A. Background History -
1. Silver Wings and Silver Eagle have togehter since May 2006, and Silver Eagle since at least 2004 has researched the creation and development of a place called "The Eagle's Nest."
2. The Eagle's Nest Center will function as a location where a community of likeminded individuals can seek to light (or rekindle) the fire of the Spirit within (from a Native American Indian perspective). It is a community of individuals who are seeking to define and experience who they are. It will be a place safe from the pressures of 21st century life that Native American traditions and cultures can be shared.
3. The words at the end of General MacArthur's address from the deck of the U.S.S. Missouri at the end of World War II in the Pacific could not be more true of the condition of mankind, "It must be of the Spirit, if we are to save the flesh." For it is the heart, the soul, the spirit, the psyche of our make up that defines not only who we are, but how we face each new day of the gift of life.
4. Dare we enumerate in detail what the present course of humanity lies before us, when we look back at the past two thousand years of advances in science, art, literature and all material and cultural developments. We have seen the effects and affects on familial relations, on Mother Earth and all her plants and animals that give us life.
5. Historically, the study and practice of psychiatry and psychology attempted to understand the workings of the human mind, in sickness and in health. Science and medicine have made quantum leaps and advances in just the last twenty or so years, with many theories addressing the many aspects and roles of DNA.
6. Just as automobile engine designers have progressed from designing engines based upon human tolerances of one one-hundredth of an inch possible with a pencil, paper and drafting board, to computerized tolerances of one one-thousandth of an inch possible with today's computers. But the changes in tolerances do not change the basic fact that it is still an automobile engine. Just as science and medicine are, in my opinion, any closer to unlocking the secrets of the human mind, or spirit. Or just as computer technicians have proved that wiping or reformatting a computer's hard drive does not erase all data contained on it, but that through various processes, some of the basic data is still retrievable.
7. The purpose of The Eagle's Nest, is to assist in the traditional spiritual recovery of that "data" within each and everyone of us that we came into this world with, devoid of all the programming (family and social conditioning) we have accumulated on our hard-drive or brain. Without trying to be geeky, I would equate the human spirit to the bios-chip within a computer, the hard-drive with your brain, and the motherboard with your nervous system. I'm sure this is a gross over-simplification and may not even be "technically" correct, but you get the idea. Just as with a personal computer, we sometimes "lock-up" and need a spiritual re-boot, like you would press the "CTRL," "ALT" and "Delete" keys on your computer, we sometimes need to do the same with our thought process. This would be akin to rebooting our thought process from our internal spiritual "bios-chip."

B. Development and Design -
1. The development and design of The Eagle's Nest has been an ongoing process since 2004, with a number of conceptual ideas ranging in size from a mere 10 acres to 160 acres of land. It has encompassed ideas from a "social model" residential community to its present Native American Indian gathering and pow wow grounds.
2. The current concept of design and development incorporates the Native American Indian tradition of a "gathering". It includes a dance circle, and drum arbor to be surrounded by "trader's" booths. It includes areas for a Native American Veterans Memorial, primitive camping and ultimately restroom and shower facilities. It includes a future, historically correct Cherokee Village. It includes a future pasture land for raising American Bison (Buffalo). It includes the homestead of Silver Wings and Silver Eagle, and in the northeast corner of the property what is to be called "Ancestor's Hill" the area where some local family tradition's state are some early homesteaders and Native American grave and/or burial sites.
3. As of November 7, 2007 the concept diagrams of The Eagle's Nest are complete for the homestead area and the gathering grounds. Concept diagrams for the primitive camping area, the Southeastern Native American Village, the pasture, and Ancestor's Hill are pending further inspection of the land once the various areas have been cleared of various, though select scrub brush and small trees.
4. The "conceptual idea" for the Native American Veteran's Memorial includes at least six memorial walls, a traditional Lakota burial platform, a Congressional Medal of Honor Monument and a number of flags. Additionally a small building may be constructed to house a mini-museum dedicated to Native American Veterans and their contributions to the United States Armed Forces.
5. The "conceptual idea" of the primitive camping area is to be at least twenty-four primitive campsites to be located in the northwest corner of the property. Each campsite is to include two areas for tents or pop-up type trailers, and a permanent fire ring.
6. The "conceptual idea" of the Cherokee Village is to include: one 45 foot diameter Ceremonial/Council Lodge, one 22 foot diameter Holy Man's Lodge and six to ten 10 foot by 12 foot residential lodges. In addition near the northern portion of this area will be a pond site with a peninsula on which will be built a "sweat lodge" in accordance with Native American traditions.
7. The "conceptual idea" of the pasture land is an area roughly between 150' - 200' wide (north-south) and about 500' long (east-west) in which some American Bison will be grown for educational purposes, as well as enhancing the food plots for the indigenous animal life on the property, which include deer, rabbit, wild turkey and other birds.
8. The "conceptual idea" of Ancestor's Hill is still quite vague in its planning due to the unknown locations of the original homesteaders and Native American graves and/or burial sites. The graves and/or burial sites will not be disturbed in any fashion. However a tentative plan is for the design and construction of a moderate scale Medicine Wheel to be established along with a gazebo or pavilion or just some benches for people to sit and meditate with the ancestor's buried here.