Rolling Thunder (née John Pope, died 1997) was a Native American medicine man. He was born into the Cherokee nation and later emigrated to Nevada and lived with the Western Shoshone. He essentially married into the Shoshone tribe when he united with his first wife, Spotted Fawn, who preceded him in death.
John Pope is the subject of Rolling Thunder (1976), a book by the American journalist and author Doug Boyd, and Rolling Thunder Speaks A Message for Turtle Island (1998), a narrative edited by his second wife, Carmen Sun Rising Pope. Rolling Thunder also figures prominently in Mad Bear (1994), Boyd's follow-up book to Rolling Thunder, which chronicles the life of Tuscarora medicine man Mad Bear Anderson, a peer and mentor to Rolling Thunder.
Rolling Thunder was a lifelong proponent of women's rights (although not, by current definition, a feminist), care for the environment, and Native American rights. His message, as related through the books about his life, is one of togetherness and inclusiveness. In 1975 he and his wife Spotted Fawn founded an inter-tribal, inter-racial, non-profit community on 262 acres of land in northeastern Nevada (just east of the town of Carlin) called Meta Tantay (Chumash for "Walk in Peace"). There he served as leader and healer. Meta Tantay operated until 1985, and included both Native and non-Native members; visitors over the years included Buckminster Fuller, Mickey Hart and The Grateful Dead, and Tibetan monks.
His grandson, Sidian Morning Star Jones, is a founder of the Redefine God , and lectures on spiritual topics, often with Stanley Krippner.
His son Mala Spotted eagle started the spiritual community of Nanish Shontie. Nanish Shontie is a community on 17 acres of property in the country in Western Oregon. It is a place where people have an opportunity to learn from traditional native people about the native way of living with Mother Earth. Nanish Shontie is helping to build a bridge between the modern world and indigenous world so that we may work together for the healing of Mother Earth.
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are you aware that there is a Mala "Spotted Eagle" Pope who operates a Native American retreat Near Eugene Oregon
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