Marcellus Williams, deceased, was a multi-tribal spiritual leader of the Muskogee Nation-Creek Tribe. He was the author of  "The Wind Is My Mother", Random House, which is now published in 14 languages.  

One of the last traditionally trained "medicine persons", Bear Heart, who spoke in 13 native languages, was also an American Baptist Minister and held an honorary PhD  in humanities. He served for 7 years as a member of  the advisory board for the Institute of Public Health- Native American and Alaskan Natives at Johns Hopkin's School of Medicine.

Marcellus Bear Heart Williams was not a large man, but his presence filled a room. His voice did, too— it was deep and sonorous, especially when he chanted or sung. And he sung often, sometimes in his native Creek, as one would expect of a medicine man, but sometimes at a wedding he would sing old love songs in English.

 Bear Heart was born in 1918 into the Muskogee Nation Creek Tribe in Okemah, Oklahoma, and reared on two spiritual paths. His uncles taught him the traditional medicine ways of his tribe, and his mother steeped him in the Christian faith. He came to Rio Rancho 28 years ago when the late Dr. Harold Cohen asked him to serve as an adjunct consultant to the Memorial Psychiatric Hospital.