Thank you Freija for your comment on the Swedish National Radio program P1 " Ingemarsson" on the 28/10-2010.
Quote from: Freija on March 05, 2011, 11:30:35 pm
Sorry, only in Swedish.
But this is National Swedish Radio, Channel 1.
Scroll half way down.
http://sverigesradio.se/sida/default.aspx?programid=2792
On the site:
Listen to a discussion about how the program ”Ingemarsson in Channel 1” probably was fooled when the American selfappointed shaman Kiesha Crowther was free to unchallenged market her cultlike movement “Tribe of many colours”. Crowther has no connection to Indian tribes and no Indian mother, which she has claimed.
“Profitable movement built on lies!”
I have listened to the program about Kiesha and it was pure propaganda for her. But in the other program ” Published” a program that criticizes and analyzes the Media ( in Sweden) I have tried to make a brief summary on what Freija is referring to. And it is a discussion between Annika Banfield, the producer of the program about Kiesha and a person responsible for “Published”.
Annika Banfield is an author and film producer who has got contact with Native Americans (for several decades and made movies about them) has reported this program to be non-appropriate as it is propaganda for a self-elected shaman Kiesha Crowther.
The film producer Annika Banfield asks "How it is possible that a person is allowed to unrestrained/unchecked is permitted to advertise for her money-making business on Swedish National Radio, Channel 1, especially as it is based on lies? Where is the criticism she asks?
She expresses that many of her Native American friends are very upset about Kiesha Crowther and her activities, the frustration and pain she has provoked due to her lies of her origin and use of sacred regalia without any respect to the Native American traditions, making profit on pure lies.
And she says that we all could try to assist and help. We the Europeans have a responsibility. And media has a responsibility as well. The real Native Americans don't get their voice easily heard, get to be interviewed on TV or on the Radio but a fake shaman like Kiesha Crowther does. She gives an example, a friend of hers a Native American who had to play the flute in order to be interviewed. She has had a Head of a Native American tribe (awarded a peace price by the UN) and several other prominent Native Americans here and still it was difficult to get time and space in the Media.
She also says that "you can believe in what you want it's okay” and she respects that.
Annika Banfield says she has been contacted by many people who belong to this “sect- like” group and that they have set up autogiros in order to transfer money to Kiesha and that they are worried. She says it is sufficient listen to Kiesha Crowther for five minutes to realize how wrong this is and that the thing of being appointed a shaman at the age of thirty.. is just to much..
Further in her contacts with the group members she has realized that you cannot criticize Kiesha, the leader, if you do so you get threatened of being sued, you cannot ask questions because then you get thrown out/banned from the group. And then you get to be called “dark ones”. It’s a terrible polarization of an elite group that she (Kiesha Crowther)has created, like a master race that is going to survive 2012 but those who have criticized her, mostly Native Americans, are going to be cleansed away 2012.
That was a very short summary of what was said. And there were a lot more..
