Nine years later. A friend of her's sent this defense of her and more information. My response is after.
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My name is Zak Alvarez. I am an enrolled member of the Chippewa-Cree tribe of Rocky Boy Montana. My BIA enrollment number is [redacted]. My family founded the Red Road Powwow of Santa Cruz, California which began in 1983, and continued until 2004. My family was presnt at Alcatraz. My family was on the Longest Walk in 1978.
I have a dear Native American elder friend named Choqosh Auh'Ho Oh (Judith de Ramirez) whom I have known in Santa Cruz, since 1984, who was being disrespected, indignified, and impuned on your website. It greatly hurts her feelings and I too am offended by this unjustified treatment of her name and reputation. She has never hurt or damaged any other Native American at all. To this I can personally state. Quite to the contrary, she has lifted people up and served others to the utmost of her ability, all of her years of dedicated professional life, and spiritually-inclined endeavors and activities in addition to the fact that she was a mother of children and a wife.
She is a friend of a Chumash leader Patrick Orozco who was an early leader of the San Jose Area, and Monterey Bay Area Ohlone tribal people in their identity re-emergeance. Choqosh was the long-time radio host at KAZU, of an award-winning hour-long radio program which celebrated Native American culture and music, and politically defended Native American causes for almost a decade. She was a friend and cohort of Mae Brussels, also, an award winning news journalist at that same radio station. Choqosh was a cohort of the late John "Abalone" Walsh, an award-winning Voetnam Era journalist and a strong advocate of Native America, and who was present at the Wounded Knee Occupation by AIM. He was a very crucial character in that historic the event and the beginning of the American Indian Movement. Choqosh and Abalone were important political activists in the SF Bay Area Indian Alliance for years. She occasionally would sit in for him amd host his radio show which was broadcast out of the University of California at Santa Cruz, right across the bay, called "Indians Discovered America."
In 1987 Choqosh was one of the very first native people in California to speak out against the canonization of Father Junipero Serra, her speech at the Mission Days Festival in 1987 was an integral turning point in the opposition of Serra's sainthood. She really is responsible for the long delay of that process which took decades for the Catholic Church to rectify.
Looking back to the 60's, Choqosh was present in the budding Native American community of Los Angeles before AIM had even appeared. She also was with a group of activists who in Topanga, who had obtained to only uncaptured copy of the Pentagon Papers, which they surreptitiously copied and distributed, risking danger and risking their own safety, welfare, and freedom.
I can tell you endless stories of the things she has accomplished.
She was raised in San Bernardino County and in Los Angeles County, as the "brown indio girl who would never come inside the house, but instead, played in nature all summer, and was regarded in her family as the child who would surely carry on the family pride in its guarded indigenous identity and hidden roots.
It would please me if you could personally communicate this message to the individuals who were and are, accusing her of being an imposter. If you knew the other kinds of sacrifices she has made for Indian people all her life, you would feel as I do.
Additionally to inform you, in adult life, as a mother and college instructor, sometimes, she would be called away to respond to requests to travel to Hopiland, for pronouncements made to her by Hopi elders in her role as a spiritually imspired emmissary, by driving all the way out to Hopiland in her station wagon, often without enough money for food or gas, orotel, and she would sleep on her car days, waiting for the elders to speak. She was also a friend of Thomas Banyacya, a Hopi elder at those times.
I invite you to call me and also to give my number to other interested parties who want to know about her character and her inherent right to call herself a California indigenous woman and elder.
What is your response? In the interest of truth, I respectfully ask that you remove the disparaging remarks on your website that pertain to Ms. Choqosh Auh'Ho-Oh, Honorable Native Californian Elder.
She has not hurt anyone. Could you please leave her alone in the future?
Thank you sir
[phone number redacted]
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She’s under Research Needed, has been for 9 years now. We got a request from the public about her and did research. That’s it. If we had information that she’s a fraud, we would have moved her to Frauds.
She is different from most of the people we are asked about. No sign of claims made for profit, build a cult, or abuse people. Those are the biggest reasons she stays under Research Needed.
We always welcome more information that could clear these things up. I can post your first IM to me at NAFPS if you want. Or you could join and do it yourself, make a statement or ask questions of others.
The biggest problems are three. She changes her claims of what she is, from a descendant to claiming to be an elder, to “Coastal elder.”
And she keeps claiming to be speaking for the Hopi, Iroquois, or Seneca. She’s not any of those.
She also keeps going to New Age people. Prophecy Keepers radio is run by one of the worst frauds out there. A white Mormon named William Anderson claiming to be Cherokee elder “Blue Otter” and holds “Mormon Sundances.” Why does she keep preaching to New Age frauds?
