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Title: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: browndiasporia on June 08, 2015, 09:48:51 pm
Hello folks I was not sure where to post this but I have recently learned some pretty bad news as I see it, so this years rainbow gathering is being talked about being In the black hills of South Dakota, I don't know who is responsible for finding/ deciding on a place but unfortunately South Dakota is being talked about as being the place it is going to happen, what are you thoughts on this and is there anything that can be done so this terrible thing does not happen in these lands? Thank you! And I really hope this doesn't happen!
Title: Re: Rainbow gathering
Post by: earthw7 on June 09, 2015, 11:37:21 am
YUP SEEN IT IN THE PAPER HERE, SHAKING HER HEAD WONDERING WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE
Title: Re: Rainbow gathering
Post by: Diana on June 09, 2015, 04:22:46 pm
Has anyone organized a protest?   ;)  ;D


Diana
Title: Re: Rainbow gathering
Post by: browndiasporia on June 10, 2015, 04:53:51 am
here is some info on their "council" and more bullshit

http://midwestornewenglandgathering2015.blogspot.com/2015/06/black-hills-rainbow-gathering-and-lakota.html


and yes please let there be a protest.
Title: Re: Rainbow gathering
Post by: Laurel on June 10, 2015, 08:47:04 am
What a bunch of self-justifying crap.

Not taking your huge, resources-straining, polluting, mooching traveling hippie show to the Black Hills is somehow like walking away and doing nothing when you see a man getting beat up on a street corner. Ya just can't care about the light of Native Americans if you don't camp out in their yard.

And nobody has invited them--but hey, nobody has demanded they stay away, either.
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: educatedindian on June 10, 2015, 04:01:24 pm
There's a pretty strong message saying they are not wanted, over 100 signatures in just a day. Repost far and wide.

There's also a conference call mentioned at the end that the Rainbows are having, with UUWS asking people to call in and protest.

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https://www.change.org/p/rainbow-warriors-rainbow-warriors-stay-away-from-the-black-hills-of-south-dakota-u-u-w-s?recruiter=1213932&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=share_facebook_responsive&utm_term=des-md-share_petition-custom_msg&fb_ref=Default

Petitioning Rainbow Warriors

"Rainbow Warriors" Stay away from The Black Hills of South Dakota! ~ U.U.W.S ~

James Swan Rapid City, SD

United Urban Warrior Society are asking "The People" to sign this petition! We do not want thousands of Rainbow Hippies desecration our Sacred Black Hills bringing with them Drugs, Nudity, and Filth!

They are not welcome by the Majority of "Oceti Sakowin" (Sioux Nation) They have exploited our culture and bastardized our beliefs to fit their needs! When asked to stay away Their general response is "We can go where we want"

"No rainbow hippie dippy culture rapist exploiters will be tolerated... period.. you all trash our sacred black hills, culture rape, and think you have a right to do as you please, you do not.. this is not we r the one tribe we r the Oceti sakowin...no one spiritual leader can say you can come here n then you think we would all roll over? Bull.. you r not welcome here... period.. stay away"  ~U.U.W.S. Joye Braun (Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe)

"I would just as soon take a war party up in the hills and scalp a bunch of them! Then sit down and talk about them standing next to us with their Bull Shit Rainbow prophecy crap!...They say they respect us and honor our way! Yet they want to come and desecrate our church with their foolishness! No matter what we say or not! Then think its OK just because a couple Sell out Indians welcome them...LOL. AS IF they speak for "Oceti Sakowin" (The whole Sioux Nation)"  ~ James "Magaska" Swan   Founder U.U.W.S.

Letter to Rainbow Warriors

Stay away from The Black Hills of South Dakota



Petition Update

Rainbow Confrence call information

James Swan
Rapid City, SD

Jun 10, 2015 — Next Sunday 6/14/2015
9pm eastern (8C, 7M, 6P) (712) 432 0460 then 397370#. Lets all call them and tell them NO!
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: tikoo on June 10, 2015, 04:32:52 pm
At a N.California Rainbow gathering there was a Council with tribal elders . The Rainbow Family was informed
that their Kid Village (for families with young children) had been set up on a traditional birthing site , which was
a little grove of Aspen . Just above the grove was a stony knoll , and here is where the fathers had sat awaiting
and passing the time making arrowheads . The Rainbow were instructed not to take away any found arrowheads
nor to gather in any quantity the medicine plants that were abundant in the meadow .

