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"Bernice Falling Leaves Crowfoote" / Bernice Sophia Noad
Sandy S:
She died in 2015 but she still has followers so I want to tuck in some information on her.
--- Quote ---Wearing her white deerskin dress, Berniece was in the movie On Deadly Ground
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/151901098/bernice_halligan
She claimed she was "half-Lakota", adopted by Hopi, a mystic, "medicine woman". She did "medicine wheel" events.
She spelled her first name both Bernice and Berniece. Nickname was Bunny.
Her birth surname was Noad, step father surname Simard, married surname Halligan.
Maternal grandparents both from Denmark, paternal grandparents both from England.
As "Grandmother Bernice Falling Leaves" she ran the "Blue Moon Medicine Lodge" in Washington state.
"Kirlian photography" https://vibrantvitalwater.com/testing-research/
--- Quote ---Grandmother ... invited Susan to go to Hopi Land to meet her adopted Grandfather David Monongye, the Hopi spiritual leader. Grandfather told Berniece that she was part of the prophecies and adopted her into his family.
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https://hilltopwellness.ca/
https://hilltopwellness.ca/2015/04/18/bernice-falling-leaves-2/
In Oct 21, 1989, Maricopa county AZ, she legally changed her name from Bernice Sophia Simard to "Bernice Falling Leaves Crowfoote". A family member on ancestry.com says that Bernice did not update all her own records to reflect this name change.
Sandy S:
She was also a painter under the name "Bunny Halligan".
She changed her name legally after her mother died.
She was described as a "spiritualist and a Native American Hocule" in the 1991 book "What to do until enlightenment : healing ourselves-- healing the earth". In the 1994 book "Psycho-regression : a new system for healing & personal growth" she is "Bernice (Falling Leaves) Hucole, native American teacher, USA".
Maybe she was claiming she was Huichol?
As far as I can see, her children did not claim any Native American ancestry.
Sandy S:
Another spelling of the word:
--- Quote ---Berniece Falling Leaves later honoured Susan in ceremony as a Hucoule (medicine person)
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https://hilltopwellness.ca/
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She gave followers names such as "White Butterfly Woman" and "Standing Tall Tree". She did "Native American ceremony", including use of pipes.
I'm curious about this:
--- Quote ---To close the ceremony, all of the women who were busily preparing the feast of Kayin’s favorite foods were called to the healing room for the presentation of the Blue Moon Medicine Necklace. This gift, which was made in the late 1800s, came from Berniece Falling Leaves, a Lakota/Danish medicine woman and Kayin’s adopted grandmother. The original owner of the necklace was a Choctaw chief who wore a ceremonial white eagle feather head piece which touched the ground as he rode his horse.
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https://www.whiteravencenter.org/2017/11/28/our-childrens-coming-of-age-by-dr-marianne-rolland/
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She mixed in pendulums, metaphysics, "orgone energy accumulators", "muscle testing", and other new age/theosophical trappings. Active in WA and AZ.
Her name still bubbles up from time to time, some people use it in their new age bios. Her supposed teachings are being passed down to younger generations. This doesn't seem to involve many people now.
We now have here the only complete fact check of Bernice Falling Leaves Crowfoote / Bernice Sophia Noad/ Bunny Halligan available online.
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Bernice Falling Leaves Crowfoote / Bernice Sophia Noad was second generation English and Danish.
Her parents were James Samuel Noad and Anna Margrethe Jensen.
Paternal grandfather Frederick William Noad, born Durham England.
Paternal grandmother Sarah Ann Elliott, born Durham England. They married in Nova Scotia.
Maternal grandparents Lars Peder Jensen and Karen Kirsten Sophie Hansen, both from Denmark, married in Denmark, lived in Canada and Washington state USA.
Sandy S:
--- Quote ---The medicine wheel ceremony I participated was at VanDusen botanical garden. Elder Phil L’Hirondelle led the ceremony based on the teachings from Bernice Falling Leaves.
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Eun, Y. (2023). Time, and the Ecological Futures of Everyday Living https://ecuad.arcabc.ca/islandora/object/ecuad%3A18160
Phil L’Hirondelle (https://www.allmyrelationsteachings.ca/) about the "medicine wheel" at VanDusen Botanical Gardens at Vancouver, B.C.:
--- Quote ---A lady named Bernice Falling Leaves introduced me to it. She was quite an amazing woman who traveled all over the world, making networks. She’d go up to Alaska and put a stone there and then she’d take a stone from Alaska down to Mexico. And she made a kind of worldwide wheel you might say. She always said, “These rock people are very alive!” Because we consider everything to be alive, and we call the stones the old record keepers.
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https://vandusengarden.org/interview-medicine-wheel-ceremony/
Ceremonies are held there every solstice and equinox https://vandusengarden.org/explore/events/2025/03/spring-equinox-medicine-wheel-ceremony/
Phil L’Hirondelle mentioned here http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=382.msg1724#msg1724
Sparks:
--- Quote from: Sandy S on May 18, 2025, 06:57:16 pm ---She mixed in pendulums, metaphysics, "orgone energy accumulators", "muscle testing", and other new age/theosophical trappings. Active in WA and AZ.
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My bolding. That stuff has been mentioned in the forum half a dozen times or so, in connection with Wilhelm Reich.
More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgone & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich
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