The INDIO Trail Bear represents the Four Directions of People. Red - Yellow - Black - and White and is dedicated to the Coming Together Time of the Human Tribe. Those Four Colors also represent what some call the Four Directions. East - South - West - North. The Four Seasons of Mother Earth and the Cycle of Life - Baby - Youth - Adult - Elder.           - Medicine Wheel or Cycle of Life Teachings. -

The Black Bear represents the Time of the West on the Medicine Wheel or Cycle of Life. The “Red’ Lightning Bolt represents ‘Thunder-Beings’ those dramatic events or great change. When we encounter a Thunder Being we experience it first with our minds - we can choose to learn and grow or we can allow the Thunder-Being to change us in a negative way. When we embrace the lesson of a Thunder Being - it changes direction in the heart - then leads/points toward enlightenment which is represented by the yellow ‘sun’. The Hump on the back of a Bear is considered by many to be where the Bear stores his ‘medicine’. Medicine being whatever gives you strength or power. And enlightenment - representing knowledge and/or wisdom - is good medicine. Just as humor.. laughter.. can be good and powerful medicine. The great changes and powerful lessons in people's lives are represented by the symbols on this Bear... in Red-Yellow-Black-White.