Grandmother Mari Fix McEwen
Founder and Facilitator of the "Ancestors of the 4 Directions" & OWS.
Is e m ’ainm ainmichte Mari Fix McEwen / Seinneadair Bogha-Froise Coille is the daughter of Carolyn & granddaughter of Beatrice Ewing, from lineage Clann Ewing of hamlet Kilfinan (Argyle and Bute) in Alba (Scotland) / Loch Fyne. Clann Commander is Cousin John Thor Ewing. Clann Ewing are the people of the Yew Tree Clann. Her Grandfather is Henry Young, husband to Beatrice Ewing. Her patralineal line is Beatrice of Clann Wasson and Fix/Fics, father Jack, son of Jake. She is directly related to Clann O'Neil through Ewen of Otter (Ewings), and also through her Neil relatives, along with Clann Cameron, Clann Ross, Clann Mar, Clann Suttherland, Clann MacBeth, Clann McMahon, Clann McFarlane, Clan Adair, Clan Stewart, Clan Brus (Bruce), Clan Comyn, Clan Montgomery, Clan McAlpine, Clan Campbell, Clan MacGillivray, Clan Raghnall Mac Ruaidhri / Clan McCrorry, Clan Sommerled, Clan Rögnvald, and Sigurth Syr Halvdansson. She has traced her lineage to earlier than 1,600 years B.C. on about 8 lines, and to 500 A.D. on others. A good part of her ancestry is Albidosi (later known as Pictish), through her Clann's McAlpine / Cameron / Sutherland / Mar / MacBeth / Douglass / Ross / Kennedy / Mcfarlane relations.
Currently residing in the unseeded territories of the Tataviam / Tongva / Keetch / Chumash tribal peoples in what is currently known as Southern California, she was recognized as an Elder by Peruvian Elder and Medicine Person Maestro Hermano Vidal Sinches and his counsel of Peruvian Elders in 2015 and was given the task to bring her People back to their indigenous roots as well as bring together Indigenous Representatives from the various Nations to work together as a strong voice for world healing. She has spent years studying with 3 indigenous medicine lineages and was an active dancer with an indigenous Danza group from Mexico. She is also a direct apprentice of Taoist Master Ching Fung Dao Shr and a Tai Chi Student in the lineage of Grand Master Kai Ying Tung.
A Ceremonialist, Ordained Minister and Alternative Medicine Practitioner of various energetic modalities, she served as a medical intuitive and apprentice of Dr. Daniel Reeves for 11 + years diagnosing and treating patients in his practice. She has additionally been facilitating Therapeutic Sound journeys since 1991 and studied with some of the old guard in Therapeutic Sound Medicine. She holds Certifications in the following Therapeutic Arts and Subjects from various Universities around the world: Art Therapy, Sound Healing, Music for Wellness, Mindfulness Mediation, Irish Mythology, Celtic Studies, Scottish Clans, Scottish Heritage, the Book of Kells, The Viking Sagas, Ancient Architecture, Stonehenge, Magic and the Middle Ages, Archeoastronomy and Archeology of the U.K Henges, Stone-age Archeology of Star Carr, a degree from CSULB, and has served as both a teacher and an Adjunct Professor. She has also counseled youth under University of Southern California's pilot program in Motivational Interviewing. (Other Certifications in Leadership and Emotional Intellegence).
As a sitting Grandmother, circle co-facilitator and Counsel member with the Indigenous Grandmothers of Europe / FWE, she is representing Scottish Lineage as well as supporting Folk Women of Europe Overseas, to revive their roots, connect to nature and honor the ways harmonious with Nature and life. She is dedicated to unify with our indigenous relatives to create healing, understanding, solidarity, balance, de-colinization and connection.
Founder, Initiator and Facilitator of "Living Ceremony" &
Chief of Òrdugh slige bhàn na Mara, she is a
Co-leader / Organizer at Order of the Oak - an international Druid Organization,
a member of OBOD in the UK (Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids),
a member of the Celestial Order of Bards Ovates and Druids (Southern CA),
a member of Romuva-ŠiaurÄ—s Amerika (Lithuanian Folk Spiritual Organization)
a member of Tiyoshape Spiritual Family with *Chief Rueben George,
a member of FWE & and FWF,
and a member of the Circle of Friends.
​
She is a facilitator with associate Choctaw-Navajo/Chahta-Dineh Elder Patricia Anne Davis of the “Indigenous Change Process,” and dedicated to extricating the out of balance condition within herself and humanity for the good of all.
_________________________________
Notable Projects
Mediation and race relations counseling - served as a facilitator for a special Film project "Origin of Rainbows" at the Skirball Institute on Colorism.
As a key member of the All Colors Coalition, she was dedicated to bridging gaps between various races and factions during the 1990’s with Native Peoples, African Americans, Caucasians and other ethnic groups.
She also has served as the writer and organizer for the Indigenous Shuar Amazon Rainforest Preservation Project, and has been a performer and organizer for numerous benefits for the Indigenous people of Big Mountain Arizona, Nicaragua and El Salvador along with Red Bone, John Trudel, Jesse Ed Davis, Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Dialeclectics.)
