Grandmother Medicine Song served as long-term apprentice to several American Indian Elders and teachers, specifically,
Chief Dan Evehema (Hopi)
Sun Bear (Chippewa)
Fire Dog (Navajo)
Grandfather Rolling Thunder (Shoshone/Cherokee)
Grandmother Snowdeer (Olgala Sioux)
Grandmother Moon Shadow (Zuni)
Her Grandmother Violet Hoonawu Lolama (Hopi, Third Mesa)
Her Great Aunt Tishoma Hoonawu Lolama (Hopi)
Her Uncle Tom Banyanca (Hopi, Second Mesa)
Longtime members already know that some of her teachers are frauds. But for others viewing this thread:
Sun Bear AKA Vincent Laduke, Anishnaabe who did a fake version of Lakota beliefs, set up the Bear Tribe cult of white hippies.
Rolling Thunder was actually John Pope, retired white railroad worker claiming to be "Chickamauga" a common claim of people with distant or invented claims of being Cherokee. He married a Shoshone woman, was not one himself. Led white hippies in a commune based in an old brothel, fooling the likes of the Grateful Dead.
Dan Evahema was an extremely elderly Hopi man used and misrepresented by exploiters.
Banyacya (correct spelling) has also been misused by exploiters, but was strongly against precisely what Leckron and others do. Isn't it bizarre she can't spell her alleged relative and teacher's name?
The Hopi ancestry claims are unclear and need more looking at. But what she teaches obviously is a mangling of claims about unrelated traditions. Very little of what she claims is Hopi or Native actually is. Moved to Frauds.
