E.P. - why are you writing on this forum about comet impacts and other unrelated matters? What does that have to do with the mandate of NAFPS? Why is this all about you, your professions of being an authority, your claims of being NDN, your expression of beliefs concerning history and cultures?
All the rest of us here have done things, are doing things, but unless it is relevant we don't go on and on about it. We've ended up examining your claims because you keep tossing them out to derail conversations.
I'd like you to stop using this forum to bash other people.
Your supposed attempts at humor are not working. Your claims of health issues don't excuse you, many of us here have such challenges and we do not use them as an excuse. You have been wrong here on several points and you are not listening to correction.
I started following up on your most recent claims and then realized you are basically trolling us. We have more important work to do.
Well, Piff -
As a journalist I have long experience in telling people things that they do not wish to hear.
keely only ran my ancestry part way.
Then Ingebourg brought all of those matters concerning my professional reputation up, not me.
I suppose I should thank her, as I have discovered several people either imitating me,
and putting words into my mouth that I did not say.
With very deliberate intent.
I can appreciate the feelings when long lost distant relatives show up asking for something
after you've come into some money.
That is not what I am about.
I can understand that the word "tribe' has certain privileges on a federal level,
and that federal tribes resent states recognizing "tribes" and giving them similar privileges.
That is not what I am about.
And I can understand resentment against those who "passed" in the past.
Those are issues in which I have no beef.
At any time over the last 40 years or so either the Eastern Band or the Absentee Band could have dropped those European descriptive words "Eastern" or "Absentee"
from their names and called themselves THE Shawnee.
They did not.
There are Shawnee rights regarding the remains of ceremonial sites in Ohio.
There are also unresolved Shawnee land rights in Ohio.
Then there might be casino rights,
which any manager of any casino might be interested in.
That is definitively a mater which does not concern me.
There was been a major con man who made Shawnee descendants his victims.
There was a traditional Shawnee history, and a modern Shawnee history after European contact.
Both are of great interest to me.
As to why I wrote "my" book, asteroids and comets do not hit that often.
European history goes back only 500 years, while the rest is remembered in Native Histories.
If you read Vine DeLoria's introduction to "They say the Wind is Red", you will find an excellent summary of the way traditional histories are treated by many people in academia.
Many peoples remembered these asteroid and comet impacts,
and remembered where they were when they occurred.
NASA is sending a probe to Europa instead of placing a telescope in space to find these things before they hit.
The amount of money involved is $1 Billion dollars or so.
But also at stake are many many lives.
That is what concerns me.
I'd like it if some people here stopped using this forum to bash me,
and get back to the business at hand, dealing with frauds.
If politely responding to slanders makes me a troll,
so be it.
I am a historian, was a journalist,
and coincidentally am 1/8 Shawnee by ancestry.
