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General => Frauds => Topic started by: debbieredbear on February 15, 2006, 05:24:46 pm
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I know we used to have a thread on this fraud, but this came on my email today and I did not know that she has been denounced bt the Crow Tribe. Must be why she is now claiming Nez Perce and Cheyenne:
Alert - Re:
Brooke 'Medicine Eagle' Edwards
Abuse and Exploitation of American Indian Sacred Traditions
A Statement from the Center for the SPIRIT
One phenomenally successful exploiter of traditional Indian spirituality
is a woman named Brooke Edwards, who transacts her business under the
assumed name of "Brooke Medicine Eagle". Ms. "Medicine Eagle" operates
"spirituality camps" in Montana, charging as much as $1,500 per person
for the privilege of putting up a tent on her ranch for two weeks.
(Assuming that at least twenty people participate in each session, Ms.
"Medicine Eagle" takes in at least $30,000 every two weeks, all summer
long.) Ms. "Medicine Eagle" has been denounced by the Crow Tribe of
Montana, with whom she claims affiliation as a spiritual "teacher", for
misrepresenting and abusing the spiritual traditions of the Crow people
through her high-profit cottage industry. According to John Pretty On
Top, traditional Crow sundance chief and the officially designated
Cultural Director and Speaker for the Crow Tribe, Ms. "Medicine Eagle"
is neither a traditional medicine woman (contrary to her paid
advertisements) nor an enrolled member of the Crow Tribe. Rather, Ms.
"Medicine Eagle" is a profound embarrassment to traditional Crow People,
says Mr. Pretty On Top:
"The book she published is so far away from Crow spirituality she's not
recognized anywhere in our traditional ways". Mr. Pretty On Top has
expressed concern for the harm to the reputation of legitimate Crow
spirituality that inevitably follows from the prosperous charlatanism of
imposters like Brooke Edwards and he urges non-Indians not to support
Ms. "Medicine Eagle" financially or otherwise.
We join with John Pretty On Top and the Crow Tribe of Montana in urging
all supporters of American Indian people to help us in our struggle for
social justice and religious freedom by actively opposing the spiritual
genocide manifest in the exploitation and abuse of our most precious
sacred traditions by cultists, con artists, hucksters, charlatans and
"plastic medicine people" like Brooke Edwards. And we invite you to
contact us at Center for the SPIRIT whenever you become aware of
situations in which American Indian sacred traditions are being
exploited and abused, so that we may help you and your community develop
and implement an effective strategy of community education and active
resistance to such exploitation.
Center for the SPIRIT (Support and Protection of Indian Religions and
Indigenous Traditions) is a nonprofit organization of American Indian
people dedicated to the preservation and revitalization of American
Indian spiritual practices and religious traditions. Headquartered in
Oakland we have begun to systematically address the momentous problem of
"New Age" exploitation and expropriation of the sacred traditions of
American Indian tribes--a problem which has proliferated alarmingly in
the Bay Area and throughout California in recent years.
They can be reached at P.O. Box 17002, Oakland , Calif. 94601.
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http://www.myspace.com/eagleearthheart
This her?
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Look who Brooke has hooked up with as her "life partner." Another fraud, this one a blond white guy with a Hindu name and mixing "ascended masters" with pseudo Inca stuff.
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http://www.bluediamondpachamama.com/sunny/promoemail.htm
"How would your life be different if you could spend time with a Living Master?
What if you could ask questions, have a dialogue, and receive guidance from someone who is in transcendent state of god communion while being in active communion with everyday life and do it from the comfort of your home or office instead of traveling to the Himalayas?
....Here is your chance to find out.
Sunny Baba is indeed a living Master who has achieved a transcendent state of god communion while being in active communion with everyday life. Sunny had to travel the world to find and sit with Living Masters, but he wants us to have the experience from the comfort of our own homes or offices. The transmission that happens is not dependent upon traveling long distances or searching for long years, and physical presence is not required; it can happen in a moment and by telephone."
Yep, you can become a god by phone, without having to get your ass off the couch even. He knows, trust us, he's super spirchul.
"Together with his “heart mate???, Brook Medicine Eagle, Sunny is building retreat facilities at Earth Heart Sanctuary, “an exquisite place to experience an ecologically-sound lifeway of simplicity, beauty, harmony and sustainability???. He offers private phone consultations, wilderness camps, and sacred relationship counseling for Men as well as ceremonial clothing and moccasins. Sunny and Brooke also offer apprenticeships in organic gardening and natural building, heart retreats, workshops and teachings."
Really, someone would be better off spending the workshop money on putting solar panels in their home.
"Tele-Seminars Sound Healing Interviews Blue Diamond Technologies Mystics & Masters Panchamama On-line Store Indigo Crystal Star and Rainbow Children Sacred Sexuality"
Crystal children? Sounds very painful for the woman giving birth.
And I wonder if Harley Reagan will sue them for ripping off his ripoff of Hinduism pretending to be NDN.
Something pretty funny. Seems Sunny boy took his name from an action star in India.
And apparently enlightenment with a living god and learning simplicity costs about a grand. They're working with a Rene Barribeau.
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http://www.enlightenmentproductions.com/UserFiles/File/June-July.html
Awaken to the Divine Ordinary - August 14-21, 2007
The time is now to BE warriors of light, to walk hand in hand as community in transition. Are you hearing the call? If so, then Awaken to the Divine Ordinary, is for you.
About the facilitators: Brooke Medicine Eagle is a Native American metis - an Earth wisdom teacher and catalyst for healing, a visionary, sacred ecologist, harmonist and recording artist. Based at Earth Heart Sanctuary, her beauty way awakens physical and spiritual health through private sessions and retreats, offers Native American music and chants, promotes ritual honoring of Earth cycles, shares women's mystery teachings, and creates a sustainable, holy path for two-leggeds to walk. Sunny Baba follows his heart's desires and finds his joy in the simple gifts of the earth. Embodying an ancient, aboriginal lifestyle, his life is a meditation of being. Sunny has lived his adult life in the remote wilderness areas of western USA and Central America. Renee Baribeau serves as the warrior healer who is called by destiny to weave her vision of a network of beingness and presence into the world. Their combined talents and abilities will call the perfect group.
The cost of this experience is $975. includes room and board. For more information contact: Renee at 760-773-5870.
Registration $975. USD
Buy Now | More information
Until next month, may you walk in peace.
Renee Baribeau
The Village Quipu
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And Baribeau apparently is in the spirituality marketing business.
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http://www.byregion.net/cgibin/users/profiles.pl?username=giftwrapperforhealer
Profile and Credentials
Gift Wrapper for Healers
Renee Baribeau will help you develop and market your true authentic gift as a healer or community advocate. She will assist you in identifying your market, and create the packaging for you to present to your community. She has spent a lifetime in sales and marketing, and is using this gift of experience to help others who are in her spiritual alignment to create a new business model. Her accomplishment in this area includes co-developing a Shamans Network e-News, which is circulating the globe with a mailing list of over 1500 people and growing, and developing a web presence as well as a conference on the Business of Healing in March 2007. Renee can help you develop your own unique marketing program by implementing her creative graphic designs which includes Internet set-up,
e-newsletters, brochures, logo design, and other business peripherals. She is available for start-up business consultations and to expand your ongoing business.
Currently, Renee is caretaker of the Healing Arts Center in Palm Desert. This center is a dedicated bridge between the community and healer practitioners from many disciplines. The key intention is to create a core community of healers who believe that it is necessary to stand together as one light. The aim is to attract clients who believe in a holistic approach to their own healing and wellness. In addition, she is a Shamanic Coach, Teacher, Writer, Film Maker, Businesswoman, Chef, Event Planner, and Gift Wrapper for Healers.
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Also apparently trained with a great many frauds. The hypocrisy of much of what she says is appalling.
"Shamanic Coaching
A Shamanic practitioner, she has completed a two-year Light Body Training with The Four Winds Society, and received rites of passage from the Quero Elders on the mountaintops of Peru. Renee has studied with many modern day mystics including Michael Harner, Alberto Villoldo, Hank Wesselman, Linda Fitch, Luz Clara, and Jose Luis. She walks the Red Road in the Lakota tradition and specializes in using creative techniques to bring forth one’s healing potential, working extensively with early childhood trauma, addictions, and food disorders. Her training as a business executive has developed her no-nonsense practical coaching skills. Her intuitive gift is the ability to uncover blocks that keep one blinded from their true potential."
Ceremony selling
"Teacher
Renee uses a creative approach to teaching others how to walk a healing path. Classes and workshops have included: Sacred Play, Creating your personal Spirit Doll, Tending to your Sacred Garden, Sweat Lodges, Gift Wrapping your Healing Practice, Shamanic Rebirthing, Real Forgiveness, and Introduction to Shamanism. She is currently developing a two-year training with other practitioners entitled “The Wheels of Recovery.??? This program came to life after conducting 12-step workshops and sensing the need to go beyond the work of that traditional model in recovery from addiction."
And back to being a huckster.
"Additional Information
Renee is a businesswoman at heart. It has been said that she can “sell ice to an Eskimo.??? This is true only if she believes in the ice and the need for the product. Her combined marketing and public relations skills have graced her with many life successes. A talented chef who has cooked for dignitaries as well as us “regular folk,??? she has owned and operated two popular and profitable restaurants, started two upscale catering businesses, and worked her way into corporate senior management within Hyatt Resorts, PGA West, and other exclusive Country Clubs. This tenure in the corporate world gave her the training that every entrepreneur could use and is sometimes more valuable than an advanced degree in business."
Someone clue her into what "Eskimos" actually prefer to be called.
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What amazes me is that someone would pay almost $1000 to have "group dreaming in a cave".
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http://www.myspace.com/eagleearthheart
http://www.medicine-eagle.com/bme4.html
Excusssssssssssssssssssssseeeeeeee Me while I go throw up........and this woman lives where i live! I knew the Bitteroot had a lot of Yuppies, but come on...even on her pictures you can tell it's a fake tan!!!!!!!!!!!
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Must be going around...there's a thread started up today in American Indian Injustice too...the AII Yahoo group...This woman gets brought up alot from what I've seen in the past while.
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This woman gets brought up alot from what I've seen in the past while.
I don't know how much work she's getting now, but in the eighties and nineties she was getting hired as the token (fake) NDN by almost every white Nuage group out there. If there was any kind of gathering or panel or conference, she'd be there. While I'd like to believe that the work so many have done to expose her has made a difference, I think that a lot of people don't know she's been exposed, and they've seen her around so much they just assume she's legit until informed otherwise. I think some are even then reluctant to listen because they don't want to believe they've been fooled (and in some cases, fooled for many years).
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I think some are even then reluctant to listen because they don't want to believe they've been fooled (and in some cases, fooled for many years).
Not just this, but she sells a good victim story. One of my friends said to me "But what's the poor woman to do? She's already posted a copy of her enrollment online!" She didn't know what to say when I told her that the woman was not enrolled according to the Crow tribe.
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She still uses the same old link that once said she had a "tribal certificate". (?!?!) Used to be she had a piece paper printed up that said she was a tribal member that looked closer to one of those things you can get printed at Kinko's, like "World's Greatest Dad."
Now she's showing off a cheesy attempt at a fake tribal ID.
http://www.medicine-eagle.com/tribal_certificate.htm
It never even occurred to her or her followers that you don't wear a cowboy hat covering a third of your face for IDs.
Do the Crow generally list your place of enrollment as the tribe, not the city? Every other tribal ID I've ever seen lists the city the tribal govt is based in.
I think we should pass along that she seems to be using the signature of a former tribal president, Clifford Bird in Ground Sr., on her fake ID. That's forgery I believe.
Who here could get hold of someone in the tribal govt, quickly?
Perhaps it might be hard to make the charge stick since Bird in Ground is facing corruption charges.
http://www.indianz.com/News/2007/004617.asp
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I just looked at her so called "Tribal Enrollment" photo. Being some what of a photographer and knowing how to manipulate photos I can tell you that the photo is cut and pasted if you look up in the left hand corner, it clearly shows that the photo was put there after the card was made
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So sad, she is pathetic!
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If you reach her latest note, she is 'homeless'. Apparently someone else owned the land that she was living on. They sold the land, and she didn't buy it. So she and her male friend are drifting about looking for a home. They are asking for donations.
I wonder how someone with the money she made, could be so 'poor'. From reading the rest of her notes, it seemed to me that her various money streams were drying up and more monetary demands are being placed on her.
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I have first hand knowledge of this woman. My Mother is the owner of land in Montana that she and her con man boyfriend Sunny Babba AKA/ birth name Robert Simonson were just evicted from. She exploited un UNBELIVEABLE amout of money from my Mother...... who is a lonely, depressed person who fell right into the trap..... Our Attorney even wanted us to charge them with elder abuse for what she did >:(
The fraud reports are 100% true and I welcome any questions about her and her boyfriend.
Also, beware that the Earth Heart Retreat was NEVER formed. Brooke took dontaions of money and materials for the place and the are commiting Non profit fraud also!! The web site is still up, still asking for donations and they were evicted from the property on May 15 2008. The Eather Heart donations were in reality "The Sunny & Brooke Foundation"
PLEASE DO NOT GET SUCKED INTO THIS WOMAN WEB! I have spent the last year and a half trying to get rid of her!
