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General => Frauds => Topic started by: educatedindian on August 24, 2010, 05:08:41 pm
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Got a request about him.
Found him online here.
http://www.hawksounds.com/
He may or may not have Cherokee ancestry, but nothing he does seems to be Cherokee. Cherokees traditionally did not do sweats. He calls himself a descendant. So basically he's someone with likely distant Cherokee blood whose a bit clueless himself and learned likely from those posing as Lakota elders.
He's also a yoga teacher who uses some trappings he claims are Ojibwe.
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http://www.hawksounds.com/east_west.html
PART I:
The first half of the workshop is a learning circle with the participants gathered in a circle on the floor around a buffalo robe.
What to expect:
Traditional Native American Teachings
An Introduction to Native American (Ojibwe) Medicines-Sage, Sweetgrass, Bear Root, Cedar
Smudging
Native American Songs and Drumming
Native American Story-Telling
Talking Circle
PART II
The Second half of the workshop is a yoga practice that incorporates the teachings that were presented in the first segment of the workshop, acknowledging and honoring the seven directions. Native American flute music, drumming and chanting enhance this yoga practice.
This workshop is set up so it can be offered eight different times at the same studio. Each workshop is uniquely different from the one before. The first segment is an introduction to the seven directions and their teachings. Each of the remaining seven workshops will focus on one of the specific directions and its significance and meaning.
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More info on him http://onmilwaukee.com/seasonal/holidays/articles/hawksolstice.html?24673 He also says he is part Mesquaki.
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He's a busy man
Saturday, November 19th 11:30 AM- 12:30 PM
Yoga Jam with Dennis Hawk and Jim Crane at the Downtown Oshkosh YMCA
324 Washington Ave, Oshkosh, WI 54901
Contact: Jim Crane iyogaman@new.rr.com
DECEMBER 2011
Saturday, December 3rd- 8:00- 9:30 AM
Yoga Jam at Bay Area Yoga Center
2020 S. Webster Ave., Green Bay, WI, 54301 Contact:
kkellyhoff@new.rr.com
Sunday, December 4th: 6:30- 7:30 PM
Dennis Hawk & Band in Concert
Green Bay Botanical Gardens- Annual WPS Garden of Lights
2600 Larson Road, Green Bay, WI
Thursday, December 8th, 7:00- 9:00 PM
First Thursday Kirtan at Bay Area Yoga Center
2020 S. Webster Ave., Green Bay, WI
Contact: Kathleen Kelly-Hoffman
kkellyhoff@new.rr.com
920-445-7221
Friday, December 9th, 7:00- 9:00 PM
Join Our Community!
2nd Friday Kirtan at Hawk House
If interested please email: dennishawk@new.rr.com
Sunday, December 11th- 10:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Stone Soup Sunday at The Soul Source:
Kirtan & Community Potluc
10:30 AM- 12:00 PM - Kirtan
12:00- 1:00 PM- Community Potluck
6988 Wildwood Rd., West Bend, WI
$10.00 per person
Contact: Jen Martin
thesoulsource@att.net
Monday, December 12th: Yoga Jams at HaleyBird Studios
6:00- 7:00 PM and/or
7:15- 8:30 PM
9207 W Center Street, Wauwatosa, WI 53222
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Contact: Haley Picotte-Stozek- Founder
(414) 303-4411
haleybirdstudios@sbcglobal.net
Tuesday, December 13th- at Schlitz Audubon Nature Center
1:30- 3:00 PM- An Introduction to Native American Ceremony
7:00- 8:30 PM- An Introduction to Native American Drumming and Singing
1111 East Brown Deer Road, Milwaukee, WI 53217
Fee per Event: Members pay $10 and non-members pay $12
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Must register and pay for each event separately.
If you wish to attend please contact Schlitz Audubon Nature Center at:
(414) 352-2880 Ext 0
Friday, December 16th, Yin Yoga with Live Music & Kirtan at Sattvic Healing & Yoga
6:00- 7:00- Yin Yoga Class with Live Music
7:00- 7:30- Potluck
7:30- 9:00- Kirtan
The Old Post Office- Neenah, 307 S. Commercial Street, Neenah, WI
For more information contact: Erika King
Phone: (920)202-2030
Email: sattvichealing@new.rr.com
Thursday, December 22nd: Big Drum Native American Ceremony:
A Winter Solstice Celebration
If interested please contact: DennisHawkManagement@gmail.com
JANUARY 2012
Sunday, January 8th, 10:00- 11:15 AM
Kirtan with Dennis Hawk at Lakeshore UU Fellowship-Manitowoc
620 Park Street, Manitowoc, WI, 54220
Tuesday, January 10th- at Schlitz Audubon Nature Center
January Moon/ Lunar Beach Mini-Vision Quest - 2:00- 8:00 PM
1111 East Brown Deer Road, Milwaukee, WI 53217
Fee $10 for members, $12 for non-members
If you wish to attend please contact Schlitz Audubon Nature Center at::
(414) 352-2880 Ext
January 13-15, 2012: Winter Renewal Yoga Retreat with Kathleen Kelly-Hoffman, Jenny Tumas and Dennis Haw
Mt. Morris Camp & Conference Center
W6016 Blackhawk Road, Wautoma, WI 54982
Cost: Early Bird Special (by Dec. 10th, 2011: $295 per person)
After Dec. 10th, 2011: $315 per person
Deadline to Register: Friday, January 6th, 2012
To register contact:
Bay Area Yoga Center
Phone: 920-445-7221
Email: kkellyhoff@new.rr.com
http:bayyoga.com
Or
Marigold Yoga, LLC
Online registration:
https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/ASP/home.asp?studioid=2061
Email: jenny@marigoldyoga.com
Friday, January 20th: 7:00- 9:00 PM
Join Our Community!
