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Serle Lovell Chapman aka Rain Bear Stands Last, claims Romani, MMIW Filmmaker
cellophane:
Looks like the two of them used to run Indian tours while they were still living in the U.S.
Both Sarah Ann Gilbertson and Serle Lovell Chapman are listed as directors of Bear Print International, Limited, Unit 3 Chapel Mews, Grange Moor, Wakefield WF4 4EG, West Yorkshire, from 9/23/1997 to 10/3/2006:
https://www.companieslist.co.uk/03438317-bear-print-international-limited
The company is described in this 2013 "Alternative Travel" guidebook:
https://books.google.com/books?id=7W5TAQAAQBAJ&lpg=PA71&pg=PA71
--- Quote ---Bear Print International
Tours to Native American lands and communities run with tribal leaders and Native American educators and cultural representatives. Tours aim to give a real insight into the history and lives of Native Americans, rather than the tourist stereotypes. Trips to different regions and tribes including the Navajo, Lakota (Sioux), Cheyenne and Blackfeet. Bear Print also publishes The Trail of Many Spirits by Serle Chapman, about the history and contemporary culture of Native America.
PO Box 1, Wakefield, West Yorkshire WF4 4YB
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I'd be curious to know how she picked an Inuit name. Perhaps the Indianz.com article has more details.
Sparks:
--- Quote from: cellophane on July 09, 2022, 04:19:37 am ---I'd be curious to know how she picked an Inuit name. Perhaps the Indianz.com article has more details.
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I found this July 4 (2022) article: https://indianz.substack.com/p/famous-last-words-rain-bear-stands-last
--- Quote ---‘If you deny a people their identity…’
Famous last words from Rain Bear Stands Last [Indianz.Com Jul 4]
If you haven’t checked out the latest Substack on Pretendian Country Today, you’re missing out on quite the tale, as Rain Bear Stands Last and his wife Sara Atiqtalik (these names are inventions, btw) just might be the first Pretendian figures to have originated from the United Kingdom.
They also appear to be the first Pretendian characters whose grift was aided and abetted by the U.S. government! We’re calling it the Pretendian Witness Protection Program (tm).
Sadly, though, Rain’s tactics, along with those of his wife, are the same as Pretendians who are born and bred on Turtle Island. Expect trauma-dumping, guilt-tripping and plenty of applications for COVID-19 relief as Pretendian Country Today spills the tea on this British couple in an ongoing series.
Still, few in the Pretendian game have leveled up as strongly as Rain, who managed to convince Dr. Phil and his television program that he is a “tribal filmmaker” and a “Roma tribal member.” Quite the feat — duping one of Oprah Winfrey’s protégés.
But all Pretendian figures tell on themselves in one fashion or another. And Rain did the same when Dr. Phil asked why no one seems to care when actual American Indian and Alaska Native people go missing and murdered.
“If you deny a people their identity,” Rain told Dr. Phil, “they become invisible.”
Clips from the Dr. Phil episode titled “Missing and Murdered in Montana” below.
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Boldings in the original text. The two phrases in italics are clickable links there.
I cannot access anything at www.drphil.com/ (Error 405 Not allowed), but I can watch the three videos at YouTube.
Googling "Sara Atiqtalik" gives some interesting links. I will revert about them.
Sparks:
--- Quote from: Sparks on July 09, 2022, 02:24:10 pm ---I found this July 4 (2022) article: https://indianz.substack.com/p/famous-last-words-rain-bear-stands-last
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At the top of the article there is a 59 seconds long video from the Dr. Phil show. Here Serle Chapman is introduced as "Rain — ROMA TRIBAL MEMBER" and "Rain — EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR - GLOBAL INDIGENOUS COUNCIL".
According to Google, Serle Chapman is the one and only "ROMA TRIBAL MEMBER" on the entire visible Internet. As for that other entity (not mentioned before here in the NAFPS forum) there is a lot to be found. Here are a few top hits:
https://www.globalindigenouscouncil.com/homepage
--- Quote ---The Global Indigenous Council (GIC)
"Founded by a resolution of the Great Plains Tribal Chairman’s Association, the Global Indigenous Council (GIC) has members from the Americas to Australasia. It has published a manifesto, provided testimony to the US Senate, contributed to the acclaimed documentary Remaking the Sacred Hoop, presented official declarations on behalf of 130 tribes to the State of Wyoming opposing its trophy hunt of the sacred grizzly bear, and has formulated a now operational ID card 'to provide primary tribal and sovereign status to tribes and those tribal people with no nation, state, territorial or provincial official identification of standing.'
As stated in founding GIC resolutions: 'Many tribes outside of North America do not have the legal standing afforded by treaties with colonial, nation-states. As a result, the sovereignty of those tribes is consistently threatened, and the rights of those tribal citizens are routinely undermined or ignored, due to a lack of documented legal status.'"
