By Lewis MacAdams
Felipe Chavez is a Yaqui Indian who grew up in Chicago. He was drunk on the streets of Santa Cruz Calif. when somebody took him to his first Rainbow Gathering. "It was a vital healing process for me in regaining my spirit," he says. "On my birthday I used to drink a bottle of tequila." Now, on his birthday, Felipe usually sundances, piercing the flesh of his breasts with eagle claws or sharpened sticks, to connect himself to a "vison" tree.