Author Topic: Julia Ann Kern AKA Sweet Medicine Nation - Four Winds Foundation - Oregon  (Read 11752 times)

Epiphany

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http://www.sweetmedicinenation.com/index.html

http://www.fwfoundation.com/

http://www.earthpeoplesunited.org/wisdom_keepers/11-sweet-medicine-nation

She married Good Horse Nation in 1991 Oregon, her name listed was Sweet Medicine Kern at the time. Don't know if they are still married. She was born in 1948. Don't yet know her original first name or the name of her parents. She claims Chickasaw/Choctaw descent. She also claims she was "adopted by the Lakota people when she was 24 and started practicing their ways".

Good Horse and Sweet Medicine Nation ran the now inactive corporation Ableza Tiospaye Inc http://www.bizapedia.com/or/ABLEZA-TIOSPAYE-INC.html

In 2006 the Oregon Board of Massage Therapists dealt with allegations that SMN was advertising and practicing massage without a license, they issued a notice and a civil penalty fee.

http://www.oregon.gov/OBMT/archive/2006-01-minutes.pdf

From a 2003 essay about Good Horse Nation:

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I was living in Portland, OR at the time, and I was fortunate enough to chance upon a fellow in his 50s named Good Horse Nation, (Oyate Shunka Wakan) who had been raised on a reservation in Dakota, and still did traditional sweat lodges. By traditional, I mean that not only were the rituals and myths from Lakota Sioux mythology, but all the songs sung inside were in the Lakota tongue. There were some prayers and statements of intent made within the lodge in English, but basically, I had to learn a whole new language to participate.

http://www.erowid.org/spirit/sweating/sweating_article1.shtml

[Just changed title-Al]
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Epiphany

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Re: Sweet Medicine Nation - Four Winds Foundation - Oregon
« Reply #1 on: September 03, 2013, 10:47:49 pm »
She uses the name Sweet Medicine Nation for her non profit, religious foundation Four Winds Foundation http://egov.sos.state.or.us/br/pkg_web_name_srch_inq.show_detl?p_be_rsn=832088&p_srce=BR_INQ&p_print=FALSE

Also uses that name for county assessor and some other public records, including a 1993 record that has her exact birth date. Since she is Sweet Medicine Kern in marriage record 1991, and a Julia Ann Kern has that exact same birth date, I'm working with the assumption that Sweet Medicine Nation = Julia Ann Kern, born in Butte County, California, mother's maiden name Fitzgerald.

Sweet Medicine Nation at Monte Alban http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heoDn5wXhsk

Wisdom Keeper: Sweet Medicine Nation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4H0Jpu_7MU

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/sweet-medicine-nation/20/72b/a1a


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Sweet Medicine Nation's Publications

    She Walked Amongst Us
        Sisters, Oregon
        February 2009
    Authors: Sweet Medicine Nation
The story, retold of White Buffalo Calf Woman and her message to the world.

    Sacred Hoop Teachings
        Portland, Oregon
        1991
    Authors: Sweet Medicine Nation
These teachings cover two years of study, introducing,and providing the study of Indigenous perspective from the feminine side of life.
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Re: Sweet Medicine Nation - Four Winds Foundation - Oregon
« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2013, 11:43:44 am »
http://www.bbb.org/oregon/business-reviews/holistic-practitioners/nation-sweet-medicine-in-bend-or-22046515
This Business is not BBB Accredited
Nation Sweet Medicine
(541) 549-8750
2195 NE Professional Ct, Bend, OR 97701
 ! There is an alert for this business !
According to information in BBB files, this company is no longer in business. If you have an unresolved dispute with this company you may wish to seek legal advice.

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Don't know if she's quit, retired, or what.
I did notice she seems to work on water conservation quite a bit. Bad news is she seems to give lots of lectures to kids, plus the faux feminist empowerment for women that seems to be her mainstay, a lot of showing white women pots of water and talking about being vessels.

Epiphany

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Re: Sweet Medicine Nation - Four Winds Foundation - Oregon
« Reply #3 on: September 04, 2013, 04:08:24 pm »
She looks to be still very active, with her own foundation and with Earth Peoples United. Wish she would stick to water conservation and agricultural type projects.

