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Jane Ely
educatedindian:
I received this email about Ely, altered in order to protect the individual:
"She claimed...to be [Cherokee] and used this to her advantage but...her mother is white which [means she can't be the clan she claims]. She also claimed to be Eastern Band. The registrar for SECCI [says] that she was enrolled there.
She also claims Micmaq and is originally from Canada. Her deceased husband Donald Ely was American. She is here on a green card.
Her full legal name is Thelma Jane Ely. She claims to have a PHD in Psychology and another in Theology. Her resume appeared to be fabricated.
She travels back east to do seminars...energy medicine, sells sweatlodges, vision quests, and teaches a Hollow Bone ceremony in which she teaches students to open themselves up to spirit possession to guide them to cross over, such as after plane crashes and other traumatic incidents. She also teaches and offers counseling, housecleanings.
She is also mixing and appropriating Hawaiian and other traditional beleifs...She claims to be a Keetoowah but is of the Nuyagi variety. She also drinks alcohol which is strictly against Keetoowah beleif and practice. She is the former partner of Sam Beeler, who left her in 2006."
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Ely has a couple different sites.
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http://www.peacemakerschool.org/about.html
Jane Ely, Ph.D., D.Min. is the Dean and co-founder of The Peacemaker School.
She is trained in psychodynamics, journey and imaginal therapy, integrative energy
healing, and traditional American Indian medicine practices. She is a spiritually
traditional American Indian, an enrolled Cherokee and Mi'kmaq.
non-linear aspects of our true self that hold the creative potential of empowerment and healing needed to navigate through the times in which we are now living.
Jane has a private professional healing practice in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania; Wilmington, Delaware; and Lihue, Hawaii. She developed and teaches a four-year apprenticeship program on transformational energy psychology and hands-on-healing. She teaches world-wide on the subjects of: peacemaking, death and
dying - the art of transformation, environmental awareness, the laying-on-of-hands, and the healing power of ceremonial practices.
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In spite of its name, the "Peacemakers" basically are selling ceremonies which she says are Native but often seemed more like feel good claims.
"Peacemaker School retreats....Each retreat includes techniques for: meditation, spiritual practices, ceremony, the creative arts, and discussion/participation in the form of talking-stick council circles. Retreats are built on the principles of: high play, experiential exercises, self-awareness training, reflective integration time and feedback."
"Jane offers, the 'skillful means' taught encompass both personal self-reflection exercises working with ingrained and often unconscious behaviors and
energy medicine healing techniques [working with the human energy field. She will teach techniques that arise directly from ancient Native American “laying-on-of-hands??? methods of healing. Students will also explore some very old indigenous practices known as “mask work??? to grow their self-awareness, to shift troublesome behaviors, and to help them grow their souls. She incorporates American Indian
Ceremony into many of her teachings."
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http://www.drjaneely.com/about.html
"Jane Ely, Ph. D., D. Min., enrolled Cherokee-Mi’kmaq
Jane is trained in transpersonal psychology, imaginal therapy, dream work, journeywork, and energy medicine for transformational healing. Most recently, she earned her Doctor of Ministry from The University of Creation Spirituality with an emphasis on Indigenous Spirituality. She follows the traditional spiritual practices of her American Indian ancestors and combines both academic and indigenous wisdom approaches to healing in her private, therapeutic practice. She is also a graduate of the Brennan School of Healing Science Training, 1994."
That "university" is basically one guy, an ex priest kicked out for mixing the Catholic faith with just about anything and everything.
http://www.matthewfox.org/sys-tmpl/htmlpage20/
According to wikipedia, (not the most reliable of sources) that included mixing in sweatlodges and Wicca.
The "Brennan school" is another place that seems to be largely one person doing all the teaching. It has no accreditation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Brennan
Back to Ely's claims.
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"In 1998 she founded and is presently the Dean of The Peacemaking School of Spiritual Healing (www.peacemakerschool.com). The School is dedicated to fostering peacemaking skills in the world and is modeled upon the tenants of the Great Peacemaker of the Iroquois Confederacy."
I've nver heard of Iroquois doing "high play" and "experiential awareness."
"In 2002, she founded The American Indian Speakers Bureau, comprised of a group of elders dedicated to dispelling American Indian stereotypes and to providing accurate educational and cultural traditions, history and contemporary knowledge in lectures and classes for schools and community groups of all ages."
There are at least two different groups by that name. None of them mention her.
http://www.wisdomoftheelders.org/
http://www.turtleislandstorytellers.net/
The only place that mentions her as being part of these groups (much less founding them) is her own website.
There is another questionable person who also mentions being part of that "speakers bureau".
http://healing.about.com/od/hptx/p/hhp_dancingelk.htm
"She is a writer, Remembering the Ancestral Soul: Soul Loss and Recovery, AuthorHouse Publishers, www.authorhouse.com "
Authorhouse is a vanity press, self published. They publish anyone who will pay them.
Also:
http://www.gohawaii.com/event?id=11221
bls926:
What is an "enrolled Cherokee-Mi’kmaq"?
Enrolled with which Nation?
Edit to add:
SECCI = Southeastern Cherokee Council, Inc.
--- Quote ---SOUTHEASTERN CHEROKEE COUNCIL - SECCI
The Southeastern Cherokee Council, Inc., a non-profit organzation registered in the state of Georgia with Bands located in all 50 states.
http://www.secci.com/
--- End quote ---
--- Quote ---Southeastern Cherokee Council - http://www.shelbynet.net/~secci/ Information and online applications from this mixed-blood group based in Georgia. ...
--- End quote ---
This group doesn't have federal or state recognition. So basically, Jane Ely is enrolled in a cultural/heritage society.
frederica:
Years ago they(SECCI) was a oart if the State Recognized Georgia Tribe Southeast Cherokee Confederacy, but they split from them, now a non-profit.
bls926:
Georgia never recognized the Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy. They petitioned, but were turned down.
--- Quote ---Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Inc. Letter of Intent to Petition 03/09/1978; Declined to Acknowledge 11/25/1985 (50 FR 39047). Became the American Cherokee Confederacy on 1/31/1996, with a breakaway group Southeastern Cherokee Council forming on the same day.
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http://www.aaanativearts.com/tribes-by-states/georgia_tribes.htm
Neither the American Cherokee Confederacy nor the Southeastern Cherokee Council are recognized by Georgia.
frederica:
Yhat's good to know, I know they has been a hassle down there recently over who is who.
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