2021
LightSong School of 21st Century Shamanism
Jan interviews Paul Ghosthorse, a SunDance Intercessor.
This is the first in a series of interviews with Paul Ghosthorse, where Jan and Paul discuss the template of a Vision Quest- what LightSong’s Telepathic Practicum is based upon. This interview touches on traditional Lakota ways, sacred herbs, and plant medicine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fs3r-31YmrUYouTube transcript of his intro:
um i was born paul sahida my ancestors are are not native american
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they're a i'm a full-blood rusin and they are a people from a country that no longer
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exists in russia that kind of disappeared around the year 1900 my ancestors were
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mongolian uh tartar kazakh of kazakh descent
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and that moved into europe mixed in with the europeans in a place called
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patho and when i was a young man i was
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introduced to a man by the name of buck ghost horse who uh asked to
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adopt me and he adopted me as his son his eldest son and asked me if i would
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add my name to his which i did and so i became paul's sahaida ghost horse
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and and so i was introduced to the so i was introduced to the lakota traditions when i was a young man
Paul Sahayda has Austrian heritage. Surnames such as Sahayda, Scabanich, Yusko who settled in Lackawanna, Pennsylvania around 1910. As far as I can see, none of his ancestors identified as Kazakhs.
This shift in identification is just another attempt to claim "shaman" for himself.
And Buck Ghosthorse/Leonard Albert Mattern Jr. was not Lakota. Surely Paul knows this. Buck changed his name legally on Oct 5, 1990, Paul changed his name Oct 16, 1990, both in Snohomish county, WA where the cult was based at the time.
Paul was 33 years old at the time of his name change. Buck did not legally adopt him. Paul was not adopted into anything actually Lakota. Buck was a fraud leader of a cult, Paul is the fraud leader of the continuing cult.
So Paul does a pretend disclaimer about his heritage but then continues with his usual "Lakota medicine man" act. He perpetuates the fraud of his "father".