Monthly Kirtan at Hawk House
If interested please email: dennishawk@new.rr.com
Saturday, January 21st, 3:00- 5:30 PM
The Stories and Myths Behind the Yoga Poses Workshop at The Yoga Boutique- Chicago
The Yoga Boutique- 655 W. Irving Park Rd #102, Chicago, IL 60613
Contact: Dana Robert
theyogaboutique@yahoo.com
773-248-0685
Saturday, January 28th: 8:00- 11:00 PM
Dennis Hawk in Concert at New Moon Café
401 N Main Street, Oshkosh, WI 54901
http://www.newmooncafe.com
Thursday, January 26th, 5:30- 6:45 PM
Yoga Jam at Z Power Yoga
522 George St., De Pere, WI, 54115
Contact: krissy@zpoweryoga.com
Friday, January 27th: Yoga Jam & Kirtan at Inner Sun Yoga Studio
146 Algoma Blvd, Suite F, Oshkosh, WI 54901
Yoga Jam: 6:00- 7:00 PM
Potluck: 7:00- 7:30 PM
Kirtan: 7:30- 9:00 PM
Contact: Deb Sommerhalder
(920) 651-1279
www.innersunyogastudio.com
Sunday January 29th, 10:30 - 11:45 AM
The Heart of a Buffalo
Unitarian Universalist Society of Mukwonago
Meeting at: Michael Fields Agricultural Institute
W2493 County Road ES, East Troy, WI 53120
www.uumuk.org
FEBRUARY 2012
Friday, February 3rd- Yoga Jams at Strive Yoga
4:00- 5:00 PM
and
5:30- 6:30 PM
11124 North Cedarburg Road, Suite 170, Mequon, WI
Contact: Kate Destinon
info@striveyoga.com
Sunday, February 5th- 10:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Stone Soup Sunday at The Soul Source:
Kirtan & Community Potluck
10:30 AM- 12:00 PM - Kirtan
12:00- 1:00 PM- Community Potluck
6988 Wildwood Rd., West Bend, WI
$10.00 per person
Contact: Jen Martin
thesoulsource@att.net
Sunday, February 5th- Kirtan at Copper Tree Wellness Studio
4:00- 5:00 PM- Kids’ Yoga & Kirtan
6:30- 8:00 PM- Yoga Jam (1 hour) followed by a ½ hour Kirtan
1364 E. Summer St., Hartford, WI
Contact Person: Hope M Zvara- Owner
Telephone: 262-670-6688
Email: coppertreewellnessstudio@yahoo.com
Tuesday, February 7th- 5:30-6:30 PM
Yoga Jam at Peacefield Yoga
4118 Lakeshore Rd., Sheboygan WI 53083
Contact: shalad21@gmail.com
Friday, February 10th, 7:00- 9:00 PM
Join Our Community!
Monthly Kirtan at Hawk House
If interested please email: dennishawk@new.rr.com
Sunday, February 12th, 10:00- 1:30 PM
Kirtan and Potluck with Dennis Hawk at Bradford Community Church Unitarian Universalist
10:00- 11:15 AM – Service with Dennis providing The Message
11:15- 12:00 Potluck
12:00- 1:30 Kirtan with Dennis Hawk
5810 8th Ave. Kenosha, WI 53140
Saturday, February 11th: 4:30- 8:30 PM
Big Drum Native American Ceremony with Dennis Hawk
At Hawk’s House
If interested please email: dennishawk@new.rr.com
February 17-19, 2012: Winter 2012 'Stir Crazy' Retreat with Krissy Zegers and Dennis Hawk
Mt. Morris Camp & Conference Center
W6016 Blackhawk Road, Wautoma, WI 54982
Cost: Early Bird Special (by Dec. 30th, 2011: $250 per person with $100 due at registration)
After Dec. 30th, 2011: $275 per person- Must be paid in full at registration.
