The venerable Dhyane Ywahoo, chief of the Green Mountain Band of the Aniyunwiwa (Cherokee), is the founder and spiritual director of Sunray Meditation Society and author of Voices of Our Ancestors. She is the 27th generation lineage, as well as being a lineage holder in the Drikung Kagya and Nojingma traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. Sunray Meditation Society is an international spiritual society dedicated to planetary peace. Sunray is based in Bristol, Vermont, where the Sunray Peace Village is located.