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Advisory Team

David Carson (Choctaw) – Author & Lectures
Felipe Ortega (Apache) – Smithsonian potter

http://www.fwfoundation.com/about/team/


Wonder if this David Carson is http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=1608.msg10115#msg10115 (Later edit: this is the same David Carson http://www.thefourelements.org/about/ )
Felipe Ortega does Apache Two Spirit Sweatlodge http://www.felipeortega.com/sweatlodge.html
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Re: Sweet Medicine Nation - Four Winds Foundation - Oregon
« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2017, 04:38:51 pm »
Sweet Medicine Nation is still active. Her nonprofit Four Winds Foundation is current http://egov.sos.state.or.us/br/pkg_web_name_srch_inq.show_detl?p_be_rsn=832088&p_srce=BR_INQ&p_print=FALSE

She holds sweat lodges, vision quests, and other ceremonies http://www.fwfoundation.com/ She regularly works with Erick Gonzalez.

The land she was on, Deer Haven in Terrebonne Oregon, recently changed hands, she moved out. I don't know if she was ever able to completely purchase the land http://www.bendbulletin.com/news/1425214-151/editorial-deschutes-needs-solution-to-deer-haven-issue Because she solicited help on Facebook for moving everything, including pots and pans, I assume the land was not turned over to someone in her group.

Her names include Julia Anne Kern, Julia Anne Prince, Julia Horse Nation, Sweet Medicine Nation. Kern her birth surname, Prince and Nation are both married surnames. My sources include Facebook, Family Search, and public Oregon records.

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Name    Julia Ann Kern
Event Type    Birth
Event Date    19 Apr 1948
Event Place    Butte, California, United States
Gender    Female
Mother's Name    Fitzpatrick

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VLB1-4YD

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Name    Sweet Medicine Nation
Residence Date    02 May 2006
Residence Place    Portland, Oregon, United States
Birth Date    19 Apr 1948

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K1YL-TCX


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Sweet Medicine Nation is Chickasaw/Chocktaw Indian. She was adopted by the Lakota people when she was 24 and started practicing their ways.

http://www.nuggetnews.com/archives/20041027/front12.shtml


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She was married to Good Horse Nation from 1991 to 1998. She changed her name in 1994.

During their marriage they ran Ableza Tiospaye, Inc. in Oregon.

From 1998 - 2002 Good Horse Nation had the company Cannup Uha Spiritual Encampment.

Good Horse Nation was born in 1939. I don't know his birth name.

He held sweat lodges:

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I was living in Portland, OR at the time, and I was fortunate enough to chance upon a fellow in his 50s named Good Horse Nation, (Oyate Shunka Wakan) who had been raised on a reservation in Dakota, and still did traditional sweat lodges. By traditional, I mean that not only were the rituals and myths from Lakota Sioux mythology, but all the songs sung inside were in the Lakota tongue. There were some prayers and statements of intent made within the lodge in English, but basically, I had to learn a whole new language to participate.

https://erowid.org/spirit/sweating/sweating_article1.shtml

He is quoted as being supportive of Rajneesh/Osho in the book "Messiahs: the visions and prophecies for the Second Coming".

In a poetry magazine, New York Quarterly, 1996, can be seen a brief snippet of description:

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Nope, I'm just another sorry white boy with a good attitude, but a funny thing happened to me on the way to the Phony Farm: I met Good Horse Nation, A phony like me, a half-breed



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Re: Julia Ann Kern AKA Sweet Medicine Nation - Four Winds Foundation - Oregon
« Reply #7 on: February 10, 2017, 11:19:37 pm »
Kern is doing more ceremony selling with Erick Gonzalez, the white Guatemalan living in California who poses as a Mayan teacher. This bit of spiritual tourism will be in Guatemala.
http://www.sweetmedicinenation.com/speaking/
July 1-11 Sacred Workshop Retreat Santiago, Guatemala

Seemingly they plan to do so longterm, for 10 years.
http://www.earthpeoplesunited.org/events/110-events-with-sweet-medicine-nation
Events with Sweet Medicine Nation Feb 08, 2017 to Feb 28, 2027

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Just an update to say that she's still going strong. Here are some of the latest:

From her website: https://www.sweetmedicinenation.com/about-2/

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Sweet Medicine Nation is a gifted artist, educator, lecturer, and medicine Teacher and guide. With her eloquence, wisdom, and gifts she’s dedicated her life to offering opportunities for people to experience conscious and deep connection with nature and spirit, through indigenous education and ceremony.

Intro to Smudging

Learn about the history and power of smudging through an indigenous lens with my smudging ebook!

https://www.sweetmedicinenation.com/meet-sweet-medicine-nation/ :
Meet Sweet Medicine Nation
Contact Sweet Medicine to begin your journey to balance, renewal, recovery, and joyful flow with life and the Natural, Indigenous Ways.

Sweet Medicine Nation offers a free 30 minute consultation.

