Margaret Behan - Red Spider Woman

“If we want to see changes first of all we need to be in peace inside ourselves, and then we need to be patient with the ones that have not yet arrived in that place of peace.”

Arapaho-Cheyenne, fifth generation of the Sand Creek Massacre. As a child, Margaret attended the Catholic Mission and Government Boarding Schools. Margaret is a Cheyenne traditional war dancer. She has served as a dance leader in Oklahoma and in powwows across the U.S. A sculptress for 24 years, she creates clay figurines that have won her many honors, including shows at Eastern New Mexico University, University of Wisconsin, Santa Fe Indian Market and the Gallup Inter-Tribal Ceremonial.

Margaret is an accomplished and published author, poet and playwright, and licensed Substance Abuse Counselor. She has presented workshops and retreats for women, adult children of alcoholics and co-dependents. Currently researching generational trauma, her interest is in cross-cultural, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome - trauma of loss and grief, danger and fear, hatred and chaos.