Susan
Susan
I know we used to have a thread on this fraud, but this came on my email today and I did not know that she has been denounced bt the Crow Tribe. Must be why she is now claiming Nez Perce and Cheyenne:
Alert - Re:
Brooke 'Medicine Eagle' Edwards
Abuse and Exploitation of American Indian Sacred Traditions
A Statement from the Center for the SPIRIT
One phenomenally successful exploiter of traditional Indian spirituality
is a woman named Brooke Edwards, who transacts her business under the
assumed name of "Brooke Medicine Eagle". Ms. "Medicine Eagle" operates
"spirituality camps" in Montana, charging as much as $1,500 per person
for the privilege of putting up a tent on her ranch for two weeks.
(Assuming that at least twenty people participate in each session, Ms.
"Medicine Eagle" takes in at least $30,000 every two weeks, all summer
long.) Ms. "Medicine Eagle" has been denounced by the Crow Tribe of
Montana, with whom she claims affiliation as a spiritual "teacher", for
misrepresenting and abusing the spiritual traditions of the Crow people
through her high-profit cottage industry. According to John Pretty On
Top, traditional Crow sundance chief and the officially designated
Cultural Director and Speaker for the Crow Tribe, Ms. "Medicine Eagle"
is neither a traditional medicine woman (contrary to her paid
advertisements) nor an enrolled member of the Crow Tribe. Rather, Ms.
"Medicine Eagle" is a profound embarrassment to traditional Crow People,
says Mr. Pretty On Top:
"The book she published is so far away from Crow spirituality she's not
recognized anywhere in our traditional ways". Mr. Pretty On Top has
expressed concern for the harm to the reputation of legitimate Crow
spirituality that inevitably follows from the prosperous charlatanism of
imposters like Brooke Edwards and he urges non-Indians not to support
Ms. "Medicine Eagle" financially or otherwise.
We join with John Pretty On Top and the Crow Tribe of Montana in urging
all supporters of American Indian people to help us in our struggle for
social justice and religious freedom by actively opposing the spiritual
genocide manifest in the exploitation and abuse of our most precious
sacred traditions by cultists, con artists, hucksters, charlatans and
"plastic medicine people" like Brooke Edwards. And we invite you to
contact us at Center for the SPIRIT whenever you become aware of
situations in which American Indian sacred traditions are being
exploited and abused, so that we may help you and your community develop
and implement an effective strategy of community education and active
resistance to such exploitation.
Center for the SPIRIT (Support and Protection of Indian Religions and
Indigenous Traditions) is a nonprofit organization of American Indian
people dedicated to the preservation and revitalization of American
Indian spiritual practices and religious traditions. Headquartered in
Oakland we have begun to systematically address the momentous problem of
"New Age" exploitation and expropriation of the sacred traditions of
American Indian tribes--a problem which has proliferated alarmingly in
the Bay Area and throughout California in recent years.
They can be reached at P.O. Box 17002, Oakland , Calif. 94601.
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I am the person who just evicted her from Earth Heart........... the land belongs to my Mother.
Earth Heart foundation was never even formed..... she just took donations in the name. Web site looks real official, I fell bad for the many people who must have lost money in the name of spirituality...... my Mother was in for a bunch!! Including the land she bought where these two were nother more than squaters!
SHE IS A WHITE WOMAN WITH BRAIDS! TWO BIT CON WOMAN & HER BOYFRIEND SUNNY BABBA AKA/BIRTH NAME ROBERT SIMONSON IS EVEN WORSE!
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Sorry board. I am new and I thought I was posting in two different areas.
As you can tell, I want these people exposed! >:(
S
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Hello Susan, glad to have you here.
Could you tell us more about you and your mother's experience? How did she meet Brooke Edwards? How did Edwards rip off or otherwise abuse your mother? I realize these questions can be painful, but hope you'll tell us all you can to warn others.
And I hope you both prosecute and/or sue Edwards to the fullest extent of the law. No one, especially the elderly, deserves to be treated this way.
Also, to everyone at NAFPS:
It seems to me that Brooke Edwards is deserving of the same sort of campaign that we directed at Rachel Hozwarth.
If she's taking donations for a center that has never been built, that's fraud and something the IRS would be very interested in.
If she abused and swindled money out of someone, then we should be urging a district attorney to take her to court.
And looking further back at the thread, she clearly forged the signature of the tribal chairman on a clearly fake tribal ID. We should keep urging the Crow tribe or district attorneys to prosecute her for forgery. (Fake ID is just a misdemeanor.)
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VENOMOUS ARE WE- filled with a rage so uncheck. Look real deep all those who use this forum to be so in judgement
Our Disease is more than in our brains. Our hearts are posion filled with projections from all who judge.
Forgive me SusanH. I mean no ill towards your mom. Only to as you say..... give the TRUTH to the story.
This little whiteman has been with many Cartoon Characters (Great Teachers) and we all are Frauds (ALL)
RACE means nothing once you have dived into such (anyone?)
Forget the other videos. I see there will not appreciation of such.
Try this one maybe. "Worth seeing us stupid white guys eh "
We all are NATIVE TO THIS PLACE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHUl7s7DS30 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHUl7s7DS30)
:'( :o >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(
;D ;D ;D :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
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oh yawn. Another white person chastizing Indians for not worshipping her personal guru. As one of my friends says "Take the cotton out of your ears and stick in your mouth. LIOSTEN to what the objections of REAL native people are:
>>she sells ceromony
>>she was fraudulently enrolled in the Crow nation, than disenrolled
>>she bastardizes sacred ceremony
Those are just for starters.
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D-Dog,
Your post is not a good advertisement for the enlightened ways you learned at the feet of "Ms. Medicine Eagle."
If I knew where you lived, I would feel free to move into your house and drive your car. I wouldn't have any contractual agreement with you to do these things. I'd just do them on faith. If you objected, I think it would probably be because you haven't examined your own soul and don't want to fulfill my DREAM.
You're finding fault and judging others. You are arrogant, misguided, selfish, presumptuous.
And slurring a poster's mother? Clas-see. Truly you have spent time in the presence of kind hearted souls from whom you learned much.
Stop it.
Laurel
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http://www.sonomacountyfreepress.com/features/brooke-edwards.html This is from the "Don't Pay to Pray Site". But this is what we are up against. The one's abusing the Spirituality and Culture always try to make it so the others are at fault. And that really won't fly. She is one of the more famous ones known to abuse NDN Spirituality and Culture.
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Dear Susan H and those who need to find fault or judge others.
I’ve known Sunny for many years and have known Brooke for three years. Im a filmmaker and friend who just so happened to spend time at there Montana Earth Heart. I could not help but respond to this board, my sadness. I spent almost a week with Sunny and Brooke helping building a Log Cabin Shop. I heard the stories of there uncertainty on being able to live on the land. Yes Susan they could be considered squatters, they had no contractual signed commitment from anyone. Sunny goes on faith for sure. The truth of the story is Brooke and Sunny are rare human beings acting in accordance of being HUMAN and being kind. They put most of there own money into the building of Earth Heart and your mother was helping them fulfill a DREAM. Have we all lost what having a Dream is and what HUMAN is? Or is it just finding fault. Susan you should find fault in your own soul. These are good people doing great things to help the world become a better place to live. Your fear of who you think they are and who they really are is what’s missing with all those who are out to HANG all the Frauds claiming to be something. I think Jesus was stoned or ridiculed for his claims. So yes they where evicted, but I can say with 100% that this was the wrong thing to do. You never took the time to go an meet them in person, talk with them and be with them to see what they where doing. Sunny is one of the most kind hearted souls on the planet and neither him nor Brooke deserve your lies about the truth of it all. I hope you all take note of finding your own poison in you hearts and find better things to do than find frauds. We live in a dark time and these people are doing the best they can to make some light.
Don’t believe everything you read as fact!
For those who find this board and are more interested in finding out more about who these people are. I suggest you watch some videos of them. http://www.bravenewearth.com/earthheartseriesblog/earthheartseriesblog/earth-heart-series.html (http://www.bravenewearth.com/earthheartseriesblog/earthheartseriesblog/earth-heart-series.html)
Is your mother still committed? Susan? Isnt this the story, make our elders to be crazy so that we can take back what’s ours? Your 500thousand dollar property? Come On. Get a conscious and do something good with your life. Earth Heart Sanctuary had great possibility. Im sure somone on this board including Susan will have some sharp response. I suggest you sit with my words long enough to sink in and if you can take the time to watch the videos come to some other place in your heart.
Peace
DHARMADOG :'(
Wow....trying to act like you want sympathy by throwing negativity around. Are these the kinds of things you're learning???
There's a "bigger picture" mentality going on here. People like Brooke who use Native spirituality as a selling point incorrectly lead others to believe in an "Imagined Ideal" of what it is to be Native. The truth is those things are communal and tribal specific, but the damage caused to these ways and the damage it causes on the individual level for any Native in America is real AND IT IS REALLY FELT.
D-Dog....what do you say about her claims to be Crow in her books and seminars??? Is there an "ends justify the means" argument that exists that truly makes this ok with you?? You're learning spirituality from someone WHO LIES ABOUT HER IDENTITY AND TRUE SELF. What do you think you're really learning from her??? How does deception help make the world a better place???
Search your OWN conscience before preaching about others. Your words say one thing, but the attitude and behavior in those words say another....it seems you've learned nothing more than to deceive yourself.
If you want to defend her...then do so....but do it with intelligence and grace. You may find a listener somewhere....not the way you've done it. Character assassination degrades discussion and goes nowhere. Though I disagree with what Brooke does and I make an effort to let people know about the damage she causes you don't see any post of mine calling her names. It seems you have a personal issue with Susan and you want to make it public. Be real then.....you know who she is....let people know who you are. Stand behind your negativity.
Superdog
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btw....seen the videos. You must see them in an entirely different light than I see them. Whatever message you're trying to convey it's truly muddled when it contains misleading information.
Just one example of how the lack of general knowledge about Indians gets muddled into a dogma that sells books.
Sunny: "So we all migrated here at one point, and then if we're here for a generation or two or three then we become native to America and so I'm a native American. My father was born here and his father was born here and his father migrated over here so I've been made native and I'm more native than my father because uh my father doesn't live in daily intimacy with the world, natural world."
D-dog as you read this notice the difference in these words in the written language versus spoken. There's two terms that sound exactly the same in spoken English, but have two different meanings....."Native American" and "native American". Sunny is right....he's born here....he's native to America. That makes him "native American" just like the rest of the entire population of America that was born here. He is not "Native American", however, though the rest of his speech and then entire imagery of the video suggests STRONGLY that he is somehow.
People have used the term "native American" to confuse things for a very long time. When the politics of casinos or unpopular laws comes up near any Indian community, the opposition commonly comes up with the argument: "I was born here, that makes me native American, why don't I get special laws...." etc etc....
That's kind of why when speaking English I prefer the term American Indian just because it causes much less confusion. It's less popular because we're not from India either, but for most people you can't argue what I mean by that. The truth is Native American or American Indian are both wrong. We all really identify with our communities and respective Nations, but when you're speaking in English about politics or anything that effects tribes across the board you gotta use terms like these and they're all not right...but we're stuck with them. But just for arguments sake let's rewrite Sunny's quote using the term "Native American" (which is what is implied) replacing Native American and maybe you can see the glaring innaccuracy he's presenting to the world.
"So we all migrated here at one point, and then if we're here for a generation or two or three then we become native to America and so I'm a Native American. My father was born here and his father was born here and his father migrated over here so I've been made Native and I'm more Native than my father because uh my father doesn't live in daily intimacy with the world, natural world."
So D-dog....what can I say. You're helping sell a lie. It's a muddled truth at best and you've done a magnificent job muddling it more. If you wanted to get information on Native spirituality....why didn't you go to a few Native communities and take the time to get things right??? How were you so easily attracted to their megalomania??
Superdog
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But just for arguments sake let's rewrite Sunny's quote using the term "Native American" (which is what is implied) replacing native American and maybe you can see the glaring innaccuracy he's presenting to the world.
please excuse the typo in the last response. It should've read this way.
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1. The truth of the story is Brooke and Sunny are rare human beings acting in accordance of being HUMAN and being kind.
2...Have we all lost what having a Dream is and what HUMAN is?
3...These are good people doing great things to help the world become a better place to live.
4. Your fear of who you think they are and who they really are is what’s missing with all those who are out to HANG all the Frauds claiming to be something.
5. I think Jesus was stoned or ridiculed for his claims.
6. So yes they where evicted, but I can say with 100% that this was the wrong thing to do.
7...Don't believe everything you read as fact!
1. Ripping off an elderly woman is your idea of kind? Or even human?
2. I have no idea what you mean here, and don't think you know what you want to say either, other than some vague "But they seem nice to me" nonsense.
3. Show us how they've done ANYTHING to make the world better. Anything at all. All they've done is take money and lie for a living.
4. Again, what you say is about as clear as mud, and I doubt you know what you just said either.
5. You seriously just compared her to Jesus?
6. You would have preferred they keep abusing an elderly woman? And this is your idea of "kind" and "human"?
7. So, are you denying that Brooke Edwards forged her tribal ID card?
To everyone else, let's remind each other there's work needing to be done, getting the Crow tribal govt and local district or county attorneys to charge Edwards with forgery, or see if fraud or abuse charges for the way they treated Susan's mother are warranted.
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In Direct Response to Dog,
Hello Dharma
My first response to you is who are you? Let your name be known....