After your consultation, she will outline the steps and suggest how she can serve you, using her years of training, teaching and healing work with her clients and students. Begin to see through Native Eyes, no matter who you are, or what path you walk.

Contact Sweet Medicine Nation today for this free chat and begin to fly like a Hummingbird again.

https://www.sweetmedicinenation.com/ceremonies-2/ :
Ceremonies
Hoop Teachings with Sweet Medicine

In groups of men, women, and children, we share intimate conversations on how to live more sustainably, using native/natural ways of the Americas.

Primitive skills, Spirit guided crafts, fostering respectful attitudes, and indigenous values. We discuss and define the reasons for Rites of Passage, and why there are needed and participated in today.

Sweat Lodge Ceremony

Sweat lodge is for cleansing, purifying, and connecting to Spirit and the community. It is our hospital, university and birthplace. This ceremony takes place in a small, covered willow structure, where water is poured onto heated stones to create steam. Sweating is not only a physical purification, but a spiritual one. Many emotions, thoughts, and personal issues may come up during a sweat as we purge what we no longer need. Sweet Medicine pours water (leads sweat lodges) for groups and individuals.

Monthly lodges Sherwood Oregon Hummingbird Hill at 2 pm. All are welcome!
Joining Ceremonies or Weddings

We create together the ceremony you have always wanted. Incorporate symbols and ritual that are meaningful to you as a couple and create an unforgettable & sacred ceremony. Sweet Medicine works with couples to design a ceremony that is unique to our special spiritual connection with one another.

Cutting Away Ceremony

If something is holding you back from living the life you deserve, whether it’s a relationship, job, location, or to release something of the past, this powerful ceremony assist you in gain new perspectives and clear insight’s to move your life forward.  Group or Individual sessions.

Vision Quest Ceremony

Vision Quest is a Native American rite of passage, which many cultures. The ceremony is one of the most universal and ancient means to find spiritual guidance and purpose for One’s life. A Vision Quest offers clarity into the next phase of life.

Traditionally this ceremony is four days and nights of fasting in nature within a sacred altar.  These Vision Quests are held in the annual camp with Supporters, in keeping the sacred fire for those Pledges while they complete this Rite.   

Those who choose this walk, are called Pledges. When one pledges, we call it  “walking toward the mountain.”  Pledges go through extensive months of preparations. Each pledge is “planted” in their own sacred altars, and they are seeking a vision/clarity for their lives. In our way, the Great Mystery is the name for Great Spirit, source of all life, or God.

Each Pledges is trained individually, to go deeply into their soul connection with Great Mystery, learn to trust again in their connection, and all the while they are fasting and praying thru this camp, asking for re-connection to their original position, and waiting for the answers..

Feather Doctoring

This non-physical ancient art of doctoring with feathers, is an ancient method, which clears and realigns energy threads around you. It is a passive and beneficial “breath of fresh air.” Relaxing seen and unseen tensions from your life

Honoring Ceremonies for Children and Adults

Cross culturally for all adolescent girls marks a pivotal time of feminine development. It truly is an unfolding of trust, innocence, truth, self, and BEAUTY.  The Sacred Feminine embodies freedom, contemplation, love, friendship, at the heart of each girl’s being. Experiential activities and ceremony are created for girls to step into the next phase of development.

Our girls rites of passage ceremonies support the transition from ‘girl’ to ‘young woman’ to occur with confidence and peace. The underpinnings of this offering are inclusive of all spiritual preferences, while honoring Indigenous perspectives (what is natural at one’s core). It is a continuation or beginning for a young woman and each mother alike to ask herself, “What does it mean to be a woman on Mother Earth, in our times?”

On Sacred Ground we welcome our young men into manhood. By rekindling the authentic warrior through ceremony, the confusion and pain of adolescence can become fuel in the fire of transformation to adulthood…not as combatants, these warriors learn awareness and self-mastery in preparation for living in a challenging world.  Participants rediscover their connection to nature, as a protector and steward.

Pass Over Ceremonies

Sweet Medicine facilitates Funeral and Memorials for your loved ones with a Nature-based focus. She emphasizes sensitivity through this non-denominational Program and the fostering support for those grieving.

House Blessings

Homes, buildings, and land all need to be honored and blessed when new to us. These ceremonies are beneficial for saying goodbye to your old home, apartment, or office.

Upcoming Events

Monthly sweat lodges in Sherwood, Oregon at Hummingbird Hill at 12 pm. All are welcome!

South American Tour January 1-April

Sweet Medicine is traveling in South America