Gary Adler AKA Gary FourStar & Many Horses Foundation

[angelo]

thanx for information but i think those people gave themself the rigths to run a sundance
i meet archie fire lame deer and he never give out permission to run sundances by white people.
i dunno the other guy don ....
so anyway its sad to see this happen.

[frederica]

Rivas was at one time was offering $3000 Ayahunsca trips in the Amazon, did a visit to Texas, not sure about if he toured Europe. He would have no affillation to a Sun Dance.

[earthw7]

http://www.manyhorses.org/
  Walk for Water (Italy)

                                                                                     Walking The Red Road

Of all the paths to Spirit, the traditional ways of our native peoples of the continent feel most right to many of us who were born on and nurtured by this land. We sense a wisdom in the earth, messages in the winds blowing from the four directions. We seek for ourselves the knowing of the ones who have listened for thousands of years to the Mother Earth and the Great Mystery.

Gary Adler FourStar is an enrolled member of the Costanoan-Rumsen Ohlone tribe of California and is of Assiniboine lineage through his father, Jerome FourStar. He is an interpreter, a teacher and a guide in these traditional ways. He began his work in earnest almost forty years ago, drawn to the wisdom of many Elders and respected teachers from many tribal nations.

Living now in Georgia, Gary conducts seminars, lectures, leads ceremony and facilitates healing work throughout the United States. He has been working with people both individually and in groups. A grandfather, he brings his years of experience to those seeking to know themselves, to know Creator, and to walk in balance through good relationship with the Great Circle of Life.

Gary Adler FourStar is currently the CEO of the Many Horses Foundation, an organization dedicated to the Elders, the children, the earth, wild horses and our earth cultures and teachings.

He is a member and Treaties Chief of the United Tribal Alliance which is dedicated to the sovereignty of indigenous people and the unification of all indigenous tribal peoples throughout the world. He has committed his life to the creation of working communities in right relationship through the Natural and Spiritual laws given to all peoples in their original instructions.

 

[earthw7]

The Many Horses Foundation Perpetuates and Teaches Earth People's Perspective of Living Through Right Relationship With All Living Things. 
 
Gary Adler FourStar is currently the CEO of the Many Horses Foundation, an organization dedicated to the elders, the children, the earth, wild horses and earth cultures and teachings.

Gary is an enrolled member of the Costanoan-Rumsen Carmel Tribe (Ohlone), and the son of Jerome FourStar, an Assiniboine Elder from the Fort Peck Reservation in Montana. He was adopted out at birth and raised in California. Gary has been fortunate to have lived, studied and worked with many Elders of several nations throughout the United States and Canada, as well as with his father, Jerome. Gary is recognized as a ceremonial leader, spiritual advisor, healer and teacher throughout the country. Gary conducts seminars and experiential workshops on creating balance and relationships through the Earth People's perspective.

He is a Lodge Keeper, Sun Dancer and Pipe Holder. He has brought back the Animal Spirit Dance  to the Southeast and western United States. He is part of, and actively participates in the Native American Institute and Traditional Circle of Indian Elders and Youth . He helped organize and participated in leading the SOS (Save Our Sovereignty) walk in California in 1998 with Spiritual Leader Robertjohn Knapp.  He has lectured throughout the U.S. including the Universities of Santa Barbara, UCLA, University of LaVerne,  Georgia Southern University and at USC.

Gary has been designated as Treaties Chief by the United Tribal Alliance,  as a spiritual advisor to Native Americans in State Prisons in Tennessee, Georgia, California and Alabama by the XAT medicine society. He has worked with the California Native American Spiritual Commission, bringing ceremony and counseling to Native American prisoners in State and Federal correctional facilities and with the California Youth Authority. Formerly, he was Project Director and co-creator of the International Wilderness Leadership Foundation's TOUCH THE EARTH program, co-founded the Flowering Tree Foundation, and was Executive Director of the International Society for the Protection of Wild Mustangs and Burros.
 

[earthw7]

The MANY HORSES FOUNDATION is a 501(c) (3) organization dedicated to honoring and teaching Native American values and traditions concerning the Earth and the Natural World. The Foundation is
organizing a 10-day Walk For The Water here in Georgia. The Walk will start at the headwaters of the Chattahoochee River on May 30, 2008, and end on June 10th, 2008 in a traditional Native American
Ceremony in Atlanta, Ga.

Our mission is to increase awareness of our responsibility to the natural world and to water, which sustains all of life. We expect to bring focus to the need for water, water conservation and water purity. We can no longer simply stand by as we watch the effects of the recent drought.

We are asking Native American Elders from across the Nation to walk. We are asking all people, regardless of race, religion or ethnic background to walk with us. We walk for life, for the water and for
future generations. Dr Masaru Emoto, best-selling author of "The Hidden Messages In Water," is planning to come to Atlanta, Georgia for this event. His studies have illustrated how water responds to words and thoughts and how we can influence the healing of the water though our words and songs.

We are asking for support to assist us with the costs inherent in a Walk this size.


We feel that it is vital for Georgia to show its support of this effort. Without water, none of us can live. This Walk will provide our state with the opportunity to show support for its Native American People while also increasing the awareness of all Georgians to the plight of our water.

Any and all contributions will be accepted with gratitude.

To join our Walk For The Water or for additional information please contact Gary FourStar, Founder of Many Horses Foundation.