To register contact:
Z Power Yoga
Phone: 920-819-8650
Email: krissy@zpoweryoga.com
http://www.zpoweryoga.com
Sunday, February 26th- 10:15- 11:30 AM
Kirtan at Sheboygan Area Unitarian Universalist Fellowshi
708 Erie Ave., Sheboygan, WI 53081
MARCH 2012
Sunday, March 4th- 10:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Stone Soup Sunday at The Soul Source:
Kirtan & Community Potluck
10:30 AM- 12:00 PM - Kirtan
12:00- 1:00 PM- Community Potluck
6988 Wildwood Rd., West Bend, WI
$10.00 per person
Contact: Jen Martin
thesoulsource@att.net
March 9-11, 2012 Winter 2012 Yoga Retreat* - with Meg Galarza of YogaOne Studio and Dennis Hawk
At The Conference Center at George Williams Colleg
350 Constance Blvd., Williams Bay , WI 53191
*Additional details on this retreat will be available in the next few weeks!
Friday, March 16th: 7:00- 9:00 PM
Join Our Community!
Monthly Kirtan at Hawk House
If interested please email: dennishawk@new.rr.com
Saturday, March 17th: 4:30- 8:30 PM
Big Drum Native American Ceremony with Dennis Hawk
At Hawk’s House
If interested please email: dennishawk@new.rr.com
Sunday, March 18th, 10:00- 11:15 AM
Kirtan with Dennis Hawk at Free Congregation of Sauk County
307 Polk Street, Sauk City, WI 53583
Friday, March 23rd: 6:00- 9:00 PM
Yoga Jam & Kirtan at Sattvic Healing & Yoga
The Old Post Office- Neenah, 307 S. Commercial Street, Neenah, WI
6:00- 7:00- Yoga Jam
7:00- 7:30- Potluck – bring a dish to pass!
7:30- 9:00- Kirtan
Contact: Erika King
sattvichealing@new.rr.com
Sunday, March 25th: 10:00- 11:15 AM
Kirtan at Open Circle UU Fellowship
19 E. Third St., Fond du Lac, WI, 54935
http://www.ocuuf.org
APRIL 2012
Sunday, April 1st- 10:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Stone Soup Sunday at The Soul Source:
Kirtan & Community Potluck
10:30 AM- 12:00 PM - Kirtan
12:00- 1:00 PM- Community Potluck
6988 Wildwood Rd., West Bend, WI
$10.00 per person
Contact: Jen Martin
thesoulsource@att.net
Friday, April 13th: 7:00- 9:00 PM
Join Our Community!
Monthly Kirtan at Hawk House
If interested please email: dennishawk@new.rr.com
Saturday, April 14th: 4:30- 8:30 PM
Big Drum Native American Ceremony with Dennis Hawk
At Hawk’s House
If interested please email: dennishawk@new.rr.com
MAY 2012
Sunday, May 6th- 10:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Stone Soup Sunday at The Soul Source:
Kirtan & Community Potluck
10:30 AM- 12:00 PM - Kirtan
12:00- 1:00 PM- Community Potluck
6988 Wildwood Rd., West Bend, WI
$10.00 per person
Contact: Jen Martin
thesoulsource@att.net
Friday, May 11th: 7:00- 9:00 PM
Join Our Community!
Monthly Kirtan at Hawk House
If interested please email: dennishawk@new.rr.com
Saturday, May 12th
Inipi- Sweat Lodge and Ceremony with Dennis Hawk
If interested please email: dennishawk@new.rr.com
JUNE 2012
Friday, June 8th: 7:00- 9:00 PM
Join Our Community!
Monthly Kirtan at Hawk House
If interested please email: dennishawk@new.rr.com
Saturday, June 9th
Inipi- Sweat Lodge and Ceremony with Dennis Hawk
If interested please email: dennishawk@new.rr.com
Friday, June 22nd : 6:00- 9:00 PM
Yoga Jam & Kirtan at Sattvic Healing & Yoga
The Old Post Office- Neenah, 307 S. Commercial Street, Neenah, WI
6:00- 7:00- Yoga Jam
7:00- 7:30- Potluck – bring a dish to pass!
7:30- 9:00- Kirtan
Contact: Erika King
sattvichealing@new.rr.com
JULY 2012
Friday, July 13th: 7:00- 9:00 PM
Monthly Kirtan at Hawk House
If interested please email: dennishawk@new.rr.com
Saturday, July 14th
Inipi- Sweat Lodge and Ceremony with Dennis Hawk
If interested please email: dennishawk@new.rr.com
AUGUST 2012
Friday, August 10th: 7:00- 9:00 PM
Monthly Kirtan at Hawk House
If interested please email: dennishawk@new.rr.com
Saturday, August 11th
Inipi- Sweat Lodge and Ceremony with Dennis Hawk
If interested please email: dennishawk@new.rr.com
SEPTEMBER 2012
Friday, September 14th: 7:00- 9:00 PM
Monthly Kirtan at Hawk House
If interested please email: dennishawk@new.rr.com
Saturday, September 15th
Inipi- Sweat Lodge and Ceremony with Dennis Hawk
If interested please email: dennishawk@new.rr.com
Friday, September 21st: 6:00- 9:00 PM
Yoga Jam & Kirtan at Sattvic Healing & Yoga
The Old Post Office- Neenah, 307 S. Commercial Street, Neenah, WI
6:00- 7:00- Yoga Jam
7:00- 7:30- Potluck – bring a dish to pass!
