Medicine Hawk is a Muscogean (Creek) from the Poarch Band in Atmore, Alabama. He is a Pipe-Keeper, Teacher and Student of the ways of Grandfather Stalking Wolf (A Lipan Apache Elder, now deceased). Medicine Hawk has, for the past 35 years, been a student, an apprentice, a practicing teacher, and a scholar in the ways of Native People. He has studied for the past 17 years directly under Tom Brown, Jr., founder of Tom Brown's Tracking, Nature and Wilderness Survival School. These studies have included the ways of the Purification Lodge, the Sacred Pipe and the Vision Quest as handed down by Grandfather and his lineage.

Mary Ann McClellan (Looks Within Woman) is co-founder of Earth Mother Awareness. She received Quest Protector Training through Earth-Heart in 2001. For the past 17 years she has studied under Tom Brown, Jr., learning Wilderness, Healing and Herbal skills as passed down from Grandfather Stalking Wolf. Further studies include training with Indigenous Elders, Native Medicine Women and Herbalists. Her personal Vision Quest experiences have directed her to awaken women to the ancient mysteries and wisdom alive within their bodies. She currently works with the founder and director of the International Indigenous Grandmothers Society.