June 21
Herb Foraging Trail Hike - Presenter
12th Annual Sol of the Lost Tamarack
Wolverine, MI
August 15-17 - booth
Wild Blueberry Festival
Paradise, MI
August 19-23 - booth (Tentative)
Newtopia Now Trade Show
Denver, CO
September 5th - 7th - Presenter and booth
Great Lakes Herb Faire
Chelsea, MI
September 9-10, 2024 - Presenter and booth (Tentative)
IAC NW Regional Summit
Pendleton, OR
September 12th -16th - Presenter and booth
International Herb Symposium
Cleveland, OH
September 18th - Presenter (Tentative)
6-9pm
Michigan State University Extension
Indian Springs Park
White Lake MI
September 30 - October 2 - Presenter
October 7 - October 9th
Indigenous Voices (Prevent event for schools)
Troy Historic Village
Troy, MI
October 3, 2025 - Presenter (Tentative)
Native Grown & Gathered Food Expo
Bell Harbor | Seattle, WA
Nathan Wright aka Spirit man from the Sun is available for speaking engagements. His topics include: Indigenous Herbalism, Gardening medicinal herbal plants, Mushrooms, Indigenous history, perspectives and politics. His audiences have been grade school children, University students all the way up to our respected elders.
Contact Nathan Wright
(Spiritual name: Spiritman from the Sun or Giizus Su Win en eh) of the Crane Clan, is a tribal member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians with First Nations ancestry.
Nathan is a descendant of medicine people from both of his Indigenous parents.
Nathan continues his ancestors’ legendary plant medicine work by ethically wild harvesting and making medicines from the same areas as his ancestors.
He is the owner of the Herbal Lodge, which is a USA made, certified Native American and veteran owned company focusing on natural/organic skin care, pain relief and medicinal tea products using natural/organic and wild harvested herbs or mushroom ingredients. He has traveled the world in support of his business.
He is an Indigenous Herbalist and certified mushroom expert.
Residing in Petoskey Michigan Nathan is a firm believer of his Anishinabek cultural teachings. “If you do things in a good way, good things will happen,” is one of his favorite teachings. He offers many online videos for culture and herbal teachings.
Wright is a board member of United Plant Savers. And a proud Father of his daughter Autumn.
He is working on a YouTube or possibly TV show about plant medicines and indigenous culture.
He is a water protector, was at Standing Rock. And continues to work on getting oil pipelines of Michigan and beyond.
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Herbal Lodge
As a Water Protector
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