7:30- 9:00- Kirtan
Contact: Erika King
sattvichealing@new.rr.com
OCTOBER 2012
Friday, October 12th: 7:00- 9:00 PM
Monthly Kirtan at Hawk House
If interested please email: dennishawk@new.rr.com
Saturday, October 13th
Inipi- Sweat Lodge and Ceremony with Dennis Hawk
If interested please email: dennishawk@new.rr.com
NOVEMBER 2012
Friday, November 9th 7:00- 9:00 PM
Monthly Kirtan at Hawk House
If interested please email: dennishawk@new.rr.com
Saturday, November 10th
Inipi- Sweat Lodge and Ceremony with Dennis Hawk
If interested please email: dennishawk@new.rr.com
DECEMBER 2012
Friday, December 14th 7:00- 9:00 PM
Monthly Kirtan at Hawk House
If interested please email: dennishawk@new.rr.com
Saturday, December 15th
Inipi- Sweat Lodge and Ceremony with Dennis Hawk
If interested please email: dennishawk@new.rr.com
Friday, December 21st: 6:00- 9:00 PM
Yoga Jam & Kirtan at Sattvic Healing & Yoga
The Old Post Office- Neenah, 307 S. Commercial Street, Neenah, WI
6:00- 7:00- Yoga Jam
7:00- 7:30- Potluck – bring a dish to pass!
7:30- 9:00- Kirtan
Contact: Erika King
sattvichealing@new.rr.com
source:
http://www.hawksounds.com/calendar2.html
His FB page is here
http://www.facebook.com/dennis.hawk1?sk=wall
video of him playing his flute here
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=1830400013204&set=t.1636483414&type=3&theater
some of his events are on meetup
http://www.meetup.com/TheSoulSource/events/24396011/
http://www.meetup.com/TheSoulSource/events/17073587/
this is fairly dubious IMO
The Heart of a Buffalo: A Musical Drama with Dennis Hawk at Greendale, Wisconsin, United States
The Heart of a Buffalo is a 50-minute musical drama with Dennis Hawk playing the character of Black Elk, a 19th century Lakota Medicine Man who relates his childhood experience hunting buffalo in Canada in the days just after the death of chief Crazy Horse. Interlaced with the story is both traditional and original music by Dennis (Native American Drum, chanting, flute, guitar and vocals). This is a powerful and moving historical drama performed by a powerful spiritual teacher and musician. You won't want to miss this experience!
Dennis Hawk is most noted for his Native American flute playing which he incorporates in his performances, playing instruments which he has crafted himself. Through his songs, the audience will experience his strong connection with his Native American background. He is a yoga workshop leader, combining his music and his Native American heritage in his practice and instruction of yoga. He is a Cherokee / Mesquaki descendent, a pipe carrier, sweat lodge leader and teacher of Native American spirituality. Dennis is a singer / songwriter / story-teller who plays guitar and Native American flute.
source:
http://eventful.com/greendale/events/heart-buffalo-musical-drama-dennis-hawk-/E0-001-037123589-1
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I have circulated his name in the Milwaukee American Indian Community and his web-site and this is some of the feedback I got on him as well as my own.
People are willing to come forth and expose people like this now here and we are preparing a document that outlines this type of conduct and how to deal with it.
Dennis Hawk is another "Cherokee Descendent" as if that doesn’t give it all away right there, he is about as blonde as can be almost albino. He uses the fact his wife may be Stockbridge-Munsee to be able to call himself-
"a pipe carrier, sweat lodge leader and teacher of Native American spirituality." taken from his web-site.
He works with Non-Indians in the suburbs of Milwaukee where there unlikely to run into a real American Indian who will dispute what he he is doing. All his activities are Lakota based, as are many of these frauds, and he even runs a "mini-vision quest" at the Schlitz Audobon Center in Bayside, WI.
He is also a friend and compatriot to they confirmed fraud on this site: Tim Dancing Red Hawk McIntosh, which both have alot in common besides their really blonde hair, and both have the name Hawk, they also were both former Christian Pastors.
I would like to see these guys exposed in a more public way and we are coming up with a process in the Milwaukee area.
