About Kenny Timberwolf

“As a Native spiritual leader, Kenny was able to tell us a great deal about Alaska’s history and Native cultures. He is an amazing storyteller, too. Kenny added many new experiences and ideas to our trip and really enriched what we learned.” — Cumberland Valley School District program team, Mechanicsburg, PA

Kenny TimberWolf Gardner, owner and operator of Alaska Timberwolf Journeys & Tours, LLC, was born in Craig, a small community in Southeast Alaska, to the Eagle tribe, Frog clan.

He is the great grandson of Chief Thomas Skulka, the last chief of chiefs of the Haida Nation and signer of the declaration making Native Americans U.S. citizens. Kenny is a traditional Native spiritual leader and the first in three generations to carry the Haida Shaman Ceremonial Spiritual Healing Pipe.

The other side of his family comes from the Village of Fort Yukon, Alaska, and is from the Athabaskan Nation of People. As President and CEO of TimberWolf Journeys, Kenny Timberwolf provides cultural diversity training, logistical and organizational consulting. Kenny has conducted over 3,500 traditional and blessing ceremonies in Alaska for different tribes, corporations, nonprofits, churches, state and federal agencies, hotels, local and national conferences and various sporting events. Kenny implemented sweat lodges in five states. He organized the Traditional Blessing and grand opening of the Alaska Native Heritage Center and has performed over 4,000 ceremonial sweats in and out of Alaska. He also designed and built Anchorage’s largest Indian steam house.

He has written and designed a program for youth using the Four Directions approach to healing, shares his culture and spirituality with Alaska Children’s Services and public schools in and out of Alaska, and performs many other projects that the Creator has placed at his feet to help teach the people.

Kenny currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Dinlishla (a group of traditional healing doctors and healers in Alaska), has lectured on traditional healing at the Mayo Clinic, and is a member of Bridge Builders of Anchorage, and Commonwealth North. He is also a Member of the Alaska Native Brotherhood, the Anchorage Mayor’s Kitchen cabinet and Alaska Native Veterans Fairbanks chapter.

In the News:

• “A Heritage of Healing: Native Practitioners to Help Veterans,” Anchorage Daily News, July 16, 2007 - Excerpt:

Ancient Alaska Native healing techniques will soon supplement modern-day treatments for mental health ailments afflicting Alaskans returning from service in the Middle East.
Many Alaska National Guard soldiers come from isolated villages. Few have doctors; fewer yet have mental health professionals.
So traditional healers like Kenny Timberwolf will use talking circles, steam houses and subsistence hunts to help Native soldiers relieve their stress.
“Honoring them and welcoming them home as a veteran isn't enough,” said Timberwolf, an Alaska Native shaman. “It has to go a lot deeper.”

• “APU students sweat for greater understanding” - A visit to Kenny Timberwolf Gardner’s sweat lodge to learn about Alaska Native spirituality was a high point for students in an Alaska Pacific University class on Religion and Nature, writes religion instructor G.W. Kimura. Anchorage Daily News, February 20, 2005.

Excerpt:

“…The most popular visit was to the sweat lodge to hear TimberWolf Gardner’s discussion of Native spirituality. The class votes, and we visit a second time. After we sweat for an hour, he invites each student to take a small leather pouch and fill it with natural elements -- earth, tobacco, sage, an eagle feather. Then he blesses them as medicine bags.”

• “Journey with the whales exhibit unveiled at the Heritage Center,” Southcentral Foundation Newsletter, July-August 2005. “The ‘Journey of the Whales’ began when a group of volunteers, prompted by Kenny Timberwolf Gardner, salvaged the remains of a 41-foot juvenile female gray whale beached at the Placer River near Portage. The whale had died, drifted to the beach in Turnagain Arm, and was cut into manageable pieces and buried to decompose. Six years later, the bones were dug up, cleaned and sealed.”
• “Thar She Blew,” Anchorage Press, July 2005.
• “Luxury Ride, Shaman Style” - Feature article about Timberwolf Journeys & Tours LLC, in First Alaskans magazine, May 2004.
• Review of Timberwolf Journeys & Tours LLC in Native Peoples magazine, March-April 2004. “Part of my getting into business at this age is to show our young people that we can go do this.”
• “Native-Owned Tour Company Offers Star Treatment,” Alaska Business Monthly, September 2003
• Building an Anchorage steam house. Anchorage Press, October 2003.
• Dedicating a new eagle mew at bird rehabilitation facility in Juneau, 2002.
• Recovering a beached whale, Anchorage Press, July-August 1999
• Kenny Timberwolf blessing (and drumming) contributes to the compilation CD Gathering: Native Alaskan Music and Words.

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