Later on , a young native man informed the people he was one who had been born here . Those two stone pillars ,
he said pointing , is considered a gateway unto the Aspen Grove . When the gathering was over , he went travelling
with some hippies in a painted bus .

That's how it really goes . There is no war . Sacred means peaceful . In the 1500's tribes from all over gathered in
the Black Hills to heal from the plagues , gathering especially at the soothing hot springs. In healing there is peace .
In the town of Hot Springs , S.Dak. , there is now a Veteran's facility - for the healing . There , you can feel a history
of suffering and healing for all peoples . My prayers are for all peoples .
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: Diana on June 10, 2015, 05:34:21 pm
OMG! Has anyone read the comments on the petition? One of those rainbow creeps a Mike Kissler is threatening Mr.Swan. He even posted his address in hopes of intimidating him. @tikoo, so much for your peaceful hippie dippie crap.

Diana
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: Defend the Sacred on June 10, 2015, 09:15:47 pm
tikoo, if your prayers are for all Peoples, respect the wishes of the traditional Peoples for whom the Black Hills are sacred. Go to your "rainbow" peeps and tell them to hold it somewhere else. Your gathering is not wanted, and anyone who told you otherwise is either lying, or was lied to.

Plenty of us here know the people who go to Rainbow. I know women who've been raped at Rainbow by hippie men. The only Natives who go are either young and lost, or exploiter sellouts, or blatant frauds. The main person who has led sweats there is not Native, though he's fooled the white people into thinking he is.

Keep this thing away from sacred sites. The people don't know how to behave respectfully. Not to the Earth, or to the People. Their words about peace and love for the Earth and for Natives are empty. We've heard it all before. The group's actions speak louder.
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: Defend the Sacred on June 10, 2015, 09:17:55 pm
And 99.99% of the time, when a Rainbow person says "tribal elders" they mean old, white hippies. They consider themselves a "tribe" and think they can pick and choose who's a "tribal elder."
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: tikoo on June 10, 2015, 10:00:14 pm
The gathering in the Black Hills is a world gathering . Speak to the earth . When a rainbow shall
circle the sun - this shall be a new song . Respect the feather . ah sha ko You are welcome
to be there and speak in Council , a council that is or that you call for .

At that California gathering it was the Forest Service that facilitated a council . Petitions of grievence
may be sent to the Black Hills National Forest Supervisor .

The specific location of the gathering will be announced June 17th or so . The fire danger level was
posted as MODERATE for today in the Black Hills Area .

For all who come , you are welcome at any camp fire . In the evenings there may be several large fires
with drumming and dancing . When the drummers who arrived from Africa play itsa grand hoot!

I am a drum-maker . Recently I've prepared another buffalo hide . But , ha , it's the tail of the old herd
bull that's travelling with me and shall be gift to someone in the Hills I have yet to know .
.
.
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: Defend the Sacred on June 10, 2015, 11:14:43 pm
Stop it with the nuage bafflegab, tikoo or you're getting the banhammer. It's not your place to invite anyone to land that is not your own. The Black Hills do not belong to you, nor do they belong to "all people." They belong to the Original People in the bioregion, and they have clearly stated You Are Not Welcome.

Just stop it. You're being profoundly offensive. This is your last warning.
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: Thyme4Mind on June 10, 2015, 11:52:24 pm
I've shared this petition in a few places, but it has raised some questions.

