Tom Little Bear Nason

Little Bear is the Tribal Chairman of the Esselen Tribe of Monterey County. He is a traditional cultural resource specialist, Tribal Archeology Monitor, and Wildland Consultant. Little Bear has a deep relationship with the Ventana Wilderness, the Four Winds Council and the Esalen Institute, and with Tassajara. His ancestral family has occupied these unceded Esselen lands for centuries. Little Bear has led a lifetime of retreats centering around initiation, ritual, and ceremony between humans and their relationship between each other, land, and Spirit.