Chief Ayanvli Rick, Joseph (Gray Wolf) Rick, Walk In Balance Center, Sedona

[onceuponatime]

I have a friend in Sedona that has asked me to request some research on these people.  I met them once and were suspect of their claims and the fact that they are in Sedona, trying to market their "Center" and themselves as Cherokee and Lakota Elders also raised my concerns.  Here are a few of the links that I have found referencing them.

https://www.facebook.com/WalkInBalanceCenter

http://www.secci.com/PAGE5SPRING2011.pdf

http://www.sedona-spiritualretreats.com/native-american.html

http://www.callofsedona.com/2012/11/06/simple-native-american-rituals-to-perform-at-the-vortexes/

[Epiphany]

File ID   455129
Description    Trade Name
Status   Active
Name   WALK IN BALANCE
Address 1   100 OAK CREEK BOULEVARD
City   SEDONA
State   AZ
ZIP   86336-
Business Type   WHOLISTIC HEATH / NATIVE AMERICAN SERVICES
Registered Date   3/5/2009

Owner   AYANULI RICK

http://www.azsos.gov/scripts/TNT_Search_engine.dll/ZoomTNT?NME_ID=455129&NME_CODE=NME

File Number:  -1648468-6    
Corp. Name: WALK IN BALANCE CENTER, INC.
Agent Name:  AYANVLIDEHA RICK

President/CEO REV AYANVLIDEHA RICK
Directors AYANVLIDEHA RICK
JOSEPH GREYWOLF RICK
ALAN FIREKEEPER HICKS

http://starpas.azcc.gov/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=wsbroker1/names-detail.p?name-id=16484686&type=CORPORATION
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 Rev. Ayanvli Rick

Chief of Medicine Keepers Band & Pastor/Director of Walk in Balance Center, Inc.

    Sedona, Arizona (Flagstaff, Arizona Area)
    Religious Institutions

Education

        Universal Life Church & Seminary Inc.
        University of Oklahoma

I am an Embassador of Peace and a minister of the http://www.ulcseminary.org/ family. I work with all walks of life nationally and internationally. As an artist, speaker, teacher, and a Pipe Carrier for the Cherokee Nation and those of like mind and heart I work with those who Divine Creator sends to me by empowering the heart & enriching lives now unto the seven generations.I am an Elder Wisdom Keeper for the Cherokee Nation. An ordained minister, Certified degrees in; Reiki Master Teacher,Herbalism, Infant Massage,Theraputic Massage and Bodywork. I facilitate in ways of: Healing touch, Family and Individual counseling, Weddings, Funerals, Cherokee Traditional and non-traditional ceremonies, I facilitate crystal readings, Native American Spirituality &lifeways demonstrations.

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/rev-ayanvli-rick/44/9a5/204

( Universal Life Church isn't actually a source of education, it provides ordinations with an online application and a review. http://www.ulc.net/index.php?page=ordain )

[Epiphany]

Their "cultural liaison" is Adam Yellowbird DeArmo

https://www.facebook.com/WalkInBalanceCenter/posts/349181395172002

Info on Adam http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=1791.0

[Epiphany]

Rev. Anita Marie Ayanvlideha Dildine-Rick is the name she's used online, if her married surname is Rick, her birth name might then be Anita Marie Dildine.

[Epiphany]

Chief Rick says "wado" for prayers for her father John O'le Indian Jon Dildine ...

http://www.secci.com/Page72013.pdf

Also here is a photo of herself holding a "goodwill treaty"

Rev. Chief Ayanvlideha,
Cherokee Nation Paint Clan

Medicine Keepers, Band Chief of Southeastern Cherokee Counsil Inc.

CEO Walk in Balance Center, Inc.

International Cermonial Leader

Indigenous Peoples Grand Council Of Peace

http://peace.bryantmcgill.com/

[onceuponatime]

I went to the Southeastern Cherokee Council website and this is the description of their "organization" which is a non profit organization:

The Southeastern Cherokee Council Inc. organization  was formed and incorporated in November 1976 and was recognized by proclamation, signed by Governor George Busby, in December 1976.  We are over 6080 members strong.  We DO NOT claim to be either state or federal recognized, nor do we claim affiliation with either the Eastern or Western bands of Cherokee.  We do, however, claim the RIGHT to be and say who we are!  Cherokee mixed blood decendants, with a desire to make life better for all Native Americans. 

[milehighsalute]

I went to the Southeastern Cherokee Council website and this is the description of their "organization" which is a non profit organization:

The Southeastern Cherokee Council Inc. organization  was formed and incorporated in November 1976 and was recognized by proclamation, signed by Governor George Busby, in December 1976.  We are over 6080 members strong.  We DO NOT claim to be either state or federal recognized, nor do we claim affiliation with either the Eastern or Western bands of Cherokee.  We do, however, claim the RIGHT to be and say who we are!

twinkies?

[Epiphany]

I went to the Southeastern Cherokee Council website and this is the description of their "organization" which is a non profit organization:

The Southeastern Cherokee Council Inc. organization  was formed and incorporated in November 1976 and was recognized by proclamation, signed by Governor George Busby, in December 1976.  We are over 6080 members strong.  We DO NOT claim to be either state or federal recognized, nor do we claim affiliation with either the Eastern or Western bands of Cherokee.  We do, however, claim the RIGHT to be and say who we are!  Cherokee mixed blood decendants, with a desire to make life better for all Native Americans.

Anita "Ayanvli" Rick claims she is "Pipe Carrier for the Cherokee Nation" and an "Elder Wisdom Keeper for the Cherokee Nation". Many people will assume she is speaking of the federally recognized tribe. I wonder if she makes it very clear that she is actually speaking of what she believes is her distant heritage.

Seems like ideally this group would define itself as a heritage group, with an interest in crafts and genealogy and charitable works, and not do any supposed spiritual ceremonial activities for profit.

Info on Alan Hicks:

Behavioral Health Clinician at Yavapi-Apache Nation

    Camp Verde, Arizona (Flagstaff, Arizona Area)
    Alternative Medicine

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alan-hicks/46/4b2/a23
Oklevueha Native American Church of ISTA Retreat and Habilitative Center
http://nativeamericanchurches.org/arizona-habilitative-programs/

[Defend the Sacred]

The Cherokee don't have "pipe carriers."