Quotes such as this

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"I would just as soon take a war party up in the hills and scalp a bunch of them! Then sit down and talk about them standing next to us with their Bull Shit Rainbow prophecy crap!...They say they respect us and honor our way! Yet they want to come and desecrate our church with their foolishness! No matter what we say or not! Then think its OK just because a couple Sell out Indians welcome them...LOL. AS IF they speak for "Oceti Sakowin" (The whole Sioux Nation)"

have some people asking me if the petition is legitimate. I trust the judgment of folks here at NAFPS, but I know very little about United Urban Warrior Society. I did a bit of looking through the forum here and also checked out their facebook which seems legit. I guess I'm just wondering if there's an appropriate way to respond to the cynicism? My gut reaction is to tell people that folks are angry and they are allowed to be angry, but to be frank I want to be incredibly careful about spreading potential misinformation.
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: AClockworkWhite on June 11, 2015, 12:12:58 am
Tikoo sounds just like those fake ass white dudes playing Indins in them old movies. You gotta be kidding me. Do you practice your best Redcorn/ Floyd Westerman Native man voice when you say all that crap?
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: Defend the Sacred on June 11, 2015, 12:15:02 am
There are some really offensive discussions happening in the Rainbow groups on Facebook. There, and on this blog: http://midwestornewenglandgathering2015.blogspot.com/2015/06/black-hills-rainbow-gathering-and-lakota.html  the hippies are claiming unnamed Lakota have given them permission. Of course, when they are asked for the name of this mysterious Lakota person, the hippies won't answer. Tikoo is there, too, saying he doesn't care what any Natives have to say, he's going.
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: AClockworkWhite on June 11, 2015, 12:30:22 am
@Yells
That blog's comment thread is half rational people and half IDIOTS trying to justify being all drugged out in the Black Hills.
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: earthw7 on June 11, 2015, 12:13:47 pm
oh my god they called us a clan of nation we don't have clans :o
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: earthw7 on June 11, 2015, 12:20:46 pm
i read the whole post it says 99% of us agreed i never heard of this and don't agree plus why is Pine Ridge the only reservation
they talk about when its 14 reservation of the Dakota/Lakota/Nakota that own the Black Hills. This will not be a peaceful event
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: AClockworkWhite on June 11, 2015, 01:17:16 pm
The Hopi tribe had problems with these people and their abuses and actually had Feds/Tribal PD throw them off of their rez at a gathering some years back. The Tribal leaders had them removed specifically for drug use, and that doesn't even mention the nudity and sex orgy stuff. It's like a miniature Burning Man but with people even more feral and troublesome than those who populate BM.
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: tikoo on June 11, 2015, 01:46:10 pm
Yep , I invite you to your own land . It's good to be in the woods . My buffalo is prepared
and ready for the journey home . We are walking .

Gone .
.
.
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: Smart Mule on June 11, 2015, 02:04:25 pm
Yep , I invite you to your own land . It's good to be in the woods . My buffalo is prepared
and ready for the journey home . We are walking .

Gone .
.
.

Tikoo you're the epitome of colonialism.

Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: Defend the Sacred on June 11, 2015, 02:05:26 pm
Yep, you're gone. On the Rainbow boards they've outed you as the liar who's going around telling gullible hippies that the Lakota have invited everyone.  Speaking of drugs and hippies... Shame on you for being so offensive.
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: RedRightHand on June 11, 2015, 02:19:28 pm
The sweats at the "Rainbow Gathering" were for years led by white fraud Francis Talbot AKA Medicine Story AKA Manitonquat (http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=888.0). Talbot let naked hippies, tripping their brains out on LSD, come into his plastic lodges and howl and freak out. Whether or not Talbot still attends, the damaged, drug-addled freaks who participated in his awful, pretendian sweats, are now leading them themselves. You can always tell someone who's been to something like that, as they think the lodge is a place to scream and cry and hallucinate.

The majority of Rainbow Family people are white pretendians or white pseudo-rastas. Some agnostics and neopagans attend as well, but for the most part it's pure, pretendian, nuage, just with less money, more b.o., and lots, lots more drugs. Alcohol and crystal meth have become a big problem there, with a corresponding rise in violence. There have been shootings, rapes, and devastation of the land with their open-pit latrines, people who don't even bother finding a latrine, and huge groups of substance-abusing people trying to live on land that can't support or tolerate that many bodies.
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: Ingeborg on June 11, 2015, 02:29:25 pm
The sweats at the "Rainbow Gathering" were for years led by white fraud Francis Talbot AKA Medicine Story AKA Manitonquat (http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=888.0). Talbot let naked hippies, tripping their brains out on LSD, come into his plastic lodges and howl and freak out. Whether or not Talbot still attends, the damaged, drug-addled freaks who participated in his awful, pretendian sweats, are now leading them themselves. You can always tell someone who's been to something like that, as they think the lodge is a place to scream and cry and hallucinate.


