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"Buck Ghosthorse" Lakota Impersonator archives http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=44.0 (http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=44.0)
He changed his name in 1992 from Leonard Albert Mattern
http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/Record/View/39922B35D01BE1D482EA097146E1D0DD (http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/Record/View/39922B35D01BE1D482EA097146E1D0DD)
Record Series: Auditor Misc Records
Collection: Snohomish County Auditor, Miscellaneous Recordings
County: Snohomish
Auditor File Number: 9210050173-0
Document Type: NAME CHANGE ORDER
Recording Date: 10/5/1992
Party Name: GHOSTHORSE BUCK
Party Type: PETITIONERS FULL NAME (NEW)
Party Name: MATTERN LEONARD ALBERT
Party Type: PETITIONERS FULL NAME (OLD)
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Transcribed from The Goldendale Sentinel - March 22, 2007 http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1433&dat=20070322&id=aJk8AAAAIBAJ&sjid=JfcFAAAAIBAJ&pg=906,4420585 (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1433&dat=20070322&id=aJk8AAAAIBAJ&sjid=JfcFAAAAIBAJ&pg=906,4420585)
Buck Ghost Horse
1940 - 2007
It is with sadness that we announce the crossing of Buck Ghost Horse on March 5, 2007.
Buck Ghost Horse, was born on the Rosebud reservation in South Dakota, to the Lakota Nation in 1940.
In 1962, he joined the Marine Corps and served two duties in Vietnam. He received purple hearts and a Silver Star for his bravery there and ended his nine year stay in the Marine Corps as a drill instructor at Paris Island. He graduated from the University of Florida in History Education and was a member of the American Indian Treaty Council.
For three years he taught in the Institute of Culture and Creation Spirituality at Holy Names College, in Oakland, Calif., and received an award from the Native American Alcoholism Program in Oakland for his work with that organization. In addition to being an adjunct professor at Holy Names College, he was in demand as a lecturer around the country speaking on native spirituality, culture, history, and law. He authored Red Nations Sacred Way.
Whereever he went, people circled around him, eager to learn - whether in California, North Carolina, New York, Oregon, Georgia, Washington, or Canada. In 1994 he established a spiritual community based on Lakota traditional values, culture, and spiritual teachings in Goldendale. Mentored by his traditional grandfathers and the late Wallace Black Elk, he was a Sundance intercessor for the Sungleska Oyate. He envisioned a ceremony for older women to help overcome the abuses of the past in this culture, and worked closely with addicted youth and adults for their own liberation through traditional ceremony. He leaves behind in Goldendale an active community of some 600 people and thousands of others around the country of all races and traditions whose lives were positively affected by his work.
He was involved in political struggles of justice for Native American Peoples, the protection of native graves and sacred sites, Native treaty rights, and received a certificate in Origins of Indian Law.
In 2006, he received a Native American Medal of Honor for his military service in Viet Nam. He was also active within the Democratic Party and a frequent "Letters to the Editor" contributer to the local papers within his community of Goldendale. He is survived by his wife Vicki; his daughter, Melissa; seven children, Paul, Chad, J.R., Cynthia, Pat, Katie and Sharona; 13 grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.
Paid Obituary
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In the book The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine by Matthew Fox it is claimed that Buck Ghosthorse:
was a "Mentor Warrior"
grew up on the Rosebud Reservation
as a boy was kidnapped by Mormons who did not allow him to speak his language or practice his native ceremonies
he escaped the Mormons by joining the Marines
he had dreams he should work with white people because "they were running things and the earth was in deep trouble"
presented Matthew Fox with a sacred pipe and also guided his vision quest
(some of this book can be viewed on Google Books)
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A 69 year old woman in July 2003 "suffered from burns when a propane space heater inside her tepee ignited her shawl and dress. She was attending a campout at Buck GhostHorse's property west of Goldendale". She died at a burn unit in a Portland Oregon hospital, she'd been airlifted directly there.
Buck described her as a "respected elder of her Aleaut people and our Sicangu-Sungleska Nations". "She was a leader of women's ceremony and a Sun Dancer."
http://gld.stparchive.com/Archive/GLD/GLD07172003P01.php (http://gld.stparchive.com/Archive/GLD/GLD07172003P01.php)
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And Buck took Cher Bear's sacred items and distributed them to members of his group and then lied to her family about them. He told them that he "didn't knowA" where they were. One recipient had an eagle feather, a non-native man, and after his family was killed in a car crash in Oregon, he found out that he essentially had a stolen eagle feather and gave it to her family. I know/knew many of her friends. They despised buck and his minions.
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Elder Support Fund
Rob West's fundraiser for SUNGLESKA OYATE
One of the primary missions of Sungleska is to support indigenous Elders in their continuing efforts to provide traditional education.
A donation to Sungleska Oyate helps fund traditional teachings from ceremonial Elders of many faiths. Many of these Elders are on fixed incomes, or are unemployed. We seek to raise money to assist these national treasures by providing money for their travel, food and lodging when they are invited to bring teachings to the people. We only support those teachers who do not charge for their teachings, and only seek to offset the costs that might prevent them from volunteering to teach.
Organization Information
SUNGLESKA OYATE
649 GARRISON RD
% Franklin McPherson GOLDENDALE, WA 98620
EIN: 260107295
https://www.razoo.com/story/Elder-Support-Fund (https://www.razoo.com/story/Elder-Support-Fund)
They want to raise 5 thou, fortunately no one has donated to this particular fund. Rob West is Jennessa West's husband. Jennessa West is the registered agent for Washington state nonprofit corporation. Both of the Wests otherwise are in the film industry.
SUNGLESKA OYATE
UBI Number 602450391
Category REG
Profit/Nonprofit Nonprofit
Active/Inactive Active
State Of Incorporation WA
WA Filing Date 11/24/2004
Expiration Date 11/30/2015
Inactive Date
Duration Perpetual
Agent Name Jennessa West
https://www.sos.wa.gov/corps/search_detail.aspx?ubi=602450391 (https://www.sos.wa.gov/corps/search_detail.aspx?ubi=602450391)
I've not found a lot of current overt discussion of Sungleska online, Jennessa West for instance on her Facebook has "A certain native uncle of mine (that many of you know)" which would refer to Buck Ghosthorse / Leonard Albert Mattern, but not much else. I wonder if current members are keeping things discreet for now?
This man in Washington state does refer to the group:
Tim Iistowanohpataakiiwa, M.A.
Native American Traditionalist & Spiritual Guide
Sungleska Oyata Tiospye
Masters of Divinity, Vancouver School Theology
http://www.bainbridgepsychology.com/Principals.html (http://www.bainbridgepsychology.com/Principals.html)
He is a Sun Dancer, and has danced this most sacred ceremony for a decade. His Tiospia, or extended Sun Dance family, are Bear Medicine Healers, who dance in South East Washington.
http://www.bainbridgepsychology.com/AboutTim.html (http://www.bainbridgepsychology.com/AboutTim.html)
From what I can see of IRS records online, the group seems to be usually in the red financially, although they have been bringing in contributions.
As for that Elder Support Fund - which Elders? How do we know the money will get to the right place?
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From a past website, is this group still doing these activities?
Sungleska Foundation is committed to helping communities, agencies, and individuals live in a healthy and balanced way. The Sungleska Foundation Board of Directors acknowledges and supports the teachings of indigenous peoples, especially the Lakota Indians, as being beneficial to individuals and groups seeking to learn how to live more in harmony with their environment and with nature. The Board accepts and supports the tradition of offering Native American teachings and ceremonies freely to people. While donations may be accepted, there will never be a financial fee or charge.
The name SUNGLESKA OYATE means “Spotted Horse Nation” in Lakota, and is our way of honoring the horse nation, respected by the Lakota peoples as being one of the few animals known to adopt others into their families. Sungleska Foundation is committed to supporting programs and activities that promote better understanding between peoples of all races and ethnicities of how we are all one family. This understanding is best expressed in the phrase “mitakuye oyasin,” which the Lakota people often say at the end of a prayer. It means “All my relations.”