Have you met my Mother? Have you met me? You have a strong opinion for someone who hides behind a name of DharmaDog......
Who are you?
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DharmaDog
I will do my best to respond to your post.
First off, because you know Brooke and Sunny and raised a barn with them does not mean you know "THE TRUTH" of it all. I do know. As someone who has known about Brooke for more than 20 years.
You are right in your post in saying "I never took the time to go see what they were doing" I never needed to go see...... I work, I live in these US states..... I work, I pay taxes,and I co-exisit with the law.. I don't rely on others to take care me and I damn sure respect and take care my Mother and what she and my Father worked for all of ther lives.
Shame on you for thinking my Mother was responible for financing Brookes pipe dream.......
I never wanted meet Brooke...... I would surely have strangled the woman had I come face to face with her!. I restrained myself.......and I refused to be in the company of such a sick person. My Mother knew my feelings always.
Since you felt the need to disclose that my Mother spent $500 thousand dollars..... I will proudly say ....... yes, my Mother DONATED more half of what she worked for all her life to invest in dream...GOOD DREAM....GOOD INTENIONS...... WRONG PARTNER!!!!
You say you have known her for 3 years..... I have watched her for over 20 years.......My finger on her neck as she sucked money from my Mother like a river leach. NO MORE!
As for your attack on my Mom. She is committed allright..... committed to not getting screwed.And I will protect and defend her tell the end.
DOG,how dare you speak of my Mother as "committed" My Mother has a brain disease. One I might add that has not effected her memory, but will take her life......... SHe struggles to get out or bed, more than anything as she faces her death,
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Dog,
I as hold my mothers hand in this transition from " Earth to Spirit"
I watch a woman who worked her life, raised two kids, held her husbands hand the day he died after 39 years of marriage. AND GAVE away her money to take care of herself........to make the world better, The only world she made better was "Brooke & Sunny".
You have no idea the woman my mother is.........
You should be so lucky to have ever known shuch a fine woman.
Susan,
Loving Daughter of Sally
I know "THE TRUTH"
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Now Dog, you and everyone on this board will hear the truth...
My Mother and Brooke made an agreement years ago. My Mother invested her money in property,and set up an LLC called Beauty Way LLC.
Brooke was to teach, and build that company. What happened was that Brooke lived free of charge,accepted donations for a non profit orgainization and never put one dollar into the business. My Mother paid attorney fees,accountant fees,utilities,property tax.....EVERYTHING! While Brooke took money from people and enjoyed her life...... I believe thats called FRAUD!
My Mother decided to sell the property in Montana that Brooke and Sunny called home. Un known to Brooke my Mom has no money tree..... she needs to take care herself FIRST. And if you find fault in that then I don't know what color the sky is where you live.....sorry Dog but I have not had my Mother committed and kicked Brooke out for MY gain. Brooke is committing fraud and my Mother has decided she wants no part of that.
Hopefully the first time I meet Brooke face to face will be in a court to watch her answer for her crimes....... It's a matter of time for con artists to be caught. Miss Edwards time is near..... She will not out run the law.
Also, she and Sunny took the couter tops,door handles,sink and all of there so called impovements to Earth Heart. Anything they could sell.... and left there garbage like the comman theives that they are. When asked to provide proof of what they spent on the place they had none. Hand written records and cash reciepts... Hummmm where do you think the money came from?? I think it came from people who donated money to a foundation that never exisited.... hence" the Sunny & Brooke Foundation"
Brooke had nothing when she ment my Mother, she has nothing now.....a sad ass story about how Susan has wronged her. I have prevented Brooke from taking advantage of my Mother.any more. I worked on my Mother behalf and at her direction to evict her squatters and take back what belongs to her............ Brooke is an educated woman who is master at maniputating words. She preys on the depressed,lonely and trusting people of this world because she is too lazy to work and pay taxes like the rest of us. VERY SIMPLY. She has created an alternate lifestyle and calls herself an earth keeper, metis, and so on. Look at her words carefully.
Yes, people please look at the stupid video on braveneearth...... also,
keep in mind that Sunny Babba was born Robert, brooke has just enough Indian in her to say she is " Native" and the propery belongs to a woman they never even mention........ want to send some money to them now??
I thank the Great Spirit for this board and the people on here who are committed to exposing these FRAUDS!
I have no financial gain for telling this story.... as a woman who loves her mother, keeps her side of street clean,and preys to a higher power, I am not affraid to tell what I know. I WILL CONTINUE to tell the truth to help others not be taken advantage of!
On apersonal note.... DHARMADOG you are ill informed and I did not appriciate your attack on my Mother and I as human beings.... and shall pray for you. Your are ignorant and I will keep that in mind....
Susan
Daughter of Sally
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What's the status of any legal case you have against Brooke Edwards? Is she being taken to court, either civil or criminal?
A useful start, as I've said before several times, is also trying to get her prosecuted for forgery.
From the tribal website:
Baacheeitche Avenue
P.O. Box 159
Crow Agency, Montana 59022
PHONE: 406.638.3700
FAX: 406.638.3881
The rez is in Bighorn County?
Attorney
Georgette Hogan
665-9720
Justice of the Peace
Leroy Not Afraid
lnotafraid@mt.gov
665-9760
Sheriff
Lawrence Big Hair
lbighair@co.bighorn.mt.us
665-9780
Anyone have other suggestions, information?
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Thank You E-Indian
:)
Susan
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Susan, you and your family have my utmost sympathy. If this forum can keep just one person from falling into the clutches of someone like Brooke Edwards, then all the time and work will have been worth it. Thank you for helping.
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You have my sympathy, as well, Susan. I was also taken in by an exploiter. The exploitation didn't last as long, and it looks like my family took less financial damage than did yours, but I know how it hurts. Taking action to get restitution, consequences and damages can be a very healing thing, and I highly recommend it. You did nothing wrong. You and your mother tried to be kind. You believed you were serving a greater purpose. It's Edwards who is the criminal here, and I'll be glad to see her face the judge.
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Now I remember where I've seen this woman before!
http://www.uwec.edu/ais/Mascot%20Ethics%20Website/images/Land-O-Lakes_knees-771831.jpg
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LOL!!! She'll soon change her name to brooke "Four Sticks"
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I think I had missed the post on here that mentioned her MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/eagleearthheart We should see if we can report her to MySpace for fraud the way White Ego Fraud has been reported.
Someone with her in their top friends tried friending me today, but I'll post about that in another thread.
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Seems Brooke Medice Eagle is spreading out and now recognised as an elder here in the UK, I've just uncovered this:
sponsor our elder Brooke Medicine Eagle
on
http://www.barbarameiklejohnfree.com/the-calling
^. .^
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AIM letter on Brooke Edwards.
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An Open Letter And Invitation To Brooke Medicine Eagle
from American Indian Movement in Asheville (AIMAsheville)
We, the people of the American Indian Movement in Asheville (AIMAsheville), invite you to our benefit for Leonard Peltier and First Nations People – this Sunday – 3pm til ? – at Spirits on the River.
We want you to come and join with American Indians and other people of good hearts who are coming together for the betterment of our People. People you claim to be one of.
We have questions for you regarding your actions. We have questions regarding your claims of heritage – not your blood quantum – your commitment to the people you claim to be a part. We don’t see that in your actions – we don’t see that on your websites – and we don’t see that in the lies and garbled nonsense in your books.
In your book you say that the Sun Dance and the Ghost Dance must become one. How dare you assume that you have the authority or power to influence people of non-native blood to affect this kind of change? How dare you be so arrogant to assume that you, one who cheats people of all races, has any kind of authority to change what these – people, these nations were given, protected, and then died for? How dare you trivialize White Buffalo Calf Woman by repeating an ego filled account of how Mother and her Children were or will be? Are you authorized or supported by the Lakota/Nakota/Dakota people? Is that your blood?
You say all “primary cultures” do this – how are you defining “primary”?
So there is no question regarding the above, here is the quote from your website and your book:
The Rainbow Sundancer painting reminds us that the Sun Dance is a dance done by men and women honoring the Light of Father Spirit, which gives us and our world the flowering of life from year to year; all primary cultures have such a dance that invites our ancestors' help in the new century's awakening of a renewed Earth, with the full flowering of Spirit in each individual. Here we see that to form the Rainbow Bridge, the Sun Dance must be blended with the Ghost Dance. These powerful rituals must now come together in one great ceremony, one eternal dance of renewal for Mother Earth and all her children.
Our time of awakening has come. It is the time for the new Ghost Dance, which in fact becomes the last Ghost Dance. This time we will be able to dance the vision fully into the ground of Earth and make it real. This book takes you with me on a journey toward that renewing dance of life, toward the bright new world that awaits us and All Our Relations.
You say you are Indian – you say you honor the ancestors – you do not.
Through the blood of the First Nations People you make your living. You collect money so that you can build your buffalo ranch – a nice cushy retirement home for you I believe. You ask for donations so you can put up your 150 thousand dollar prefab home on foundation with sewer and running water – Do you have any idea how many people don’t even have solid walls in their homes or enough firewood to keep them warm in the winter? And you ask for outrageous sums of money for YOUR home – when we have trouble raising enough money to send winter clothes and supplies to schools and elders.
You say on your website that you are going to have a sustainable community – with everything from organic gardening to raising buffalo and spiritual retreats – all at a price and all with the help of a chosen few. There are Indian communities all over Turtle Island that could use help starting programs to bring true Indians out of their despair and poverty. Not from your so-called healing center. Real earth people know that each region is unique in its resources, climate, and needs. So don’t tell us you are doing this as an example for Indian people to live by. Indian people know how to live – but our resources have been taken by the Euro man – big money corporations. We need to rebuild – and flowery nonsense words spoken to people who have a new calling every week are not the answer – for any of the many Nations of Indian People. Remember? Your people?
You say you are Indian – yet you take the money you get from people seeking answers – the rich ones – and you spend it on yourself – for your ego and your bank account.
You portray yourself as a leader – a “leader” in Indian way was described in many cultures as the First Servant of the people. You serve only yourself.
There are real people – with real needs – people whom you profess to be one – yet you have your talks and your seminars and you sell ceremony at high priced white-run resorts. You profess to have answers for the people who own gas guzzling urban assault vehicles and wear designer shoes assembled most likely by young children making less than a dollar a day. You hang out with these people because they will buy your bullshit – they believe your nonsense because they don’t know any better. Why would it be wrong to make money selling books and pretending you are something you are not? It is done all the time in the dominant culture – created and fueled by those that are raping Mother. Taking her lifeblood – killing the elements – destroying homes and lives – all in the name of PROGRESS! Whose progress – who is profiting from all of this wanton consumption? You for one – as you collect money for yourself disguised as some kind of service to our people.
I am not the only one that sees you as a fake and a liar. Your name has become synonymous for wanna-be, shame-on, and apple. Your books are used as an example of what to avoid when choosing written material to gain knowledge.
You say you are for the Earth and all her children – yet you waste resources by jetting across the country in order to sell your trash. You kill more trees and dump more chemicals into the bosom of mother with the printing of these false words – these lying leaves – not talking leaves as some of our ancestors called the books when they encountered them. Is your book printed on recycled or hemp paper? Do you walk to the places where you mislead the people?
How much money have you donated to the defense fund for Leonard? Where were you when they marched for Leonard?
How many times have you fought for our collective dignity by speaking out against the wrongful use of Indian mascots?
Where are you when the children cry because their daddy or mommy just came home drunk again – with no money – with no food? Where do you spend your money? On your ego and your select few followers?
Can you look our Indian Grandmothers in the eye and say you are part of our hoop? Can you tell them what you have been doing for the health and well being of the next seven generations?
Your answers are most likely flowered with half-truths and double speak and you would not be welcome with traditional Indian people – they see you for who you are and you know it. It is painfully clear to us that you don’t do any of the things you are bound to do as an Indian woman and you avoid any contact with those that would appose the harm you do.
Yes – we want answers. We know we won’t get them. We know we will either get ignored or you will issue some kind of statement saying we are racist against non-Indians.
For those that know us – they will laugh and you will loose more credibility – and more people will know you for your actions and not those empty words you sell to make yourself prosperous. Our group is mixed with people who are committed to and have spent most of their lives as activists of one kind or another. We have AIM, LPSG, Earth First, Direct Action Network – and more. Our associations are many and we are respected because we all try to walk our talk everyday. We try to tread lightly on Mother – educating, sharing all that we have, caring for our elders, and trying to break the cycles of abuse and neglect.
We do require from the people we work with and associate with a certain amount of respect, sense of responsibility, and knowledge of Indian ways. There are many of all races that share common ground and they ask you now to answer for your lies and deceit. It is beyond most of us how you sleep at night – what kind of peace do you get from knowing you are cheating people.
We struggle each day to try to come up with the resources we need to protect our families – our environment – our dignity. You fight against us – you take away from the resources that could be used to truly heal the people you say you are related to.
You cloud the issues and make it even more difficult for us to find the support our people so desperately need. How about sending some of that money up to Tom Porter and his total emersion school? How about sending art supplies and books for libraries to the children at the Cheyenne River Tribal School and for tribal schools across our lands?