Thanks for your attention and the work you do on this site it is much needed and sought after info. Here's the comments I received about him through email from community members; and here's his site to see for yourself and Facebook page.
"Dennis Hawk is way out there as well. He told Arvol Looking Horse's wife, Paula, to watch her tongue, this is after she asked that he stop his use of sacred ways for his ego, in the pursuit of a following."
"He's even more dangerous. Selling CDs of Lakota sweatlodge songs. With translation and meanings. I don't know any Natives knowledgeable enough or willing enough to do that."
"Regarding Dennis Hawk, for what it's worth, I felt that his presentation was not for real, but I didn't really have enough words to express that. I did complain to a staff person at Audubon, and suggest that they not invite him back, but they continued to hold the classes. While I was at the class, I respectfully refused to participate in the circle experience when it came my turn. I have also not gone back."
http://www.hawksounds.com/
https://www.facebook.com/dennis.hawk1
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1972, I graduated from Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, MO, receiving my degree, Masters of Divinity. After 20 years of working in the field of ministry in the inner city of Milwaukee, I left this career. For the next 18 years, I worked in the counseling field with people suffering from trauma and addictive disorders.
http://www.hawksounds.com/spirituality_bio.html (http://www.hawksounds.com/spirituality_bio.html)
Concordia Seminary serves church and world by providing theological education and leadership
centered in the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ for the formation of pastors, missionaries, deaconesses, scholars, and leaders in the name of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod.
http://www.csl.edu/about-us/ (http://www.csl.edu/about-us/)
The toughest cases are the hard-core sex addicts, preying in the pulpit. Dennis Hawk, 45, was a minister in the conservative Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod, for 15 years. He was successful and hardworking, with a wife, two children and an apparently traditional family life. Surreptitiously, however, Hawk managed to conduct affairs with 16 women during his tenure. Some of them were heads of powerful boards and committees within his congregation; others were simply women who were as emotionally needy as he was. Typically, Hawk made no move unless he felt certain that his advances would not be rebuffed. “I was the perpetrator,” he admits. “It was authority rape on my part.” But, he adds, “sometimes there can be two perpetrators and two victims.”
Shame eventually led Hawk to seek help through group therapy. First, he gave up alcohol, thinking that would also solve his sexual addiction. When it didn’t he joined a therapy group, driving 180 miles round trip every week to attend sessions in Milwaukee. Ironically, his gradual improvement led to his exposure and expulsion from the clergy. “I stood up to two women I hadn’t slept with for two years, but who were still wielding control in the church because they had the goods on the pastor,” he says. One of the women, Hawk now believes, “organized the church against me and then played the victim.”
1989 Newsweek article "When a Pastor Turns Seducer"
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Nice work Epiphany....but this is also very disturbing. A sex addict gets forced off his pulpit for his activities and he goes into administering counseling and teaching workshops on spirituality?
Very disturbing....
Superdog
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Here's an article describing an appearance on the Sally Jesse Raphael show in October of 1989.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19891004&id=cjAcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ESwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6755,5295032
Can't find the episode yet.
Superdog
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That kind of clergy abuse is more akin to incest than stranger rape, as the minister is often a father-figure to the abused. In the very statement where he admits to this crime he also blames his victims. That's not someone who has learned from their mistakes, that's not someone who is truly making amends.
I want to hear what the victims have to say. My opinion is he has lost the right to be in any position of spiritual authority, ever again. I don't think he should be allowed among women and children unsupervised. Too many Christian denominations simply relocate predator priests and ministers, and we've seen how that's worked out for them. This guy makes me sick.
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Trial begins for therapist
Oshkosh Northwestern - Oshkosh, Wis.
Author: Jennifer K Woldt
Date: Jun 13, 2007
Start Page: A.6
Text Word Count: 338
Document Text
A Winnebago County jury will determine whether a Neenah therapist inappropriately kissed and touched a patient or if his actions were part of an accepted method of therapy.
Dennis G. Hawk, 62, is charged with sexual exploitation by a therapist, a felony that carries a maximum penalty of 12 years, six months in prison and a $25,000 fine.
Hawk is currently not eligible to practice in Wisconsin.
A two-day jury trial began Monday before Winnebago County Circuit Court Judge Barbara Key with opening statements and testimony from witnesses.
Fond du Lac County District Attorney Thomas Storm, who has been appointed as a special prosecutor in the case, told the jury of 11 women and two men that the 43-year-old Neenah woman had been a patient of Hawk's since 2003 and that Hawk kissed her on at least three different occasions in addition to touching her inappropriately during a January 2006 counseling session.
"It wasn't like they were social acquaintances out on a date," Storm said during his opening statement. "It was in the context of therapy."
However, defense attorney Nila Robinson told the jury she would present testimony that will show that Hawk's actions during the woman's therapy sessions were part of an accepted method of therapy.