Sungleska Foundation wishes to support organized events in which native and non-native people can learn more about the culture and traditions of indigenous peoples, particularly of the Lakota Indians. Support may include provision of space, volunteer work, materials, or transportation as needed. Specific activities that Sungleska Foundation wishes to support include, but are not limited to the following:
1. LAKOTA INDIAN CEREMONIES
a. Inipi Ceremony. Commonly referred to as sweat lodge, the inipi ceremony has been used for centuries by many Native American peoples for spiritual and physical health. Lodges today are usually made from young saplings bent to the shape of a half dome and covered with blankets and plastic tarps. Stones that have been heated in a fire outside the lodge are brought into the lodge, and water is poured over them to create steam. Participants usually sing, pray, and/or meditate. Inipi's are also opportunities for friends and relatives to spend time together for fellowship and for mutual support in times of difficulty. For many, the sweat lodge represents the womb of the mother, and helps connect participants to the earth and to the spiritual world.
b. Hanbleceya Ceremony. Hanbleceya, or Vision Quest, is another ceremony of many Native American peoples that has been used for centuries to help individuals receive direction for their lives. Hanbleceya involves the setting aside of a time and place, alone out in nature, to communicate with one’s Creator and to explore that which is within. Individuals welcome and receive dreams, or visions from Spirit. Young men may do this to find out what their individual role in life is, others may seek guidance or assistance from Spirit for future undertakings. For others it is simply a way of reconnecting with nature, with a Higher Being, or with their inner spirit. Participants usually go into the sweat lodge with elders or other supporters for guidance and support before and after vision questing.
c. Wiwayang Wacipi ceremony. Wiwayang Wacipi, also known as the Sun Dance, is one of the oldest and most sacred ceremonies of the North American Plains Indians. Held once a year, usually in summer, it is a ceremony based on renewal, self-sacrifice, and thanksgiving. It is called by its name as a way of honoring the sun as the source of light, love, and warmth on the Earth Mother. Most Sun Dances begin with the construction of a circular shade arbor around a solemnly chosen and cut central tree. The tree stands as a connection between the People and the Creator, and on it are placed sacred items that carry the prayers of the participants upward. Some men and women pledge to dance and make a commitment for four years to do this sacred ceremony. During the time periods of dancing and prayer, accompanied by singing, drumming, and prayer from supporters in the shade arbor, are interspersed with periods of rest and meditation. This commitment has been done for centuries by native people of this continent, and others as well, as a way of committing their lives to the protection of future generations.
d. Isnati ceremony. Winyan Isnati (Womanhood ceremony) is a Lakota rite in which a young woman reaching puberty learns her role as a Life-giver, receiving lessons on becoming and being a woman. It is a recognition of honor in being a woman, a time of celebration, of knowing that the potential of life and the ability to create it exists within. She is taught about the sacred time of the month-called Isnati (camps alone)-that she will experience from then on. It is also known as "moon time" as a way of recognizing the connection between the natural cleansing cycle that occurs within and the waxing and waning of Grandmother Moon in the sky above each month. She learns what to do and what not to do during her menses so that she can purge her body safely of negative energies and replenish with positive ones. She is taught the four stages of life: from a newborn spirit, to a young woman, to a Mother, to a Grandmother. While the isnati is usually held for young women as a coming of age ceremony, it is also meant to honor women of any age who wish to reconnect with that element of their identity from which their conventional upbringing may have estranged them.
e. Hunka ceremony. The Hunka ceremony is a Lakota ceremony in which two persons adopt the Hunka relationship toward each other and thereby both assume a more familial relationship with all for whom the ceremony has been performed. The relationship of Hunka is similar to “adoption” in mainstream American culture, but it binds each to his Hunka by ties of fidelity stronger than friendship, brotherhood, or family. Hunka relationships are believed to extend beyond this life into the next one, and those related to each other by Hunka are expected to support and defend each other as parents do for their children.
f. Lowanpi ceremony. The lowanpi is a Lakota ceremony used for healing or for finding the causes of sickness. It takes place when an individual asks for it, usually by presenting a cannumpa (sacred pipe) to a medicine man or healer. The ceremony usually takes place in a darkened room, where the ones to be healed are joined by friends and family who sing special healing songs. The medicine man acts as an interpreter for the spirits who are called in to help with the healing.
g. Long house ceremonies. Long houses are the traditional dwelling places of the Northwest Coastal Indians. Because they also serve as sites for a variety of meetings and religious ceremonies, long houses also symbolize cultural and social solidarity for the people as well.
h. Potlatch. Potlatches are ceremonial feasts of the Northwest Coastal Indians in which the host and his or her relatives lavishly distribute gifts to invited guests. Gifts distributed may include foodstuffs, household goods, ceremonial blankets, or prized personal possessions as well as less tangible things such as names, songs, dances, and crests. The purposes of these giveaways are for individuals to share all that they have in order that the People may live, as well as to let go the ideas of importance connected with those possessions. The potlatch ceremony also involves dancing, feasting, and other rituals, often lasting for several days.
2. INFORMAL CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS
INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING TOPICS:
Spiritual beliefs and practices
Ceremonial songs
Language (spoken and written)
Natural medicines
Storytelling
Wilderness awareness skills
Indigenous arts and crafts
Cross-cultural awareness and understanding
History and sociology
https://web.archive.org/web/20100106200834/http://www.sungleska.org/pages/activities.php (https://web.archive.org/web/20100106200834/http://www.sungleska.org/pages/activities.php)
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Further evidence of Buck Ghosthorse not being who he claimed he was:
Name: Leonard Albert Mattern Jr
[Buck Ghosthorse Jr]
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birth Date: 10 Mar 1942
Birth Place: Aliquippa Be, Pennsylvania
Death Date: 5 Mar 2007
Type of Claim: Original SSN.
Notes: Jan 1957: Name listed as LEONARD ALBERT MATTERN JR; 03 Feb 1993: Name listed as BUCK GHOSTHORSE
Source Information
Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.
Original data: Social Security Applications and Claims, 1936-2007.
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Leonard Albert Mattern Jr.
10 March 1942 Pennsylvania
5 Mar 2007 Goldendale, Washington
Changed his name legally to Buck Ghosthorse in 1992
http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/Record/View/39922B35D01BE1D482EA097146E1D0DD (http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/Record/View/39922B35D01BE1D482EA097146E1D0DD)
Listed white by Social Security, records include his name change
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Father
Leonard Albert Mattern Sr.
1917 Pennsylvania
1983 Florida
white in all federal censuses
Florida Death Index
Name: Leonard Albert Mattern
Race: White
Age at Death: 66
Birth Date: 12 Aug 1917
Death Date: 30 Aug 1983
Death Place: Orange, Florida, United States
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Mother
Maxine Estella King
1923 Pennsylvania
2011 Florida
white in census
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Paternal grandfather
Charles Theodore Mattern
1885 Pennsylvania
1958 Pennsylvania
white in census
white in death record:
Name: Charles Theodore Mattern
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 72
Birth Date: 24 Jul 1885
Birth Place: Centre County, Pennsylvania
Death Date: 6 Apr 1958
Death Place: Clairton, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA
Father Name: Harvey Mattern
Mother Name: Ellen Bush
Certificate Number: 33187
U.S., World War I Draft Registration:
Name: Charles Theodore Mattern
City: Duquesne
County: Allegheny
State: Pennsylvania
Birth Date: 24 Jul 1885
Race: White
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paternal grandmother
Pearl Levadie Thompson
1894 Pennsylvania
1978 Pennsylvania
white in census
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maternal grandfather
Orville King
1903 Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
white in census
Name: Orville King
Age in 1910: 7
Birth Year: abt 1903
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Home in 1910: Wayne, Greene, Pennsylvania
Race: White
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maternal grandmother
Estella Keener
1895 Pennsylvania
1986 New Jersey
white in census
Records through ancestry.com and familysearch.org
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OMG!! This guy used to be around Suquamish and called himself "Father Tim"! He was run out of here a couple of years ago because of some , ahem, "Improprieties". He used to have "drumming circles" at the local United Church of Christ, where you can rent the facility for monthly or weekly activities. He was NOT affiliated with that church. I want that to be clear. I can't remember what exactly the accusations were, but not nice things, and he has not set foot here since then, even though Bianbridge Island is 10 minutes away. And we just had Chief Seattle Days where he used to come every year. So somone maybe threatened to expose or arrest him, I dunno.
This man in Washington state does refer to the group:
Tim Iistowanohpataakiiwa, M.A.
