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Six months ago we were asked to be part of the Standing Rock Water Protectors movement. We are now handling the virtual end of this - with almost 60,000 global members.

https://www.globalgiving.org/donate/16016/sanctuaries-of-the-earth-mother-inc/reports/

James P Petruzzi Jr and Susan Ilene (Carrigan) Petruzzi went bankrupt in 2015. Please do not give them money.

For the past 12 years she has worked directly with a pack of gray wolves. Wolves who accept her as a member and allow her to move among them.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120123055557/http://graywolfhealingjourneys.com/?page_id=20

Yet another reason to not give them money. Sue Petruzzi travels with wolves, so she obviously doesn't need any money.

Their current corporation Sanctuaries of The Mother Earth, Inc. was first incorporated in New Mexico, now they are in Colorado.

https://www.sos.state.co.us/biz/ViewImage.do?fileId=20151362151&masterFileId=20151362151

When #NoDAPL activists from the Standing Rock camps found out Petruzzi was behind that Facebook group and selling ceremony at the Sabal Trail camp, some prominent ones dropped their support of the Sabal Trail camp until Petruzzi is kicked out.

Word is he's been kicked out, but I'm still waiting to see how it pans out. Any claims on his part that he was asked by any reputable organizations to participate in fundraising,  ceremonies or activism are blatantly false.

I think it's clear the guy is a fraud and an exploiter, but I'll leave this in research needed for a bit longer to encourage folks to add info. Thanks for working on this, Piff.

According to one of his books https://www.amazon.com/White-Man-Road-Five-Colors/dp/0984653201/ref=nav_ya_signin?ie=UTF8&qid=1486260448&sr=8-1&keywords=jim+petruzzi& Petruzzi enrolled for a degree in natural resources at Colorado State University.

The President of the Native American Students association at the time was Lawrence Little Thunder.

While there, Petruzzi became involved in the Environmental Learning Center.

Petruzzi says he was asked to help sweat lodges be made available on the ELC land.

Through this project he met Lyman Yellowhair and George Two Bears.

In 1992 Jim moved to Colorado and began his tenure at Colorado State University. His main goal was to earn advanced degrees in the environmental field. The University asked him to run their non-profit Environmental Learning Center.

http://www.tavafullcircle.com/jimp.html

Jim Petruzzi has built a substantial part of his Nuage bio on people he knew at Colorado State University in the early 90s.

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Shortly after his arrival Jim met Carolyn Fiscus, a member of the Blackfoot tribe. Carolyn served as Jim’s first teacher in indigenous people’s studies.

Through Carolyn Jim met Lawrence Little Thunder and began more in depth studies of Lakota spirituality, beliefs and ceremony.

 Lyman Yellowhair, a medicine man of the Lakota, also began instructing Jim shortly thereafter.

As well as George Two Bears a year later.

http://www.tavafullcircle.com/jimp.html

GTB has long since passed away. Found his grandson's obituary.
http://www.keslingfuneralhome.net/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=3239555&fh_id=12468

Fiscus and Little Thunder are both academics, respectively nursing and psychology. Yellowhair I found mention of him as guilty of a misdemeanor, and nothing else. I briefly met his brother Milo some years ago at a conference when I was still a student. His model for decolonization is often used in AI/NA Studies.

Like others said, Petruzzi is taking either brief meetings or working together on non-spiritual issues and twisting to claim someone "instructed him in spirituality" or ceremony. Look at how he twisted a brief meeting with Ladonna Allard, someone we've known in here for over a decade.

Even briefly "living with" members of a people he twists to make him seem an expert or more holy. So what if he lived next to Garifuna? Tourists do so all the time. I traveled to Machu Pichu and met Quechua people all the time on that trip. It doesn't make me an expert, no more than a few Quechua students I've taught or Quechua I met at local Peruvian and Bolivian festivals around here.

If he were working on NoDAPL without self promotion, leaching away needed funds, or Nuage prosletyzing, it'd be different. His "drum circles" don't do a thing for NoDAPL. It's feel good nonsense for gullible whites playing NDN who don't want to do the hard work of actual activism.

"Spiritual Sacred Stones Camp '16 " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J75iEtDUhOA Jim Petruzzi claims that he quotes Ladonna Allard here.

Yeah, well, he pretends to respect women out one side of his mouth and spits on them out the other. Just read the vile insults against Indigenous women that he posts on his page when he lets his guard down, when he's not performing and pretending to be a spiritual person.

Ladonna has been doing public posts on FB for years now, and in order to reach as many people as possible to protect the water, began accepting any and all "friend" requests this year. She doesn't have the time to screen comments and requests, and rarely has time to delete even the most disturbing stuff. Some truly appalling people have posted on her page and it's been awful to see. Like many organizers at Standing Rock, she added livestream videos to her public page this spring. Unfortunately, we've seen that this gives strangers the idea that they know people and have some kind of relationship with them when, really, they don't. Not at all.

She has become a public figure, meeting with tens of thousands of people at this point and speaking to mainstream media. White strangers like him now know who she is and can quote her.  As she posted earlier, all the frauds have shown up at Standing Rock this summer, and no one can keep track or stop them all. Anyone who's read what she says among old friends knows what she thinks of these people. He is just the latest in a long line of boundary-violating culture vultures who thinks he knows someone because he watched a livestream, left a comment on a public page, or pestered a now-public figure in a crowd. It's shameful.