Born and raised on the Rosebud reservation, Chief Marvin Swallow has served as ceremonial and Sundance Chief in the Lakota tradition for the past 25+ years. Chief Swallow has been an active Roadman in the Native American Church for the past 20+ years, and regularly travels worldwide to Peru, Colombia, Mexico, and Japan along with his wife Hiroko Matsuda to share their prayers and healing ways. As a gifted artist, Chief Swallow is a lifelong visionary painter. The body of his artwork explores timeless themes of the Lakota ceremonial way of life, symbolism, cosmology, and mythology, offering profound picto-poetic narratives from the deep spiritual heart of the indigenous Native American culture in its modern expression.