We received an email defending him from Sandra Paulsen of the Bainbridge Institute that has to be seen to be believed. She had a relationship with Cantrell and claims he *must* be Native because he has big feet. Then she went into an extended slander of a victim of Cantrell's, followed by the typical empty threat to sue.
Below is her email (defamation redacted) followed by my response.
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I am Dr. Sandra Paulsen, a licensed mental health professional in the state of Washington license number 00003111. My work is widely recognized, respected, and published internationally. You can see my curriculum vitae on my website at
http://www.bainbridgepsychology.com/. You can see my books at Amazon, and I have numerous book chapters and conference presentations as well.
I see that you are posting at
http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=4709.0 the terrible things a very disturbed person has said about Tim, probably [redacted, a long series of defamations from Paulsen] has slandered him to me, trying to interfere with our friendship, so I see exactly how she operates and it is extremely destructive.
I have known Tim for over twelve years and he is an honorable and deeply Native man. One look at his face tells any observer that he indeed has Native blood. His skin is red in the summer, his feet are wide like Native feet. He has a recognizably Siksika countenance. He learned Native ways from his grandmother Ida whom he revered. She never registered tribally as she resented the bureaucracy of the US government. His biological father, now deceased, is a prominent Siksika man who did not claim his “illegitimate” son. Tim’s family photos of his mother and her kin are obviously Native. He was raised among Siksika and Lakota tradition in California. He received the button blanket on working in the Pacific Northwest among Salish people.
Tim is not remotely New Age. He is an ordained priest who was slandered within the churchby [defamation against two women removed]. Tim consistently speaks out against New Age appropriations of Native spirituality. I am careful in my reference to Native understandings myself, having been schooled by Tim over a decade.
Tim conducts, on rare occasion, at my request, spiritual direction and NOT therapy, never psychotherapy, and my website clearly states that he is not a mental health professional, as part of the auspices of the Bainbridge Institute, for those of my clients who request a deeper understand of Native spiritual ways. Tim is deeply Native and very devout. He has potent spiritual energy which has been misperceived by some very troubled people in the past, including now [defamation against two women removed] To be clear, Tim and I previously had a romantic relationship, which was in no way secret, and always was entirely public and above board, from 2003 through 2010 approximately. We are still good friends, and I am also good friends with his wife Kathy, who is a lovely Native person. My husband Jim Hermanson is a good friend of Tim as well. I have enclosed a picture of the two hard working men felling a tree together. Tim is obviously Native in that and any other photograph.
I know Tim well and respect him as a person, a priest, and a Native elder. It is troubling that a man as spiritual and dedicated as Tim is and as honoring of Native ways as he is would be treated as badly as he is being treated on your site. I urge you in the strongest terms to remove from your site all references to Tim and all references to me and the Bainbridge Institute for Integrative Psychology. People can sling mud anytime they want, but honorable people don’t carry that mud forward.
[Irrelevant sanctimony removed.]
This horrible betrayal of the man and the slander by [redacted] will become part of the story I will write, as will the way you conduct yourself in response to this reasonable and heartelt request. Please don’t add to the injury of a good and decent man. I am confident that you will remove all these slanderous references to Tim and any references to me or my institute, in order to avoid any further trouble, including legal trouble. I have copied my attorney on this for the record.
Thank you, Dr Sandra Paulsen
Cc: Charles J. Ferrera, Attorney at Law
Tim Iistowanohpataakiiwa, M.A.
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Ms. Paulsen, some of the racist stereotypes in your posts are truly appalling. You do realize other people besides Natives have big feet and that Natives don't actually have "red skin"? What you write is one step away from saying he says "How! Ugh! Me likum!" I really have to question where you acquired such ugly racist beliefs.
On top of that, your sexism is almost as bad, repeating the "scorned woman" stereotype and engaging in personal attacks on the victims at length. This is beyond bigotry, all the way into being deeply unethical on your part.
Cantrell is part of one of the worst Nuage fraud outfits out there, the Matterns, a white family calling itself "Ghosthorse." Again this shows poor judgment and research on your part.
We will publish your claims online, minus your extended slander of a victim of Mr. Cantrell's. Others can judge for themselves how poorly your defamation and bigotry reflects on your institute.