Native American Traditionalist & Spiritual Guide
Sungleska Oyata Tiospye
Masters of Divinity, Vancouver School Theology
http://www.bainbridgepsychology.com/Principals.html (http://www.bainbridgepsychology.com/Principals.html)
He is a Sun Dancer, and has danced this most sacred ceremony for a decade. His Tiospia, or extended Sun Dance family, are Bear Medicine Healers, who dance in South East Washington.
http://www.bainbridgepsychology.com/AboutTim.html (http://www.bainbridgepsychology.com/AboutTim.html)
From what I can see of IRS records online, the group seems to be usually in the red financially, although they have been bringing in contributions.
As for that Elder Support Fund - which Elders? How do we know the money will get to the right place?
and what the heck?
http://www.bainbridgepsychology.com/CankuWakan.html (http://www.bainbridgepsychology.com/CankuWakan.html)
Canku Wakan (pronounced Chonku wah-kahn) means “Sacred Road” in the Lakota language. Canku Wakan spiritual direction is a means for individuals from any walk of life to grow spiritually using understandings drawn from the Native American tradition. Canku Wakan spiritual direction is usually conducted in the office setting. The initial visit helps travelers clarify their starting point and their intended destination. As the traveler’s journey progresses, between-session experiences, song, and other means of walking the Sacred Road will help illuminate the travelers path, and enrich the spiritual journey.
Spiritual direction is provided on a fee-for-service basis. Fees range from $70 to $90 an hour, on a sliding scale basis. In keeping with the Old Way, there is no charge for traditional Native ceremonies which may be part of the journey for some travelers as they progress down their road.
Somehow, I remember him claiming a different tribe than Lakota, but I can't remember which. I do know he was supposed to be from Canada.
Oh wait! Now he is claiming this:
Tim was born in Blackfoot Country, Montana, of Siksika and Northern Peigan tribal heritage.
So WHY would a Siksika/Northern Piegan teach "Lakota"??? Correct me if I am wrong, but I don't remember them being allies.
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I wondered if you knew of him Debbie. His FB has not been updated for awhile and still reads Suquamish as location. He is listed as a non-parochial Episcopal reverend here http://www.norcalepiscopal.org/iistowanohpataakiiwa-tim (http://www.norcalepiscopal.org/iistowanohpataakiiwa-tim)
(http://i62.tinypic.com/2nbd092.jpg)
He does have some Sungleska Oyate members on his FB. He might be due for a research needed thread of his own too.
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[He might be due for a research needed thread of his own too./quote]
Could be. I did not have a lot of interaction with him. I spoke to him a few times, but he seemed "odd" to me. A friend, Tony, who I had a lot of respect for, said that this guy "should not be teaching anything" as he didn't KNOW anything. Tim used to walk around Suquamish in a ribbon shirt and moccassins, trying to present himself as "traditional." I would ask my friend, K, who told me he's been kicked out of Suquamish, but she is over in Seattle having surgery, then she is leaving to visit family. Tim used to post flyers all around inviting people to his doings.
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There is further info on Ghosthorse / Mattern on this forum, make sure to search from the home page http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php to find the full results. When searching online otherwise make sure to check both Ghosthorse and Ghost Horse as surname.
We know they were doing a lot of hurting to people. A lot of people wanted him out of state. Down here white people are always looking for something to try to make them Indian. They are what is considered New Agers. Ghost Horse and his crew “were doing acid and sending people out on their vision quests while they were tripping on LSD. They were paying $500 to get a vision quest like that.
http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=44.0 (http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=44.0)
Chad Mayo Ghost Horse
Chad says he was adopted as an infant, that he doesn't know his heritage, and that later he was adopted spiritually by Lakota Indian Buck Ghosthorse.
From Washington state court records:
Mayo, Chad Everett
Old Name E. Klickitat Distric CN-96-006 09-11-1996
Ghost Horse, Chad Mayo
New Name E. Klickitat Distric CN-96-006 09-11-1996
Search http://dw.courts.wa.gov/?fa=home.namesearchTerms
(http://dw.courts.wa.gov/?fa=home.namesearchTerms)
http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=2705.msg35267#msg35267 (http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=2705.msg35267#msg35267)
Paul Ghosthorse
Paul Ghosthorse says that his father Buck Ghosthorse grew up on Rosebud and had a Rosebud ID number, also that he didn't have a birth certificate because all the birth certificates at that location were lost in a fire.
http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=2705.15 (http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=2705.15)
Snohomish county records:
Document Detail
Instrument #: 9210160467
Date Filed: 10/16/1992 12:00:00 AM
Document Type: NAME CHANGE ORDER
Grantors
1 SAHAYDA PAUL PETER
Grantees
1 GHOST-HORSE PAUL PETER SAHAYDA
Search http://www.snoco.org/RecordedDocuments/RealEstate/SearchEntry.aspx (http://www.snoco.org/RecordedDocuments/RealEstate/SearchEntry.aspx)
J.R. Ghosthorse
Instrument #: 9404260646
Date Filed: 04/26/1994 12:00:00 AM
Document Type: NAME CHANGE ORDER
Grantors
1 FERNANDO BRUNO ARANDA JR
Grantees
1 GHOSTHORSE J R
http://www.snoco.org/RecordedDocuments/RealEstate/SearchDetail.aspx (http://www.snoco.org/RecordedDocuments/RealEstate/SearchDetail.aspx)
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Katy Ghosthorse
My name is Katy GhostHorse and I live in Goldendale, WA.
I live on 150 acres of land. The basis of who I am is rooted in the native traditions of the Lakota way and I live by these traditions 24/7. My father is a traditional elder and teaches these traditions that are dated back many thousands of years. My name, GhostHorse, is on the Wounded Knee Monument in South Dakota.
http://topmts.tripod.com/thephlyingphalanges/id1.html (http://topmts.tripod.com/thephlyingphalanges/id1.html)
Collection: Klickitat County Auditor, Miscellaneous Recordings
County: Klickitat
Auditor File Number: 259811
Document Type: NAME/CHANGE
Recording Date: 6/3/1997
Party Name: PIERONI, KATHLEEN BETH
Party Type: Name
Party Name: GHOSTHORSE, KATY KIMIMILA BETH
Party Type: New Name
http://dw.courts.wa.gov/index.cfm?fa=home.namesearchTerms (http://dw.courts.wa.gov/index.cfm?fa=home.namesearchTerms)
Pat Ghosthorse
Instrument #: 9405100561
Date Filed: 05/10/1994 12:00:00 AM
Document Type: NAME CHANGE ORDER
Grantors
1 RAMSEY PATRICIA LOUISE
Grantees
1 GHOSTHORSE PAT
http://www.snoco.org/RecordedDocuments/RealEstate/SearchEntry.aspx (http://www.snoco.org/RecordedDocuments/RealEstate/SearchEntry.aspx)
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Buck / Leonard changed his name in 1992:
Instrument #: 9210050173
Date Filed: 10/05/1992 12:00:00 AM
Document Type: NAME CHANGE ORDER
Grantors
1 MATTERN LEONARD ALBERT
Grantees
1 GHOSTHORSE BUCK
http://www.snoco.org/RecordedDocuments/RealEstate/SearchDetail.aspx (http://www.snoco.org/RecordedDocuments/RealEstate/SearchDetail.aspx)
He married Vicki in 1993, she was Vicki Lane Redd at the time, her surname from a prior marriage.
Vicki Ghosthorse
Vicki Ghost Horse, Lakota
Vicki Ghost Horse is of Scotch/Irish and Cherokee/Chickasaw heritage, and was raised within the white southern culture of family and church. She was an active member of Christian religion for 35 years, attended her first Sacred Pipe ceremony when she was 38 years old, and has lived the Red Road of Lakota tradition ever since.
“I was the wife of Sundance leader Buck Ghost Horse, who was also head Elder of Sungleska Oyate, until his death in 2007. I continue to be a gatherer and teacher of natural medicines and root foods of the Eastern Washington area, a water pourer, traditional singer, and helper within my extended family's ceremonies and Sundance.
http://www.hartwick.edu/academics/special-opportunities/annual-academic-theme/balance/native-balance/presenter-biographies (http://www.hartwick.edu/academics/special-opportunities/annual-academic-theme/balance/native-balance/presenter-biographies)
Her mother's obituary:
Mamie Elaine Barlow, 91, born October 1, 1922 passed away November 14, 2013. She is survived by her daughters that loved her, Vicki Ghost Horse and Susan Watson; her grandchildren that adored her, Brian Belcher, Douglas Belcher, Kelly Belcher Johnson, Holly Watson Conrad, Andy Watson, and Ryan Redd; as well as her thirteen great-grandchildren. Elain also leaves behind her wonderful Watter’s Road Family who meant so much to her.