Robinson said not all forms of therapy consist of sitting in chairs and talking and that the action in question was a way to relieve stress and anxiety.
"I think the evidence will show that when you look at it in the context of everything else that was going on, there was nothing inappropriate at all," Robinson said.
According to the criminal complaint, the Neenah woman had been attending counseling sessions with Hawk at Fox Valley Counseling, 307 S. Commercial St., Neenah, since the winter of 2003.
The woman told investigators Hawk touched her inappropriately on four separate occasions and that when she confronted him in February 2006, Hawk acknowledged he had touched her inappropriately and suffered from a sex addiction, the complaint states.
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Dennis Gilbert Hawk, born 1944, mother's obit here: http://cjonline.com/stories/120700/obn_gantenbine.shtml (http://cjonline.com/stories/120700/obn_gantenbine.shtml). Has he ever specified where his claimed NDN ancestry is from, their names? His grandparents are all listed white in federal census, born Kansas and Missouri.
More background:
Atchison Daily Globe (Newspaper) - October 29, 1975, Atchison, Kansas
Local Man To New Church Post
The Rev Dennis G Hawk Milwaukee Wis son of Mr and Mrs Gilbert W Hawk 2203 Millwood Drive has accepted a call from the Emmaus Lutheran church Milwaukee He previously served at the Cross Lutheran church Milwaukee
Born here July 23 1944 he received his elementary schooling at Trinity Lutheran school was confirmed at the Trinity Lutheran church and attended Atchison High school He enrolled in St John's college Winfield In 1963 to prepare for his pastoral ministry Upon graduation he continued his studies at Concordia Senior college Fort Wayne Ind graduating In 1968 with a BA degree He then enrolled at Seminary St Louis graduating In 1972 with a master in divinity degree
He served his at Cross Lutheran church where he was called as assistant pastor upon graduation and served in this capacity from 1972 to 1974 During this period of time he was appointed executive director of CH Inc a cooperative venture of Inner-city churches addressing themselves to the physical social economic and spiritual needs of the inter-city community An outgrowth of this organization was Benu Ltd Printing and Office Supply Co organized to reverse the flow of money back Into the central city community Rev Hawk served as general manager of this venture He also served as vacancy pastor of the Lutheran church Milwaukee In 1974 Installation services were held for the Rev Hawk Oct 5 at the Emmaus Lutheran church
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There was a jury trial State of Wisconsin vs. Dennis G Hawk
Winnebago County Case Number 2006CF000830 , charge was Sexual Exploitation by Therapist, he pled not guilty and was then found not guilty by jury.
Then a civil case Winnebago County Case Number 2007CV001109, personal injury case. A female plaintiff. Dennis Hawk, Fox Valley Counseling, and an insurance company all defendants. Ultimately that case dismissed, don't know what happened before dismissal.
Case search can be done here: http://wcca.wicourts.gov/index.xsl (http://wcca.wicourts.gov/index.xsl) His first and last names bring up the records.
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Their website needs to be updated. This Circle of Life Inc is still publicized on the website, but it's status as of 12/11/2012 is "administratively dissolved".
Circle of Life, Incorporated is a non-profit corporation led by founders Dennis and Cyndi Hawk. Both Dennis and Cyndi are of Native American heritage. Dennis is Cherokee / Mesquakie and Cyndi is Mohican. Together they have followed the spiritual path of Native American people, (the Red Road) for more than fifteen years.
As founders of Circle of Life, Inc., they have recognized the need for a spiritual environment that is healing and accepting, and that connects people with Creator as well as creation.
http://www.hawksounds.com/circle.html (http://www.hawksounds.com/circle.html)
CIRCLE OF LIFE, INC.
Entity ID C061456
Registered
Effective Date 12/23/2004
Status Administratively Dissolved
Status Date 12/11/2012
Registered Agent CYNTHIA K HAWK
10/01/2011 Delinquent 1
10/08/2012 Notice of Administrative Dissolution
12/11/2012 Administrative Dissolution
https://www.wdfi.org/apps/CorpSearch/Details.aspx?entityID=C061456&hash=1172079552&searchFunctionID=24b2a477-439b-45b4-861f-3297b74a55a9&type=Simple&q=circle+of+life (https://www.wdfi.org/apps/CorpSearch/Details.aspx?entityID=C061456&hash=1172079552&searchFunctionID=24b2a477-439b-45b4-861f-3297b74a55a9&type=Simple&q=circle+of+life)
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Wow is all I have to say, this guy is more ridiculous then I could have imagined and thanks for the information on him. It looks like he has always been a predator and started out doing it as a Lutheran Minister and got caught and moved on to the counseling field, he also got caught acting innapropriately there and left that field to pursue a Native American spiritual leader persona. I think he is just out there looking for vulnerable people to take advantage of, especially women, since he keeps claiming a sexual addiction. I also got feedback that the Stockbridge Munsee community in Wisconsin "ran him out" or their community. Milwaukee will look to do the same.
