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Ardy Sixkiller Clarke
E.P. Grondine:
http://www.theparacast.com/podcast/now-playing-february-24-2012-ardy-sixkiller-clarke/
Oh boy, "Ancient Aliens", the new package for "NuAge" nonsense.
Epiphany:
--- Quote ---Dr. Ardy Sixkiller Clarke, a Professor Emeritus at Montana State University, has dedicated her life and career to working with indigenous populations. She has been adopted and given traditional names by three Northern Plains tribes including the Blackfeet (Woman with Great Knowledge), the Northern Cheyenne (Walks all Woman) and the Lakota Sioux (Woman who Helps People).
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--- Quote ---While retired from academia, she continues to work as a consultant to American Indian tribes and indigenous communities worldwide and is currently working on a second volume of work about the indigenous people of Mexico and the Star People.
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http://www.sixkiller.com/
Epiphany:
In the past she ran "World's Indigenous Women's Foundation":
--- Quote ---"If you consider our struggle a part of your own survival, then you are welcome here."
This site was founded by Ardy Sixkiller Clarke, an American Indian author, university administrator/professor and an advocate/activist for the rights of indigenous women world-wide. You are invited to examine this site, contribute articles and testimony, and review the news related to indigenous women and women in third world countries. Men of goodwill, committed to the struggle of indigenous women, are invited to interact and collaborate with us in an effort to implement a global agenda for the rights of women of all ages throughout the world.
Ardy Sixkiller Clarke, 6/30/99
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This from 2005 archived copy of sixkiller.com
She's asked directly if she is NDN here, she replies that she is but "not a full blood".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfD9kJJ6j_k
educatedindian:
Her former name was Ardy Bowker. She did some notable respected work on education, studying dropouts. Professor Emeritus is commonly the title given to a retired professor with a long career at one institution.
It's odd that she always says NDN but never which tribe, and even odder that she would make a point of claiming adoption by three different tribes. (For newcomers and outsiders, it's long established that tribes don't adopt, only individuals and families.)
Her UFO book seems to be mostly NDNs today describing UFO encounters, not oral traditions about star people as the book title suggests. And really, should it be a surprise that NDNs are not exempt from the UFO phenomena.
If Clarke really wanted NDN accounts of aliens to gain credibility for the study of UFOs, I can't think of a worser way to go about it. What you'd want to do is bring these accounts to the attention of scholars, historians, physicists, psychoanalysts. The last thing you'd do is go to UFO conferences. That is, unless your aim was to make money as a speaker, or receive the acclaim of UFO devotees.
E.P. Grondine:
For me from what I know now, her prior work on UFO encounters and her understanding of them in Lakota terms is a matter between her and the Lakota elders, though I would like to read more research.
What is really worrisome to me is her taking on Mayan materials without talking to Maya elders. And I am very worried that she will be sharing her understanding of Hopi, Navaho, and Zuni traditions in the same manner.
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