Don’t tell us you have costs – don’t tell us you aren’t making money. We’ve heard all of this song and dance before. Your associates like Sun Bear and Wind Daughter (oh yeah we ran the Bear Tribe Medicine Society out of town) And in the course of confronting them we were able to educate the Christian community here in this area – those shame-ons are no longer welcome in WNC at any of the camps or retreats. The wannabes showed their true selves to the pastor that day – he heard their words but their actions didn’t match! Liars and cheats of any race or creed are not welcome when people see them for who they really are.
Just so there is no confusion where we got the idea that you were all about yourself - this is an excerpt from your website:
Help Needed
Dear Friends,
We are in great need of help at the home ranch which is held by Sacred Ground Int'l non-profit. Because we have not received a grant that was faithfully promised by November, we are now in need of money to simply get through the winter.
As many of you know who have been following the story, some of our family there are still living in tents in the freezing cold of Montana winter. Our first priority was to get housing up for them. In October we were promised a sizable grant to put up a lodge and handle operating expenses for the winter. Based on this and the grantors encouragement, we went ahead and put our resources into preparing water, sewer, power and basement for the pre-fab home. Due to an illegal transaction by a partner in his investment operation, this grantor cannot now come through with the assistance. This leaves us having spent our limited resources very differently than we would have if this had not occurred. Now we are in dire need of help to simply feed family, buffalo, and horses, and to operate for the winter. In the end the grant may come through, yet right now we are in immediate need of:
· $15,000 to sort, feed and care for our buffalo and horses.
· $25,000 for ranch wages and general operating expenses (food, heat, taxes, phone, etc.)
We also need a miracle of $150,000 to pay for the pre-fab home that is waiting on trucks to be delivered.
It would also help us very much to have:
$1000 to sponsor the donation of a buffalo robe we have had prepared for, and given to, a Crow Indian elder. He was surprised and thrilled!
I have been shown an image of 144 Rainbow Warriors each giving $1000 in support. Yet any small or large amount will help as many of you respond. Putting our energy together, we can make it happily through a long, cold winter, and get on with the beauty of our intentions there.
Send your contributions to Sacred Ground International, POB 78, Pryor, MT 59066. Be sure to include the foundation's non-profit federal ID# 81-052-1256 when you make a tax-deductible gift, and please also note BME on the memo line.
Thank you for your love, prayers and monetary support.
For the Sacred Ground family,
SOURCE: http://www.geocities.com/aimasheville/AnOpenLetterAndInvitationToBrookeMedicineEagle.htm
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I live in the Bitterroot Valley. When I first moved here a few years ago, I found out that Brooke was living near Darby. I had read her book and thought she was legit. Now before I go further, I am part Oglala on my father's side. I have no idea how much because I'm a mutt. I'm out of touch with my family and my dad walked out on us when I was 6 years old. So I came to Brooke's book out of curiosity to learn about anything I could.
When I moved here I found out she was living at a place called Earth Heart. I tried to get in touch with her for a month. Finally she called me and said that I was welcome to come out and set a time and date.
I was in a deep depression because my mother passed on and I can say that at that time I was not thinking straight. I was alone and needed someone to help me find balance again. I thought Brooke would be that person. I met with Brooke, and she had a way of digging deep into my soul. I spent most of the time crying while she listened. Once I was done speaking, she began to tell me of her hardships and that she basically lived off of "love donations" and indicated that she needed a love donation from me, for her time she spent listening to me. She said that they didn't have much food and that she was feeling hungry. And said her partner was looking for work but not finding any in the area.
I wrote her a check for $100. I did this out of the kindness of my heart. She said she needed cash, and to come back tomorrow with cash and tobacco. So the next day I came back with cash and tobacco. Her boyfriend took the money and said Brooke was busy in prayer. Then he started to talk to me for the next hour and told me about how difficult things had been for them, and that they were trying to build up a center to help heal people. I thought that was a nice idea (at the time). I told him I wanted a chance to talk to Brooke about the things in her book, and learn from her.
Then he said that Brooke would do that, but I had to come and live on their land, work, and give donations to them. I said I would want to, being that I was not working at the time. I had received a large inheritance from my father's will the year before, and the biggest mistake I made was telling Sunny Baba about that. He asked me where I worked at and I told him I wasn't working and why.
Brooke called me the next day and said they would love to have me come to earth heart and stay for as long as I wanted. I packed some things and went the next day. I think one of the first things that happened when I got there was we sat down and discussed rules and donations to them. They were interested in how much money I could give to them and Brooke said she would accept weekly payments or a one time lump sum of $10,000 to stay for the whole summer and learn from her and get healed from Sunny Baba. She said they would appreciate the payments in cash.
Please remember I was not in my right mind at the time. I was very depressed and looking for anyone who would be my family. I thought I was doing a good service to the Native American people by helping Brooke. I had no idea she was not a real indian.
I went to the bank the next day in town and withdrew the money and paid her all in cash. Everything was going somewhat well. She was teaching me many things and I was pulling out of my depression. But then things took a strange turn mid summer. Brooke suggested to me that I needed a sex healing from Sunny, and that this would include things I prefer to not speak of here.
Her partner was coming on to me and she was turning her head. Apparently they do not have relations together as it is their belief. But she was OK with him being with another woman in order to "rid that energy".
This is when I started to wake up and see that this was all wrong. I stood up to them and told them that I was not going to do anything with Sunny and that it made me uncomfortable. They both really changed after that evening. They acted cold toward me.
I tried to talk this out with Brooke but she said I was inhibiting my own healing as a woman by refusing Sunny's help. She then started to chastise me over problems that I confided in her about.
The next day she went to town with Sunny. I walked up to their house and it was completely locked up. I got a feeling that they did not like me or trust me. I decided to get my things and leave.
When I got home into the real world that night, I sat down to check all of my bills. I had them set up to bill pay online automatically. Here's where the shock came. I found that someone had gained access to my ATM card and used it repeatedly making purchases and withdrawals for hundreds of dollars here and there. Despite the 10, 000 I gave them.
I called Brooke that night and we had it out. She denied everything I accused her of. When I told her I was calling the police, she said she didn't care and hung up on me.
An hour later, Sunny Baba phones and says they will refund me 1/2 of the 10,000 since I left early and broke the agreement. I told him that would be fine.
He sent a woman friend of theirs to my house the next day with an envelope. And after she left I opened it to find only $600. That's it.
I was afraid of these people and did not want to press anything. To be honest Sunny baba has two personalities. One that comes off as a gentle kind caring man and the other is very vindictive and intolerant. I wanted my dealings with them to end so I let it go.
I want people to be careful of these people. I found out recently that they have moved. Usually when people like them move away when their resources dry up so that they can find new ones in a new place.
I hope that something is done to expose them before someone else loses money or is hurt in other ways.
I know that Brooke says she's Crow, but there's no way this woman can be. She is a white woman with a suntan. Now she might be a little bit indian but as far as I know she does not look it at all.
Please understand that I will remain anonymous. To protect myself from being sued by these people who already stole a great deal of my money already. I am not healthy and up for legal battles. So please take my experience for what you will, and be cautious. Thank you.
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Dear Garnet,
I'm so sorry for what you have suffered at the hands of this woman and her partner.
You've already had to deal with some hard lessons, so don't beat yourself up about being taken in by this predatory behavior. This woman has preyed on many before you and sadly, you may not be the last. I give thanks for the wisdom that guided you away from her.
Many years ago, I took the opportunity to travel to the Canadian province of Saskatchewan to learn from a Native scholar. She had written a book about using traditional Aboriginal pedagogy to challenge and transcend Eurocentrism. In guiding me through some independent study, she strongly advocated the writings of Brooke Medicine Eagle and Starhawk and I came to realize how strong her New Age influence was. At that time, I was familiar with New Age exploitation of Hindu/Indian spirituality (the part of the world where I was born), but largely ignorant about the depth of exploitation of Native spiritual beliefs. We went our separate ways, and I chose to keep my opinions to myself, as I saw no point in confronting her about her beliefs and disparaging them. Sadly, there are strong currents of New Ageism and appropriation of Native cultures and spiritual beliefs in some women's communities, and in some academic traditions.
This woman who advocated Brooke Medicine Eagle to me is a well-respected Native scholar and educator in Canada. I have come to see a strong tendency toward New Agism in some Native education in Canada today, particular in the way that "medicine wheel" pedagogy is being marketed and disseminated as "traditional".
My point is that, if Brooke Medicine Eagle can be accepted as "traditional" by a Native scholar who has access to real Native communities and living, breathing Native traditions, then BME can fool anyone. And I think that when she is promoted by Native scholars and activists, rather than just the usual assortment of hucksters and frauds, then it makes BME even more dangerous to those who are spiritually wounded, disconnected, or torn from their roots.
best, ska
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There are many NDN academics who were raised away from their own spiritual inheiritence. Many were foster children. In Saskatchewan there are now three times as many NDN children in care as there were NDN children in residential schools at their peak. We have Elders (I don't like the term) who now work within the schools and Universities. Sadly a lot of crap still passes for culture and is often taught in schools. There was a elementary school teacher who thought it would be nice if some Elder came and gave her students Indian names. It took a lot of coaching to explain to her and have her accept that Indian names were not just tossed about to amuse (confuse) people. It's rough when the educated need educating. It's been awhile. Has this "Medicine Eagle" woman been charged with anything yet ?
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Dearest Garnet, I know of what you speak as truth. After contacting certain people in the Hamilton/Darby and the NUAGE area of Sula, It is my understanding that they were forced to leave the area. They were forced to leave because of all the negative attention they were bringing to the areas and the area of Hamilton for one did not like their "reputation" being tarnished and the fact that bill collector's were up the ying yang. Hon just remember, that what you did, you did out of the goodness of your heart, and thinking you were doing the right thing. But Creator reminds that you get what you give in this life and rest assured that both Brooke and Sonny will get exactly what is coming to them.
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I"m sorry Garnet that there are such malicious people in the world who take advantage of a person's state of being. I am glad you realized their scam before it was truly too late.
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Thank you all. Sorry I have not been back since I made my post.
I worry that the people they have moved next to will fall to their same shenanigans.
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Has this "Medicine Eagle" woman been charged with anything yet ?
I have not. I should have. I was fearful of Sunny because toward the end of my dealings with them, his personality took a darker tone. They knew where I lived, and knew everything about me. I was worried they could have ruined me in more ways than one. I think the only reason they gave me any kind of money back was because I threatened to have the police review ATM security cameras. It is hard to describe here, but at the end, Sunny acted like he would do something to me, if I pressed it further. At the time I was a single woman living on my own.
If anyone else gets involved with Sunny and Brooke, they will not realize just how far down the path they will lead a person. They will extricate every possible thing they can about your personal life. And before one finally sees through them, it will be too late. They both are really good at what they do. They could sell snow in July. Really hope the next person they try to ruin will not let them get away with it. They need to be stopped.
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If there isn't already there should be some kind of online support group for victims of this specific form of abuse.
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Brooke Medicine Eagle, discussed in older posts http://www.medicineeagle.com/
Was reviewed and a warning issued on via the Sonoma County FreePress and
Abuse and Exploitation of American Indian Sacred Traditions A Statement from the Center for the SPIRIT
http://www.sonomacountyfreepress.com/features/brooke-edwards.html
She has changed her name now to Chalise http://www.medicineeagle.com/meet-brooke.html
She still charges the same...
Quote:
""New Name! As I move into a new phase of my life, I have been calling prayerfully for a change in energy. I was answered by grace in Paradise, Montana on autumn equinox with the in-pouring of an uplifted and powerful energy of happiness, peace, joy, excitement, creativity and fullness. I was invited to begin using, everyday, my spiritual name Chalise - given me long ago by Dawn Star. It means “a chalice overflowing with love and light”, and as such is a vocation, gift of grace and a challenge to truly live. ‘Medicine Eagle’ represents the years of picking up the dawning light and flying it across the sky for the enlightenment of all. This new, more feminine name, represents a time of staying in one place and allowing abundance in all forms to flow through me. It is pronounced “shah – LEASE” and I would appreciate being called Chalise to support this new energy that I am carrying (although Brooke will remain my official name)."
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I was invited to begin using, everyday, my spiritual name Chalise - given me long ago by Dawn Star. It means “a chalice overflowing with love and light”,
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ohhh.. the love and light of exploitation and greed? Puke.
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From Brooke's website..
"Sunny Baba has left to find things and people to make his life work. By his own report, he wants “wilder, greener pastures with spontaneous creation and no responsibility; and younger, freer, less competent women”.
There’s no arguing with that, and I know he must seek his own happiness. And yet it left me incredibly overwhelmed and grieving in so many ways: I lost my beloved; my husband who helped make such a beautiful physical life around me; the land steward of this place; endless possibilities of the golden beauty we could continue to bring forward in union, and more . . . a dream of partnership and closeness and creation..."
http://www.medicineeagle.com/news.html
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Quote:
I was invited to begin using, everyday, my spiritual name Chalise - given me long ago by Dawn Star. It means “a chalice overflowing with love and light”,
ohhh.. the love and light of exploitation and greed? Puke.
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LOL
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From Brooke's website..
"Sunny Baba has left to find things and people to make his life work. By his own report, he wants “wilder, greener pastures with spontaneous creation and no responsibility; and younger, freer, less competent women”. "
http://www.medicineeagle.com/news.html
He wants no responsibilty for his actions and more targets.... Says it pretty plain there.
Lindaa.
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She has changed her name now to Chalise http://www.medicineeagle.com/meet-brooke.html
She still charges the same...