I would like to see him listed as a fraud so people can beware of him.
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I recently witnessed Dennis Hawk do his presentation titled "The Heart of a Buffalo". Dennis Hawk takes on and "transforms" into Black Elk. Right off the bat, this did not sit well with me. How can someone "become" such a spiritual leader like Black Elk? He would jump back and forth between characters (himself and Black Elk). He would say, "now I'm Dennis Hawk, Now I'm Black Elk, I can do that because I am Black Elk". It would have been better had he just shared the factual information about Black Elk, rather than try to pretend to be him!!! He most certainly comes across as being an expert on Black Elk and the Lakota culture. There were also several wrong historical references made! Now after reading about his sexual addictions, my creep factor was validated. From my opinion, Dennis Hawk perpetuates Native American stereotypes!
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The presentation I saw was in Madison, WI
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He also leads Kirtans, Hindu ceremony, and sells CDs with songs about Shiva:
This from an announcement for an April 20th event in Minneapolis this year: http://www.meetup.com/Kirtan-Gatherings/events/109223112/
April 20 · 7:30 PM
Nokomis Yoga
We look forward to returning to this beautiful studio for our regular third-Saturday kirtan. We can't wait to sing with you all!
This time we will have a special guest for kirtan: Dennis Hawk from Wisconsin. His bio is below. He will bring some of his flutes and CDs for sale.
Blankets and chairs will be provided, as well as song sheets. A love donation is much appreciated, we suggest a similar amount that you would pay for a yoga asana class, about $10 - 15.
Dennis Hawk bio:
Dennis is a recording artist, Native American flute-maker, Yoga workshop leader, Yoga instructor, and Kirtan leader. With a degree in theology, Dennis' primary interest has always been spirituality. Combining his life-long interest in music and love of yoga, Dennis has created his own Yoga Jam (live, improvisational music for yoga). Most recently, Dennis has created recorded music for yoga practices in his collaborations with John Gibson and Mark Plopper. The first in this series, Saraswati, was released in the fall of 2012.Currently Dennis is making flutes, creating live music for yoga practices, leading Kirtan and yoga workshops, working on creating recorded music for yoga practices, completing his first Kirtan CD and writing a companion book to go with the CD which includes 108 meditations on the names of Shiva.
More info at www.dennishawk.com
Or listen to his music at
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Yes he's a very dangerous guy and I'm still waiting for the moderators here to move him into the Frauds section. He is also now working with known fraud Tim Dancing Red Hawk McIntosh, in the suburbs of Milwaukee and neighboring counties.
https://www.facebook.com/#!/dennis.hawk1?fref=ts
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He sounds pretty dangerous, actually. But also ridiculous. This is my favorite status on his FB page so far. It's from June 12th:
My Affirmation: I am fast becoming a technological genius. — feeling wonderful.
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The Nanaboozho Legends of the Ojibwe: What These Stories Tell us about Nature and Spirituality Today
Tuesday, September 10 from 7:00 – 8:30pm
Dennis Hawk will explore some of the ancient Ojibwe Stories showing their application in today’s world of science and nature. Drawing on great Ojibwe story-tellers such as Bazil Johnson and Edward Benton Banai, Dennis will take us from these ancient stories to their present day relevance. The world view of the ancients may have been narrow in comparison to ours today, but their knack for finding “truth” in nature was not. This workshop will aid you in your quest for understanding the spiritual through a relationship with the physical world that surrounds us. Registration is required for this program, please call: 414.352.2880 x0
FEE: Member: Adults $10 (per program)
Non-member: Adults $12 (per program)
LEVEL: Adult
Schlitz Audubon Nature Center
1111 E Brown Deer Rd, Milwaukee, WI 53217
Phone:(414) 352-2880
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Interesting blog in that Dennis Hawk tries to defend what was written about him in this forum and he finally identifies his teachers as: Cleveland CJ Doxtater, Oneida, WI, who was taught by Basil Braveheart, Lakota from Pine Ridge.
From what I seen they both seem.questionable as to what they know and who they will teach
http://dennishawkjourney.blogspot.com/2015_12_01_archive.html
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My mother was born Ellen Lee Marie Willis.
Her mother was a Guthrie from Scotts-Irish Cherokee descent.
This info helps a lot, his claim is through his mother. So far according to the records I see, she and her people are listed as white.
There was a fairly large group of Scotts-Irish Cherokee who made their way from the Oklahoma Reservation prior to and during the Civil War.
Some of the Southern Cherokee owned slaves and the tribe sided with the South during the Civil War.
In protest (and fear for their lives) my Scotts-Irish Cherokee ancestors made their way to St. Joseph, MO.
There's actually a street on the south-side of St. Joseph, MO called Cherokee Street.
