New video today:
Making a Noise : Why Natives Should Protest Kiesha Crowtherhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyolOPbu_gowyomingoutdoorsman | Feb 25, 2011 | 4 likes, 0 dislikes
The purpose of this video is to motivate people to protest Kiesha Crowther aka Little Grandmother. She is a charlatan. She has no compassion for Native people and she is not concerned that she is harming future generations by confusing authentic traditions with imitation rituals and non-Indian occult practices in an offensive and harmful pseudo-religious hodgepodge. Her activities create a momentous obstacle in the struggle of traditional people for mainstream recognition of our legitimate political, legal and spiritual concerns. She is doing great harm to native peoples because her bogus teachings supplant Native values of cooperation, generosity, sharing, honesty, and courage with vapid, narcissistic New Age self-centered values.
She refuses to deal honestly with the Native people she has outraged and offended and she will only acknowledge a vague, unnamed "elder" to validate the ridiculous story she has concocted to justify her exploitation, abuse and deliberate misrepresentation of sacred traditions.
Kiesha Crowther has no wisdom to teach. She should be learning a lessons from Native and environmental activists, not demonizing them and telling to stop thinking.
Kiesha Crowther is not the fulfillment of any Native prophesies. She is nothing more than a cult leader who promotes abominable and obscene imitations of sacred Lakota rites while promoting a dangerous and destructive philosophy that violates an individual's basic human right to reason, analyze and attribute his own meaning to the world around him.
I call on all our indigenous brothers and sisters from reservations, reserves, and traditional communities in the United States and Canada to actively and vocally oppose this alarming take-over and systematic destruction of sacred traditions.
I urge all indigenous people to coordinate with their tribal members living in urban areas to identify instances in which our sacred traditions are being abused, and then to resist this abuse, utilizing whatever specific tactics are necessary and sufficient.
As indigenous people, we all need to take strong action to ensure that our culture would be carried on by the younger generations, and by the generations yet to come. Our relatives have sacrificed in many areas to ensure that both our language and way of life will always survive and flourish for us not to take action against those who thoughtless exploit our life ways for money.
For more information, see this Press Release from AIM Santa Barbara:
http://is.gd/DeAs7Hhttp://www.aimsb.org/library/KCrowtherPressRelease.pdfIf you can't participate in the Little Grandmother protest, there are still things you can do to take a stand against her exploitation.
http://is.gd/U2frecJoin the Facebook group: League of Pissed off NDNZ for updates:
http://is.gd/Q5cOcfThe music you're listening to is Making a Noise by Robbie Robertson. You can get it here:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/robbie-robertson/id657429
"She has fabricated an identity in the style of racist white fantasies of native culture. She has created a hodge podge of New Age nonsense that trivializes and minimizes the beauty and complexity of indigenous ceremonial lifeways while erasing the uniqueness and diversity of individual tribal beliefs."
"Kiesha Crowther has demonstrated contempt for the integrity of the spiritual practices she distorts."
*** NOTE - video includes a brief but very clear image of the dead from one of the massacres ***
