Circle of Nations

Circle of Nations is a space for coming together in community. It’s a place to make friends, share stories, poetry, songs, and so much more. Here, we honor the connections that bind us to each other and to the Earth. This is a welcoming space where all are invited to engage, create, and grow in meaningful ways.

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Kricket, also known as Flower of the Sun, is a cardholder member of the Houma Nation but is also of the Chitimacha tribe. She is a lifelong artist and maker—shaping clay, crafting traditional Native beaded jewelry since a young child, writing poetry, and weaving baskets. She’s a certified meditation guide, an Elder, and an ordained minister who brings presence, warmth, and grounded wisdom to everything she offers.

Living close to nature, Kricket spends every day walking its trails, learning its rhythms, and harvesting the wild bounty it offers. She is an avid hiker, backpacker, and a passionate wild forager with deep knowledge of plants, herbs, and mushrooms—not only for nourishment, but for medicine. Drawing on traditional wisdom, she creates healing salves, teas, tinctures, and other Earth-based remedies in harmony with the seasons.

Her survival skills are rooted in indigenous lived experience: wild foraging, hunting and trapping, processing animals, building shelters, water purification, fire-building, and cooking over open flames. A large portion of her life has been spent outdoors and living off the grid, with no running water or electricity, this also includes backpacking for long stretches, staying in tents, a RAV4, and campers—across forests and deserts. She’s even stayed in a palmetto thatch shelter she helped build.

Kricket also connects deeply with wildlife—communicating through posture, voice, and sound. She often mimics birds and animals, building a quiet trust. With her camera, she captures the wild world around her with care and curiosity.

Spiritually, Kricket identifies as a religious pluralist. Her path honors many ways, but she feels most at home in Native American/Earth-based spirituality, Buddhism, combined with Philosophy and Psychology. She prays to Great Spirit, to God, to Mother Earth, and to her Ancestors. She meditates and gives gratitude every day. She is part of both Heart of Many Ways and a Native American Church in Florida, where her ceremonial life continues to deepen. 

At her Circle of Nations table, Kricket shares song and sound, poetry, handmade crafts, food, photographs, meaningful conversation, and a grounded invitation to connect with the Earth and each other in simple, soulful ways. Her goal is to bring others together, to form community, friendship, and a spiritual family.