Is there anyway one can identify a fake ID to the real thing? This thread is quite old, maybe she has proved her lineage now? I don't know, but I have an issue with people trading off of false spirituality, just to make money. I need to be sure that they are genuine.
You need to be sure they are genuine?
Unfortunately, the Billingtons are about as genuine as a 3 quid banknote.
You might want to read the following posts in this thread (excerpts below):
« Reply #11 on: January 16, 2007, 01:09:58 AM »
Of course I have a German accent, because I am also part German and raced most of my years in Germany. If you would live in Italy the most of your life, and grown up there as a baby, then you would also have an Italian accent, when speaking English.
And since the German Authorities could not accept the name Tonya, we made Tanja out of this, otherwise I would not be able to register the domain.
I have met a lot of people from binational families who grew up bilingual, and migrants who grew up bilingual: none of them speaks their 'other' language with a German accent.
This is an excerpt from a post made by Tanja Billington – she is inquiring here on behalf of her mother who, according to Tanja's words here at NAFPS, is supposed to be Cherokee:
Reply #44 on: February 12, 2007, 04:30:20 PM »
I have an extremely difficult problem which I must solve by the middle of April. Please help me if you can. The case: my mother has lived in the USA since 1989 after she married an American (who was before with the Army in Germany). After she moved there, it turned into a disaster and he "seized" all the papers of my mother (passport, identity card, etc.) and burned all the documents in front of witnesses. Since then my mother has had an "illegal status" since she never obtained new documents.
And this refutes some more of Tanja's B.S.:
Reply #59 on: February 21, 2007, 05:36:28 AM »
I neglected to mention the people I spoke with concerning this pair said a differant story was relayed to them from T/T/T. My sources say T/T/T claimed to have been born on a reservation in Georgia, has no American birth certificate but does have a piece of paper from an elder documenting her birth. Curious minds need to know how she managed to get from Georgia to Germany without the birth certificate which is needed in order to obtain an American passport. I'll answer that for you, T/T/T. It didn't happen. There are no Cherokee reservations in Georiga.
I also remember having received personal correspondence which said that Tanja spread the story that her Cherokee mother sneaked through the siege lines at Wounded Knee II with Tanja as an infant on her arm. According to Tanja's profile here:
http://www.klamm.de/user/hountingwolf-121575.htmlshe is 44 years of age – this means she was born in 1969. WKII, however, took place in 1973. Oh, a baby on her mother's arms in 1973?
Regarding the Billingtons recent activities, I found this:
http://www.themedicinemusicfestival.co.uk/ Saturday 18 May 2013 – Sunday 19 May 2013
The Medicine Music Festival 2013
A whole Weekend of Healing Sounds and Workshops
Performances and Workshops by
* Tim Wheater * Jayson Stilwell * Barbara Meiklejohn-Free *
*Neil H and Tom Brennan "SoulWeavers" *
* Mathew Callow *
* Tonya Hountingwolf *
* Nina Dungay *
*Olaf Nixon* Gong Master
* Lyz Cooper, Soundworks&The British Academy of Sound Therapy *
*Elizabeth Whiter and Chakra Dancing*
AND MORE
FABULOUS food, Sound Healing and Music Exhibitors, Therapies, Treatments, Drums
Entry is £12.50 per day £20 for both days
AVAILABLE IN ADVANCE
(children under 16 are ½ price but must be accompanied by a full paying adult)
Workshop tickets are £5 per session, available on the day or in advance.
(Performance and Workshop schedule will be published soon.)
This is Tanja Billington's website:
http://www.aurapicture.co.uk/AuraEvents.htmlWe are doing Aura Photography with a Psychic Reading from the Aura Photo
on following events:
Sat 20th & Sun 21th of April 2013 10am-17pm: Natural Living Health Expo
LC2, Oystermouth Road, Swansea
Info: 07810 766366 or e-mail: jayniesayers@yahoo.co.uk
Sat 27th of April 2013: Aura Photography @ Evolution Shop, Exeter
117 Fore Street, Exeter EX4 3JQ. For more info:
call Dudley on: 07966 912094 or 01392 410759 or email:
dudley@evolutionexeter.com
Sun 28th of April 2013: 10am-17:30pm: Crystal Cradles: Body, Mind Spirit Fayre
Since when do aura photography and readings belong to Cherokee traditions?
I also found this on her website:
http://www.aurapicture.co.uk/whitebuffalo.htmlI want to address something here which is very important to us:
The White Buffalo. And we wish to help here also in connection with a registered Charity, where we are members of. “Viisions Life Force Foundation” located in the UK. Please go to: www.viisionslifeforcefoundation.com
I had a look at that „foundation“ and will start a new thread on them. They are cooperating with a few frauds and plastics like Adam „Yellowbird“ de Armon and Bennie LeBeau (we've got threads on both persons already).
Another site recommended by Tanja Billington:
My Spirit Sister Lozen Brown Bear and her beautiful craft:
http://www.dreamspirit.com
When you look at the site, „Lozen Brown Bear“ is selling ndn craft without imprint and without proof she is enrolled. LBB claims Apache, but no band, no family names are specified and the „about me“ section of that site has no contents.
LBB also does „Tarot & Spiritual Readings“. Among the items she sells are: medicine bags, medicine wheels, Apache dream catchers, smudge sprays, goddess sprays, smudge fans, talk sticks.
LBB has a profile at linkedin:
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/lozen-brownbear/27/9b/61aLozen BrownBear
Founder and owner of Dream Spirits, Teaching and Sharing Native American Spiritual experience
Location
Greater Chicago Area
www.DreamSpirits.com
September 1992 – Present (20 years 8 months)
Owned by Lozen Brown Bear, Native American Artist.
Since 1992... Lozen often has provided lectures and workshops to help understand the Spiritual connection to the art. As it is more then art to her.
The lady seems to have three problems: a) truth, b) spelling, c) making an honest dollar.
So, why isn't Tanja able to see those people for what they are but is cooperating with them? Because Tanja is not Cherokee, she is white and has a lot of wrong concepts of what being ndn should be.