Stephen Laforme is a Status Indian-a band
member and elder of the Mississaugas of the
Credit First Nations. He was born on the New
Credit Reserve in Canada and moved to Toronto
at age nineteen. The author of six books on
Truth and Reconciliation, he is also an elder for
the Four Colours Drum Circle, who have been
custodians of a Medicine Wheel Garden in Heart
Lake Brampton for fifteen years. WinterHawk is one of his spirit names,
given to Stephen in his dreams.