Projects and Speaking Engagements:
"Global Warming Made Visible."
One of the key conference speakers and guided meditation facilitator: 
Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions
"The Challenge of Respect:" An interfaith conference: creating unity among a diversity of religions, volunteer coordinator
"United LA Symposium" organizer: Symposium for the intent of spirituality and peace in Los Angeles; Los Angeles Convention Center.
Elders of the 4 Directions Workshops, World Unity week/. Facilitator and Speaker:
Guiding Principals of the
Ancestors of the 4 Directions
Esteemed Elder: Patricia Anne Davis
Lineage Carier of the Indigenous Change Process - guiding principals of A4D
Patricia Ann Davis is an American Indian elder. Her English name is Patricia Anne Davis, and her Dineh ceremonial name is “peacemaker”. She was born of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw-Chahta, and born to the Taa chii nii and Kii yaa aanii kinship families of the Navajo/Dineh Nation. Her maternal grandparents are Chahta, and her paternal grandparents are the Kii yaa aanii clan of the Dineh. She is an International Teacher and Healer by tribal lineage, training, and initiation. She translated Dineh blessedway ceremonial principles into an Indigenous Ceremonial Change Process to facilitate a healing process that is not coping, but correction of any out-of-balance conditions within people, society, or the environment. She designs presentations, training, ceremony, and workshops within the context of the natural order and Indigenous science, a concept from the literature to define a distinction between an Affirmative Thinking system and a Eurocentric Dualistic thinking system. The purpose is to reframe win-lose destructive and death-producing choices and decisions into win-win constructive and life-affirming choices and decisions. She designed an “Indigenous Ceremonial Change Process” to facilitate a reframe of thinking systems with these unifying principles:
Inclusive of all ethnic nationalities Cross-cultural • Inter-generational Restores resources to the next generation of youth Universal in practical life application and can be translated into any language. She has traveled to 9 countries to teach the ICCP.
​
Clan Father of the
Ancestors of the 4 Directions
Maestro Vidal Ayala Sinchez
Medicine Man & Guardian of the Inti Ayllu people - Family of the Sun
Esteemed Elder Maestro Vidal Ayala Sinches, or "Noble Warrior that Gives Life"
is a Peruvian Ayllu Elder who recognized A4D's Founder Mari Fix McEwen as an Elder in 2015, and gave her the charge to both bring Indigenous Elders together from around the world to work for the benefit of the planet, as well as to bring her people back to indigenous sensibilities. From that charge, the Ancestors of the 4 Directions was born as well as the different branches of A4D that serve the various directions.
Vidal Ayala Sinches is one of the main featured and prominent Elders in the Film, "Vision of the Ages," and helped Tata Wandering Wolf to re-secure his staff of Authority as the Grand Mayan Elder of the people.
​
"Vidal Ayala," is the Elder and Inspiration of our Organization."
Cynthia Klatte Cunningham
ANCESTORS of the 4 Directions & OWS
Speaker, Organizer, Ceremonialist & Pro Counseling Support
Cynthia is the daughter of Roxanne Jurkowski, who was daughter of Stephania Saletnik, & Michael Jurkowski, and granddaughter of Kazmiera Sajdak and Jan Saletnik of Galicia, a region occupied by the Austrian Habsburg monarchy which is now Malopolska Poland. This voivodship was occupied by Austria during their lifetime. Kazmiera Sajdak’s mother was of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, which was hidden from her descendants who came to the US and was only discovered by myself in my 20s. I am also great granddaughter of Daniel Jurkowski and Anna Nowak of the land that is now Poland which was occupied 3 times by Austria, Lithuania and Russia.
I am the daughter of Robert Klatte, who was born Robert Cunningham (Clan Cunningham), who was adopted by an Anglican minister from Germany and his English wife who had immigrated to the US. My father hid his adoption and it was accidentally discovered during my adult years.
I graduated from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst with a
B.A. 1991, Cum Laude, Psychology Major, French minor and with a Masters in Social work in 1997 from the University of Connecticut. I currently work for the University of Arizona as a licensed Social worker, counseling students at the university. I was also a foreign exchange student at the Universite de Dijon, France 1989 summer exchange program in French language.
I have been with the Indigenous Grandmothers of Europe as a Sister on the Meeting Organizing Team with Sister Ava and Grandmother Mari Fix McEwen, and am currently a member of the OWS and Romuva-ŠiaurÄ—s Amerika. I am a Talking Circle Facilitator with Chief Phil Lane's Four Worlds International and am currently studying Ecopsychology.
_edited.jpg)
Ává Niamh
Purification & Fire Keeper / Representitive for "Ancestors of the 4 Directions"
Representitive for Four Worlds Europe
​
Ává's ancestral lineages are from what is known today as the south of Ireland and Germany on her mothers’s side, and the north of Ireland/England/Scotland on her father’s side. She is of the Ferguson Clan. On her father’s side, her grandmother’s ancestors have been residing on Turtle Island (in North America) for over 11 generations, which is where she feels most at home.