Some further info and background re projects Talbot has been or is still cooperating with in Europe:

https://www.psiram.com/en/index.php/ZEGG

Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: Defend the Sacred on June 11, 2015, 04:02:28 pm
If anyone wants to engage with the offensive colonist, we can unban him. Personally, as he's going around lying about being "welcomed" by NDNs, I want all the Rainbow peeps who find this thread to know that their pal Tikoo got himself banned. He's not welcome here.

We've heard his colonial crap a thousand times before. He's the epitome of the very system the Rainbows claim to be fighting against. They just dress it up in tie-dye and go right on oppressing.
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: Defend the Sacred on June 11, 2015, 05:44:37 pm
Here is an additional petition that's going around, started by someone in the Rainbow Group who doesn't want the gathering in the Black Hills, either: https://www.change.org/p/spring-council-annual-rainbow-gathering-2015-please-find-a-gathering-site-outside-of-sd
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: Defend the Sacred on June 12, 2015, 03:44:22 pm
Just when you thought it couldn't get more offensive....

The Rainbows are now bullying Arvol Lookinghorse and his family.

These Rainbows started a petition to try to pressure Arvol to invite them to the Black Hills. It has an image of WBCW and offensive content expressing their desire to
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"meet with the Lakota peoples in Black Hills and learn from them.We have much to share amongst one another. This petition is in the spirit of Sitting Bull who said: let us make a world fit for our children to live in. The time has come to do so. AHO! and AMEN!"

We just had to take time out of our schedules to have a meeting about this disruption.

Arvol's partner has now told the Rainbows Arvol is not going to speak with them,  let alone invite them, and would they please take down the petition and the stolen graphics. The Rainbow bullies have refused to take down the petition, and have expressed the intent to stalk him at his next public appearance. In total ignorance of, and disrespect for, protocol, they are refusing to speak to Arvol's designated helpers/representatives and are insisting on attempting to bother him while he is in ceremony.

These Rainbows have been bothering everyone they can find who knows Arvol, leaving blog comments asking for Arvol's contact info. They are stressing Natives out when people need to be either in ceremony, or preparing.

Rainbows - You've received your answer and the answer is NO.  Arvol is not going to give you permission.

Leave Arvol and his family and friends alone.

STOP HARRASSING HIM. STOP HARRASSING HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS. YOU ARE VIOLATING EVERY STANDARD OF "PEACE" YOU CLAIM TO STAND FOR.

This is the offensive petition: https://www.change.org/p/chief-arvol-looking-horse-u-s-national-park-services-allow-the-rainbow-family-to-gather-peacefully-in-black-hills  At the bottom left, under the comments, there is a place to flag the petition as inappropriate.
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: AClockworkWhite on June 13, 2015, 01:36:34 am
Just when you thought it couldn't get more offensive....



Rainbows - You've received your answer and the answer is NO.  Arvol is not going to give you permission.

Leave Arvol and his family and friends alone.

STOP HARRASSING HIM. STOP HARRASSING HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS. YOU ARE VIOLATING EVERY STANDARD OF "PEACE" YOU CLAIM TO STAND FOR.


I want these drugged-out FREAKS to see ^this^ repeated and maybe finally understand that all our Lakota/Dakota/Nakoda brothers and sisters, and even we as other Natives, agree that your very presence in the Black Hills is an insult to the ancestors of each and every tribe who's ever been in and around the Black Hills throughout history... and that this gathering is a total degradation of the physical place itself, wherever you hold these debauched and utterly despicable events.
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: RedRightHand on June 13, 2015, 01:46:06 am
This is even worse that we thought.