There are streets, town, counties, etc. named Cherokee. That does not mean everyone present are actually Cherokee.
The Guthrie name is still prominent on the rolls of the Southern Cherokee.
As far as blood quantum goes who knows?
The Scotts-Irish had been intermarrying with the Cherokee since the 1600's
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The Cherokee didn't make much of blood quantum however.
John Ross, the principle chief and hero during the Trail of Tears when the Cherokee were force-marched from their homes in North Carolina and Georgia was only 1/8 Cherokee. He would not have qualified for an "Indian Card" today.
Cherokee Nation membership requirements: http://www.cherokee.org/Services/TribalCitizenship/Citizenship.aspx
John Ross http://www.cherokee.org/AboutTheNation/History/Chiefs/JohnRoss.aspx
John Ross served his people as Principal Chief. Dennis Hawk, on the other hand, looks to be just serving himself.
Dennis Hawk quotes from http://dennishawkjourney.blogspot.com/2015_12_01_archive.html
Dennis' full name is Dennis Gilbert Hawk. His parents are Gilbert W Hawk http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=153460896 and Ellen Lee (Willis) Hawk http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=153460964
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In protest (and fear for their lives) my Scotts-Irish Cherokee ancestors made their way to St. Joseph, MO.
His mother's people did move to St. Joseph, Missouri. They and their ancestors are always listed white in records. Many people are researching these lines, I see family trees and info on Ancestry, Family Search, and Find a Grave. Actual records are plentiful too. No one other than Dennis Gilbert Hawk is claiming Cherokee.
His maternal grandmother and her parents:
Name Clara V Guthrie
Event Type Census
Event Date 1910
Event Place St Joseph Ward 1, Buchanan, Missouri, United States
Gender Female
Age 8
Marital Status Single
Race White
Race (Original) White
Relationship to Head of Household Daughter
Birth Year (Estimated) 1902
Birthplace Missouri
Father's Birthplace Arkansas
Mother's Birthplace Iowa
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M2TC-2DG
Check link for her parents.
Clara's parents and family line on back can be followed starting here, with her father William Guthery / Guthrie http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=136146710 That goes back four more generations.
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As far as blood quantum goes who knows?
The Scotts-Irish had been intermarrying with the Cherokee since the 1600's
Right. And all the kids who stayed with the white side of the family and assimilated, their generations upon generations of descendants are all white now. They've grown up white, raised by white parents and grandparents, with full white privilege and totally white culture. Then as adults these folks do their family trees and find a distant ancestor, and they become pretendians. No Native community claims them.
Their comparisons to tribes with no or low-BQ requirements are specious, as those communities, when they are real tribes and not fake ones, are based in culture and kinship. It's a false equivalency. These people with maybe a distant ancestor who assimilated are not culturally Native, and Native people know it. They'll only fool racist and/or ignorant nons with that stuff. Then again, non-Natives are their community and their marketplace. They do this assuming no NDNs will ever find out about it. They do this assuming that if the white people in their community/marketplace find out real NDNs disapprove, they'll be too racist to care. They prefer pretendians. Because pretendians sell them the romantic fantasies they crave.
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Even though members of the WI Native community confronted Dennis Hawk about his appropriation and he promised to end it, it looks like he can't stop using Native symbolism and images in his music, I guess anything to make a buck?
https://www.facebook.com/DennisHawkYogaAndMusic/
Dennis Hawk Yoga Music
February 16, 2016 · Neenah ·
Did you know? Several years ago I produced an album of Native American chants, Lakota and Ojibwe. I did it for our lodge, but it has become my most popular cd. If you hold sweat lodges and want your group to sing well, have them obtain the album and all of you sing with your hearts. I loved the singing in our lodge that came from giving everyone the music. www.dennishawkyogamusic.com
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Interesting, how he writes about himself semi-honest, but can't be honest about appropriating other cultures, as he has personas and professions.
"This is where I am going: I have had wonderful spiritual journeys in my lifetime. I started the journey as a Lutheran, --even becoming a minister for them. (My degree from Concordia Seminary in St. Louis says that I have a Masters of Divinity). I think that is the strangest degree on the face of Mother Earth. "OK, now I've mastered God, what's next?" I spent 20 years as a community organizer and inner-city minister in Milwaukee. I did that until my addictions caught up with me--and I zipped up north to Neenah, Wisconsin. The geographical cure didn't take so then it was off to treatment (several). To quote a politician that I didn't particularly care for (Ronald Reagan),"If you open a door and all you see is horse shit, start digging 'cause there's a pony in there somewhere." So, I became an addictions counselor and switched spiritual paths. That's when I met and sat at the feet of some great people (elders and teachers) whom I admire and hold dear to my heart. This part of my journey is the focus of this blog. (I'm now a yoga musician and you can find all about that on my website listed above.)"
http://dennishawkjourney.blogspot.com/2015/