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General => Research Needed => Topic started by: onceuponatime on September 12, 2013, 04:13:54 pm
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I have a friend in Sedona that has asked me to request some research on these people. I met them once and were suspect of their claims and the fact that they are in Sedona, trying to market their "Center" and themselves as Cherokee and Lakota Elders also raised my concerns. Here are a few of the links that I have found referencing them.
https://www.facebook.com/WalkInBalanceCenter
http://www.secci.com/PAGE5SPRING2011.pdf
http://www.sedona-spiritualretreats.com/native-american.html
http://www.callofsedona.com/2012/11/06/simple-native-american-rituals-to-perform-at-the-vortexes/
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File ID 455129
Description Trade Name
Status Active
Name WALK IN BALANCE
Address 1 100 OAK CREEK BOULEVARD
City SEDONA
State AZ
ZIP 86336-
Business Type WHOLISTIC HEATH / NATIVE AMERICAN SERVICES
Registered Date 3/5/2009
Owner AYANULI RICK
http://www.azsos.gov/scripts/TNT_Search_engine.dll/ZoomTNT?NME_ID=455129&NME_CODE=NME (http://www.azsos.gov/scripts/TNT_Search_engine.dll/ZoomTNT?NME_ID=455129&NME_CODE=NME)
File Number: -1648468-6
Corp. Name: WALK IN BALANCE CENTER, INC.
Agent Name: AYANVLIDEHA RICK
President/CEO REV AYANVLIDEHA RICK
Directors AYANVLIDEHA RICK
JOSEPH GREYWOLF RICK
ALAN FIREKEEPER HICKS
http://starpas.azcc.gov/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=wsbroker1/names-detail.p?name-id=16484686&type=CORPORATION (http://starpas.azcc.gov/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=wsbroker1/names-detail.p?name-id=16484686&type=CORPORATION)
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Rev. Ayanvli Rick
Chief of Medicine Keepers Band & Pastor/Director of Walk in Balance Center, Inc.
Sedona, Arizona (Flagstaff, Arizona Area)
Religious Institutions
Education
Universal Life Church & Seminary Inc.
University of Oklahoma
I am an Embassador of Peace and a minister of the http://www.ulcseminary.org/ family. I work with all walks of life nationally and internationally. As an artist, speaker, teacher, and a Pipe Carrier for the Cherokee Nation and those of like mind and heart I work with those who Divine Creator sends to me by empowering the heart & enriching lives now unto the seven generations.I am an Elder Wisdom Keeper for the Cherokee Nation. An ordained minister, Certified degrees in; Reiki Master Teacher,Herbalism, Infant Massage,Theraputic Massage and Bodywork. I facilitate in ways of: Healing touch, Family and Individual counseling, Weddings, Funerals, Cherokee Traditional and non-traditional ceremonies, I facilitate crystal readings, Native American Spirituality &lifeways demonstrations.
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/rev-ayanvli-rick/44/9a5/204 (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/rev-ayanvli-rick/44/9a5/204)
( Universal Life Church isn't actually a source of education, it provides ordinations with an online application and a review. http://www.ulc.net/index.php?page=ordain (http://www.ulc.net/index.php?page=ordain) )
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Their "cultural liaison" is Adam Yellowbird DeArmo
https://www.facebook.com/WalkInBalanceCenter/posts/349181395172002 (https://www.facebook.com/WalkInBalanceCenter/posts/349181395172002)
Info on Adam http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=1791.0 (http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=1791.0)
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Rev. Anita Marie Ayanvlideha Dildine-Rick is the name she's used online, if her married surname is Rick, her birth name might then be Anita Marie Dildine.
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Chief Rick says "wado" for prayers for her father John O'le Indian Jon Dildine ...
http://www.secci.com/Page72013.pdf (http://www.secci.com/Page72013.pdf)
Also here is a photo of herself holding a "goodwill treaty"
Rev. Chief Ayanvlideha,
Cherokee Nation Paint Clan
Medicine Keepers, Band Chief of Southeastern Cherokee Counsil Inc.
CEO Walk in Balance Center, Inc.
International Cermonial Leader
Indigenous Peoples Grand Council Of Peace
http://peace.bryantmcgill.com/ (http://peace.bryantmcgill.com/)
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I went to the Southeastern Cherokee Council website and this is the description of their "organization" which is a non profit organization:
The Southeastern Cherokee Council Inc. organization was formed and incorporated in November 1976 and was recognized by proclamation, signed by Governor George Busby, in December 1976. We are over 6080 members strong. We DO NOT claim to be either state or federal recognized, nor do we claim affiliation with either the Eastern or Western bands of Cherokee. We do, however, claim the RIGHT to be and say who we are! Cherokee mixed blood decendants, with a desire to make life better for all Native Americans.
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I went to the Southeastern Cherokee Council website and this is the description of their "organization" which is a non profit organization:
The Southeastern Cherokee Council Inc. organization was formed and incorporated in November 1976 and was recognized by proclamation, signed by Governor George Busby, in December 1976. We are over 6080 members strong. We DO NOT claim to be either state or federal recognized, nor do we claim affiliation with either the Eastern or Western bands of Cherokee. We do, however, claim the RIGHT to be and say who we are!
twinkies?
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I went to the Southeastern Cherokee Council website and this is the description of their "organization" which is a non profit organization:
The Southeastern Cherokee Council Inc. organization was formed and incorporated in November 1976 and was recognized by proclamation, signed by Governor George Busby, in December 1976. We are over 6080 members strong. We DO NOT claim to be either state or federal recognized, nor do we claim affiliation with either the Eastern or Western bands of Cherokee. We do, however, claim the RIGHT to be and say who we are! Cherokee mixed blood decendants, with a desire to make life better for all Native Americans.
Anita "Ayanvli" Rick claims she is "Pipe Carrier for the Cherokee Nation" and an "Elder Wisdom Keeper for the Cherokee Nation". Many people will assume she is speaking of the federally recognized tribe. I wonder if she makes it very clear that she is actually speaking of what she believes is her distant heritage.
Seems like ideally this group would define itself as a heritage group, with an interest in crafts and genealogy and charitable works, and not do any supposed spiritual ceremonial activities for profit.
Info on Alan Hicks:
Behavioral Health Clinician at Yavapi-Apache Nation
Camp Verde, Arizona (Flagstaff, Arizona Area)
Alternative Medicine
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alan-hicks/46/4b2/a23 (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alan-hicks/46/4b2/a23)
Oklevueha Native American Church of ISTA Retreat and Habilitative Center
http://nativeamericanchurches.org/arizona-habilitative-programs/ (http://nativeamericanchurches.org/arizona-habilitative-programs/)
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The Cherokee don't have "pipe carriers."