The man who started that petition to harass Arvol, who is now harassing Arvol's family and friends and sending out emails urging Rainbows to violate the boundaries of the Native leaders who have said NO to them, is a convicted rapist who found his victim at... the Rainbow Gathering.

"Denton first met his victim in 1996 at the Rainbow Gathering in France, when she was 19 and Denton, also known as Robin, was 33."

http://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/news/5009131.Preacher_jailed_for_week_of_rape/
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Wembley preacher jailed for week of rape

First published Monday 15 February 2010 in News Harrow Times

by Jack Royston

A "REMORSELESS" Wembley preacher who raped a woman on seven consecutive days was jailed on Friday.

Paul Robin Denton, 46, of Barnhill Road, was jailed for 12 years after repeatedly abusing his 32-year-old victim in October 2007.

He was found guilty after a trial at Inner London Crown Court when jurors heard how the religious fanatic put the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, through “hell on earth”.

She told the court Denton believed women should be submissive “because the scripture says so”.

When she challenged his views, Denton, who changed his name to Lord Denton, repeatedly punched her in the face, head-butted her, pulled out her hair, and raped her “day after day” as a punishment.

Detective Constable Jon Wedger said: “The level of abuse and the time period it has been spread over has had an overwhelming impact on the victim. Denton has shown no remorse for his actions, even making her go through the ordeal of the trial.

“I hope knowing he has been held accountable for his actions will go someway to helping his victim come to terms with what has happened and allow her to move forward with her life.

“She has shown incredible bravery throughout the criminal proceedings and I hope that strength continues as she rebuilds her life.”

He was arrested in February 2008 but while on bail he sneaked into his victim's house and stole her hat.

He then sent it back to her in an effort to intimidate her.

Denton, who committed the crimes in Daventry, but later moved to Wembley, was born in Croydon and moved to South Africa with his parents when aged eight months old.

He claims he was kidnapped by his father after his parents split up and told the court he was forced to leave the country after being part of an anti-apartheid group.

He was found guilty of seven counts of rape, four of assault and one of witness intimidation
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http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/local/woman-raped-for-week-by-saviour-1-894327
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Woman raped for week by 'saviour'

16:59 Monday 19 October 2009

A PREACHER who described himself as the Messiah and raped a young woman on seven consecutive nights faces years behind bars.

Paul Denton, 46, changed his name to Lord Denton by deed poll and claimed he was sent by God to save the people of Daventry.

But his victim told how he ordered her to submit to him as he quoted verses from scripture.

He described her allegations as “lies from the depths of hell” but was convicted after a three-week trial at Inner London Crown Court.

As the guilty verdicts were read out, Denton repeatedly asked for the opportunity to address the jury.

But this was denied by Judge Mervyn Roberts, who has postponed sentencing until December.

As he was led to the cells, he shouted: “Hallelujah, Jesus Christ is Lord, read Matthew 24.”

Denton first met his victim in 1996 at the Rainbow Gathering in France, when she was 19 and Denton, also known as Robin, was 33.

She said: “He told me he had lots of experience with prostitutes. When he was 15 his father bought him a prostitute for a present.”

The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said he also believed the fairer sex should be submissive “because the scripture says”.

The 32-year-old, from Croydon, said: “He said I had to submit to him and to the Lord, he was quoting scriptures from the Bible. It got very violent.

“He was screaming in my face I’m a disobedient, evil woman and I have to submit to him.”

During one incident he headbutted her in the face and in another he pulled her down the stairs by her hair and throttled her.

After another attack Denton went to Russia for a month to customise an airship to spread the word of God.

Denton, now of Wembley, had allowed local children to use a bus outside his house as a playground. Judge Roberts said it was essential he had a pre-sentence report prior to sentencing him in December.

He said: “I’ll also need a report from a psychologist. I don’t mean to say you’re mentally ill. For you to be sentenced, all my sentencing options need to remain open.’

Denton, formerly of Hood Road, Daventry, and of Holcot, is thought to have regularly travelled around Africa and Eastern Europe as a Christian missionary.

