I see many 'Natives' on this site loves to talk behind someone's back, not even finding me, messaging me up, so I can tell the other side of this messed up story.
I am no fraud, as "The Rebel" a.k.a. Charles Ray from Alabama, had brought up. He has stretched the truth beyond normal comprehension, has been a hacker of many websites, including Arrowheadforums.com, and has a vendetta against me because I showed him up on another artifact board and had him investigated of his computer hacking (unfortunately, due to Alabama laws, he couldn't get convicted of stealing artifacts from sacred mounds).
I was NEVER convicted of anything, except returning an artifact that I had found in the local garden of the Ohio Civilian Conservation Corps. The Manager 11 years ago, when I worked there, told me I could have it. Charles Ray, stretching lies and truth, told the Ohio Forest Service and they requested the point back. I never stole from any mound - mounds are sacred and everything found in them should be put back. I was never put in jail, never had any fine, period.
Proof of Charles Ray "The Rebel" hacking is seen on Ashes to Ashes, Rhio Porter (now Ginther)'s site she doesn't go to anymore. She had banned him once, and he came back. She actually had a website shut down because of this man.
As to the Alleghenny Lenape/Alleghenny Indian Center, my mother (not aunt, but I am a decendant from her) and I was battling to get the tribe to stay together, even if it meant restarting it. Apparently, it needs to be restarted, since 5 websites out of 6 had nothing about the Alleghenny Lenape. Mr. Meier, Jr., will be contacted, seeing his signature was on that paper, so we can find out what to do to reinstate the Alleghenny Lenape. Samuel Kennedy, former 'chief' disappeared, taking many people's cash and ran. Once adopted, always adopted, we believe...unless another tribe wants to adopt us, then we'll give it up due to tribes laws.
Do not call me a wannabe. I have 1/16th in me, the last to have any Native Blood before it gets washed out. How many of you have done a DNA test? hmmm??? Paid out $225 bucks? My mother did. True, we don't have Lenape at all within us, but we were adopted. We do have Alaskan Athabaskan, Shawnee and Cree, with my mother having 1/8th within her. We may NEVER get to be Federally Recognized due to blood quantum that these tribes still do when the Federal government discarded that blood quantum, but we can at least become State Recognized.
I am not as young as you all think I am...I am going to be 29 this month (July), been through hell and back due to the incompetent people who wants to accuse me of this and that, slander my name into mud, and put my mother down. A true Native American would NEVER put an elder down. She's 63 years old, IS recognized as a reverend and can marry within the state of Ohio. The church is disenfranchised as of right now due to the illegal loss of land, but the Alleghenny United Indian Church is still around, is still real...and it is the ONLY Native American Church in NE Ohio (look it up and search). We don't have the cash to make a website on the subject...why should we? Churches are mainly for local people. Would you belong to a church several states over? My mother's church mixes Christianity with traditional beliefs of all tribes - it doesn't discriminate one bit.
My mother and I are not fakes or frauds. As a man I knew once told me, you all should take into effect "Get it from the Horse's Mouth".
As to this thread, I ask it to be removed, since "The Rebel" isn't here no more - typical of Charles Ray to post and run. I have spoken the truth, and if you have ANY questions, or even have any ideas how to get the Alleghenny Lenape reinstated (the process to put it back as State Recogized), you can email me: bearclaw45@msn.com.
Eric 'Red Hawk' Macuski
PS: Though, I did think it funny about my mother suppose to be my aunt and somehow a request to return a point turned out like a game of telephone to be stretched into like I robbed a sacred mound!