She was preceded in death by her husband, William Dawson (Red) Barlow; and their oldest child, Sonja Gail Belcher; parents, Johnnie and Mamie Harrod; brothers, Jerrell Harrod, and Elgin Harrod; by her sister, Doris Sharp, and by many loving family and friends. A Memorial Service will be held at 10 am, Saturday, November 23, 2013, at Watters Road Church of Christ, 3616 Watters Road, Pasadena, Texas 77504.
http://www.obitsforlife.com/obituary/804222/Barlow-Mamie.php (http://www.obitsforlife.com/obituary/804222/Barlow-Mamie.php)
This obituary gives enough information for a genealogy work up. I've checked back to Vicki's great grandparents and am only seeing what she calls "white southern culture".
Vicki and Pat are still registered to vote at the Goldendale, WA land address. J.R. was also but is no longer. Katy is registered to vote elsewhere in Goldendale.
Sungleska Oyate still exists as a corporation and there were recent fund raising attempts. On the Goldendale land they have a Ghost Horse Family Cemetery http://www.duvallandmoore.com/notices/Tyler-Williams (http://www.duvallandmoore.com/notices/Tyler-Williams)
Matthew Fox, prominent in the New Age movement, one of Mattern's boosters, wrote in a piece about Mattern / Ghosthorse and his sundance that ".. I had a striking experience in which my Christian roots and my native roots (everyone imbibes Native American spirits on the land they have long inhabited) came crashing together." (Book titled Meister Eckhart: A Mystic-Warrior for Our Times)
All us white folks need to stop "imbibing" "Native American spirits". Living here does not give us permission to rip cultures off.
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This woman became ill at Ghosthorse ceremonies, she says she never recovered:
I'm compelling to tell my story. In 1998 a friend saw a sweatlodge along the
shore of Lake Michigan behind someone's house a couple of miles from my
house. She told me about it right away. I asked if she had talked to them.
She said, No, I thought you should. A few days later, I knocked at the door.
The woman opened it, took one look at me and said, "It took you long enough.
I've been waiting for you. Come in!"
My friends and family spent a long year studying with her and her husband.
They are from the Ghosthorse clan of the Lakota. The next year we also went
to Sundance at Uncle Buck Ghosthorse's place in Goldendale, WA. My now
ex-husband did his first Vision Quest there. The night he was on the hill,
I got the flu. My empathic nature tapped right into his Power animal at the
same time it appeared early on the last morning.
Later that day, I was the first of 30 women to go Moon. I was getting
sicker, fever, fluish.... I felt awful for a couple of days. Then I started
feeling a little better but I was up in the Moon camp the whole time the
dance was on. The bottom line is this, I never recovered.
A couple years later, my elders came to visit me in the nursing home. I'm
guessing it was Aug. or Sept. of 2002. I had a very wild, vivid dream time
for months in that place. I kept 'knowing' that I needed my Lakota name for
some reason. They heard me and came from NC. They gave me the teachings and
helped set it all up. It was very easy. I was given my name in dream time
complete with Spirits easily recognizable to them. My name is Bright Star.
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/mysslist/conversations/topics/52580 (https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/mysslist/conversations/topics/52580)
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The Buck Ghosthorse and Vicki Ghosthorse Trust of June 2006 was amended and restated in 2013.
http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/DigitalObject/View/E167C8A4F9F172F7CEAF2963241EE6FD (http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/DigitalObject/View/E167C8A4F9F172F7CEAF2963241EE6FD)
I am not an attorney and I don't have experience reading and understanding trust documents. But this sure looks like the trust has money, maybe even substantial.
Vicki Ghosthorse is the surviving initial co-trustee. Chad Everett Mayo is a co-trustee also.
Named in the trust documents are also Vicki's son Jeremy Ryan Redd, Paul Ghosthorse, his wife Harriet Inez Stockard-Ghosthorse, Chad's wife Amirra Malak, and Jenessa Ann West.
Disagreements are supposed to go to the "Spiritual Leader of Sungleska Oyate".
Any beneficiary or heir who contests the trust, impairs, or seeks to conspire with others to do so, is given one dollar and sent on their way.
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Our History
In 1952 our Spiritual Elder had a vision of teaching all races of people about his people, culture and spiritual way of living day to day life on what is called Canku Luta. THE RED ROAD.
Some years later in approximatly, 1970, at the age of 30, he started to travel and help his Elder and Uncle W. Black Elk as he and his wife, Grace Spotted Eagle traveled the USA speaking and teaching about Lakota way of being.
In 1986 or so, He and his wife moved to Monroe Washington, and started to teach all who would listen to them, about this way. Buck had met many people accross the USA during travel with his Elders and the First Tiospye was formed in Monroe. By 1990 , Tiospyes existed in California, Washington, Oregon, North Carolina, Minnesota, and by 1999 also in New York State, New Mexico, Alaska, and members or family were in some 30 states. The actual founding Tiospye was in The Bay Area of California.
Members of the New Nation, Sungleska Oyate, formed the nation in around 1999. The total of people now involved are unsure as Native people dont count people, they are not live stock. However there are some 700 individual Families with many single members involved.
The current ethnic make up in some 15% Native American, 45% mixed blood, 2% African American, 1% Asian American, and 27% White or caucasian Americans. The form of Government is a Traditional form, with an Elders Council.
Many people who are in this large extended family have some 25 or so years on this road. Members, family people, are doctors, lawyers, plumbers, carpenters, electricians, musicians, artists, cab drivers,School teachers, Contractors, Architects, movie documentary makers, about whatever you can think for a nation to have in it, is here.
Since 1993 the nation has sponsored and ran 15 SunDances, many ceremonies country wide, teaching and childrens seminars, plus voters registration, public service programs, members have served on various Civic association panels and boards, served on boards in various county governments, and ran the Democrat party in Goldendale, WA for some three years.
The Oyate has a long, proud history and one which will grow with time.
Hau mitakuye oyasin
https://web.archive.org/web/20100310101800/http://www.sungleska.org/pages/history.php (https://web.archive.org/web/20100310101800/http://www.sungleska.org/pages/history.php)
Their web sites are not that active now. http://sungleska.org/ (http://sungleska.org/) http://www.sungleska.com/ (http://www.sungleska.com/)They do have up a map image with their plans to stage water for possible fire needs, enacting the plan apparently reliant on what donations they bring in for it. Really, water safety set up for this land and any use of fire should have been put in place long ago.
The image is also interesting because it shows a ceremonial type construction.
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Paul Ghosthorse videos have been recently advertised on Twitter by the company that created them.
At a November 2014 event at a North Carolina college Paul lectured on the "ways and virtues of the Lakota people". Sungleska Oyate performed songs.
https://m.facebook.com/events/644838332289094/
http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=2705.0
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Leonard Albert Mattern Jr was born in 1942, Pennsylvania. http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=3760.msg41263#msg41263 He legally changed his name to Buck Ghosthorse in 1992, Washington state.
Before he moved to WA, he lived in Florida. He used variations of "Leonard A Mattern Jr", "Buck Mattern", "Leonard Buck Mattern".
Leonard Albert Mattern Jr. (aka Buck Ghosthorse) was an active KKK member.
He participated in the infighting that is common in racist groups. He was part of a breakaway group that then affiliated with a right wing militia cult group led by John R. Harrell out of Illinois, Christian Patriots Defense League.
In the spring of 1980 some robed klansmen violently raided this breakaway group, Leonard Mattern Jr. (LM) was present. This event was splashed all over the news and LM is often quoted and mentioned in these articles.
I'll upload newspaper clips through a series of posts here. I stumbled across this story through research at newspapers.com - check for variations on his name in Florida, there are quite a few articles.
Something I noticed about LM when he was "Buck Ghosthorse" in WA is that he was a "letter to the editor" guy. He regularly sent in letters about local and national politics. Turns out he also did this back when he lived in Florida. But those letters had a different theme.
