Timothy White Eagle, born in Tucson AZ, is an undocumented mixed-race Indigenous American. He was given up for adoption at birth and raised by a working-class white family in Washington state. Due to the circumstances of his adoption is not a registered member of any tribe. He is a descendant of Mohave and other tribal groups from the western United States as well as Scottish and Irish ancestors.
He graduated from Univ. of Utah with a BFA in Theater, worked in Seattle, made art, and operated a performance art/coffee house performance venue, “the Coffee Messiah” in the late 1990s. He spent his 20s exploring performance-based art. He has worked extensively in the past two decades exploring Native American, Pagan, and other earth-based Spiritual practices. He began a mentor/protege relationship with a Shoshone Elder Clyde Hall in 1995. Around that same time, he began helping to craft personal and community rituals within his Spiritual circles.
In 2006 he began collaborating with photographer Adrain Chesser. Their work together has been displayed and published nationally and internationally. In 2014 he and Adrain released their book, "The Return". Timothy collaborated and toured with Mac Aurtthur Genius award winner, Taylor Mac on his Pulitzer Prize-nominated work, “A 24 Decade History of Music” He continues to foster relationships with artists, having performed with Guillermo Gomez Pena’ recently working with Daniel Alexander Jones. He seeks to create objects and performances which contain the convenience of Spirit.
“I have been blessed to be active for the past 25 years in support of Indigenous elders and ceremonies, mostly through connections with my Indigenous mentors and the Dance for All People. In that time I have been afforded access to many ceremonies and traditional people. I am deeply grateful for the experiences of connecting to traditional communities and ways of being. In addition to the support of ceremony work, I continue to support Indigenous culture through my work on the board of the non-profit Naraya Cultural Preservation Council.“
