NAFPS Forum

Long overdue, an update on people who support us, work with us, use us as a resource, and are helped by us.

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FB Group https://www.facebook.com/StopMisuseofCeremonies and https://forgetwinnetou.com/
Winnetou the original Nuage Pretend nonsense written by Karl May, still popular in Europe esp Germany.

https://medium.com/@trellian.black/new-age-frauds-plastic-shamans-4bf9d8c340c2

https://pretendians.com/ A few are members here. Some of their targets or methods I don't agree with.

European academic Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review
Volume 4, Issue 2, 2013 Legitimization Strategies within the Cultic Milieu
Anne Kalvig Pages 228-244 https://doi.org/10.5840/asrr2013424
"Shamans in High Heels"
https://www.pdcnet.org/asrr/content/asrr_2013_0004_0002_0228_0244?file_type=pdf

Chi-Nations Youth Council (CNYC) youth and adults with a mission to create a supportive, open environment for Native Youth
https://chinations.org/statement-liam-opliam-mcdonald-monetizing-off-fraudulent-native-identity-and-co-opting-of-indigenous-peoples-day/

Quoted on Reddit threads
https://www.reddit.com/user/NAFPS/comments/
https://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/3l0ft3/does_the_native_american_word_aho_often_used_in/

Daily Good
https://www.dailygood.org/story/2001/the-sunray-peace-village-elissa-melaragno/?t=showComment&cid=7561

U of CA in an article on Joan Scheer AKA Oh Shinnah Fastwolf
https://ucanr.edu/sites/default/files/2013-04/165727.pdf

FB group https://www.facebook.com/people/Native-Charlatans-Wabos-and-other-Fakers/100095535695511/

Wisconsin LGBTQ paper
https://ourliveswisconsin.com/article/center-the-movement-not-you/

Latino pride page, half a dozen articles referencing us to warn others.
https://mexika.org/category/new-age-fraud-conspiracy-nonsense/

Interfaith site
https://stateofformation.org/2015/09/making-the-unconscious-conscious-why-interfaith-communities-struggle-with-racial-diversity/

Academic article
Indigenous North American Sundance Rites
March 2025 DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-38971-9_1683-1
In book: Encyclopedia of Religious Psychology and Behavior (pp.1-7)
Authors: E.C. Coombs    University of Alberta
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/389911711_Indigenous_North_American_Sundance_Rites

Nature lovers site
https://thewanderers.guide/blogs/news/a-beginners-guide-to-native-american-culture

Poetry and nature lovers site
https://gertloveday.wordpress.com/2018/09/19/the-path-of-pollen-or-frauds-freuds-7/

Cult research site
Music Of Mind Control with Micah: An exploration into the musical output of religious cults, new religious movements, and individuals of a spiritually inspired and divine nature.
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/112746

Articles on Margaret Noodin
https://www.scribd.com/document/681148924/New-Age-Fraud-Noodin-Forum-Archive

Even a site on Atlantis
https://atlantipedia.ie/samples/tag/carl-feagan/

Someone who got fooled by Lynn Andrews' fraud got called out on it.
https://culturalglimpse.com/2014/11/14/writing-to-change-the-world/

Academic site Wisconsin
https://madisonnewmusic.org/2021

The forum for the metal band Nightwish, discussing John Allen Hill.
https://www.nightwish.online/topic/143-john-two-hawks/

Genealogy site
https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/586674/list-of-unrecognized-tribes-or-native-clubs-in-us

Academic article
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/opth-2022-0235/html

Skeptic site
https://edzardernst.com/2022/07/wild-reiki-and-shamanic-healing-no-thanks/

Reason article on eagle feathers
https://reason.com/2016/01/27/state-agents-investigate-yoga-instructor/

Academic
Journal of Religion, Nature and Culture
Native American Traditions, Depth Psychology, and Postcolonial Theory
Author Joy H. Greenberg Independent Scholar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.v7i1.88
https://journal.equinoxpub.com/JSRNC/article/view/4649

Archaeology Review
https://ahotcupofjoe.net/2018/12/megan-fox-and-the-american-giants-legends-of-the-lost-review-of-episode-3/

Nat'l Endowment for the Humanities
https://www.neh.gov/sites/default/files/inline-files/CSU%20San%20Marcos%20App%20%28Hispanic-Serving%20Institutions%29%20%281%29.pdf

Star Wars fan forum, warning on imposter who also claimed to be in the films
https://forum.rebelscum.com/threads/autographed-hal-walmsley-jawa-is-a-fraud-selling-on-ebay.1079132/

Articles on ayahuasca tourism
https://independent.academia.edu/jeronimomm

Metis Museum
https://www.metismuseum.ca/media/document.php/149772.EFN%202009%2009%20Sept.pdf

