Between
Christmas 1982 and New Years 1983, an historic gathering took
place at the Blood Indian Reservation on the high plains of southern
Alberta, which was destined to impact the healing and development
of hundreds of Indigenous Nations around the world.
This was a gathering of some forty traditional elders and community
leaders from across North America who had come together to find
a solution to the terrible darkness of poverty, suffering and
death that seemed to have engulfed nearly every Indigenous community
on the North American continent.
The name Four Worlds emerged from this gathering because of the
ancient cultural and spiritual significance of the medicine wheel.
The four cardinal points of the medicine wheel can be used to
explain the complex reality of personal and community development.
It is a symbol common to almost all Indigenous people in North,
South and Central America. It can be found, in fact, in most tribal
cultures around the world.
