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Spirit Seeker Solution is an org created by Northern Cheyenne Traditional Chief Phillip Whiteman Jr.
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06/03/2026

Northern Cheyenne Traditional Chief Phillip Whiteman Jr. Heove ve'keso (Yellow Bird) was invited to this year’s induction ceremony into the North American Indigenous Athletics Hall of Fame (NAIAHF) that he was inducted into 2 years ago. He sang the memorial song for fellow inductee Ernie Stevens Jr. and his family from the Oneida Nation, here in Green Bay, Wisconsin. He was engaged in political service from his Oneida nation to the national level and served as the Chair of the Indian Gaming Association since 2000. Last year Chief Phillip sang the victory song from the Battle of the Little Bighorn and Ernie was deeply moved and told him he would make sure he would come back.

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Battle of the Little Bighorn and Chief Phillip invited everybody to attend the peace gathering he will be hosting on his land June 21-25, 2026.

Many people expressed their appreciation and took pictures with Chief Phillip to mark this important moment.

04/26/2026

Traditional Northern Cheyenne Chief Phillip Whiteman Jr. (Heove’vekeso, Yellow Bird) announced the Indigenous Peace Gathering and connected events he will be hosting on his land June 21-25, 2026 to mark the 150th anniversary of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, at the 2nd Global Indigenous Peace Building Summit at New York City held in parallel to the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. He invited Indigenous participants from around the world to attend the Gathering which will focus on shifting from being caught up in the fight and problems to finding solutions.

04/22/2026

April 22, Earth Day is always a special day for me, because I honor our Mother Earth and my mother Florence Whiteman the last fully initiated warrior woman of the Cheyenne, who made her journey on this day 25 years ago. This year we delivered a statement at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues for the Northern Arapaho and Northern Cheyenne people about the dispossession of our peoples through genocidal campaigns and the need to counter the intergenerational effects of genocide with Indigenous teachings. I am especially proud of Northern Arapaho Tribal Chair Keenan Groesbeck who already provided the first ever statement for his tribe at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues yesterday, this is our joint statement today.

04/19/2026

Denver March PowWow marking its 50th anniversary in this big anniversary year, has always carried a special place in our family’s hearts. My mother Florence and father Chief Phillip Whiteman Sr. were there from the beginning, setting up the Lame Deer Singers’ Drum (Drum #2 in the DMPW count); and it has been very special to keep this tradition going. We started off with a teaching workshop about countering the intergenerational effects of trauma with Indigenous teachings that I co-chaired with Verdell Thunderhorse and Grace HerManyHorses. It took all of the teachings to carry me through the next days after learning about the arson to the first home I set up on my reservation that night, right next to my precious horses. So rather than heading home, I shared stories that carry our teachings, such as the woodpecker story, and some of my Medicine Wheel Model exercises with the participants in my storytelling sessions throughout DMPW. I talked about the difference between Western linear, left-hemisphere of the brain dominated thinking and Indigenous circular right-hemisphere of the brain connected ways of being. What really helped me most was the drumming, singing and dancing and connecting with good old friends and making new ones. On Monday after the DMPW I travelled to Boulder to the winter camp of my ancestor White Antelope, picked for its natural springs and cottonwood trees that our mother the creator sent with the Cheyenne people from the stars to provide us warmth and shelter and food for our horse relatives in the winter. I know we will do important work to counter the intergenerational effects of genocide and trauma from here, especially during this 150th/250th anniversary year of the founding of Colorado and the US on the dispossession of our people, while also marking the 150th anniversary of the Battle of the Little Bighorn where our ancestors took a stand for our Lifeways.
Thank you to the Amazing Melissa Polk from the Cowgirl Camera for the beautiful photos!

Heove ve'keso (Yellow Bird) Northern Cheyenne traditional Chief Phillip Whiteman Jr.

03/21/2026

Northern Cheyenne traditional Chief Phillip Whiteman Jr. Leading the Lame Deer singers supported by Arapaho relatives in the victory song right now at the 50th annual Denver March Powwow during the 150th anniversary year of the Battle of the Little Bighorn/Greasy Grass, that happened about a month before Colorado declared statehood following genocidal campaigns against Cheyenne and Arapaho, with the Sand Creek Massacre remaining the bloodiest day in Colorado history. This is why Chief Phillip will host a peace gathering June 21-25 (victory day) to call for an end to genocide and share his ancestral teachings to counter the Intergenerational effects of genocide. Follow Spirit Seeker Solution for more information.

03/07/2026

I wanted to share my friend Adam Beach's post from when I gifted him a Buffalo Robe at Denver March Powwow and welcomed him into my spiritual family. I will be at this year's DMPW as a storyteller and we will be hosting a workshop with our teachings on Thursday leading up to DMPW. Follow this page for more information. Below is the original post from the gifting of the buffalo robe.

02/21/2026

Today I want to recognize my relative Mahpevana’hane (Fights in Water) Leonard Littlewolf, a direct descendant of the Chief who carried the same name and who brought relatives on my father’s and mother’s sides back from the South safely and of Dull Knife. He was just laid to rest at Busby where many of the returning White River Cheyenne made their home. We always spoke our language to each other, as fluent speakers, and he raised his daughters right with our teachings. He was always encouraging, when I was the only Native American competing in the Northern Rodeo Association he would take time away from the basketball tournaments in Miles City, to come support me at the Metra in Billings. Just this winter, in the middle of the biggest storm of the season, he came out in the bitter cold, despite his health challenges, to support his granddaughter as Miss Northern Cheyenne in the parade in Billings. I was glad we got to meet him at Perkins afterwards and bought him and his family a meal. They told us then that they supported us putting on this year’s Fort Robinson Run and just before it, he came to my chemo appointment with his daughter Erica at the Billings Clinic to encourage me to keep it going. When he talked about wanting to go home, I knew he was not just talking about Busby, he was talking about the journey he is making now. So in yet another cold winter night with a vintage Pendleton to gift, we traveled to the White River Cheyenne Mennonite Church in Busby, where my grandmother Sally and my mother had translated the Bible and shared those stories with me as a child. I talked about that and Leonard’s supportiveness, kindness and humility. I sang him the journey and memorial songs and his daughters the women’s song. Journey well my relative!

02/05/2026

This beautiful horse song was part of our presentation at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering. Kaycee J. Dixey and Susan Avila Dixey told me they wanted to sing me this healing song when I was first diagnosed with cancer, they know the horse medicine I carry and how the love for horses is healing and I knew I had to invite them to the gathering in Elko. This prayer song makes you feel good, you could feel the horses running and the dust be kicked up! Hope we can all come back together next year and share more beautiful teachings and healing songs. Nea:see!

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PO Box 293
Lame Deer, MT
59043

Telephone

+14067400169

Website

http://phillipwhitemanjr.org/

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