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Lee Brown "Indigenous Spirituality and Baha’i: Dr. Lee Brown is the Director of the UBC Institute of Aboriginal Health. He is the Co-author of The Sacred Tree, an educational curriculum based in Aboriginal values and traditional knowledge. Lee has also contributed to the Round Lake Native Healing Centre in Vernon, BC during the last thirty-one years in a number of capacities including clinical supervisor and currently as a cultural resource to the centre. He has been an invited to share his knowledge of culture and healing in over five hundred indigenous communities in North America. Lee is a member of the Cherokee Nation and the Wolf Clan and an elected member of the Local Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the University of British Columbia."

Education
Brown completed his BA at the University of Washington in 1971 and his MA at the National University in 1981. He decided to In his PhD dissertation Lee Brown traced the history of the Native Training Institute. He cited Michael Bopp's 1985 unpublished dissertation. In October, 2002 Brown traveled with Marie Anderson former NTI director to Cooks Ferry First Nation collected 26 boxes of archives. 23 were empty.

Singer
1981 Crow Indian Fair he sang with elders.

From Wikipedia article Bahá'í Faith and Native Americans: "In 1986 North American Bahá'í Lee Brown gave a talk at the 1986 Bahá'í Continental Indigenous Council held at Tanana Valley Fairgrounds, Fairbanks, Alaska, which was recorded and transcribed —it includes his interpretation of Native American, especially Hopi, prophecies. Brown also appeared with Martha Many Grey Horses on a Bahá'í program discussing these prophecies."

Publications
In 1984 he co-authored The Sacred Tree with Judie and Michael Bpp, and Phil Lane, Jr. and a Foreword by Dr. Jane Goodall, UN Messenger of Peace, and author of My Life with the Chimpanzees. In her 2011 PhD dissertation, Marie Anderson, former Native Training Institute (NTI), described the Medicine Wheel framework of Lane, Bopp, Bopp, & Brown (1983), which she adapted in her thesis, as "one of the first such frameworks" to be published.

""The Four Worlds Development Project is the result of many people's efforts and wisdom. Some were directly involved, others inspired us through their work in education and alcohol and drug abuse prevention. Direction for this project was set at a conference held in Lethbridge, Alberta in December 1982. Participants at the conference were Native elders, spiritual leaders and professionals of various Native communities in North America. Their contributions were framed by their deep commitment to Native people and their own, often hard won experience. To each of them we offer our deepest respect and appreciation. Harold Belmont, Mark Belmont, Andy Black Water, Ed Calf Robe, Steve Courchene, Ricki Devlon, Tyrone Eagle Bear, Perry Fontaine, Leonard George, Cindy Ginnish, George Good Stiker, Rufus Good Stiker, Woodrow Good Stiker, Ed Heavy Shields, Peter Hefferman, Lionel Kinunwa, Germaine Kinunwa, Phil Lane, Sr., John Many Chiefs, Sandy Many Chiefs, Jon Metric, Allan Murray, Wilson Okeymaw, Lee Piper, Doreen Rabit, Chuck Ross, Jerry Saddle Back, Herman Saulis, Frank Sovka, Eric Tootoosis, Mike White, Rose Yellow Feet..."

- The Sacred Tree 1984

In 1989 Four Worlds produced the documentary Healing the Hurts which is crediting with "first opening the door to discussion about residential schools."