This clip is "To compare Klan to Nazis is pure bigotry" by Leonard A Mattern Jr, Sentinel Star, Orlando FL, 25 July 1978
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Here he is in spring 1979, "KKK said church members, act civicly" by "L.A. 'Buck' Mattern".
Also included are other examples of his letters to editor.
The FBI already knew he was a klan member, since at least 1969 https://archive.org/stream/COINTELPROMiami/157-MM-1114-v-8-ARC-ID-5540791_djvu.txt
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Uploaded here are clips on the 1980 KKK brawl.
"Buck Mattern, a diminutive former Klansman with dark, slicked back hair"
"Mattern, a 14-year Klan veteran who quit"
Tampa Tribune, 19 Sept 1980
LM claimed that the new group he was joining was not white supremacist, but it was. LM had moved from robed KKK to violent militia in jeans.
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"I don't think they were there for killing us. They just wanted to scare us. If they had wanted to kill us all, it would have been nothing to it," said Leonard A. Mattern, 32.
Mattern said he was a Klan member 12 years ago and that the hooded raiders disrupted an organizational meeting of the Christian Patriots."
News Press, 6 March 1980
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Letters to the editor as Leonard Buck Mattern, then as Buck GhostHorse.
LM claimed military service as a Marine. I think he was a Marine, a 1965 clip uploaded here lists a Cpl Leonard A Mattern, Jr. The age is right for our LM.
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After the KKK / right wing militia brawl, LM transformed himself into "Buck Ghost Horse".
In 1997, one of his followers Paul Sahadya / Paul Ghost Horse (http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=2705.0) wrote a letter to the editor:
It always bothers me when I see the KKK use the symbol of a circle with a cross through the center.
This is an ancient American Indian symbol describing the unity and balance of creation.
That they could steal it, call it their own and pervert its meaning does damage to all those native people who identify with its true meaning and not the ugly racist distortion created by small minds. Hetchtu yelo - mitakuye oyasin (we are all related).
Paul Ghost Horse
Black Mountain
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LM publicly reinvented himself as "Buck Ghost Horse" the "medicine man". He earned a lot of media coverage.
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"He touts the truths of American Indian"
"Every type of disease I've seen has been cured in a sweat lodge, including AIDS and cancer, but the person has to believe God can cure you."
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"Without reservation, holyman follows his chosen profession"
"The dreams began when the boy was still living on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota."
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LM gathered followers as he moved from Florida to Washington state. Including from a commune in Alabama, Hawkwind Earth Renewal Cooperative.
Uncle Buck Ghosthorse came and took a huge crew back to Washington with him to build a community.
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1658897310810887&id=105389309495036
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Available online National Archives is Record Group 65: Records of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1896 - 2008, Series:
Classification 157 (Civil Unrest) Case Files, 1957 - 1978, File Unit: Miami, [Florida] - 157-1114-v.8 [Classification - Civil Unrest]
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/5540791 (the document may take quite awhile to load, downloading in .pdf form worked better for me)
There are at least 23 mentions of Mattern in these documents. I've not read the whole thing yet, but have uploaded here a few clips.
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The Christian Patriots Defense League that Mattern was part of after leaving the Klan was white supremacist, anti Semitic, survivalist, with a persecution complex claiming the gov't and society are out to destroy Christians. They claimed white Americans were the chosen people, not Jews. They were also a paramilitary militia, with gun clubs and training for an end times they imagine will come soon.
So the timeline is early mid 60s he was a Marine. After leaving, he's with United Klans for 14 years. Then he's with CPDL for perhaps 3-6 years.
At that point he begins his impersonation. There's a lot of obvious parallels with Asa Carter, the KKK leader who became Forrest Carter and posed as a Cherokee author, lying that his ancestors were on the Trail of Tears.
Both cases also show that journalists and publishers can be very gullible, not do any research when someone panders to what they wish was true, and they have no actual NDNs around. Claiming to be a priest of the "American Indian Church"? Claiming that this paler version of Willie Nelson with vaguer hippie talk was a fullblood Lakota medicine man?
The last thing both men do is show the thin line between white supremacy and culture theft. I've seen fans of Carter's book claim he had some kind of change of heart. I'm sure Mattern's cult and his "adopted sons" will claim the same. But no, claiming that whites have the "right" to steal Native identity, beliefs, and practices is just as white supremacist as KKK beliefs. It's just a more elaborate spiritual colonialism, a way for whites to assuage their guilt over their ancestors stealing Native land.
The Hawkwind Earth Renewal Cooperative that his cult began as part of has ties to some other frauds. "Mary Thunder" endorses them as allies. Also Charla Thomas/Tarwater of the Bear Tribe cult. She co founded HERC along with "Reverend" Charla Herman, who now run an alchemy academy.
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Wow, Piff! This guy was hiding in plain sight! God catch. Thanks for the hard work you do to expose frauds.
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Wow, Piff! This guy was hiding in plain sight! God catch. Thanks for the hard work you do to expose frauds.
:) I was using a news archive site I'd not used before, then decided to idly run other fraud names through while I had access. Never expected to find anything like this.
I've read through FBI surveillance/ counter intelligence documents covering about a year of UKA (United Klans of America, Inc., Knights of the Ku Klux Klan) activity in Florida. Mattern was noted as attending 20 some UKA meetings during that time, his first in August 1969. He easily could have attended even more, I don't think surveillance covered everything.
His FBI case file was 1-157-3165.
Mattern was a Kladd of the local unit - a Klan member responsible for initiating new members and conducting other ceremonies. He participated in public cross burnings. He attended a state conference. At one point he served as acting EC (Exalted Cyclops) for the local unit / klavern.
The surveillance details so much arguing and infighting. Everyone armed, explicitly racist and antisemitic. Klan members debated whether to use polygraph or "truth serum" on each other. Klan members brought charges against each other in meetings, Mattern himself worked to get several people kicked out, then later joined a splinter group. The FBI worked to exploit the natural divisiveness.
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For background info, here are two clips about the group Mattern joined after the Klan. Mattern told the press that John R. Harrell's Christian Patriots Defense League was not white supremacist, but obviously it was. Mattern was outright lying.
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"Without reservation, holyman follows his chosen profession"
"Ghost Horse is slim and spare of words, with handsome, chiseled features and a strangely anachronistic, frontier quality. Were it not for the braids in his hair, he would look less like an Indian than like the cavalry captain in a western movie who rides to the rescue of white settlers."
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2011:
In the blazing heat of summer Annalee and I flew across the country to Sungleska Oyate, a huge swath of high desert in Central Washington State. Sungleska Oyate is the spiritual home to the 800 members of the Ghost Horse extended family, or tiospaye, many of who gather for two weeks every July for the sun dance. Buck had passed on a few years ago, and his son Paul Ghost Horse was accorded the leadership of the family’s ceremonial life.
We landed in Portland, Oregon, and were driven several hours east along the Columbia River, the north to the desert home of Sungleska Oyate and a beautiful painted tepee.
A short walk from us, under the bright starlight, was a ghostly sight: four men, pierced in ceremony that morning, lying on the dance ground, a bone skewer under the flesh of each breast, the skewers to be tethered to the sun dance tree each scorching day and each cold night.
Annalee and I were invited there to be doctored by animal helpers, especially the bear, as well as other spirits and medicines, all invoked through song and dance, and the intercession of the sun dance leader, Paul Ghost Horse. The first morning, Paul’s step-mother, Vicki Ghost Horse, said that I too should be doctored for my neuropathy, brought on by a skirmish with a rabid bad and a nasty reaction to the vaccine. And so, as we sat under the arbor surrounding the dance field, a Helper brought two bear skins, and draped them over Annalee and me. The bear faces covered our faces, their front legs, our arms, and their rear legs, our legs. My bear’s claws were nearly as long as my fingers, the paw resting on the back of my hand, a friendly gesture, I thought.
Vicki said we were to let the bear medicine take us to the “renewable center of creation.” We were to focus on ourselves as we were before we got hurt, in our best, younger bodies, and envision becoming that pain-free, happy self again. Paul instructed us to “look for when and why the problem started: ask the bear to give that.”
