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Steve McCullough aka Iktomi Sha & Salt Creek Sundance
Defend the Sacred:
Good to hear! Thank you for all your work on this!
Johnnie:
I am writing an article for an online journal about all this, so been reading the archives. Will keep you posted. And thanks.
J
tahcha_sapa:
Steve is a fraud and his family -- his wife & kids -- know this. He's a man with serious psychological problems and he needs help. It is pointless to try to convince him and, those around him, of this. Because he can appear lucid and rational, the only ones who may be able to help Steve are his wife and his children. They were there, at the very beginning, when he was dealing with a work-related injury and his psychological condition began to deteriorate and his delusions began.
They do love him, though, and they may have allowed this to cloud their memories. After all, as their thinking may go, he was injured while he supported them and thus he deserves their loyalty: regardless of how ill he has become and continues to grown, and how they, too, are left to suffer with the confusion that his outright deceit is producing in them. They were a rural family when this all began. First in South Dakota then Indiana. They lived in a small house, on his father-in-law's land, in IN. That kind of isolation is stressful and compounded the suffering his declining mental health created.
He is sick. I'm not trying to make excuses for him. He is exploiting the Native American spiritual practices as a way of dealing with his delusions. The only ones who can save him now are his wife and his children, unless he has incapacitated them, too, from critically thinking about how his condition is creating an enormous amount of suffering for everyone he comes into contact with while he is still sick.
Apparently, the video below was made this past year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abaArWaDs_o&feature=share&list=PL8Vyini29wniOjwEuUDqHEFooNnvLcY7D
Defend the Sacred:
--- Quote from: tahcha_sapa on November 24, 2012, 03:39:30 am ---Apparently, the video below was made this past year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abaArWaDs_o&feature=share&list=PL8Vyini29wniOjwEuUDqHEFooNnvLcY7D
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Just noting for anyone new to this thread, the people in that video with McCullough, who are also speaking and singing at Stonehenge, are not any kind of traditional people, and that is not a traditional ceremony. It's a group of English Wiccans and hippies. The "non-religious prayer" they did is eclectic Neo-Wiccan. It's not surprising Steve was able to fool them and be welcomed there; I doubt they care any more about frauds from the US than do about the other white, English frauds at the event.
I don't recognize anyone in the video, and the lot that go to Stonehenge is very diverse. However, based on the videos of that event, I'm going to hazard a guess here: As we see with lots of the white people who want a token NDN (or any token Person of Color), they *love* it when there's a white person they can claim is a POC. That way they don't have to challenge any of their cultural or political biases. Frauds like McCullough are welcomed by those sorts. For those unfamiliar with the appropriative nature of Wicca, we discussed it in this thread: http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=3687.0
tahcha_sapa:
--- Quote from: Ogichidaa on August 12, 2012, 06:43:04 pm ---Why are Sundances being conducted outside of Sundance territory at all?
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Hello Ogichidaa, as almost anyone who has lived around Lakota reservations in South Dakota may know, there really is no one tribal authority on these reservations that legislate these kinds of events. No one answers to anyone else when it comes to the Lakota sundance; or to cultural property such as traditional spiritual songs, language or art. The White Christian agenda for destroying Lakota traditions has been complete. This is what they wanted. This is what they got. Although their presence on the reservations may be diminished, the White Christians maintain their control via their proxies, the Lakota Christians who seem to believe that it's a true testament to the power of their Christian faith that the Lakota sundance is now riddled with frauds and corruption and is thus evil at worst or foolish at the least.
As to why the Lakota sundances are now conducted outside of the traditional Lakota domains, part of the blame has to lie with the "traditional" and enrolled members of the tribe who initially collaborated with non-Lakotas in order to provide the leadership, active participation and the misleading appearance of a tribal-sanctioned event. Their motives? Who knows? Some kind of self-aggrandizing percieved power? Status? Women and sex? Money?
A big part of the problem is that there are no tribal laws to create or enforce such laws, so there is no tribal authority with power to punish those who fraudulently violate and/or corrupt tribal authority. But the Lakota sundance seems to have been singled-out by the US and it wasn't until the late '70s that Nixon authorized a "Freedom of Religion" that allowed the Lakota to practice the sundance, although it had been practiced "underground" at various places on the reservations long before then.
Unfortunately for the Lakota people, as long as Lakota tribes refuse to assert a legitimate interest in controlling cultural property, such as the Lakota sundance, the Steve McCullough's of the world will continue to exploit this unwillingness to assume and enforce authority.
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