He was found guilty of four actual bodily harm assaults, seven rapes and witness intimidation. He was cleared of indecently assaulting a child.

In even worse news, the initial convictions have been overturned (http://www.kilburntimes.co.uk/news/crime-court/wembley_preacher_jailed_for_rape_has_his_convictions_quashed_1_1191696) and he is out of jail while the courts attempt to organize a retrial. He is using this time out of jail to organize more Rainbow Gatherings. And to bully and stalk NDNs.

(photos attached to show it's the same guy.)
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: Epiphany on June 13, 2015, 02:17:52 am
Perhaps Denton could be placed on some sort of do-not-fly list and prevented from entering the US.

All Rainbows need to distance themselves publicly and completely from Denton. They need to apologize, make amends, stay away from SD, and they are long  overdue for disbanding completely.
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: AClockworkWhite on June 13, 2015, 03:28:02 am
The information about this predator needs to get out to the people in and around the area ASAP.
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: kahtboosted on June 13, 2015, 04:40:07 pm
I kind of wonder if the Rainbows realize that the Black Hills are not only sacred to one people, but in fact various tribes. It was just that in treaties and stuff they got divided into Lakota lands, and then stolen back once Custer found gold there. The Rainbows seem to call themselves a ‘tribe’ so they may find some appeal in visiting an allegedly sacred site and ‘sharing’ what they can steal from NDN cultures.
But if they were really a ‘tribe’ there would be no issue because they would already have their own sacred places and wouldn’t be descrating someone else's, even would have their own language and culture and would have no need to harass other tribes. Their vague idea of a ‘tribe’ is really a bunch of tie-died drug-addicts, beezwaxers and white rasta-wannabes, fetishistic sex-fiends, appropriating yoga witches, and the rest of the (predominately white) like who perpetuate stupid colonialistic attitudes and call it an enlightened way to live. They see illusion as illumination and represent some of the worst neo-bohemian dregs of society. These people are not only a threat to the respect and sanctity of sacred sites, they are a threat to any decent values and culture in general. Keep your kids the heck away from these rainbows, whether you are white or NDN. They have been bad news since they started decades ago as mostly a bunch of lost dead-heads and cherokee princesses spreading drugs all over the place. This force of degenerate scum has its eye on your sons and daughters, and your culture too.
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: Epiphany on June 13, 2015, 05:57:34 pm
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Paul Robin Denton (Born 4th of July 1963) in Croydon , England ; International Traveller, Adventurer ,Evangelist, Writer, Inventor and Social Entrepreneur.

 After schooling in England , Canada and South Africa ; PR or Robin as he is more widely known set off to travel the world after being called up to the army in South Africa. Dropping out of Law School he raised the money to travel by selling teddy bears to soldiers on the Angolan Border aged 18; he then travelled overland from Cape Town To Cairo and from Cairo to London in 1982-83.

 PR Denton also known as Professor Funtastic, Zenadu Mahamo,Watchman Paul and

 “ Lord Denton” is also a gospel songwriter(over 100 songs) and the inventor of the Portateller , an alternative international  financial exchange system which he patented in 1989 in Johannesburg  and the stress ball. He marvelled people over many years by writing the Lords Prayer on two grains of rice!- but never got to the Holy Grail of Frank Zappas one grain. He pioneered music painting in 1993 under the name Zenadu in St. Martin, West Indies.

 Over the year his travels led him to meet many great thinkers and spiritually powerful people throughout his travels.( currently around 120 countries) He met the good, the bad and the ugly but managed to come through smelling not too bad! His true story is a mystery; but he is currently writing an autobiography entitled : “ The Traveller”

 At the young age of 22 he  joined the Church of Scientology and became the editor of the Auditor Magazine in Los Angeles. He continued to explore the world visiting Central and South America, India , the Caribbean and the Middle East.

 During a sailing trip across the Atlantic in 1994 he wrote the book “ Universal Concepts” which he completed over the next 7 years. It was a masterpiece but was stolen- only parts of it remain.

