Someone asked about him over at American Indian Alliance. This is what I know so far.
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"educated_indio" <educated_indio@y...>
Date: Thu Dec 30, 2004 9:54 am
Subject: Re: FW: Tis Mal Crow
We haven't had any complaints about him over at NAFPS. Mostly he seems to sell his how-to herb books. I took a look at the table of contents online at Amazon and it's mostly herb use for minor
ailments. The way it's marketed is offensive and
stereotypical, "secret Indian lore" and so on.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1570671052/ref=sib_dp_pt/103-2522938-2445410#reader-linkHe does seem to have done some good work with plant conservation and has worked with both Native elders and the feds both EPA and Fish
and Wildlife. Here's that working group he mentions.
http://www.nps.gov/plants/medicinal/pubs/elder4501.htmThese elders include at least one I'm not sure about. "Cherokee of the Appalachians"?
One thing even more suspicious I found was that his claim of who his people are keeps changing. Sometimes he claims to be Cherokee and
Hitchiti, other times "Tennessee Cherokee" or "Western Band Cherokee," other times Lumbee, "United Lumbee" which are not the
legitimate Lumbee in North Carolina. And on his books on tape once he's claiming to teach Muscogee medicine ways.
http://www.treefarmtapes.com/catalog/product.asp?productid=7286Plus in at least one article he admitted he was not Native.
http://www.kelownacapnews.com/03401a/let1.htmI'll keep asking around.
--- In American_Indian_Alliance@yahoogroups.com, Cloud Family
<yakama@a...> wrote:
> Does anyone know about this person?
> Margaret Cloud
> ZANN Corp. Teams With Native American Herbal Expert
> FENTON, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 29, 2004--ZANN Corp.(OTCBB:ZANN)
> announced today that Tis Mal Crow, an internationally known herbalist and Native American Root Doctor (Medicine Man) has joined Zann Corp. Tis Mal is enhancing the Blue Kiwi product line and has over 200 "Leaves of
Light Plants as Teachers" products in the development pipeline to be introduced
> over the next 2-3 years.
>
> Director of Product Development-Natural Remedies, ZANN Corp.
>
> Tis Mal Crow is a Native American of Cherokee and Hitchiti descent. Since childhood Tis Mal has worked with tribal elders studying the
identification and medicinal uses of plants and native root doctoring techniques.
The information was passed down through generations of elders for thousands of years. Tis Mal has been called to become an elder on the on the Medicinal Plant Working Group of the Council of Elders, a group of concerned elders working for the protection of endangered plants. This group is an
off-shoot (ad hoc committee) of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife and U. S. Forestry Services. He has also been asked to speak at the United Nations
permanent forum on indigenous affairs. In 2003, Tis Mal was a presenter in the Industrial Leadership for the Preservation of Medicinal and
Aromatic Plants Symposium in Philadelphia.
> Tis Mal authored the first book about native remedies by a native person, ³Native Plants, Native Healing Traditional Muskogee Way² to be
printed and widely distributed. The book describes many of the ancient medicines and techniques mentioned above. He is also the first native person to record plant information in lecture form on CD¹s that have beendistributed in 13 countries outside the United States.
> Tis Mal has been teaching classes and workshops on herbs for morethan 20 years. He works with other indigenous healers and herb groups internationally to promote the medicinal uses of these herbs. For most of his adult life he has also been working for the conservation of
the wild habitat needed to sustain the growth of these important plants.