Ává is a vocalist with SOLACE of LUNA, creates abstract art as iCreatrix and has worked as a creative consultant in many disciplines and industries.
She was born on the beautiful & unceded territories of the xÊ·mÉ™θkÊ·É™yÌ“É™m (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and SelÌ“ílÌ“witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, also know by the colonial name of Vancouver, Canada. For well over a decade she has been deeply devoted to an Indigenous ceremonial way of life of the sundance, sweatlodge and sacred teachings of White Buffalo Calf Woman. Ává is grateful to be blessed with respected elders and mentors on this path which share their wisdom, songs, prayers and medicine in a good way, as we are all related in this sacred hoop of life.
Ava has served with the Sacred Circle of Indigenous Women of Europe as a Sister on the Meeting Organizing Team with Sister Cynthia Klatte Cunningham and Grandmother Mari Fix McEwen and is serving as a Represntitive of the ANCESTORS of the 4 DIRECTIONS & FOUR WORLDS EUROPE at the upcoming UNION OF THE CONDOR, HUMMINGBIRD, QUETZAL AND EAGLE (Sacred CHQE Covenant, Union, Equinox, and Election Ceremonies) in Palenque Mexico, March 17 - 22..
Alexandra Lorraine di Genova di Salle, OWS & Ceremonial Support
My name is Alexandra Lorraine di Genova di Salle, I live now in what was called Ligurian Land, the territory between France and Italy. My watershed is the Var River that flows into the Mediterranean Sea.
On my mother’s side, i am from quite an old Norman family line, going back before the Xth century. From my father’s side, we are from an old Abbruzzi's family, from the land of The Italic Marrucini. My father migrated to the USA around 1950 and his bones and spirit rest now on what would be considered Seminole Land. I grew up in Rome, Italy through my adolescent and teenage years. I had a eyesight problem that left me with partial blindness. When this occurred, I came to Turtle Island to stay with my father. I lived on Turtle Island for about ten years. While I was there, I was blessed to learn to “Walk in Beauty” and participate in ceremonies with the Miccosukee tribe in the Everglades. At that time, I also discovered the Rainbow Family of Living Light, otherwise called the Rainbow Family in the States. The Gifts I received from living on Turtle Island were the introduction to and learning to walk the Good Red Road, and the coming to an understanding that I was dedicated to be a bridge between various peoples, weaving the continents together within the Sacred Hoop of Life.
While living in the United States, my profession was Massage therapy and Hydrotherapy. Later when I returned to my homeland in Europe in 2000, I continued those professions for a number of years. In Europe, I furthered my studies, training to be a nurse’s assistant within psychiatric wards. I later moved on to become a Special Educator for children and young adults with Autistic Syndrome. I also worked a few years in Youth Protection Houses.
I have been walking the way of the Druid since the age of 20, when I was first initiated into Little Brittany’s Broceliande Forest Order of the Druids, and then much later in 2015 when I was initiated into the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, or OBOD. Today in 2021, I am still an active member of OBOD, UK and I am also a practicing member of a Gaulish Druid's Assembly in France. I still participate in Rainbow Gatherings that happen here, with my European Family. I am a dedicated mother of two girls, a young adult named Vivian and a teenager called Léna. Now I have the honor to be part of the OWS, where I am living and acting upon the vision to restore Trust, Beauty and Justice within the tribes of the northern Hoop, in Honor and Love of our Great Mother of All, Nature.
Martin Diggs
Co-colaborator for "What it's Like to Live in my Skin Workshop Series," Technical Support, Graphic Deisn, Photography
​
Martin Diggs and Mari Fix McEwen have been working on creating a workshop series that familiarizes other races with the realities that African Americans and POCs in the United States face on a daily basis, presenting a more comprehensive true history on the subject, and a real time look into the lives of our beloved brothers and sisters. This interactive and participatory series will premier in June 2022 at World Unity Week.
​
Martin Diggs is from Kansas City, Kansas, the original ancestral lands of the Osage, Kaw (Kansa) and Otoe-Missouria. A photographer and designer, Martin picked up his father's camera at the age of four and it was love at first sight. Martin studied theatre and film at the university of kansas and has lent his talents to feature films, television commercials (in front of and behind the camera), photoshoots, and design projects across the globe.
In the early stages of covid, Martin was guided to find wonderful support and healing love energy via the online community, The Connection Field (Good of the Whole), where he shared his passions by supporting the community with his technical knowledge, graphic design and visual meditations he produced and edited.
Bonds that formed with his new virtual family, lead Martin to sit in circle with and facilitate zoom sessions and facebook live events for groups such as "Ancestors of the 4 Directions," Ancient Arts Revival, Web of Love, SoulFire 4 the Earth and others that promote peace, love, and equality for all.
Father of three and brother to many. he enjoys cooking, experimenting with different styles of painting, driving aimlessly, and spending time in nature while photographing his encounters with our beautiful earth mother.
​
​
