; and our Kindred Spirits Newsletters. The authors have attended our Annual Kindred Spirits Retreats and Ancient Wisdom - Sacred Ground Gatherings and comprise a virtual community of like-hearted and -minded souls in North America and beyond. To read any of these pdfs, please click on the title. You will need Acrobat Reader to do so.

The Inipi (15 kb) - Here is a poem that may help folks get a peak at the "inside" of the sweat lodge. - James Medicine Tree

Aspen Dance (12 kb) - Arlene Dreste

Hotonpi Wakiyan (13 kb) - James Medicine Tree

Distant Voices (13 kb) - From Voices In The Canyon, A collection of verse by Brenda Edwards Domyan ©2005 - Brenda Domyan Edwards

Who We Are (14 kb) - Timothy O'Donoghue

Kindred Native Mind (35 kb) - For those who would like to understand Native American spirituality, here is a chapter from my book, "The Way of the Sacred Pipe," which describes the differences between native thought and non-native thought. - James Medicine Tree

Reinvention As Our Resolution (44 kb) - Although this writing originated at the start of the new year, it's message applies now and forever more! - Timothy O'Donoghue

Kindred Spirit Newsletters:
Winter-Spring 2006 Issue (638 kb)
Autumn 2005 Issue (484 kb)
Summer 2005 Issue (572 kb)
Winter 2004-05 Issue (552 kb)
Autumn 2004 Issue (1.27 mb)