 His writings began at an early age during his school years in Somerset West. Robin has also written the “World Peace Charter” – and “Love 22 “- a book of poetry. After studying Tibetan Buddhism and other religions he encountered the Living God In Mossel Bay in 1999.

 Since then he has worked as a missionary sharing the love of God in Rumania and Zimbabwe- as well as working as a peaceworker , evangelist , International Rainbow focaliser in numerous countries including Bosnia, Israel , Syria ,Turkey , Jordan and Egypt. He has written numerous childrens stories including the well known “Dancing Flower” under the pseudonym : Professor Funtastic, “ Chipewe’s Watermelon” ,The Bugga Wuggas are here”and “Superdaddy”.He has also written the manifesto the progressive socialist party. He moderates around 30 forums as well as being a prominent focaliser for the Rainbow Movement (see Rainbow Gathering) He envisioned some of the first gatherings in Africa and the Middle East. He is also the Founder of Airshipworld Association , The International Freedom Corps-a Christian humanitarian NGO , Amazulu Media and iAfricatv. Besides his peace work and humanitarian work he has recently adopted 75 orphans in Uganda.

 Today he is a committed Christian with a vision to transform Africa and the world for God. Mr. Denton is currently married with 3 children living in London. He has a small gardening business called Shalom Gardens and practises avante' gardening... as well as trying to bring wholeness or shalom to peoples lives in the community of Wembley.

http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/People/About.aspx/lordpaul
 (http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/People/About.aspx/lordpaul)
 

 
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: Epiphany on June 13, 2015, 06:12:08 pm
Denton also uses the name "Maverick James"

https://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/indi/ (https://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/indi/)

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I AM MAN , I AM MESSIAH!”

a play of revolutionary proportions by Paul R. Denton.

Treatment: A surrealistic journey of life & death, love & tragedy- and a satirical look at the British Criminal Justice system. Maverick James, an average man in middle England is falsely accused of sex crimes & extreme Domestic violence by his deceived wife- “ Chastity”. First he is killed by a lynch mob. He then goes to meet with God and is given a tour of heaven!- He is reborn again to finish his journey on Earth- as the same person but in a different time... this time he finds himself in a weird Crown Courtroom drama.

He is subsequently wrongfully imprisoned -but he meets his wife again . The journey comes full circle with this- he comes to a realisation of wholeness and a place of love and forgiveness. The two worlds become One .

http://paulrobindenton.blogspot.com/2013/08/i-am-man-i-am-messiah-act-one.html?view=classic (http://paulrobindenton.blogspot.com/2013/08/i-am-man-i-am-messiah-act-one.html?view=classic)

Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: Epiphany on June 13, 2015, 06:16:45 pm
https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/robin-denton/48/42b/300 (https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/robin-denton/48/42b/300)
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: educatedindian on June 14, 2015, 01:06:39 pm
Denton deserves his own thread. His being a convicted rapist puts him into Frauds right away. I'm reposting what's on this thread to http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=4644.0
though credit should go to RedRightHand and Piff.
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: Diana on June 15, 2015, 01:16:49 am
OMG! I'm on that conference call now. What a bunch of idiots! Is anyone else listening? Lol!

Diana
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: AClockworkWhite on June 15, 2015, 01:51:47 am
Where was the call centered? On their webpage?
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: Diana on June 15, 2015, 02:02:45 am
Where was the call centered? On their webpage?

The number to call was on their website. It was one of those pay for conference calls. You call the number and then put in a code.

They were as ridiculous in person as on line. Everyone was talking over one another and then they all started going OOHHMM. I finally yelled over them "are you people going to be serious or not" they finally calmed down. And someone took the lead. Like I said It was the same crap everyone spewed on line. Disgusting.

