would like to aknowledge and thank the beautiful teachers and spiritual elders that I have spent time with on this learning journey called the Red Road.
Beaver Chief, Mary Thunder, Arvol Looking Horse, Steven Greywolf Kemp, Sun Bear, Charlie Wolf Moondance, Archie Fire, Buck Ghost Horse, Steven Little Coyote, Ghostwolf, Jamie Sams,Trishuwa, Sharon White Arrow, Dawn Songfeather, Wallace Black Elk, Bright Owl, Corbin Harney, Roxanne Arising Sun Arispe, Jeffery White Horse Hubble, Gilbert Walking Bull, Evelyn Eaton, Barbara Means Adams, Noah Longcrane, Dave Chief, Marie -O'sota Hanhepi Wi Wainman, Rocky Shopbell .
Wow! What a list! I knew Noah Longcrane. He was an honorabble man and I doubt his family would appreciate his listing on a fraud site. He was not a "spiritual elder" as she calls him, but he was an Elder. He had his own drum group, Grandpa Noah's Boys. He taught many young men to drum and dance. I know his son and daughter-in-law. Maybe Iwill send that page to them.
as to other names:
-Mary Thunder and Jeffrey Hubble are a married couple who put on sweats and sundances in Texas. There is a thread on her.
-Dawn Songfeather Davis, a white exploiter who does monthly pipe ceremonies out of Bellevue, Washington.
-Buck Ghost Horse (deceased), there is a thread on this exploiter. His group, mostly white, calls themselves the Ghost Horse Nation and puts on sundances in Goldendale, Washington.
-Ghostwolf (deceased) real name Robert Franzone, a man of Italian heritage who liked to abuse women. There's a thread.
-Jamies Sams, anoithjer white exploiter who co-authored the "Medicine Cards".
-Evelyn Eaton (deceased), WAS actually taught some thingd by Indian people and then went on to exploit it. A friend of mine got a call (Long story I won't go into) from a new age type person she had met briefly. The lady asked her if she and her women friends got together for monthly gatherings. at the time, some of us were meeeting monthly for talk and eats, so my friend said yes. Then the lady made some assumptions and said "When you use the pipe, what method do you use?" My friend didn't understand what was meant and said so and the lady said "Well, I used to use the Evelyn Eaton method and now I use the Dawn Songfeather Davies methos. What method do you use?" My friend said "Lady this is my spiritual beliefs and I don't discuss them" and then hung up. We still laugh about the "method". We never used a pipe in our groups because none of us HAD pipesnor had reason to have them. Further, if we had, we wouldn't have bragged on it.
Some of the people who are Indian (or were) and I think mostly good people:
-Beaver Chief (deceased), respected storyteller from the Pacific Northwest.
-Arvol Looking Horse
-Corbin Harney (deceased), an activist who passed on recently. I spent some time with him when he visited my area. He was genuine and passionate about water and Native rights.
-Gilbert Walking Bull (deceased), was a friend of my late sister-in-law. She would have known if he was "bad news".
_Dave Chief, my husband's cousin knows him and has worked with him in adult education.
-Barbara Means Adams is a relative of Russell Means and used to live in Seattle.