Quote:
""...I was invited to begin using, everyday, my spiritual name Chalise - given me long ago by Dawn Star. It means “a chalice overflowing with love and light”, and as such is a vocation, gift of grace and a challenge to truly live. ‘Medicine Eagle’ represents the years of picking up the dawning light and flying it across the sky for the enlightenment of all. This new, more feminine name, represents a time of staying in one place and allowing abundance in all forms to flow through me. It is pronounced “shah – LEASE” and I would appreciate being called Chalise to support this new energy that I am carrying (although Brooke will remain my official name)."
Uh no, it isn't. It's pronounced CHA-li- SE. Or with a second c it's pronouned CHAL-is. First one is a common Hindu surname. Second is just a plain old cup, usually filled with wine.
But there is a funny implication from that silly name, namely that she's full of it...
And what the heck is Dawn Star, besides a silly comic book character I remember from when I was a kid?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawnstar
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Found a video with Sunny Baba in it and Brooke, hanging up the laundry..
http://dancewithdestinydocumentary.com/component/content/article/35-wise-counsel/48-sunny-baba.html
""Sunny, a true man of nature, who walks his talk as an awakened human being living a life of beauty and simplicity. He has designed and built, spiritual communities in California, Arizona and Montana. Sunny Baba: I am a man of nature who has lived his entire adult life in the remote wilderness areas of the western USA and Central America. I have lived life as the ancient, and aboriginal peoples did, incorporating modern, alternative solar-powered technologies, together with the self-sufficiency movement. I have organized, started and built four self-sufficient communities, based on living a simple natural life style in harmony with the natural world, and enjoyment of the simple, natural pleasures of the tribal life. I am an artist in all parts of my life. I have build my own homes, make my own clothes, and love to grow and gather my own food. I paint, stained glass windows, tan and buckskin hides, using them to make traditional native leather clothing designs, complete with traditional beadwork done by natives american cultures. I create 13 kinds of moccasins; build temples; re-build vintage cars and create hand-crafted gypsy wagons. I love going barefoot as often as possible, and I live primarily out of doors.""
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I grew up using a washer like that. It is a ton of wasted water. Maybe someone should tell him that
modern machines are much more efficient and much less wasteful. Seriously, even cars pollute less than
those old ones he refuses to let go of.
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Brooke called me the next day and said they would love to have me come to earth heart and stay for as long as I wanted. I packed some things and went the next day. I think one of the first things that happened when I got there was we sat down and discussed rules and donations to them. They were interested in how much money I could give to them and Brooke said she would accept weekly payments or a one time lump sum of $10,000 to stay for the whole summer and learn from her and get healed from Sunny Baba. She said they would appreciate the payments in cash.
When you watch sunny ba ba's video of hanging out the laundry he says at the end of his video that he's lived on $500 a year by living his life style. I am amazed by the depths that these people will sink to in order to obtain fake status and steal money from innocent people looking for help or healing.
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Although of mixed heritage, her tribal enrollment is through the Crow Indian tribe in Montana. She also has native blood from the Lakota, Nez Perce, and Cherokee peoples, as well as ancestors from Europe.
http://www.medicineeagle.com/meet-brooke.html (http://www.medicineeagle.com/meet-brooke.html)
So she is now in Tonasket, Washington. She stlll says she is Crow, and she still wants to exploit people.
http://www.medicineeagle.com/friendsfamily-letters/101-assistance-in-eden.html (http://www.medicineeagle.com/friendsfamily-letters/101-assistance-in-eden.html)
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Although of mixed heritage, her tribal enrollment is through the Crow Indian tribe in Montana. She also has native blood from the Lakota, Nez Perce, and Cherokee peoples, as well as ancestors from Europe.
http://www.medicineeagle.com/meet-brooke.html (http://www.medicineeagle.com/meet-brooke.html)
So she is now in Tonasket, Washington. She stlll says she is Crow, and she still wants to exploit people.
http://www.medicineeagle.com/friendsfamily-letters/101-assistance-in-eden.html (http://www.medicineeagle.com/friendsfamily-letters/101-assistance-in-eden.html)
Tonasket? That's the same town used as a mailing address by the fake Anishaabe elders group affiliated with the Pembinas militia group. It'd be an incredible coincidence if she just happened to live there also. I looked up the town online, and it's only 900 people. Chances are they at least know each other or run into each other once in awhile.
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She is on Facebook these days as Brooke Medicine Eagle. According to her website, she lost her family, community, finances, home, and livelihood because of Sunny Baba. She was thinking of suicide until "Great Spirit" - her words intervened. She accuses Baba of abuse.
Anyway, she has several young people who support her. In other words, these lost people who live outside their own culture and want to be Native desperately gravitate to her for learning "Native ways". A form of being a high class bum feeding off needy people.
However, she doesn't discuss the other folks in the area. Just all her friends that she can sponge off of in San Francisco. And she does a good job of that by staying in their homes in the winter.
She now ambiguous about being a Native. Most of the places that host her discuss her being an Earth mage and ceremonialist. I supposed it is assumed that she is Native. She is featured as a "Woman of Wisdom" in a series of you-tube talks.
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So she is now in Tonasket, Washington. She stlll says she is Crow, and she still wants to exploit people.
Tonasket is on or near the Colville Reservation. Also Tonasket is a well known Indian family name on the Colville Res. I wonder how she ended up there?
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http://www.medicineeagle.com/friendsfamily-letters/65-friends-a-family-letter-winter-09.html (http://www.medicineeagle.com/friendsfamily-letters/65-friends-a-family-letter-winter-09.html)
Her story of how she ended up in Tonasket:
Now for the longer story, with some news many of you may already have heard: Due to the greed and meanness of our partner’s children, we were forced to leave our beautiful Earth Heart retreat home in Montana in May.
(stories about looking for land near Mt. Shasta, Williams Oregon, Oroville Washington etc.)
Coming off the mountain in a tired and sad place to visit our realtor Patti again, we were shown a place that didn’t meet our wilderness requirements yet she felt inspired to show us. And it has, surprising even us, become our home! It is a couple acre home and orchard in a little hamlet set in a tiny ranching / fruit-growing valley near Tonasket and the radiantly abundant Okanogan Valley. (The fruit many of you eat probably comes from this area.) Our FLOWERSONG home has grapes, apples, apricots, cherries, plums, nectarines, peaches, pears, hazel nuts and berries in overflowing abundance, plus plenty of space for big gardens. Neighbors offer us more walnuts and almonds than we can pick. The nearby lakes are renowned for many varieties of fish. A large herd of bighorn sheep are the “totem” of the town, and wander freely, their hooves clicking on the downtown streets. Deer often join them.
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http://www.medicineeagle.com/friendsfamily-letters/65-friends-a-family-letter-winter-09.html (http://www.medicineeagle.com/friendsfamily-letters/65-friends-a-family-letter-winter-09.html)
Her story of how she ended up in Tonasket:
Now for the longer story, with some news many of you may already have heard: Due to the greed and meanness of our partner’s children, we were forced to leave our beautiful Earth Heart retreat home in Montana in May.
(stories about looking for land near Mt. Shasta, Williams Oregon, Oroville Washington etc.)
Coming off the mountain in a tired and sad place to visit our realtor Patti again, we were shown a place that didn’t meet our wilderness requirements yet she felt inspired to show us. And it has, surprising even us, become our home! It is a couple acre home and orchard in a little hamlet set in a tiny ranching / fruit-growing valley near Tonasket and the radiantly abundant Okanogan Valley. (The fruit many of you eat probably comes from this area.) Our FLOWERSONG home has grapes, apples, apricots, cherries, plums, nectarines, peaches, pears, hazel nuts and berries in overflowing abundance, plus plenty of space for big gardens. Neighbors offer us more walnuts and almonds than we can pick. The nearby lakes are renowned for many varieties of fish. A large herd of bighorn sheep are the “totem” of the town, and wander freely, their hooves clicking on the downtown streets. Deer often join them.
@Epiphany, sorry for my laziness. I tried to click on the link earlier and it wouldn't work. I don't know if it's me or the link. Anyhoo, thank you for the info.
Lim lemtsh,
Diana
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Diana, definitely no need to apologize, Brooke's stuff is hard to plow through in the best of times. I just happened to be digging away in her site and came across that. I hope I didn't sound like I was scolding or something. :)
I notice Brooke has a different spin on why they initially had to move than the report given earlier in this thread from the actual victim.
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This is from her site:
over the past five years, I experienced shattering losses in family, community, EarthHeart Retreat, finances, and every other aspect of my life....I looked more closely into my history and realized that the bowl had been ‘cracked’ through intensely traumatic pre-natal and childhood experiences.
It really stuck in her craw the loss of EarthHeart. Also she fails to acknowledge the abuse that she does to others by sucking them dry of their resources.
This is what she says about Sunny:
There was much to learn, especially from the verbal, emotional and spiritual abuse I experienced in my past relationship. Having been around violence and physical abuse in my childhood milleau, I felt that words and feelings should not hurt me, but only degrade the life of the perpetrator. I was very naïve, and suffered greatly from the kind of mysogeny that happened. I am now writing about this and planning to put something on the website soon, to help others not fall victim to this kind of terribly debilitating and rampant abuse.
If you watch the videos of him and her, you can see that he is bored out of his mind when she does her rituals.
This is her new victim:
As an elder with no children or family, it is a great joy to have more young people in my life, especially my now Hunka-adopted daughter, Shannondoah.
....spent November weeks in San Francisco and N CA with Shannondoah and her family, plus a growing group of FlowerSong supporters; it feels like my old home Bay area is becoming a second home again, for myself and for FlowerSong.
This Shannonhoah is a 23 year old white woman who grew up on Long Island, and tried to become a part of the Native community there. She was rejected even though she maintained that she had Native ancestry. This information came from her blog. Where she firmly believes that she is Native, although she can't identify the Tribe she is from.
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This is just for the record - From reading her books -- yes I did that....
She and her family leased a ranch on Crow land. They lost the ranch and she moved to town when she was young. That is the Crow connection.
She says that her father's family is really Nez Pearce who ended up on the Crow reservation. Her mother's family was Lakota who was adopted out. The father's relative enrolled as a Crow as did her mother's family. Yes, I know very odd and nonsensical.
From what I can piece together, her father supposedly married a Cheyenne woman, whose family let Brooke be a part of Cheyenne rituals. At least that is what she writes. I think she got any information from books.
From what I can see, she was one of those spiritual tourists who read a lot of books, and used the ideas of the books to form her mishmash. Her books cite these books as reference - a lot of biographies of famous Natives such as Chief Joseph.
She does unconsciously admit to not being Crow by writing how she and her mother wrote to their "Lakota" relatives for money. Apparently, it didn't occur to her to ask her "tribe" for money. She explains that the Lakotas (not mentioned which Nation of Lakotas) *did not* recognise her or her mother.
Her motif of the Cherokee is deep ancestry - in short we are all related to each other if we go back far enough. In short, a White woman who capitalises on her great knowledge of things and surrounds herself with people less knowledge and do not have their radar out for a con.
Her writings portray a cunning woman who uses people, and sponges off them. She goes from person to person offering ceremony for food and shelter. She couches the whole thing in "doing great things for the Mother Earth". She met Baba on the rebound of another long-term relationship that ended.
Anyway, I hope this info is useful.
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Brooke Medicine Eagle is listed as one of the Board of Advisers for a rather dubious (to say the least) organisation called Women of Wisdom Foundation
The full list of advisers is as follows:
Elena Avila
Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.
Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.
Sandra Ingerman
Charlotte Sophia Kasl
Brooke Medicine Eagle
Judith Orloff, M.D.
Gabrielle Roth
Nicki Scully
Sobonfu Somé
Susun S. Weed
Cris Williamson
http://www.womenofwisdom.org/contact.php
I'm pushed for time but here are some fairly dodgy goings on in relation to some of the women involved in this organisation and I will start a new thread on it when I have a moment.
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Her mother's obit:
Nelle Edwards
DEAVER, Wyo. - Nelle Edwards passed peacefully into spirit on May 29, 2009, surrounded by friends and family. She was born in Thermopolis, on Dec. 22, 1913, to a large ranching family; her father, known as 16 Mule Johnson, hauled
oil out of the Casper fields by wagon.
She is survived by her children, Tom Edwards of Lovell and Brooke Medicine Eagle of Tonasket, Wash.; and her only remaining sibling, Mary Jane Stoddard, living in Texas.
She was married to Lee Edwards and homesteaded on the Crow Reservation, where the family ranched for years. She home-schooled her children before taking them to Bridger, Mont., to go to public school. After divorcing Lee, Nelle helped her children ranch in both Montana and where she and Tom currently lived in Deaver. For most of her life she worked to support her family as well as gardening, sewing, and doing beautiful crochet and quilt work. She was a strong
woman with a pioneer spirit who was devoted to her children.
Per her request, there will be no memorial service. May she rest in peace with the light and love of Spirit around her.
Nelle Edwards - Billings Gazette - (Jun/7/2009)
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Brooke's mother was born Nelle Johnson, Nelle's father was born in Denmark, mother Wyoming. In 1920 and 1930 these family members were listed as white.
Brooke's father Francis Lee Edwards is listed as Indian in federal and US Indian census rolls, Crow. Francis' mother, Emma Phelps is listed as 1/4 Indian in the 1932 Crow Agency, Montana census. Francis' father listed white in 1920 federal census.