Psychiatric social work
https://www.academia.edu/22885366/PLASTIC_SHAMAN_I_AM_OR_NOT_SO_MUCH

Daily Kos article
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2010/12/27/931817/-

Cultural appropriation article
https://unsettlingamerica.wordpress.com/2017/04/26/what-is-cultural-appropriation/

Quote from: Sparks on September 23, 2019, 11:14:47 pm

However, I found the full article posted here, too: http://www.integralworld.net/scofield9.html

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Reposted from www.gurumag.com (December 26, 2018) with permission of the author.
The original contains more videos of Teal Swan

Here is the original: https://gurumag.com/the-gucci-guru-inside-teal-swans-posh-cult/

Many pictures, many links, more videos, many of those no longer available, though.

The Integral World link above now yields:

This article has been unpublished at the request of Teal Swan's lawyer.

Fortunately, the Guru Magazine article is still there with all its details.

A top follower of Joan Scheer is still active. "Deep Arrow Woman" / Lorraine Simone is still doing her deep arrow woman thing.

Moonfire Meeting House, a center for holistic wellness, earth education and spiritual unfolding, was founded in 1990 by Lorraine Simone, M.S. Ed., also known to many of you as Deep Arrow Woman.

https://moonfiremeetinghouse.com/about/

THE Rev. Lorraine Simone, also known by her Indian spirit name, Deep Arrow Woman, held a stick festooned with yarn and seashells. She instructed a group of 10 women and one man to pass it around and feel its vibrations, telling them the stick contained the energy ''of a lot of lives.''

During a five-hour workshop called ''The Goddess in Winter: a Guide to Rebirth,'' Ms. Simone, 53, sometimes broke into chants she identified as coming from an Indian tribe in the Pacific Northwest. At other times she shook two brightly colored rattles.

''I'm going to try and teach you how to die and to prepare for a new life in the spirit,'' she told the group.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140220121124/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/03/nyregion/it-s-not-what-they-taught-in-catholic-sunday-school.html

Ms. Simone said she had been initiated as a ceremonialist by Oh Shinnah Fast Wolf, an Apache and Mohawk elder and author, and had studied tribal cultures for 18 years. ''I don't feel I'm some non-native person ripping off native tradition,'' she said. ''I've put in my time and am constantly studying.''

https://web.archive.org/web/20150527202723/http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/03/nyregion/it-s-not-what-they-taught-in-catholic-sunday-school.html?pagewanted=2

"Indian tribe in the Pacific Northwest" - which one? If we define PNW as roughly WA, OR, ID states, that is over 40 federally recognized tribes. Probably she was singing something garbled and made up. If not, did she have permission?

Her grotesque lies were endless.

She claimed she did an Apache initiation involving emerging from kivas, running with water in her mouth, spitting the water into natural earth depressions. She said both boys and girls had to do this. And that girls had to do this twice....

This woman follower is active in the fraud game: https://chamanisme.eu/minthe-english/

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Medicine woman, water missionary, from Walloon origin, Minthe has been adopted as her daughter by Grandmother Oh Shinnah Fast Wolf, and received from her the « Woman Warrior Initiation ».

As such, she is now part of the Apache Nation, where she is called « Hatch Oh Neh » (Standing Strong Woman).

We have mention of Minthe here: http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=3516.msg29986#msg29986

Where to begin...kinaalda ceremony is not secret, is not anything like that, and doesn't involve kivas. Kivas are Pueblo and Hopi. Kinaalda is for girls becoming women. The male equivalent really isn't practiced anymore, but it wasn't anything at all like the female ceremony, and nothing like Scheer's phony version.

"Hatch oh neh" doesn't mean that name at all, and that name is more like Plains tribes. It's an obvious Nuage knockoff of Lakota style names. "Hatch oh neh" sounds like what it is, a white imposter taking a reference she found in a book to Apaches in general and mangling it to mean something completely different, knowing her gullible desperate-for-meaning white followers wouldn't bother to check. I'm far from fluent, but none of that means woman or standing or strong in any Apachean dialect.

It's also pretty obvious they don't even know there are multiple Apachean dialects and Apache peoples. But what can you expect from people believing in a pale as a Klansman's sheet German woman wearing a yarn wig and imitation Plains tribal regalia?

Joan Scheer "Oh Shinnah Fastwolf" was an arrogant, condescending, abusive liar. Hopefully her devotees will eventually understand this.

Scheer delighted in telling stories about being unstable and abusive.

She says that when a doctor told her medical news she did not like, she physically slapped him hard. And then walked out, slamming the door so hard that the glass in it broke.

https://www.merliannews.com/new_podcast_interview_with_oh_shinnah_fast_wolf_917/