Lane was born in Lawrence, Kansas at the Haskell Indian school where his parents met. During the past 44 years, he has worked with Indigenous peoples in North, Central and South America, Micronesia, Southeast Asia, India, Hawaii and Africa. He is the Founder and Coordinator of the Four Worlds International Institute, as well as the Chairman of Four Directions International, an Aboriginal company, which was incorporated in 1996 as Four Worlds' Economic Development Arm.
