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Research Needed / Re: john joseph littlebird
« Last post by Sandy S on October 19, 2025, 07:46:15 pm »
In 1910 one of his direct ancestors was described as a "citizen" in a news article.

The Indian Citizenship Act did not pass until 1924.

I encourage him to get professional genealogy done, with a specialist in New Mexican and related genealogy/history.
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Research Needed / Re: Don Trent Jacobs / Four Arrows / Wahinkpe Topa - Restoring the Kinship Worldview
« Last post by Sandy S on October 19, 2025, 02:14:33 pm »
"Ph.D from Columbia Pacific University"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Trent_Jacobs

"Columbia Pacific University (CPU) was a distance learning school in California. It was founded in 1978 and closed by California court order in 2000"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pacific_University

"As an Irish man" - from his ancestor surnames it is an easy guess he does have Irish heritage. But he's neglecting all the German and French.

He was born in 1946, Missouri.
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Research Needed / Re: Don Trent Jacobs / Four Arrows / Wahinkpe Topa - Restoring the Kinship Worldview
« Last post by Sandy S on October 19, 2025, 02:00:26 pm »
"His great grandmother was adopted by a white family in Missouri after escaping from the Trail of Tears, according to family history and an old photo, but he had no exposure to that culture while growing up."

He had four great grandmothers, he does not name which one.

This is one of the best, most well researched family lines I've seen on ancestry.com. I easily found photos and records of all four great grandmothers. These are white folks.

Of course there can be adoptions but not in this case from Trail of Tears.

Trail of Tears 1830 - 1850. His great grandmothers were born in 1879, 1879, 1862, 1876.
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Research Needed / Re: john joseph littlebird
« Last post by Sandy S on October 19, 2025, 12:25:11 am »
When in New Mexico they were listed in records as "white" instead of "Indian".

Some ancestors are from Mexico, such as a Gallegos born 1855 in Cacalchen, Yucatan, Mexico.

I don't see anything indicating "Navajo heritage".

(Here are The Navajo Nation enrollment rules: https://novri.navajo-nsn.gov/Services/New-Enrollment )

He claims: "grandparents lived on the Taos Pueblo". I see Taos County in their records, but not Taos Pueblo (different enumeration districts).

Back to milehighsalute original post here -

"NOBODY here seems to know him. i am talking about nobody in the indian community. i never seen the guy before at any native events, and that includes powwows, round dances, art shows, concession/vendor style fundraisers, elders dinners, or even dropping by the indian center."

"but is he selling "indianess"? marketing himself as a product of our native community without being an active part of it?"

I'd say, yes, he is selling "indianess".

Possibility that he has distant heritage but not as how he represents it.
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Research Needed / Re: john joseph littlebird
« Last post by Sandy S on October 18, 2025, 11:24:00 pm »
His paternal side is French and German.

Charles Frantz Joseph DesMoineaux
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/149416059/charles_frantz_joseph-desmoineaux

He does not claim paternal heritage.
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Maternal side is his claim "Leon’s Navajo heritage comes from his mother, who was born in Taos in 1911". His mother was born in 1911.

Matilda Phyllis “Tillie” DesMoineaux (birth surname Hidalgo)
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/149416346/matilda_phyllis-desmoineaux

' 'Tillie', 98, she is preceded in death by her beloved husband Charles. Survived by her children: Charlene (Joe) Andrew, Charles (Lana) DesMoineaux, Leon (Kim) DesMoineaux"

https://www.denverpost.com/obituaries/matilda-p-desmoineaux-co/

Her father Lauriano “Lawrence” Hidalgo https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130579242/lauriano-hidalgo

I found the family in 1950 federal census, Denver. Matilda born in NM. They listed white, everyone in the neighborhood white. This census happened in April, a few months before Leon born.
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Research Needed / Re: john joseph littlebird
« Last post by Sandy S on October 18, 2025, 09:51:27 pm »
He was born Oct 1950. Leon J Desmoineaux.
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Research Needed / Re: john joseph littlebird
« Last post by Sandy S on October 18, 2025, 09:47:47 pm »
"Littlebird is more familiar with his maternal side of the family. His grandparents lived on the Taos Pueblo, and eventually became so disgusted with discrimination against Native Americans, they packed up their wagon and moved to Denver.

“The hatred was still really high,” Littlebird said. “You didn’t tell anyone you were Native American, or they’d try to send you back to the reservation.”

His mother – now 93 and living in Denver – tried to keep Littlebird from returning to his Native American origins, remembering how her mother would tell her the white people thought they were dirty and uncouth.

But Littlebird would have nothing of it, and today is still trying to get reinstated into his tribe in New Mexico. “If I own it, and it’s my ancestry, I want to know it,” he said.

Littlebird’s full name is Leon Charles Jeantette des Moineaux, the last of which means chickadee, or little bird."

https://www.summitdaily.com/news/music-compassion-shape-littlebird/
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Research Needed / Re: john joseph littlebird
« Last post by Sandy S on October 18, 2025, 09:43:28 pm »
Looks like his name is actually Leon Joseph Littlebird. Although I'm not sure what his birth name was.

"His great grandparents were the original settlers of Black Hawk and Central City, he said. His grandfather was born in Central City in 1863, and his father was born in Silver Plume in 1899."

https://www.summitdaily.com/news/marijuana/community-hosts-benefit-for-summit-county-local-leon-joseph-littlebird/

"His father was born in Silver Plume in 1899. His grandfather was one of the original settlers in Black Hawk. Leon’s Navajo heritage comes from his mother, who was born in Taos in 1911."

https://www.uncovercolorado.com/ski-instructor-leon-joseph-littlebird/
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Frauds / Re: James Arthur Ray Deaths from Phony Sweat, Harmonic Wealth Global
« Last post by Sandy S on October 18, 2025, 07:48:33 pm »
"All the way back in the mid 80’s I wandered into a bookstore late one afternoon (remember bookstores?); and I was just scanning the shelves to see if something would grab my attention.

I was the only person in the store except the interesting—dare I say sort of strange—older man behind the register. Our eyes met briefly, and neither of us said a word."

https://harmonicwealthglobal.com/toltec-teachings-of-mastery-and-power/

I ran a reverse image search, image of the supposed mystic bookseller actually came from AI prompt
"Portrait of authentic old man with beard and good eyes".

James Arthur Ray says he learned Toltec teachings from Don Jose Luis. Don Jose Luis is a son of Don Miguel Ruiz. https://www.miguelruiz.com/

Run a search here on main page of forum for more info on Miguel Ruiz including http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=3217.msg27890#msg27890

James Arthur Ray also invokes Castaneda. Info here: http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=1127.0
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Frauds / Re: James Arthur Ray Deaths from Phony Sweat, Harmonic Wealth Global
« Last post by Sandy S on October 18, 2025, 07:26:39 pm »
https://harmonicwealthglobal.com/the-emerald-tablet/

The "Emerald Tablet" was an actual brief, cryptic text.

The "Emerald Tablet of Thoth the Atlantean" is a theosophical/new age channeled text from 1939. Invented by cult leader M. Doreal.

The two things are entirely different. Ray bases his claims on the cult leader invention, of course.

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