Thank You,

Debby Bullock FourStar
President Many Horses Foundation
www.manyhorses. org
www.walkforthewater .org
678-488-2575

http://link. brightcove. com/services/ link/bcpid909844 589/bctid9211169 24

[frederica]

Here is some more information on him. It's in pieces but gives a nice broad picture of his doings over time. http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=138.0    http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=1264.0     http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=273.0

[dabosijigwokush]

now this adopted person just got tv exposure as a authentic sweat lodge keeper

http://manyhorses.org/sweat_lodge.html

send your complaints and ask for  a retraction

http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form5.html?106

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/crime/2011/03/07/is.sweat.lodge.ceremony.insession?iref=allsearch

According to Carl Fourstar, the son of Jerome, Gary Adler was made a hunka relative many years ago by Jerome. The family is aware of his doings but their hands are tied.They cannot unadopt him as only the late Jerome can do that. He did sundance with the family many years ago but apparently things have changed from then to now. Additionally if you would contact the tribal office you will find he is not an enrollee. He lives in Woodstock Ga and screens the potential participants in his classes and lodges.

Read more: http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=138.15#ixzz1FyTaW6nr

[tecpaocelotl]

Sent my complaints.

One question though. Even though he is questionable here, what about in a previous thread where what he did was considered fake?

http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=138.0

[Defend the Sacred]

Just saw him on In Session. He took the non-Native TV hosts to a sweat, complete with a circle of non-Native men and women on a drum and plastic tarps on the lodge. Some of the feathers they filmed on the altars were wild turkey, but some looked like eagle feathers. (Or other feathers dyed to look like eagle feathers; it was hard to tell.) They got rained on. One of the TV hosts talked about how she thought her skin was melting.

[Defend the Sacred]

Sent my complaints.

One question though. Even though he is questionable here, what about in a previous thread where what he did was considered fake?

http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=138.0

Just merged that thread into this one. I imagine with his volunteering to present ceremonies on television, via CCN and related networks, there will be some discussion.

[tecpaocelotl]

Just saw him on In Session. He took the non-Native TV hosts to a sweat, complete with a circle of non-Native men and women on a drum and plastic tarps on the lodge. Some of the feathers they filmed on the altars were wild turkey, but some looked like eagle feathers. (Or other feathers dyed to look like eagle feathers; it was hard to tell.) They got rained on. One of the TV hosts talked about how she thought her skin was melting.

Pics on facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/#!/album.php?fbid=10150436599285693&id=114250430692&aid=634303&notif_t=like

[Defend the Sacred]

It looks like some actual members of the Fourstar family are posting on Facebook now. They are not happy with Gary Adler's claims, nor with his display of a plastic sweat by and for non-Natives... and for the cameras.

When Adler spoke on In Session, he kept referring to himself as Native. He looks a bit like Ward Churchill. But with a big beard.

[tecpaocelotl]

It looks like some actual members of the Fourstar family are posting on Facebook now. They are not happy with Gary Adler's claims, nor with his display of a plastic sweat by and for non-Natives... and for the cameras.

When Adler spoke on In Session, he kept referring to himself as Native. He looks a bit like Ward Churchill. But with a big beard.

Don't forget the stereotypical wise native voice he was having on the interview also.

[Defend the Sacred]

From James Ray thread:

I'm not sure if this goes here but

Gary Adler Fourstar is creating quite a hype on Facebook by using the Sedona tragedy to promote his wannabe sweat.
http://is.gd/TTXqWc
There’s already over 150 comments, almost all negative.
He conducted a sweat lodge ceremony for members of the CNN News crew and apparently they filmed it and broadcast it.
http://is.gd/MUx5Za
He claims to be an “enrolled member of the Costanoan-Rumsen Carmel Tribe (Ohlone), and the son of Jerome FourStar, an Assiniboine Elder from the Fort Peck Reservation in Montana”.
http://is.gd/mVtr59
Contact info to complain:
contact info for CNN:
+14048782276,
FAX: +14048271995
Call: 1-877-TELL-HLN
Twitter: @HLNTV
...E-mail: cnn.com/hln
Text: HLNTV (45688)

Rose

[Defend the Sacred]

And for those who've just arrived here, looking for info on "Gary Fourstar".

I'd like to quote one of our Lakota members on what adoption does and does not grant a person:

The adoption ceremonies of my people the Lakota/Dakota/Nakota are
called Hunka ceremonies.
I would like to explain a little about them.
What they are and what they are NOT.

The adoption ceremonies are a ceremonies to adopt an individual into a family.
When you lose a family member you have the right to adopt a member.
When you are close to a person for a long time you have the right to adopt
them as a member of your family.
This relationship is sarced.

The right as a Hunka relatived are to care for your new family as they care for you.


Now for what they are NOT.
There has never been a person who has been adopted into the Lakota or Dakota or Nakota
Nation. This has not happen in the past nor today.

The Lakota/Dakota/Nakota Nations are in North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Nebraska,
Minnesota, three Canadain States. in order for a person to be adopted into the nation
it would have to be OKed by all of the nations and bands. I can tell it has never happened.

What right the adoptees Do Not have:
They have No Rights to ceremonies,
They have NO Rights to our stories
They have NO Rights to medicine,
They have No Rights to inherit medicine men names,
They have No Right to names,
They have NO Right to speak for our nations
They have No Right to speak for our governments,
They Have No Rights to speak for the adopted families,

If a person claims to be adopted by the Lakota or Dakota or Nakota
If a person claim to be taught medicine by a Lakota or Dakota or Nakota

Beware

Adoption discussion: http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=1294.0