Margaret Behan is a Native American woman—Southern Arapaho-Cheyenne on her mother’s side and Northern Arapahoe/Northern Cheyenne on her father’s side—and a fourth generation descendant of an ancestor who was a survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre. Behan is the founder of the Cheyenne Elders Council, a group of native healers and teachers, and a former member of the International Council of 13 Grandmothers.