We might fall asleep, Vicki said. Fine. In the middle of drumming and singing, wrapped in a bearskin in 100-degree heat, under a relentless sun beating down on the arbor’s cedar bows, in the afternoon shade, we did fall asleep. We would wear the robes for three days, drifting between dance and dreamtime.
I scanned the 200 or so people sitting, standing, dancing in a sway, under the arbor.
I caught a shifting of one bearskin and saw Paul’s profile, thickly crusted and coated in brick-red clay; this was Red Man, emerging. Red Man is the spirit who possesses him, and in exchange for being in this world, Red Man brings his powers of healing.
In time, a Helper handed me a paper cup with a tea-brown liquid. I asked what it was. “Medicine,” he said. “Drink it.”
More https://web.archive.org/web/20171012230507/http://www.fusionmagazine.org/dance-looking-at-the-sun/
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Uploaded here is copy of the legal name change in 1992 from Leonard Albert Mattern to Buck GhostHorse.
Also his death certificate. Vicki, his wife, was the informant, she inaccurately stated that he was "Native American Indian".
Accurately stated on the death certificate is that Mattern was born in PA (not SD as he claimed), also the name of his parents.
Genealogy http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=3760.msg41264#msg41264
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Mattern's death certificate (under his name Buck Ghost Horse) includes his social security #. I paid for a Florida rap sheet on him , using that ss #, his birth date, and his original name Leonard Albert Mattern Jr.
Same guy, same ss #, same birthdate.
Yes, he was white.
Height 5'06", weight 132, eyes hazel, hair brown. Scar/mark on chin and near right eye. Occupation : cable splicer.
AKA Buck Mattern.
1973 he had a misdemeanor traffic charge. March 3, 1980 the carrying concealed firearm charge.
(Shortly after the Klan brawl and arrest, his third wife divorced him, petition on May 27, 1973.)
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Vicki B Ghosthorse listed her race as "I" for Indian on her WA state driver's license. I think she is in Oregon now and assume she has continued this habit there.
My Mattern public records request to FBI was denied. But we already have plenty on his Klan activities - some FBI surveillance and newspaper reports.
I have a request in for his military file also, even a summary will help.
This is in his paid obit:
In 1962, he joined the Marine Corps and served two duties in Vietnam. He received purple hearts and a Silver Star for his bravery there and ended his nine year stay in the Marine Corps as a drill instructor at Paris Island.
If he was in the Marines for 9 years, starting in 1962, he would be just leaving around 1971. But the FBI had him and others under surveillance in Florida in 1969. I've not found any sign that he was on a three year tour as a DI at Parris Island, SC.
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Drills serve for 2 years in the army, 3 in the Marines. You have to make sergeant, an E5, to be one. To become a sergeant after only 5 years would be difficult but not impossible. Being a DS or DI is not esp noteworthy. Every sergeant is expected to become either a DS/DI or a recruiter.
I'm wondering if Mattern joined the KKK while still in service. Wouldn't be the first, or the first to be kicked out for that reason. It's become standard practice for militias now to join to get military training or try to get access to weapons and explosives. Might not yet have become common at that time.
Haven't found any other accounts claiming he had the Silver Star. Him being a Marine, he might have been awarded the Navy Cross instead.
There was a Larry Mattern awarded it, but not Leonard. Larry was from Saegertown PA. Perhaps a relative?
http://www.homeofheroes.com/members/04_SS/5_RVN/citations/marines/m.html
Found this account claiming Mattern got a (one) purple heart. Also claiming to have been kidnapped by Mormons as a boy.
https://books.google.com/books?id=widVy77KqFwC&pg=PA84&lpg=PA84&dq=%22buck+ghosthorse%22+purple+heart&source=bl&ots=6oSbOUE9sT&sig=g0T2DT8hMX0EFahnzLcvuG9OBwg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJnqb-4sXXAhXCSyYKHZH-Bx0Q6AEITjAH#v=onepage&q=%22buck%20ghosthorse%22%20purple%20heart&f=false
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Drills serve for 2 years in the army, 3 in the Marines. You have to make sergeant, an E5, to be one. To become a sergeant after only 5 years would be difficult but not impossible. Being a DS or DI is not esp noteworthy. Every sergeant is expected to become either a DS/DI or a recruiter.
His followers make a big deal out of Mattern's claim to be a DI. Very helpful to know the facts on DI service. My guess is that his followers have made lots of excuses for him, including for abusive behavior, maybe by trying to explain it away with his military service.
There was a Larry Mattern awarded it, but not Leonard. Larry was from Saegertown PA. Perhaps a relative?
http://www.homeofheroes.com/members/04_SS/5_RVN/citations/marines/m.html
I think our Leonard Albert Mattern Jr was an only child, so this probably isn't a brother. Could be a cousin, I've not done the genealogy in depth. Mattern looks to be a relatively common surname in Pennsylvania.
Found this account claiming Mattern got a (one) purple heart. Also claiming to have been kidnapped by Mormons as a boy.
https://books.google.com/books?id=widVy77KqFwC&pg=PA84&lpg=PA84&dq=%22buck+ghosthorse%22+purple+heart&source=bl&ots=6oSbOUE9sT&sig=g0T2DT8hMX0EFahnzLcvuG9OBwg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJnqb-4sXXAhXCSyYKHZH-Bx0Q6AEITjAH#v=onepage&q=%22buck%20ghosthorse%22%20purple%20heart&f=false
This is by the New Age luminary Matthew Fox, he's written quite a bit about Mattern. Mattern and his then wife worked for 3 years at Fox's school before they came up to WA. Fox is totally enamored of Mattern. Most likely he uses his stories of Mattern still in his curriculum. https://www.foxinstitute-cs.org/ http://www.matthewfox.org/ Mattern and Fox knew each other for 20 plus years, Fox attended the funeral in WA.
Mattern changed his biography several times. At one time he said he had been an orphaned Lakota boy and then raised by a white Anglican couple. At others he said he had been kidnapped by Mormons. He said birth records of being born in SD were not available because they had been destroyed in a fire.
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Here's the timeline I have so far. Note that he apparently married at least 5 times, I list their names as M, L, A, Donna, and Vicki. Donna died in 1989, Vicki is his widow. For his first 3 marriages he listed himself as white.
10 March, 1942, born, Aliquippa Beaver county (Pittsburgh area) PA. Parents and grandparents all white in all records.
1951, birthday in society news, PA
27 April 1962, News Journal, engagement to M, she in high school, he a graduate of Mt Pleasant Senior High and employed by the Mar-Bet Barber Shop
31 Oct 1963, News Journal, Leonard A Mattern Jr. Pfc in First Marine Division, Hawaii, parents at 2106 Lincoln Ave
6 May 1964, Mrs and Mr Leonard A Mattern Jr have a son May 6, Hawaii
1965 Cpl, Hawaii, in taxi crash with others, Leonard A Mattern, 22
1965 address in Polk's Directory Honolulu: h926 Lunalilo apt 6, Honolulu, Hawaii, occupation US Marine Corps, spouse M
1968 Dec marriage, FL, to L
FBI surveillance on FL Klan activities, Leonard /Buck Mattern included
May 1972 tax issues, assessed for 1971, unpaid balance due
May 1972, divorce from L, Leonard Albert Mattern Jr., Miami
27 May 1973 marriage to A, he listed white, Miami-Dade FL
1976 sued for child support by L
late 1970s, public klan member
March 1980 big Klan fight public, Leonard Mattern referred to as a 14 yr Klan member
3 March charged with concealed weapon, case dismissed 31 Aug 1980
24 June 1980, divorce FL A and Leonard A Mattern Jr
August 1983 Leonard Albert Mattern, Sr died, Kissimmee, Leonard Jr in Kissimmee FL
Fall 1985 Wanzi Cante
Florida Not For Profit Corporation
20 Oct 1985 Leonard A Mattern Jr and D marry, FL, he listed as Indian
1986 more media
Red Nations Sacred Way published
7 July 1987 The Cincinnati Enquirer "As a faculty member of the Institute of Culture and Creation Spirituality in Oakland, Calif., Horse travels throughout the country to conduct Native American rituals."
