Welcome to Chris Kavelin's Website

Whispers of the ancestors, Waves of innovation

Honoring Indigenous Wisdom to Inspire Global Change

Guiding Pathways of Resilience

Empowering communities to lead with intergenerational knowledge, crafting living solutions for a world in need of balance.

Bringing Stories to Life

Animating the unseen contributions of Indigenous wisdom to educate, inspire, and connect across generations and platforms.

Photo Gallery

with Aunty Mary-Anne Coconut

IFIP gathering Indonesia

On the Tira

Prof Catherine A. Odora Hoppers with Nelson Mandela's portrait

Nelson Mandela appointee, Prof. Catherine. A. Odora Hoppers

With wife, Lisa Michelle Silvers

With dear friend Kevin Locke, Lakota, Standing Rock Reservation

With beloved friend and mentor Kevin Locke, Lakota, Standing Rock Reservation

Doris Mclean, Chief of Carcross-Tagish First Nation, Whitehorse, Canada

Traditional healers, Western Samoa

Rita Blumenstein, first certified traditional doctor in Alaska, member of the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers

With dear brother Whakataumatanga Mareikura after we finished the Tira hoe waka Whanghanui together.

with beloved mentor and friend, Professor Clifford Cardinal, Cree healer and Doctor of molecular medicine, Edmonton Canada

Lisa with former Head of State of Samoa, Paramount Chief Tui Ātua Tupua Tamasese Efi

"Chris’s work helps fill a gap that government programs will never reach. His work is essential and authentic." - Jane M. Bennett, Director (Aboriginal Health), NSW and ACT, Dept. of Health

"(Chris is) helping connection for people to return back to their origins of whakapapa on all levels...a much needed gift for the world to realise its fullest potential and cultural recovery" - Whakataumatanga Mareikura, Whanghanui, Aotearoa

"Kavelin, it seems has been a good listener; to the architects of his faith, to the spirits of his grandfather and his father after him, to the voices of the indigenes he is guided to encounter, and to his own inner voice." - Professor Babuuzibwa Luutu, Vice Chancellor, Marcus Garvey Pan Afrikan University, Mbale, Uganda

"Knowing Chris (is) an incredible experience, because when he speaks, there is a resonance that makes him incomparable to any lawyer." - Nelson Mandela appointee, Professor Catherine. A. Odora Hoppers, DST/NRF South African Research Chair in Development Education

"Chris is a connector and a facilitator. And his strengths and abilities in those roles are considerable, as is the breadth of his understanding in the field of indigenous medical knowledge." - Andrew Buck, Professor of Law and Associate Dean, Research, in the Faculty of Arts, at Macquarie University

"Chris is the first non-Indigenous person I have met that embodies the depth of spirit and integrity of action that I encountered in my early career experiences with traditional peoples." - Jane M. Bennett, Director (Aboriginal Health), NSW and ACT, Dept. of Health

"Chris's humility and self-effacement have always been exemplary. His knowledge of Indigenous culture and protocols is unique." - Paolo Morisco, MD, Health & Wellbeing North Ward

"He showed great humility in his volunteer service. I remember that when he was due to give his presentation he invited a local Indigenous person who wanted to speak to take his place. Chris's service to the international Indigenous community in this conference resulted in the Pacific delegates consulting together about forming their own Pacific chapter of IFIP and enriched the experience of all the participants." - Evelyn Arce, Executive Director of International Funders of Indigenous Peoples (IFIP)