Census records of course can be inaccurate and what is most important is Brooke's behavior.
According to John Pretty On Top, traditional Crow sundance chief and the officially designated Cultural Director and Speaker for the Crow Tribe, Ms. "Medicine Eagle" is neither a traditional medicine woman (contrary to her paid advertisements) nor an enrolled member of the Crow Tribe. Rather, Ms. "Medicine Eagle" is a profound embarrassment to traditional Crow People, says Mr. Pretty On Top:
"The book she published is so far away from Crow spirituality she's not recognized anywhere in our traditional ways". Mr. Pretty On Top has expressed concern for the harm to the reputation of legitimate Crow spirituality that inevitably follows from the prosperous charlatanism of imposters like Brooke Edwards and he urges non-Indians not to support Ms. "Medicine Eagle" financially or otherwise.
http://www.sonomacountyfreepress.com/features/brooke-edwards.html (http://www.sonomacountyfreepress.com/features/brooke-edwards.html)
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Gotta love this:
You need to have any issues about mother and authority worked out; I’m not interested in playing those games. Neither am I interested in sarcasm, righteousness, and judgement. I offer and expect sharing, loving kindess, wise discernment, cooperation and open communiation.
That quote is tucked into her detailed solicitation for basically unpaid labor.
http://www.medicineeagle.com/index.php/storylines/full-story/flowersong_garden_sanctuary_1 (http://www.medicineeagle.com/index.php/storylines/full-story/flowersong_garden_sanctuary_1)
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Brooke's father:
Francis Lee Edwards (Tosha Wa Fhita), 89, passed away Feb. 6, 2008, in Billings.
He was born in Billings on Sept. 8, 1918, to Emma Phelps and Albert Edwards, and grew up on the Crow Reservation. He married Nellie Johnson and they were later divorced.
Lee is survived by a son, Tommy Lee Edwards of Deaver, Wyo.; and a daughter, Brooke Medicine Eagle of Darby. He is also survived by cousins Don Phelps of Newport Beach, Calif., and Verba Phelps Valentine of Billings; and a half-sister.
No services are currently planned.
http://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/francis-lee-edwards/article_1ec1c550-93b0-5b83-bfcb-e00c8902778f.html#ixzz2bsOqIIeA (http://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/francis-lee-edwards/article_1ec1c550-93b0-5b83-bfcb-e00c8902778f.html#ixzz2bsOqIIeA)
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Brooke's father Francis Lee Edwards is listed as Indian in federal and US Indian census rolls, Crow. Francis' mother, Emma Phelps is listed as 1/4 Indian in the 1932 Crow Agency, Montana census. Francis' father listed white in 1920 federal census.
Census records of course can be inaccurate and what is most important is Brooke's behavior.
According to John Pretty On Top, traditional Crow sundance chief and the officially designated Cultural Director and Speaker for the Crow Tribe, Ms. "Medicine Eagle" is neither a traditional medicine woman (contrary to her paid advertisements) nor an enrolled member of the Crow Tribe. Rather, Ms. "Medicine Eagle" is a profound embarrassment to traditional Crow People, says Mr. Pretty On Top:
"The book she published is so far away from Crow spirituality she's not recognized anywhere in our traditional ways". Mr. Pretty On Top has expressed concern for the harm to the reputation of legitimate Crow spirituality that inevitably follows from the prosperous charlatanism of imposters like Brooke Edwards and he urges non-Indians not to support Ms. "Medicine Eagle" financially or otherwise.
http://www.sonomacountyfreepress.com/features/brooke-edwards.html (http://www.sonomacountyfreepress.com/features/brooke-edwards.html)
I'm surprised she has any ancestry at all, esp since in old photos she used that bright orange tanning makeup and had that goofy "tribal certificate" that seems to have come from Kinko's.
BME's BQ is far too low at 1/16 to be enrolled with the Crow. Her grandfather would've been the last member of the family eligible.
http://indianlaw.mt.gov/content/crow/codes/con_bylaws.pdf
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The 1920 federal census Crow Indian Reservation, Big Horn, Montana shows 3 generations of BME's family in one household. I've uploaded a clip of the family group and then the entire page that shows more info on them and their neighbors.
BME's father Francis Lee Edwards, grandmother Emma L. (Phelps) Edwards , and great grandfather Charles M Phelps are listed Indian here.
In the 1900 federal census Crow Agency, Montana, Emma, her siblings, and her father Charles are all listed Crow, her mother white. Their dwelling is noted as "movable" as opposed to "fixed". (This extra info can be seen towards the bottom of the page in the "special inquiries related to Indians" section.)
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BME's paternal grandmother Emma L Phelps married her grandfather Charles M Edwards and then Ned Bailey. Here is a 1932 census that lists Emma as enrolled Crow, 1/4.
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I'm surprised she has any ancestry at all, esp since in old photos she used that bright orange tanning makeup and had that goofy "tribal certificate" that seems to have come from Kinko's.
BME's BQ is far too low at 1/16 to be enrolled with the Crow. Her grandfather would've been the last member of the family eligible.
http://indianlaw.mt.gov/content/crow/codes/con_bylaws.pdf
Hey Educatedindian, some Tribes have descendancy cards for IHS purposes and Tribal matters. I believe they are given for only 2 generations after last eligible enrolled parent. This could be what BME is touting?? :P
Diana
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I'm surprised she has any ancestry at all, esp since in old photos she used that bright orange tanning makeup and had that goofy "tribal certificate" that seems to have come from Kinko's.
BME's BQ is far too low at 1/16 to be enrolled with the Crow. Her grandfather would've been the last member of the family eligible.
http://indianlaw.mt.gov/content/crow/codes/con_bylaws.pdf
Hey Educatedindian, some Tribes have descendancy cards for IHS purposes and Tribal matters. I believe they are given for only 2 generations after last eligible enrolled parent. This could be what BME is touting?? :P
Diana
This is what she used to post on her site.
http://web.archive.org/web/20000301035253/http://www.medicine-eagle.com/tribal_certificate.htm
A "certificate" that's just supposed tribal council stationary with a notary's signature, but not their stamp. Supposed signatures of the tribal enrollment secy, but on tribal council stationary rather than enrollment office, and with a supposed BIA employee's signature too.
I'm guessing she realized all the red flags this stationary-posing-as-certificate raised weren't helping her case and so finally took it down.
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The lineage claim is through her father Francis Lee Edwards, his mother Emma L Phelps, her father Charles M Phelps. That is reflected in census.
But in 1880 Nebraska Charles and his parents are all listed white in the federal census. 1870 white in Iowa. Other people's genealogy work on this family claim that Charles' grandparents were born 2 in NY, 2 PA. Ancestors that are known all being white New Englanders.
Charles Phelps is the ancestor that BME says was related somehow to Chief Joseph. Don't see any evidence of that.
Census and other records can be inaccurate. Maybe people worked up the genealogy incorrectly. Still, personally I wouldn't be comfortable saying that BME might have enduring NDN heritage unless a professional genealogist does a report on Charles M Phelps' parents. Maybe this has already been done. But from what is otherwise available - I wonder if this all has to do originally with land.
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Brooke’s lineage is an amazing rainbow, and she has always identified with the richness of all humanity, rather than any one tribe or people. She has ancestors in six native tribes (Crow, Nez Perce, Lakota, Cree, Peigan and Cherokee) as well as European blood from Scotland, Ireland, and Denmark.
She is a non-traditional member of the Crow Indian tribe in Montana, where she grew up in a half breed rancher family homesteading in the beautiful high country of the reservation.
From her site http://www.medicineeagle.com/index.php/meet-brooke (http://www.medicineeagle.com/index.php/meet-brooke)
In response to a query on this, which included specific family names and questions, Brooke wrote back:
My cousin has been working on all of this, and finds very little - so many orphans, and so little information passed on, especially since i didn’t ask for more names / info when my grandparents were alive. Family tradition and personal information gives me this knowledge and some details but not much.
I simply honor my ancestors and let it be. Thanks for your interest.
This sounds to me like she does not know and does not really care, or does not believe her genealogy can be worked up. Yet at the same time her family story is important enough to be a major part of her marketing.
Brooke offers indigenous spirituality, shamanic healing, trauma release, women’s mysteries, counseling, & more.
She is busy in Sedona this year. She is also scheduled to do something with the Red Tent movement, Midwest Women's Herbal Conference, and the Fairy Congress "Presence in Unity: Co-Creation and Deep Soul Nourishment".
About that Fairy Congress:
"The Fairy Congress is not a New Age forum event. It’s about Doing, Joining, Sharing, looking to the future. In a collapsing world economy, Fairy Congress gives us an idea of another way of living, another way of thinking. Some of it comes from ancestral wisdom, some from new human visions of departing from the greed of commercial modernism. Fairy Congress is an Idealist event, a Visionary event, and an event buoyant with hope and friendship." -R.J. Stewart, Celtic teacher
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you guys ever see the stupid women of wisdom video on youtube? brooke cracks me up.....maria yraceburu is even funnier
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Brooke says she has sold her place in Washington state. http://www.medicineeagle.com/ (http://www.medicineeagle.com/)
She is active in the Red Tent movement. And she is giving seminars through out Europe this year.
Her Facebook page is now Brooke Bebes Medicine Eagle. In her book Buffalo Woman Comes Singing she says Bebes is a childhood nickname, and that her birth name was Emaline.
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Brooke says she has sold her place in Washington state. http://www.medicineeagle.com/ (http://www.medicineeagle.com/)
She is active in the Red Tent movement. And she is giving seminars through out Europe this year.
Her Facebook page is now Brooke Bebes Medicine Eagle. In her book Buffalo Woman Comes Singing she says Bebes is a childhood nickname, and that her birth name was Emaline.
What is the Red Tent movement?
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Brooke says she has sold her place in Washington state. http://www.medicineeagle.com/ (http://www.medicineeagle.com/)
She is active in the Red Tent movement. And she is giving seminars through out Europe this year.
Her Facebook page is now Brooke Bebes Medicine Eagle. In her book Buffalo Woman Comes Singing she says Bebes is a childhood nickname, and that her birth name was Emaline.
What is the Red Tent movement? I hope it isn't what I think it is.
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Red Tent looks like their version of women's lodges.
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Red Tent looks like their version of women's lodges.
Please, no offense to all the white women on NAFPS, you're the best and NAFPS couldn't operate without you. But, what is up with all these middle-aged white women and their obsessions with this particular bodily function? I don't get it.
Lim lemtsh,
Diana
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Please, no offense to all the white women on NAFPS
Don't worry – none taken.
But, what is up with all these middle-aged white women and their obsessions with this particular bodily function? I don't get it.
We discussed the issue of a certain obsession with bodily functions in Nuagers before – the middle aged white boys, however, seem to be more preoccupied with their rear end, given all the names including the term 'wind', as in „Turtle Winds“ or „Wind blowing hot“ (what did the guru tell them – that this was the „Indian“ term for „Silent But Deadly“? :-X ).
So it seems that the white boys get stuck in their anal stage, i.e. an age between 1.5 and 3.5, while white girls make it to pre-pubescence. Now, that's progress, innit?
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A founder of the Red Tent Temple movement is ALisa Starkweather http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=3932.msg32912#msg32912 (http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=3932.msg32912#msg32912)
Speaking of all that wind, we can add Walks With Wind, the guy in Australia who claims he is a "Navajo Shaman".
I'm sure Brooke is getting all sorts of ego boosts by participating in this.
The time has come to give voice to women’s silent stories, to reverse cultural shame and taboos - by finding the true depth, insight, and soul-nourishment inherent in our Menstrual Cycle. The Red Tents In Every Neighborhood World Summit: an inspiring and empowering Online event for women, which will start on February 1st, and continue for the entire month of February, which is dedicated to the Celtic Goddess Brigid.
http://www.medicineeagle.com/index.php/storylines/full-story/red_tent_summit_2015 (http://www.medicineeagle.com/index.php/storylines/full-story/red_tent_summit_2015)
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Yeah, there's nothing Celtic about it, either, and it's offensive for them to try to pull that off. If you go to the main page on here and search on Red Tent, there are a lot of the psuedo-tantric sex traffickers who are using these events as a way to recruit.
The neoplaygan "moon lodge" started in the 1980s as a pretendian thing created by Brooke Schiavi. But she told all the non-Natives that it was a traditional NDN thing (not sure what tribe she said it came from. I think she told the gullible white woman that all tribes did it). Susun Weed started one and then within a short period of time there was a "moon lodge" at every neopagan white people gathering. All the women who participated in those things firmly believed it was an NDN tradition that had been "shared" with all women, "because the elders said so." :( Of course, these "elders" were all frauds. I've heard white women confidently explain that this is an oooold traditional Native thing. They would set up a structure like a nuage sweat lodge, but usually just out of sheets, and women would go in there. Some would do rituals, others would just hang out and draw on the walls or chat with the other women. It started out as a thing just for women on their moon, then the women-only space tended to get set up in the same area and it became merged into some of the formerly-unrelated women's rituals.