1988 Snohomish county, WA real estate
24 Nov 1989, wife Donna dies
9 July 1991, Medicine Men for Rent by Avis Little Eagle in Lakota Times, states that Mattern/Ghost Horse is a fraud
5 Oct 1992 changes his name legally to Buck Ghost Horse, Snohomish county, WA
16 Oct 1992 Paul Peter Sahadya legally changes his name to Paul Ghost Horse, Snohomish county WA
1993 included in the "Phony Indians" story by Tim Giago
March 1993, marriage to Vicki Lane Redd, Snohomish county, WA
1994 land purchase Klickitat county, WA
Sungleska Oyata incorporation
2006 Goldendale land put into Buck Ghost Horse and Vicki Ghost Horse Trust of June 2006
05 March 2007 Leonard Albert Mattern Jr/ Buck Ghost Horse dies
2011 mother Maxine Mattern dies, FL
2013 Buck Ghost Horse and Vicki Ghost Horse Trust of June 2006 amended
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His FBI case file was 1-157-3165.
I posted this earlier in the thread, turns out it is not entirely accurate. There likely would not be just one number for all files on Mattern. FBI HQ and FBI Field Offices keep separate files with separate file numbers. For that specific set of records this file number is consistent, don't know what he is listed under in other records.
In that set of documents there is a direction to prepare "non-prosecutive Summary Reports" on the Klan officials, that would include Mattern.
A Klan group Mattern was a member of, United Klans of America Inc, was very violent. It's leader was Robert Shelton, he left the Air Force and then became the Imperial Wizard of the UKA, which was made up of several merged Klan groups. Members are responsible for a 1963 church bombing in Birmingham AL that killed four girls and injured 22 others. In 1965, members also murdered Viola Liuzzo, a white civil rights worker. This happened before Mattern was caught up in FBI surveillance, he would have known about these events, yet he continued to participate.
I'm keeping an eye out for any mention of military members, so far have only found the clip uploaded here, FBI considering whether a new Klan recruit is a former Marine.
Asa Carter and Leonard Albert Mattern Jr have some things in common, though Mattern was not a successful writer. I don't know if Asa Carter cultivated such a large family cult like Mattern did. According to an essay in the book Fake Identity? The Imposter Narrative in North American Culture, Asa in his pretendian guise still used racist slurs in casual conversation, don't know if Mattern did.
From that essay concerning Asa:
He went from stepping on the downtrodden to uplifting the downtrodden, but it turns out the message is basically the same. It's a universal message he's preaching. It appealed to liberals, appealed to conservatives. And it's kind of the way you put the icing on it.
The kind of populism Carter exhibited, both as Forrest and as Asa - anti-government, extolling a people's connection to their land - played well to both countercultural commune dwellers and resentful neo-Confederates.
In both guises - Klan/militia and pretendian - Mattern got to do the same performances. Secrets revealed to the chosen ones, ceremonies, rituals, costumes, sacred altars, hierarchy, he positioned as an authority and expert. He positioned as a rebel determined to reveal the good news to the masses. A reluctant messiah, he said he didn't want to work with white people and give them indigenous teachings initially, but a vision and elders told him too.
So his followers could feel extra special, they were getting the good secret stuff from the real deal.
As a Klan member he could enjoy the fact that there was opposition. As a pretendian he could make use of the legitimate protests against what he was doing, he used this as supposed evidence that he and his followers were extra special being sacred against all odds. He could use this as a way to keep his cult followers bound to him.
Mattern has died but the cult mentality lives on, there looks to be a personality cult around Paul Sahayda /Ghosthorse. I don't know how much Paul calls upon this, if he is mostly only active during the summer sundance or if he is active year round including from his home in NC.
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Their nonprofit is active:
Business Name:
SUNGLESKA OYATE
UBI Number:
602 450 391
Business Type:
WA NONPROFIT CORPORATION
Business Status:
ACTIVE
Principal Office Street Address:
649 GARRISON RD, GOLDENDALE, WA, 98620-2302, UNITED STATES
Principal Office Mailing Address:
Expiration Date:
11/30/2018
Jurisdiction:
UNITED STATES, WASHINGTON
Formation/ Registration Date:
11/24/2004
Period of Duration:
PERPETUAL
Inactive Date:
Nature of Business:
NON-PROFIT ORG TASKED WITH RAISING FUNDS FOR THE CONTINUED SUPPORT OF NATIVE SPIRITUAL TEACHERS AND SUPPORT OF THOSE TEACHING CULTURAL ACTIVITIES OR SUPPORTING ORGS THAT SUPPORT THOSE GOALS.
Registered agent is Amy Thurman of Aberdeen, WA.
President is Stephen C. Pierren of New Hope, MN.
Treasurer Kayte Maxton-Landis of Portland, OR.
Secretary Amy Thurman
Info from search done here: https://ccfs.sos.wa.gov/#/AdvancedSearch
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Two other names come up for Sungleska Oyate. One guy seems to make a living off being their storyteller.
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/wayne-york-57698b6b/
Wayne York
STORYTELLER / ARTIST
Ridgefield, Washington
Dates EmployedJul 2004 – Present Employment Duration14 yrs 1 mo
Became storyteller to the Sungleska Oyate by accident when I told couple stories to Uncle Buck grandson
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Ben Rhodd only shows up connected to them once, raising funds for them.
https://mountainx.com/blogwire/native-american-elder-ben-rhodd-speaks-on-traditional-spirituality-nov-28/
Jubilee! Community Church will host Native American archeologist and environmental resource manager Ben Rhodd for a lecture on traditional native American spiritual beliefs on Saturday, November 28 from 2 p.m. until 4 p.m., according to a press release.
Rhodd, a Traditional Belief Practitioner of the Sacred Pipe of the Lakota and follower of the Bahai faith, will cover such topics as indigenous star knowledge, Creation stories from various native perspectives and how traditional beliefs can be applied to contemporary living.
A sliding scale donation of five dollars and up is required to attend. All donations go to benefit the nonprofit organization Sungleska Oyate.
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Although he died in 2007, several of his students continue on.
Including Sarah Maclean Bicknell:
Sarah MacLean Bicknell is a healer, teacher, and mentor. She has studied healing and ceremonial work in North American indigenous traditions for 30 years. She has incorporated her Celtic roots into her present North American practice and is sought out for her intuitive readings, workshops, ceremony, and her soul doctoring practice. She stands in deep gratitude to her elders and teachers that have gone before and stands firmly in her own vision, a vision that is related and crafted for these times of the 21st century. Her work is about connection, community, ceremony, and respect. Also raised in the Western world, she has lived the loss of disconnection and is profoundly thankful to her indigenous elders who taught her how to re-arrive more fully into her life.
In 1991, Sarah was adopted by ceremony into the Ghost Horse, Hunka Waye, Lakota Nation. She stands in deep honor to her elder council/mentors and ceremonial collaborators which over the years have been Adalberto Rivera (Maya), Wallace Black Elk, Buck Ghosthorse (Lakota), Paul Ghosthorse, Rod Mcafee, Vicky Ghosthorse (Sungleska), Grandmother Red Leaf (Cherokee), Donna Carlita, Hernando Salazar (Inca, Peru), Silvia Calisaya Chuquimia (Aymarra, Lake Titicaca), Youseff Bashir (Berber, N. Africa), Betsy Bergstrom (NW coastal, Norse, Scottish), Francesca Boring (Shoshone, N Native European), Harold Blood, Carolyn Hillier, K.Trevelyan (N Native European), Stephan Hausner (Germany), and to the many around the world that she has sat, dreamed, and stood in ceremony with.
https://www.facebook.com/events/312755472688921/
Her nonprofit corporation The Night Turtle Dance Foundation: http://www.turtledance.org/
https://www.wildernessawareness.org/about/biographies/sarah
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-maclean-bicknell-7a74051b
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This group "Sungleska Oyate" Washington state, USA nonprofit organization, is still active.
Listed on corporation docs:
Amy Thurman
Kathryn Maxson-Landis
Stephen Pierren
A recent check via google maps of the land address 649 Garrison Rd, Goldendale Washington shows that they currently have tipis and arbors up for their summer sun dance. Images uploaded here.
Their members are aging and some have obits posted online, for instance Dr. Arthur Clarence Horn, Jr.:
A member of the Men's Society of the Sungleska Oyate, Art was devoted to the path of the "Red Road".
https://spa-convention.org/2021/03/15/in-memoriam/
archived https://web.archive.org/web/20210316034734/https://spa-convention.org/2021/03/15/in-memoriam/
Matthew Fox continues to profit by promoting "my Lakota friend" Buck Ghosthorse and this group. He continues to whitesplain the "Native American tradition" that supposedly all Indigenous people adhere too.
