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Jim Tree is a spiritual adviser for the "Keepers of the Sacred Tradition of Pipemakers" a Federally recognized Native American church based in Pipestone, MN. He is the Native American Issues Adviser for Montana Youth Homes. He has also been on the board of advisers for the E.T.Seton Institute and provides council about the Sacred Pipe to inmates of the several State Prison Systems. Jim has conducted ceremonies for the Northern Arizona Regional Behavioral Health Authority symposium for Tribal Educators two years in a row. He has also lectured on reinstating rights of passage ceremonies to combat youth suicide on reservations during the symposium in 2007. Jim is a well respected stone sculptor and Pipe carver. His Elders of influence are Adam Fortunate Eagle, spiritual leader of the Keepers, the late Lilly Windrider Nevarez, member of the Cherokee Medicine Society, M. Running Deer, an Apache spiritual leader, and the late Larry War Eagle, Cherokee spiritual leader. Since the spring of 1999, Jim has been responsible for the United Nations Turtle Pipe, the Ceremonial Pipe presented to the U.N. in 1984 by Adam Fortunate Eagle and holds this Pipe for ceremonies worldwide. In December of 2009 this Pipe was used in a ceremony at the Untied Nations Headquarters in Vienna, Austria. Click here to read press on the Middle East ceremonies. Click here to view the video clip about ceremonies in Australia. Click here to read press on the Australian ceremonies. Click here for the press release about Jim's currant presentation tour. Jim is also the Project coordinator for Montana Integrative Therapies, a project that merges alternative therapies with allopathic clinics and provides services at no charge to patience of long term care facilities, those in Hospice and the chronically ill. Jim is a CranioSacral Therapist trained by the Upledger Institute and Dr. T. Feeney, DO, an internationally known instructor of Cranial Osteopathy. Jim is a member of the International Association of Health Practitioners and has offices in Hamilton and Darby, Montana. Jim is available for presentations providing that all travel expenses are covered by a sponsor. To schedule an event, contact Jim via the e-mail address on this site.
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