Here's a bunch of the stuff white women have written about it:
Background: http://www.susunweed.com/moonlodge.htm
Nuage expansion: http://www.deannalam.com/summit-3/
Calling it "The Red Tent" and making it more elaborate and mainstream nuage, and making a lot more money off it, seems to have happened after Anita Diamant wrote a novel with that in the title. I haven't read Diamant's book, so I can't say what that's about except I think she brought in some Middle Eastern and maybe Biblical stuff. *shrugs*
The groups are all over the place now, and every one I've looked into is full of appropriators. They try to claim what they're doing is "universal," but that just means they've misappropriated from a handful of different cultures. There is some hard core misinformation about brown people being spread in these, usually all-white, groups.
You know, we might want to start a thread on the Red Tent thing itself, and compile the various mentions we have on the forum into one spot.
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So it seems that the white boys get stuck in their anal stage, i.e. an age between 1.5 and 3.5, while white girls make it to pre-pubescence. Now, that's progress, innit?
If you look on the links Piff and I posted, there's a lot of women naming themselves "wind" as well. One of them is Vincent LaDuke's ex ("Marlise Wind," a white woman who used to go by "Wabun Wind") who seems to be attempting a comeback with this stuff.
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Probably need a thread on Marlise James aka Wabun Wind aka Marlise Wind too.
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Heads up Ingeborg, she's coming to Germany in May:
http://www.medicineeagle.com/events-offerings/ (http://www.medicineeagle.com/events-offerings/)
That page says May:
14-15 in Schafhausen
23-25 in Steyerberg
May 29 to 31 in Extertal
She's also doing Malta, France, and England. One event in London is at the Rudolf Steiner House.
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I had just given lecture to a group of Native women this last week
and that was the question where did these white women come up with the ideal of
a moon lodge, we find it offensive and want it stopped.
It is Native belief that women on their moon don't come to ceremony are not allowed
on the grounds, if a mood lodge is set up we are told to burn it down,
what is wrong with people
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I'd assume it's because of the money... For one, it is or rather was (because it's nothing new) an attempt to become interesting for those women in that part of the women's movement who turned to Nuage resp Nuagey concepts, and hopefully lure in some more from among the not so Nuagey women's libbers. Then of course plastics will also make an extra profit from selling ceremony to women who happen to be in their moon time, so they don't have to turn down any participants (and – God, karma or whoever forbid! - lose a few bucks in fees) – it's a trip cancellation insurance Nuage style. Another aspect of course is that these ceremonies were not only 'sacred', but also secret (yup, so very secret the ndns themselves never heard of them...), so this appeals to White Privilege and entitledness - „It's ndn? It's secret? Then we want it!“.
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Here is a link to a new article on what this fraud is currently up to. Europeans beware, hold on to your wallets:
https://blog.psiram.com/category/english/ (https://blog.psiram.com/category/english/)
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Uploaded here is a clip of her supposed tribal certificate. An earlier link given here in the thread no longer works.
This is from https://web.archive.org/web/20040203093539/http://www.medicine-eagle.com/tribal_certificate.htm
Brooke is still busy. She is scheduled to do events in Switzerland and Germany this year. http://www.medicineeagle.com/bmemedicineeaglecom/
And she still really wants our money. http://www.medicineeagle.com/inviting-support-contributions/
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That old hag is still at it? I thought she kicked the bucket....
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That old hag is still at it? I thought she kicked the bucket....
Amazingly enough, she is still at it. She was born in 1943.
This year, 2017, she will do events in Scotland, Switzerland, Germany, Wales. http://www.medicineeagle.com/bmemedicineeaglecom/
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Look who has found a way to fleece people in Wales.
https://www.facebook.com/northwalesretreats/posts/658274147883056?comment_id=659418187768652¬if_id=1533148870597290¬if_t=comment_mention
Time’s running out to book to join shaman and wisdomkeeper Brooke Medicine-Eagle when she visits the ancient and beautiful island of Anglesey at the end of this month.
Path of the Heart talk
Brooke will share wisdom and healing through her powerful teachings, songs, dance and the medicine of her drum. This evening event is open to both women and men.
Thursday 23rd August at 7.30pm in Llanfachraeth. Tickets here.
Song of the Ancestors women's workshops
Through meditation, ceremony and processes, Brooke will guide you to connect with your feminine ancestors, in order to release hidden trauma and improve health and happiness through experiencing the love and support of those who have gone before. There will also be a chance to discover and explore the ancient sacred landscapes of Ynys Môn.
Saturday 25th - Sunday 27th August 10am-5pm in Newborough. Book here.
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^Oh, barf! The quoted part says this event won't happen for another couple weeks. Maybe that's still enough time to get it canceled and spare the locals from spending their time and energy on this nonsense.
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Look who has found a way to fleece people in Wales.
https://www.facebook.com/northwalesretreats/posts/658274147883056 …
I got somewhat confused, the link was coded as "Email" and every time I clicked it Apple Mail opened.
After I figured out about that, the initial text now reads:
North Wales Retreats shared an event.
31 July ·
Explore your ancestral connection with Brooke Medicine Eagle at these inspiring workshops for women this August bank holiday weekend in Anglesey, North Wales. Through meditation, ceremony and dance, Brooke will guide you to clear ancestral trauma and to reconnect with the love and support of your feminine ancestors.
There is a link to an events page, which reads:
Song of the Ancestors: workshops with Brooke Medicine Eagle
Public · Hosted by Brooke Medicine-Eagle and 2 others
25 Aug at 10:00 – 27 Aug at 17:00 UTC+01
Prichard Jones Institute, Newborough LL61 6SY, Anglesey, North Wales, UK
About
15 went · 141 interested
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Workshops (25th and 26th August) and Sacred Sites visits around Ynys Môn (27th August) - women only
Our ancestral connections are a powerful influence on our lives, living on in our veins and our energy fields. By becoming consciously aware of them, we can release hidden trauma and improve health and happiness.
In these inspiring workshops for women, set in the ancient and beautiful landscapes of Ynys Môn, Brooke will lead you into experiential work to make deep connections with your feminine ancestors through meditation and altar work.
You will step into an understanding of how our human hormones, ancient brain and connection to the goodness of the earth are fundamental to wellbeing.
You will also work with ancestral clearing, exploring how to release and clear trauma in the lines we are connected to. You will connect to the love and support of your ancestors, and honour those who have gone before, those who will come after, and the land, through dance, altars, ceremony and song.
The island of Ynys Môn (Anglesey in English) is known as Mon Mam Cymru (Mon the mother of Wales) and is sacred to the ancient mother goddess Mona. There are so many standing stones, ancient chambers and powerful spots all around the island, which was a place of power for the Druids before the Romans came. On the final day of our time together we will explore some of these sites.
Book your place now at www.northwalesretreats.com/booking
£279 Saturday, Sunday & Monday
£199 Saturday & Sunday only
£99 Monday only
Know you want to come but want to spread the cost? Use coupon code DEPOSITONLY at checkout to pay 50% now (remainder due two weeks before the workshops).
Workshop venue: Prichard Jones Institute, Cottage Homes, Newborough LL61 6SY, Ynys Môn (Anglesey), North Wales, UK
Workshop days run 10am-5pm. Whilst there is no formal taught material in the evening we ask that you keep your evenings free for homework and to allow yourself space to be with the land.
Note that the price includes a basic hearty lunch but you will need to arrange your own accommodation (or camping) if you are travelling from far away. Please book this early, as Newborough is a stunning area popular with visitors in the summer. If you need help finding places, please get in contact and we can send you some suggestions.
Brooke Medicine-Eagle is a legendary Earthkeeper, wisdom teacher, healer, visionary, singer/songwriter, catalyst for wholeness and ceremonial leader, author of the Native American literary classic, Buffalo Woman Comes Singing and of The Last Ghost Dance. Brooke’s music recordings, teachings, writings and wilderness spiritual retreats have touched the hearts and minds of people worldwide.
I also found https://northwalesretreats.com/brooke/ with basically the same text as quoted above.
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I know we used to have a thread on this fraud, but this came on my email today and I did not know that she has been denounced bt the Crow Tribe. Must be why she is now claiming Nez Perce and Cheyenne:
Alert - Re: Brooke 'Medicine Eagle' Edwards
Abuse and Exploitation of American Indian Sacred Traditions
A Statement from the Center for the SPIRIT
The text quoted from the email is also available online:
http://www.exposebohemiangrove.org/fp1/features/brooke-edwards.html
AIM letter on Brooke Edwards.
An Open Letter And Invitation To Brooke Medicine Eagle
from American Indian Movement in Asheville (AIMAsheville)
[…]
SOURCE: http://www.geocities.com/aimasheville/AnOpenLetterAndInvitationToBrookeMedicineEagle.htm
The source link now yields an error message. However, the letter is still available online here:
http://www.oocities.org/aimasheville/AnOpenLetterAndInvitationToBrookeMedicineEagle.htm
Here is a link to a new article on what this fraud is currently up to. Europeans beware, hold on to your wallets: https://blog.psiram.com/category/english/ (https://blog.psiram.com/category/english/)
There are two articles about her on that site, one in English, and also the same in German:
https://blog.psiram.com/2015/04/brooke-medicine-eagle-edwards-plastic-shaman-with-some-40-years-of-experience-in-fleecing/
https://blog.psiram.com/2015/05/brooke-medicine-eagle-edwards-plastikschamanin-mit-40-jahren-erfahrung-im-abzocken/
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Some links for discussion; the Wikipedia articles and Facebook links and the rest have not been mentioned before:
Brooke "Medicine Eagle" Edwards (born 1943)[1] is an American author, singer/songwriter and teacher, specializing in her interpretations of Native American religions. She frequently teaches workshops at New Age and other events.
Edwards was born and raised near a Crow reservation in Montana.[2] She studied at the University of Denver[2] obtaining a BA degree in psychology and mathematics.[1] She earned an MA in counseling psychology from the University of Denver.[1] She describes herself as "of Sioux and Nez Perce ancestry"[1] and says she has ancestors in six Native American tribes.[3]
Edwards' life and spiritual experiences were documented in a 1982 study of American Indian women. Marie Annette Jaimes described Edwards as "a charismatic medicine woman".[4] Jaimes has taught Native American Studies at San Francisco State University,[2] and discussed a vision of Edwards' that represented a "significant contribution"[4] to understanding the place of women within modern Native American culture. According to Jaimes, Edwards is the "great, great grand-niece of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce"[4] and studied with Stands Near The Fire, a Northern Cheyenne elder.[4]
Edwards has been criticized by some Native American groups. In 1984, the American Indian Movement included Edwards among those it said were responsible for "a great attack or theft" of Native American ceremonies,[5] and in a 2001 article in the Journal of Religious & Theological Information, Cynthia Snavely connected Edwards to the "misappropriation of Native American spirituality [that] takes place within the New Age spirituality movement".[6] The Center for the SPIRIT (Support and Protection of Indian Religions and Indigenous Traditions) accused her of misrepresenting her heritage and falsely claiming to be a medicine woman.[7]
The Wikipedia Talk page is very interesting (pro & con); too long to quote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Brooke_Medicine_Eagle
Her Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Brooke-Medicine-Eagle-1543703779209793/
Her Facebook profile: https://www.facebook.com/brooke.medicineeagle
https://www.shamanichealingwork.com/iws-brooke-medicine-eagle/
http://teluguking.download/video?v=brooke_medicine_eagle_1_of_5_women_of_wisdom
I will be back with disturbing news from Europe and a call for action.
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Her present homepage. (Awful [IMHO] 3:55 audio: "Ancient Mother"): https://www.medicineeagle.com/
It's this event I am writing about in this post: https://www.medicineeagle.com/bmemedicineeaglecom/
November 9-10 2018 Roqueredonde, France - Lerab Ling Tibetan Monastaery
Lerab Ling Tibetan Monastery Roqueredonde, near Lodeve in Occitanie, France
https://www.lerabling.org/lang-en/pathway-to-the-heart-dawn-star-s-lineage
Evening Talk - 'Love is the Answer'
Private Sessions
PATHWAY OF THE HEART - Dawn Star’s Lineage
Powerfully beneficial guidance has been given us for our walk forward into this new time of peace, abundance and loving light. Brooke will share profound teachings from her native FlowerSong - Dawn Star lineage about the primacy of the heart and love in our awakening to the Golden Age. More than simple emotion, it is a rich and full pathway to a good and blessed life in which we offer our highest gifts, manifest our dreams, and serve our world.
Our purpose is set in our heart. We are living in a time of change and transformation on personal and collective levels. We must find our unique purpose for living and then become that in every aspect of our lives. We must reconnect to the spark that ignites it and live our lives through its wisdom and guidance.
Dawn Star is a native American name for the Christ light who came into the Americas bringing a new message of love at the beginning of the Piscean Age. Our charge is to learn that loving way so that we can move forward into the Aquarian Age in a powerful and transformed manner.
Come ready to learn, share, chant, take shamanic journey and dance in sacred circle
There is a possibility to book a private session with Brooke. They will happen on Saturday afternoon and Sunday near Lodève. If you are interested, please contact Valérie Begouen: v.begouen.insitu@wanadoo.fr
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/739671099718276/ (shortened version of above text):
Pathway of the Heart - Dawn Star's Lineage
Public · Hosted by Brooke Medicine-Eagle
2 dates · 9 Nov – 10 Nov · MST
Brooke Medicine-Eagle
POB 884, Stevensville, Montana 59870
0 interested
Lerab Ling Tibetan Monastery — Roqueredonde, near Lodeve in Occitanie, France
https://www.lerabling.org/lang-en/pathway-to-the-heart-dawn-star-s-lineage
Evening Talk - 'Love is the Answer'
Private Sessions
PATHWAY OF THE HEART - Dawn Star’s Lineage
Powerfully beneficial guidance has been given us for our walk forward into this new time of peace, abundance and loving light. Brooke will share profound teachings from her native FlowerSong - Dawn Star lineage about the primacy of the heart and love in our awakening to the Golden Age. More than simple emotion, it is a rich and full pathway to a good and blessed life in which we offer our highest gifts, manifest our dreams, and serve our world.