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The Washington state nonprofit Sungleska Oyate is still active.
The Buck & Vicki Ghosthorse Trust still owns the property at 649 Garrison Rd, Goldendale, Washington.
Satellite photos show a maintained sundance circle on property.
The group has a cemetery on the property, there may be more internments than the two listed here: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2587934/ghost-horse-family-cemetery
Paul Peter Sahadya/ Ghosthorse, at least as of 2019, still identifies as "a descendant of Genghis Khan, was reared by a Native American elder in South Dakota". https://www.secufamilyhouse.org/news/guest-spotlight-the-ghosthorse-family
Their Sungleska Oyate nonprofit past treasurer Dr. Arthur Clarence Horn Jr died in 2020 https://www.ashevilleareaalternative.com/obituary/Arthur-HornJr .
Several of this group have settled in the general Asheville, NC area. Including their spiritual leader Paul Peter Sahadya/Ghosthorse. I don't know if Paul is still alive.
Because several members legally changed their surnames to Ghosthorse in the past, there are now children and possibly grandchildren with that surname. Some of those children appear to believe that they were born into a Lakota lineage.
The lies of Leonard Albert Mattern Jr/Buck Ghosthorse (former KKK member) are still passed around, believed, and some in the new age biz continue to use their own connection as a claim to special spirituality.
I'm curious if Paul Ghosthorse has died, if so has a successor been appointed? Has this group returned to holding summer events in Goldendale, WA? Do those living in NC meet for events?
More on Paul Peter Sahayda AKA Paul Ghosthorse and other members http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=2705.0
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The fraudulent cult continues on.
One of the members Fernando Bruno Aranda Jr, who changed his name legally to J.R. Ghosthorse, died in 2024. Two of his children have the surname Ghosthorse.
His obituary makes it clear that he never left this active group.
J.R. Ghosthorse, Fernando Bruno Aranda Jr, age 61, transitioned peacefully, on November 19, 2024.
One-of-a-kind spirit, relative, and Warrior; a Sundancer who suffered for the people and helped many. J.R. was our best friend, father, son, brother, cousin, he made everyone laugh, cry, feel loved even in the darkest times. You are a light that ripples through time, Space Pirate.
Soar high and free. There is no death, just a changing of worlds. We are grateful to carry the stories and wisdom you passed on. May you visit often and guard over those who love you. Let the ancestors welcome you home, safe travels and much love on your journey.
J.R. is survived by his children; Dominique Rae Longton, Justin Ray Aranda, Sydney Rae Ghosthorse and Jetta Lee Ghosthorse. His grandchildren, Jaiden Bender, Gunner Longton, and Stella Longton. His mother, BJ Tankersley. Brother, Patrick Regino Aranda, sister, Johnnie Lee Aranda Somerville (Robert Allen Somerville) and nephew, Mason Jay Aranda. Hunka siblings; Paul Ghosthorse, Chad Ghosthorse, and Starr Lilli Martinez-Mize.
Wopila Pilamaya, Thank you to all the Sundance family, friends and family. Mitakuye Oyasin
https://www.blueridge-funeral-service.com/memorials/jr-ghosthorse/5514970/#tribute-book-event
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The land at 649 Garrison Rd, Goldendale WA is still owned by the Buck & Vicki Ghosthorse Trust.
Satellite images show that their ceremony grounds are kept maintained.
Their main public promoter, Matthew Fox ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Fox_(priest) ) wrote this in 2023:
... I danced my latest Sun Dance among the Lakota community in Goldendale, Washington.
That Sun Dance community was originally created by my friend and co-worker Buck Ghosthorse. I was given those sacred feathers to pray with at the Sun Dance and afterwards they were mailed to me as a gift by the wife of one of the leaders (a son of Buck who is now passed). She is from Egypt.
I carry that Sun Dance (and others) with me always and I pray with them regularly especially when I pray to the four directions.
https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2023/06/28/a-solstice-photo-and-story-shared-from-the-camino-part-i/
The leader he refers to is Chad Mayo, who legally changed his name to Chad Ghosthorse. His wife is Amirra Malak, an artist who identifies as "mixed egyptian-euro ancestry". Neither of them are members of a federally enrolled tribe, neither of them would have a permit. Leonard Mattern/Buck Ghosthorse didn't when he was alive. Neither does Matthew Fox now.
Possession of Eagle Feathers and Parts by Native Americans Fact Sheet https://www.fws.gov/sites/default/files/documents/PossessionOfEagleFeathersFactSheet.pdf
Matthew Fox promotes the fraud of Buck Ghosthorse through out his blog:
And I am thinking of my friend and colleague Buck Ghosthorse, who came back from the Vietnam war deeply wounded in soul, but who recovered his Native American spiritual practices thanks to Wallace Black Elk, and devoted his life to healing others.
https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2024/11/11/veterans-day-2024/
https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2022/04/03/buck-ghosthorse-a-personal-story-of-indigenous-kidnapping%ef%bf%bc/
Matthew Fox actively promotes the myth, he participates in ceremonies, I believe it is safe to say that he is a cult member.
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I've listened to the first 30 minutes so far.
Storytime With Jan: How I met Buck Ghosthorse
January 28, 2022 • 48 mins
Jan and Karen talk about when Jan met Buck Ghosthorse and began her learnings in the Lakota way of ceremonies and shamanism.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/256-shamanism-a-21st-century-a-30941199/episode/storytime-with-jan-how-i-met-92177367/
Jan is Jan Engels-Smith https://www.lightsong.net/about/jan-engels-smith/
http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=5446.0
Jan Engels-Smith says her Lightsong School is part of or related to the Ghosthorse group. She says she continues the teachings.
Within the last few years she did some sort of virtual ceremony with Paul Ghosthorse.
She was recruited by the group when at an event in Portland Oregon. She for 2 years attended Buck's Saturday night talks, that were rambling affairs that could go on til midnight.
She helped build and operate the fraud sweat lodges.
When she first met Buck he informed her that she was not allowed to wear pants in his presence. She immediately changed to a skirt. He had very strict rules which were excused by the fact that he had been in the military. He traveled in an entourage of about 7 entitled people. Hosting them required a lot of work.
Buck recruited Jan. He scolded her, yelled, and even slapped her at times. She relates all this now as something she is completely fine with. Implied is that she has been well trained and is special.
During ceremonies she was not allowed to lift her gaze from the ground. She was praised for responding submissively to any harsh actions.
Buck called her "little slave girl". Jan laughs about this.
Jan's generalizations about Native American elders are racist: according to her they are "right brained folks" that are "off talking to the trees".
Jan says she was gifted with songs that she uses in her own group.
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Earlier discussion containing Medicine Men for Rent by Avis Little Eagle Lakota Times Jul 9, 1991:
www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=44.msg91#msg91
In a note in that thread one of his wives Donna A. “Sincereray” Scott Mattern is mentioned. Her Find a Grave memorial includes an upload of her death certificate. R.I.P. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/185697718/donna_arthurine_arthura_mattern
More of Avis Little Eagle's work can be found in this book "Visions of an enduring people : a reader in Native American studies". Get a free account with Internet Archive in order to borrow book and access it all. https://archive.org/details/visionsofendurin0000unse/mode/2up
From the article Prophets for Profit:
"Mr. Two Elk said Buck Ghost Horse's ex-wife, Donna, charged him with child molestation."
"Most of his vision quest interpretation comes from cowboy and Indian comic books."
Buck Ghost Horse also used the names Ghost Bear or Two Bulls.
Claimed to be Hunkpapa Sioux and also a Sicangu Sioux.
Neither office of enrollment had records supporting his claims.
Claimed he was an ordained minister of the Methodist Indian Church of Los Angeles. Signed himself as Reverend Buck Ghost Horse.
He regularly scammed people with a "Healing Light Ceremony". This ran about 3 hours beginning at sunset. There was an admission price. Participants described as white, from ages 12 to 40.
He used pipes, crystals, points, feather fans, fire. He scared people by claiming that a horrible cleansing was coming very soon and that people should turn to true teachers (such as himself) to save them.
He used readings from Edgar Cayce.