Alfarraro Diaz Martinez 1932-Living (AKA Mike Reyna)
Rio Graf 1937-Living
The family name is German, but the first name must be a nickname, and is uncommon here - or maybe it's a typo? The name 'Ria' is/was used, it's an abbreviation of 'Maria'.
Mr. Reyna is a psycho therapist by profession but introduced himself to me as being a Doctor of Psychiatry. He does, in fact, use "M.D." on his English webpages but uses different titles on the German ones.
Ahem. Psychiatry here is part of the medical faculty of universities. General medicine is a four to five years course of studies. When you're finished, you can specialize and e.g become a neurologist, ophthalmologist, or a psychiatrist which requires a further course of studies of several years. Of course doing a doctorate is optional. As many courses of medical studies do not require the candidate to write a thesis (it's just written and oral examination), many students do their doctor's thesis before these final exams. As far as I know, no matter what you specify in later, a doctorate done in the medical faculty is a Dr. med.
'Psychotherapist' is not a protected term (if you call yourself a psychiatrist or psychologist in vain, this is a criminal offence), so more or less anybody can open up shop and do psychotherapy. There are of course persons who did a course of studies beforehand. Due to the way universities are organized in Germany, psychology may be part of the Science faculty or even be part of the Arts faculty (and a doctorate would result in a Dr. rer.nat. -Science- or Dr. phil. -Arts-, but not a Dr. med.). The term 'psychologist' is protected and you're only allowed to use it after you successfully finished a course of studies in psychology.
I still assume there is a very good reason for Mr Reyna adding 'M.A./M.D.' to his texts in the English language version of the site while not mentioning them in the German version.
By all appearances, it seems none of the journalists, tv reporters, etc. have verified his claim to fame and are aiding and abetting this fraud.
When I googled Reyna's name, there were *no* articles etc showing up which I think is a bit surprising. The only entry I saw in this respect is some project in Stuttgart where Reyna comes up with a "Statement on US politics", but I can't access that.
Mr. Reyna claims to be a member of AIM and is sometimes accompanied by a Native American who claims to be a founding member of AIM and a Veteran of Little Big Horn. (He gets around well for someone age 120+!)
Well, one might confuse the Greasy Grass and the Wounded Knee quite easily
The grapevine also says Mr. Reyna and another great grandson of Goyathlay will be appearing at a musuem in Germany sometime in the month of May. Rumor has it the other great grandson is a politician and I am still researching the details about this.
The site mentions his 'Chiricahua brother' by the name of Harold Dick - could that be the same person? It makes a big deal of this person being the gr-grandson of a Chiricahua elder named Harold Dick, too. There's also an old photo of this alleged ancestor, but the original name of that person doesn't get mentioned at all, just the Anglo name... Plus a photo of this alleged gr-grandson and wife. And that photo of this person's alleged ancestor definitely doesn't show Goyathlay.
