Greetings to all. My name is Shannon and I am the biological daughter to Grant Hollister Smith aka Grant Redhawk aka Two Feathers. I found this thread in my search for one of my sisters and was quite dismayed by it, but I would like to interject some facts here. I do this knowing that I may receive an attack from this man of whom you speak. It would be far from the first, and I feel that speaking the truth and the benefits of it far outweighs the consequences. I attain that every word here is true and of my own personal knowledge base. Firstly, the names 'Redhawk' and 'Two Feathers' are self given. Due to my estrangement from him, it is unclear to me when exactly he took on these titles. In the home I was raised in, there was no talk on any ties to the Blackfoot Nation. I am of Mohawk decent on my mother's side. My Grandmother and Aunt being born on the reservation from what I was told, but I have no documentation on that yet unfortunately. In my adult years, I was told that I had a grandmother from the Blackfoot Nation on my father's side, who was brought into the family home to give birth to the child she carried and then was poisoned. The subsequent relative was then raised as white only, and this was supposedly kept as a 'dirty little secret' by the family. Horrifying and embarrassing! I am unsure if this information is correct, as the family members who gave me this information are far from trustworthy individuals. To my knowledge, I have not found or seen any documentation to back up that this man has any right to consider himself an elder of any tribal nation and this is a very misleading title to entertain himself with. Due to the mental, physical and sexual abuse that my mother, I and several of my sisters received from this man, I find it extremely anxiety provoking to know that he could possibly be holding himself in any type of capacity as an authority that may directly or indirectly effect the people who he is in contact with on a spiritual, mental or physical level. The idea that he may be not only misleading people, but doing so for profit is a very scary prospect to me. In this thread, I noticed my daughter's name brought up as Rahne Redhawk. As stated before, the Redhawk title is incorrect and self given. This hurt me in particular, as I do not want his name tied to my children in any way! I can not stress that enough. Just weeks after my daughter's death in 2012, this man sent me a horrific letter gloating over her death, stating that I deserved to experience that pain as payback for testifying against him in court, to keep him from further abusing my youngest sister. I will not include that letter here as I am aware of your policy about violence and bad language, but as you can try to imagine, it was unfathomably horrific and can attest to the fact that he should not be considered as an honorable spiritual advisor in any way, shape or form. I am not sure how to obtain the police records from that incident, but I did make a report and filed it with the Mayfield New York Troopers office, and was told that he was spoken to about no further contact with me. I was in no frame of mind to pursue that any further, but he had also sent similar messages to my mother and sister at the time. They chose not to pursue it at all. The abuse of my childhood is not on record to my knowledge, although there were several child abuse inquiries to my recollection, we were all too afraid to talk. During that time, people tended to shut their mouth and turn a blind eye to that type of thing. We lived in a very small community, which did not help in that regard, however MANY knew of the abuse and had witnessed some of it. I am giving this information ONLY to show what this man is capable of doing to his own flesh and blood, and the thought of him continuing such atrocities on anyone else continues to haunt me to this day. If my words do nothing else but open the eyes and intuitions of even one person, saving them the grief that I have lived through, then I feel that the humiliation of these truths being made public will not be in vain. I wish you all peace and blessings. Your intuition to question the validity of this individual was correct.