NATIVE NEWS ONLINE [https://nativenewsonline.net/]
Current and Urgent Work:
In conjunction with the Rocky Mountain Tribal Leaders Council and the Great Plains Tribal Chairmans Association, GIC is implementing Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women (#MMIW) initiatives to counter the endemic devastation being wrought on our communities by murders and assaults on Native women, children, and two-spirit people. We are currently engaged with lawmakers in the US Congress and Senate to deliver bi-partisan legislation to fight this onslaught against our lifegivers, youth and children.
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https://www.globalindigenouscouncil.com/
--- Quote ---STATEMENT BY RAIN
Periodically, allegations are made against people who work in or with the Tribal community. Some arise from rumor and innuendo, some from a lack of clarity or misrepresentation in reports, some from genuine confusion, and some from tabloid sensationalism and worse. It has come to my attention that I am now the subject of such, joining the likes of Suzan Shown Harjo (Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient), Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Sovereign Bodies Institute founder Annita Lucchesi, Johnny Depp, and hundreds of others on a so-called “list” that is described as being constructed from the “use of lateral violence, colonial trauma, and colonial recognition as weaponized structures.” Should you have any interest in this gibberish, the central “claims” being made about me are addressed in the affidavits and statements that can be read in full on this page.
Thanks for visiting the site. Now I’m going back to work.
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https://www.indigenouswatchdog.org/background-content/theme/indigenous-alliances/environment/
--- Quote ---January 1, 2018 — Global Indigenous Council
“Founded by a resolution of the Great Plains Tribal Chairman’s Association, the Global Indigenous Council (GIC) has members from the Americas to Australasia.
“GIC’s mission includes membership, representation and participation for all tribal nations in the four hemispheres. The challenges, crises, and legacy of colonial conquest are not unique to the Americas. Throughout Europe, Africa, Asia, Australasia and Oceania, the experience of indigenous peoples replicates ours.
A purpose of GIC is to bring unity, re-establish ancient relationships, develop new alliances, exchange knowledge, and find commonality in our shared purpose of vision and strength for our future generations.”
Great Plains Tribal Chairman’s Association Resolution. January 2018. https://www.globalindigenouscouncil.com/
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Global Indigenous Council's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7qk5DjyBNZifNY_Mr0qiQw
Global Indigenous Council's Twitter Account: https://twitter.com/globalindigeno1
Global Indigenous Council's Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/globalindigenouscouncil
--- Quote from: educatedindian on January 05, 2022, 09:24:48 pm ---On several sites he describes himself as Romani, even wearing a t shirt saying Gypsy.
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Photo of that here: https://speakforwolves.org/conference/2021-program/rain-bear-stands-last-filmmaker-global-indigenous-council/
Sparks:
--- Quote from: Sparks on July 09, 2022, 02:24:10 pm ---Googling "Sara Atiqtalik" gives some interesting links. I will revert about them.
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Sara Atiqtalik at Linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sara-atiqtalik-45bb151a3?original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F
"Sara Atiqtalik — National Coordinator at Alter-Native Media - Billings, Montana, United States".
Sara Atiqtalik at Quora: https://www.quora.com/profile/Sara-Atiqtalik
Sara Atiqtalik mentioned as 'spokeswoman' or 'GOAL Tribal Coalition’s national coordinator'; etc., in all these articles:
https://news.yahoo.com/yellowstone-area-grizzlies-no-longer-protection-u-says-120328825.html
https://www.outdoornews.com/2015/05/18/grizzly-bear-czar-taken-to-task-by-western-tribal-leaders/
https://www.indianz.com/News/2015/017198.asp
https://wyofile.com/tribal-alliance-fights-to-maintain-yellowstone-grizzly-protections/
https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/wildlife/montana-wyoming-tribes-formally-oppose-grizzly-bear-delisting/article_67f9dc10-9860-11e4-b5e5-4f3c6ea3a637.html
Article by Sara Atiqtalik (Censored News): https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2015_05_09_archive.html
Facebook Profile: https://www.facebook.com/sara.atiqtalik.5 [Sara Atiqtalik (Sara)]
I found posts by that profile in these two groups:
https://www.facebook.com/MMNAWM/ [Missing and Murdered Native Americans]
https://www.facebook.com/hopirelief/ [Hopi Relief] (See also: https://hopirelief.org/)
https://www.facebook.com/MMNAWM/posts/786278532016920
https://www.facebook.com/hopirelief/posts/hello-everybody-wanted-to-let-you-know-about-this-opportunity-no-acting-experien/546687027049698/
cellophane:
--- Quote --- Sara Atiqtalik aka Sarah Ann Gilbertson aka Sarah Mathuin aka Sarah Anna Mathuin aka Sara Anna Mathuin aka Sarah Chapman
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Mathúin is Irish for 'bear', and atiqtalik is eastern Inuktitut for 'polar bear with cubs'. I guess these guys really like bears, as well as having various ethnic identities.
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