There is a possibility to book a private session with Brooke. They will happen on Saturday afternoon and Sunday near Lodève. If you are interested, please contact Valérie Begouen: v.begouen.insitu@wanadoo.fr
Pathway to the Heart -
Dawn Star’s Lineage with Brooke Medicine Eagle – How to transform the challenges of these powerful times and bring compassion and healing from the indigenous tradition of America.
This event is part of Lerab Ling’s wish to connect with and learn from other wisdom traditions in a spirit of openness and curiosity.
Powerfully beneficial guidance has been given to us for our walk forward into this new time of peace, abundance and loving light. Brooke Medicine Eagle will share profound teachings from her native Flower Song-Dawn Star lineage about the primacy of the heart and love in our awakening to the Golden Age. More than simple emotion, it is a rich and full pathway to a good and blessed life in which we offer our highest gifts, manifest our dreams, and serve our world.
Our purpose is set in our heart. We are living in a time of change and transformation on personal and collective levels. We must find our unique purpose for living and then become that in every aspect of our lives. We must reconnect to the spark that ignites it and live our lives through its wisdom and guidance.
Come ready to learn, share, chant, take a shamanic journey and dance in a sacred circle.
Booking a private session with Brooke:
Please note - All the private session are now booked.
Brooke Medicine Eagle is a non-traditional member of the Crow Indian tribe in Montana. She is an Earthkeeper, wisdom teacher, visionary, singer/songwriter, psychologist and author of best-selling author of the Native American literary classic, Buffalo Woman Comes Singing, and of The Last Ghost Dance.
Over the last 40 years, her teachings, writings, conference appearances, and wilderness spiritual retreats have touched the hearts and minds of people all over the world.
Her wisdom has come not only from deep life experience, and formal education (having recently completed her PhD begun long ago); but as well through studying with native elders and some of the finest teachers, spiritual leaders and healers of contemporary times. She is fortunate to count Moshe Feldenkrias, Doris Breyer, Stanley Kelleman, and Milton Trager among her therapeutic body work teachers and mentors. She studied and offers Somatic Experiencing, Peter Levine’s profound trauma release work as a part of her private consultations.
In her personal healing retreat of the last five years, she has released the deep traumas and challenges of the past. Learning how to manifest positive outcomes for herself and all her relations has also been a special focus.
As always, Brooke focuses a part her love on the joy and healing power of music, sound and vibration. Brooke invites everyone in our time to heal themselves through spiritual action in service of the generations to come.
More information about Brooke’s journey and work. https://www.medicineeagle.com/meet-brooke/
I think it's a shame, a disgrace, that a large and mostly respected Tibetan Buddhist Centre, which "contains perhaps the largest Tibetan Buddhist temple in Europe" allows a well-known fraud and pretender to perform within their walls. I hope some of the members of this forum will protest publicly, with authority, to this abomination.
Read more about the Centre here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lerab_Ling
http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Lerab_Ling
https://www.lerabling.org/lang-en/ – https://www.lerabling.org/lang-en/about/lerab-ling
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That Tibetan Cultural Centre is also on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lerabling/
Le Chemin du Cœur avec Brooke Medicine
Public · Hosted by Lerab Ling
Saturday, 10 November 2018 from 10:00-13:00
4 going · 82 interested
Details
~~~Le Chemin du Cœur - La lignée de Dawn Star avec Brooke Medicine Eagle~~~
(English translation below)
Comment transformer les défis et amener compassion et guérison, d'après la tradition nord-amérindienne.
Cet événement-rencontre est issu du souhait de Lérab Ling de rencontrer et d’apprendre d’autres traditions de sagesse, dans un esprit d’ouverture et de curiosité.
Notre objectif est fixé dans notre cœur. Nous vivons à une époque de changement et de transformation au niveau personnel et collectif. Chacun de nous doit trouver son but unique afin de pouvoir le vivre et le manifester dans tous les aspects de sa vie. Nous devons nous reconnecter à l'étincelle qui l'anime et vivre nos vies à travers sa sagesse et ses conseils.
Brooke partagera les enseignements profonds de sa lignée native Flower Song - Dawn Star au sujet de la primauté du cœur et de l'amour dans notre réveil à l'âge d'or. Plus qu'une simple émotion, c'est un chemin riche et complet vers une vie bonne et bénie dans laquelle nous offrons nos plus grands cadeaux, manifestons nos rêves et servons notre monde.
Préparez-vous à apprendre, partager, chanter, faire un voyage chamanique et danser dans un cercle sacré.
Il est possible de réserver une session privée avec Brooke. Les rendez-vous auront lieu samedi après-midi et dimanche à côté de Lodève. Si vous êtes intéressé, merci de contacter Valérie Begouen : v.begouen.insitu@wanadoo.fr
Pour plus d'informations et inscription : https://lerabling.org/lang-fr/brooke-event-menu-fre
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~~~Pathway to the Heart - Dawn Star’s Lineage with Brooke Medicine Eagle~~~
How to transform the challenges of these powerful times and bring compassion and healing from the indigenous tradition of America.
This event is part of Lerab Ling’s wish to connect with and learn from other wisdom traditions in a spirit of openness and curiosity.
Powerfully beneficial guidance has been given to us for our walk forward into this new time of peace, abundance and loving light. Brooke Medicine Eagle will share profound teachings from her native Flower Song-Dawn Star lineage about the primacy of the heart and love in our awakening to the Golden Age. More than simple emotion, it is a rich and full pathway to a good and blessed life in which we offer our highest gifts, manifest our dreams, and serve our world.
Our purpose is set in our heart. We are living in a time of change and transformation on personal and collective levels. We must find our unique purpose for living and then become that in every aspect of our lives. We must reconnect to the spark that ignites it and live our lives through its wisdom and guidance.
Come ready to learn, share, chant, take a shamanic journey and dance in sacred circle.
There is a possibility to book a private session with Brooke. They will happen on Saturday afternoon and Sunday near Lodève. If you are interested, please contact Valérie Begouen: v.begouen.insitu@wanadoo.fr
for more information and registration: https://lerabling.org/lang-en/pathway-to-the-heart-dawn-star-s-lineage
My bolding in the quote above. — I will repeat my call to action (bolded):
I think it's a shame, a disgrace, that a large and mostly respected Tibetan Buddhist Centre, which "contains perhaps the largest Tibetan Buddhist temple in Europe" allows a well-known fraud and pretender to perform within their walls. I hope some of the members of this forum will protest publicly, with authority, to this abomination.
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Not sure what good it'll do, but I just sent an email to the people at Lerab Ling urging them to cancel Brooke's b.s. event. It may be too short notice, but if not, then that's great.
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Not sure what good it'll do, but I just sent an email to the people at Lerab Ling urging them to cancel Brooke's b.s. event. It may be too short notice, but if not, then that's great.
Excellent! Did you use this email address?:
If you are interested, please contact Valérie Begouen: v.begouen.insitu@wanadoo.fr
Please keep us updated if you receive any kind of reply. Thanks.
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I used the Lerab Ling email address, lerab.ling@rigpa.org for the initial email, and I just now sent Valerie the same email. No response from Lerab Ling yet.
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While in France, Edwards conducts two more events:
NOV 16 — Cercle de tambour · Public · Hosted by Montpellier Dansant
maison des loisirs - avenue de l'abbé de Brocardi - 34250 Palavas les Flots
Details
Montpellier Dansant a le plaisir d'accueillir l'atelier " Cercle de tambour" le vendredi 16 novembre de 19h30 à 21h30.
Accueil à partir de 19h15.
Inscription par mail à : montpellierdansant@gmail.com
Tarif : 20€/15€ (tarif réduit : RSA, étudiant, chômeur) + 5€ adhésion à l'association pour l'année
Carte de 5 ateliers : 75 € ( soit 15€ l'atelier au lieu de 20€)
Venez avec vos tambours, hochets et pensez à prendre un coussin pour votre confort.
Brooke est gardienne de la terre, enseignante, guérisseuse, visionnaire, chanteuse-compositrice et facilitatrice de cérémonies amérindiennes. Elle est l’auteure du livre «Marcher sur le chemin sacré de la Femme Bison-Blanc» et également du livre « The last ghost ». Durant les 40 dernières années, ses enregistrements musicaux, ses enseignements, ses écrits, ses conférences et ses retraites spirituelles en pleine nature ont touché le cœur et l’esprit de personnes du monde entier. En janvier 2000, en reconnaissance de sa remarquable contribution à faire le pont entre différentes cultures, Medicine Eagle fut une des 30 personnes à recevoir le prix très spécial Millenium du magazine américain « Magical Blend », tout comme le Dalaï Lama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Jean Houston, Deepak Chopra, Jesse Jackson, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Oprah Winfrey…
Brooke est aussi une écologiste engagée qui vit simplement et en harmonie avec la nature. Elle se dédie à la préservation des eaux sacrées.
Les origines de Brooke étant d’une grande diversité, elle s’est toujours identifiée à la richesse de l’humanité, au lieu de se concentrer sur une tribu et un peuple en particulier. Elle a des ancêtres dans 6 tribus indigènes différentes : Crow, Nez Percé, Lakota, Cree, Peigan et Cherokee, et aussi du sang écossais, irlandais et danois. Elle fait partie de la tribu indienne Crow dans le Montana où elle a grandi, et elle est issue d’une famille métisse, propriétaire d’un ranch dans une magnifique réserve de cet état.
Sa sagesse lui vient non seulement de sa grande expérience de vie et des études qu’elle a suivies, mais aussi parce qu’elle a étudié avec des aînés indigènes et quelques-uns des plus grands enseignants, leaders spirituels et guérisseurs de notre temps. Elle a en effet appris auprès de sages autochtones et de maitres spirituels du monde entier, dont les chamans péruviens avec lesquels elle a appris la guérison chamanique du corps de lumière. Elle a aussi eu la chance d’avoir Moshe Feldenkrais, Doris Breyer, Stanley Kelleman et Milton Trager comme professeurs et d’avoir étudié la « Somatic Experiencing » du Dr Levine. Elle utilise d’ailleurs cette thérapie dans ses consultations.
Durant la retraite de 5 ans qu’elle vient de terminer, elle a réussi à surmonter des traumatismes profonds et des épreuves du passé, apprenant à toujours tirer profit de ces situations pour elle-même et pour Toutes Nos relations (1).
Depuis toujours, Brooke focalise son travail sur la joie et le pouvoir sacré de la musique, du son et de la vibration. Elle a d’ailleurs toujours encouragé ses étudiants à chanter et danser. Sa vision du futur est de faire se rassembler des groupes de plus en plus nombreux de personnes qui ont l’intention de se transformer, en harmonie avec eux-mêmes et avec Toutes Nos Relations (1). Brooke invite d’ailleurs les personnes de notre temps à se guérir à travers l’action spirituelle, se mettant ainsi au service des sept générations suivantes.
Puisque nous rentrons maintenant dans un nouvel âge d’or prophétisé par les Anciens Mayas, Brooke cherche à être une personne de miel. C’est ainsi que les Mayas nomment les personnes qui vivraient dans l’âge qui émerge actuellement. Que la douceur, l’épanouissement, la lumière et l’amour du cœur nous permettent d’avancer vers un temps glorieux. L’ancien calendrier est terminé. Un futur radieux attend que nous le créions.
Brooke Medecine Eagle est l’auteure de Marcher sur le chemin sacré de la Femme Bison-Blanc (Editions Vega).
NOV 18 — Brooke Medicine Eagle à Montpellier - Novembre 2018 Public · Hosted by A la maison
6 rue calmette, Fabrègues , 10km de Montpellier
Details
- Atelier d'enseignement le dimanche 18 novembre de 10h à 17h
"MOON TIME - MOON LODGE, un chemin du coeur au féminin"
Sur réservation : v.begouen.insitu@wanadoo.fr
- Des consultations individuelles : Les 14, 15, 20 et 21 novembre
Sur réservation : v.begouen.insitu@wanadoo.fr
Un événement en partenariat avec www.lunafemina.com
The last one links here:
Brooke Medicine Eagle- MOON TIME - MOON LODGE Un chemin du coeur au féminin
Atelier d'enseignement Le 18 novembre de 10h à 17h MOON TIME - MOON LODGE Un chemin du coeur au féminin https://www.facebook.com/events/284551595446896/
Lors de cette journée, Brooke enseignera sur les mystères du Féminin et partagera avec nous la dimension spirituelle qui se loge en nous. Elle nous montrera le pouvoir qui nous a été confié et comment utiliser cette énergie de vie et d’amour pour la manifester en nous et autour de nous. L’AMOUR EST LA VOIE ET LA REPONSE. Sous forme d’un espace-temps sacré, cet atelier comportera également des moments de partage, des danses et des chants.
Date de l'événement : Le 18 novembre 2018 à 10h00 jusqu'à 17h00
Lieu de l'événement : 6 Rue Calmette, Fabrègues, France