Received another report on him from a former associate. Some parts were altered to hide their identity.
"He is 1/2 Choctaw (mother is full blood, he was supposedly born on a choctaw reservation in Oklahoma) and 1/4 Lakota (his father is 1/2 Lakota and 1/2 Scottish.) He grew up spending lots of time on the Lakota reservation, learning medicine ways and also learning about magic from a Lakota 'witch' woman that taught him how to protect himself from bad karma coming back on him. This gets really twisted but he assured me he was a good person who just wanted to learn the dark ways to protect himself from it.
Has a four year degree from the university of Texas."
(Al's note: There are at least six different "Universities of Texas." The most likely was probably U of North Texas.)
"for me it was a degree in Business (not anthropology or various other subjects he's told people. One personals ad site of his, had him listed with a Master's degree. )
Name on his driver's license does say Michael Gregory Stuart. Got a glimpse of it when he was visiting.
Travels to Europe several times a year on business, to teach people about native ways there and sell his artwork. He says he makes enough in two conferences to live on for many many months. (He did mention giving some of the money to needy children on the Rosebud reservation, but who he goes through I have no idea.)
Last I heard from him was during the sumer, living with his parents in Lewisville TX after leaving San Diego a few months before.
None of his artwork shows an enrollment number or anything on the tags that come with it, like legitimate native artwork. He had some excuse for this, buys a lot of jewelry on trips to New Mexico where his sister lives, from the Navajo. He also buys star quilts and other items from Lakota people on Rosebud. One woman he deals with, is a "Grace Broken Leg" who makes star quilts.
Contacts women via the internet. I have seen where he will write women he likes on their website guestbooks, usually dropping some hint about how Indian he is. That seems to be his big selling point.
He goes by the handles "M_redthunder" "NDNLOVE", "NDN_LOVE (on match), "NDNLOVER", "NDNMAGIC", "MAGICNDN". Googling these names will pull up several recent ones. He always laughs it away and explains that it was just a joke. there is no accountability.
Didn't see him do any ceremonies, or ask for one. He talked a good bit to me about them and seemed very knowledgeable.
Told me once that he had done Yuwipi ceremonies, where the puppy is sacrificed to save a person dying of cancer or other."
(Al's note: Can anyone confirm this to be true? First I ever heard of any such practice.)
"I asked if he charged for them, and he said "You don't think a medicine man would do any of this stuff for free do you?" He said that whoever is initiating the ceremony, should pay the medicine man whatever they would pay a doctor for same treatment.
I wonder if the people in Europe are forking over lots of cash to him upfront. It sure sounded like it, and like he has quite a following there.
He helps out with those fake tribes in Germany and such. When I asked him if that didn't upset him, that people over there were stealing his culture and misusing it, he sneeringly replied "As long as they buy my artwork, I don't care what they do."
He sold items to people wanted to pay by check but he insisted that they leave the "TO:" blank and he would fill it in later, as he was not sure that he wanted to cash it through his business name, or to his father who could in turn pay him cash when he got back to TX.
He claims to be in a high position of authority, with AIM. He has people telling him about what events are upcoming and so forth.
He is not "violent in his speech". He was very pleasant, and funny, and charming with sort of a twisted humor. I think he just likes to charm various girlfriends all over and live with them for a while. But I didn't feel in any danger from him.
He was on a website of a woman named Valeria Valenti, an underwear designer who used to live in California. He did some underwear modeling for her on her product pages. Maybe they were involved.
http://www.something-wild-in-california.com/whatsgoinon.html She was into native religion, and he was probably mentoring her. She removed him from her friends list, and then moved to PA suddenly right before he moved to TX."
