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Who is a genuine American Indian? Does it matter, if he does no harm? Calvin Fast Wolf, an Oglala Lakota living in San Francisco, objects to a woman he met years ago as Penny McKelvey, now using the name Oh Shinnah Fast Wolf to sell a "spiritual community of healers." McKelvey charges nine hundred dollars for a week in Glacier National Park. Fast Wolf is an old and honored name among Oglala, says Calvin Fast Wolf, and he considers his family insulted by her business.

OhShinnah Fast Wolf passed away on January 11th, 2022. She was 88 years old when she died of natural causes in a memory care facility in Columbia Falls, Montana.

She was born in Silverton Colorado in 1934 during the height of the Great Depression. During her life she traveled, adventured, and lived all over the United States. She was an amazing singer and song writer having performed at venues in Chicago, San Francisco, and New York City, amongst other locations. During her life she performed in the same clubs as Muddy Waters, Nick Gravenites and Michael Bloomfield. She was also involved with the Committee Theater in San Francisco and Chicago’s Second City Theatre. She performed at Carnegie Hall, with the artist Sting, and opened for Jerry Garcia on Jacques Cousteau’s ship the Calypso.

Starting in the 1970’s, OhShinnah studied and taught natural medicines, healing, environmental activism, and applied practical spirituality. She was a pioneer in the use of crystals and partnered with her sister Dr. Dolores Krieger to teach students crystal healing in combination with Therapeutic Touch.

OhShinnah was a delegate at to the United Nations conferences on the Human Environment, Spirituality, the Decolonization of Indigenous People, the World Conference of Spiritual Leaders, and as a ceremonialist at World Water Day. She spoke on environmental issues at the invitation of various governments.

OhShinnah was awarded the Nurse's in Transition Humanitarian Award, the Helen Caldecott Humanitarian Award for Women, the Noetic Science Institute Temple Award for Creative Altruism, and her name is inscribed on the Wall of Tolerance in Birmingham, Alabama.

She was exceptionally generous and was supported by multiple native elders throughout her life. Her legacy is carried on by her students worldwide and a memorial is planned near Molas Lake, Colorado, later 2022.

She was preceded in death by her Daughter Fawn, survived by her children James, Heather, and Kaiwie, grandchildren Sky Bear, Calico, Jamie, James, Autumn, Numa, and 11 great grandchildren.

When she was born, her father was asked what he wanted to call her. Oh Shinnah was not allowed by the government, so she was named “Johanna” (Jeanne) and then the government employee asked what the last name was, but in the Native American tradition of the time, there was none. Her father’s name was “Fast Wolf. So she was called Johanna Fastwolf. But everyone called her, and continues to call her, ‘Oh Shinnah.

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