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I would like to clarify a few things. The Lakota sundance was brought to southern Colorado by Titus Eaglefeather in the late 1990s. Clusters of untribed Apache (who had intermarried with mountain people instead of going to reservations) began attending the dance and reuniting. Ben Ledeux, a relative of Crazy Horse brought his medicine bundle to start the purification lodge. Jimmy Tenrivers Atencio is a Mimbreno who is also severely handicapped, a near paraplegic, from a motorcycle accident followed by a car accident. Yet he was one of the first dancers to be pierced. All of his sons have since been sundancers. So the dance at Iglesia de Aztlan IS based on a Lakota dance introduced by Titus. Tomas Shash also has connections with Aztec who have influenced the dance as well, so that it is no longer completely recognizable as Lakota. The lodges also sing Lakota songs, although Don Cryingeagle Tenorio and Jimmy Tenrivers have been introducing Apache lodge songs.
In your posts you refer to me as a "white man" who teaches Torah. I do teach Torah but I am mixed Cherokee. My g-grandmother was full blood and a wampum keeper and my ggggg grandfather was the right hand of Chief Ross who cared for his family during the chief's imprisonment with John Howard Payne.
NO ONE at Iglesia de Aztlan has any association with Scott Anderson (who goes by Blueotter). He had interviewed Jimmy for one of his radio programs and invited Jimmy and I to visit Utah. We met with the LDS historian after the president/prophet had a stroke and died while we were waiting downstairs in the lobby to visit with him and the Council of 12. I led the delegation meeting with the LDS leadership because we were protesting that our sundancers were being proselytized by Mormon missionaries and wanted it to stop. The historian arranged for us to receive $3,000 for the sundance as a donation after I explained that Native Americans were never severed from their covenant with Creator and therefore did not need "missonizing." (See my research titled, "Native American spiritual sovereignty restored: End-times 'balm of Gilead' heals land for all relations at
www.torah-voice.org/Geronimoreturns.htm. The $3,000 was not solicited and was used to purchase outhouses among other things for the dance.
There are problems at Iglesia de Aztlan, which I won't go into other than to say that profit is derived from the dance, which in my mind defiles it so I do not attend it. Tomas and I had a big falling out over some of this. Ben Carnes has already described it accurately enough. But I would like to redeem the good name of Jimmy Tenrivers Atencio and my name, Maggid ben Yoseif, from the fraud, Anderson. We were simply used by him until we learned better. I had to ask him to leave my house in Walsenburg after his ex-wife kicked him out and he was homeless and I took him in, after he mimicked and insulted a grandmother and mooched pot from medical users. Anderson moved to Central Band Cherokee in Tennessee and sabotaged my work with Chief Joe Sittingowl White. I was his ambassador at large and was promoting an "intertribal treaty" based on a more humane and abbreviated version of the Cherokee Removals as a biblical solution to the Israeli-Palestinian quagmire. He spread vicious rumors about me and my son. That I was a child molester and my son was a meth addict. I told Chief Joe -- who wanted me to work with Anderson -- that if I ever saw him again, I would happily go to jail for punching his lights out. This man is evil through and through. The entire untribed Apache community is sorry we ever involved ourselves with him.