Diana
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: browndiasporia on June 15, 2015, 05:46:37 am
Another petition

https://www.change.org/p/barack-obama-united-states-department-of-agriculture-usda-south-dakota-governor-south-dakota-state-senate-south-dakota-state-house-ban-the-2015-rainbow-gathering-in-the-black-hills-national-forest

i saw a video with S. Dakota forest service saying they were preparing for rainbow :/
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: AClockworkWhite on June 16, 2015, 01:03:19 am
Thank you, Brown. I will share it immediately.
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: browndiasporia on June 20, 2015, 07:19:44 pm
"Consensus was reached late yesterday (June 19). The council consenting included members of our local First Nations (as you will see by how the wording of the welcome has been changed). A small group of us are headed to Pine Ridge right now (morning of June 20) to meet with a very respected elder today. And still, as of today no traditional Necha (sp?) has said no to the family.
Spring council has reached consensus and moved to the site. The following three consenses were agreed on in circle before the final agreement to move to site. The wording of each consensus was discussed with a delegation of indigenous people who came to site in our circle each day with us for three days.
Consensus #1: All land is sacred.
Consensus #2: "Ignore all rumors. There is a massive amount of misinformation being spread on the internet and in media, and very little true information. To know what is true about events on the land, contact those who are actually on the land.
Some rumor control volunteers (may be rarely in phone service as the gathering progresses):
Val - (435) 260-8730
Jesse - (657) 203-7808
Shining Light Kitchen (Facebook)
Justin Rowland (facebook)(Oyate Media Network, Oglala-Lakota)
Feather - (406) 546-2609
Consensus #3:
"We, who are brothers & sisters, children of spirit, families of life on earth, friends of nature & of all people, children of humankind calling ourselves the rainbow gathering, humbly invite:
All races, peoples, tribes, communes, men, women, children, individuals -- out of love.
All nations & national leaders -- out of respect
All religions & religious leaders -- out of faith
All politicians -- out of charity
to join with us in gathering together for the purpose of expressing our sincere desire that there shall be peace on earth, harmony among all people. This gathering to take place July 1-7, 2015, in the sacred Black Hills of occupied Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho territory & to hold open worship, prayer, chanting or whatever is the want or desire of the people, but upon the fourth day of July until noon to ask that there be a meditative, contemplative silence wherein we, the invited people of the world may consider & give honour & respect to anyone or anything that has aided in the positive evolution of humankind & nature upon this, our most beloved & beautiful world -- asking blessing upon we people of this world & hope that we people can effectively proceed to evolve, expand, & live in harmony & peace.
Please be respectful of the First Nations' land, culture, and spirituality. Indigenous people have asked us not to imitate indigenous cultures.
We love you!
From Rapid City, SD, take Hwy 16 south west to Hill City, South Dakota (about 30 miles)
From Hill City, South Dakota Take 385 north to 17 (Deerfield road). Approx. 25 miles to Ditchfield rd. Immediate right over the bridge on forest road 294. Approx. 5 miles to welcome home. Better directions coming soon.
This info is posted at http://midwestornewenglandgathering2015.blogspot.com/…/howd… so if links don't come through go here. Also check back as this post will be updated frequently over the next 5-7 days.
Just a reminder, this gathering will coincide with the 40th anniversary of Leonard Peltier's conviction. Leonard Peltier is a Native American activist and member of the American Indian Movement (AIM). In 1977 he was convicted and sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment for first degree murder in the shooting of two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents during a 1975 conflict on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. If you are not familiar with this issue, please click here and educate thyself."


sighhhhhhhhhhhh
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: earthw7 on June 21, 2015, 12:30:43 pm
I have read a few of these Facebook pages and these people have no ideal who we are, :o
plus of all our 14 reservation and nine Canadian province of my nation have said no, and including the 47 tribes
that hold the Black Hill sacred there is no consensus to allow these people to come, then the threats that
are being made against our people, also the divide and conqueror method they are using against my nations.
The attack on the Keeper because they can get their way, these people are not you peace loving people.
Some of them are calling for the death of my people ??? Life is hard for our people why can't they just leave us and are lands alone.
Everyone takes and takes its like they are steal our very soul why? Please leave the Black Hills alone, don't kill our heart.
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: educatedindian on June 21, 2015, 06:09:01 pm
At least some of them seem to be listening or scared off. Many more just seem too drugged out, ignorant, or selfish to care.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/20/lakota-warriors-vow-to-crush-dirty-rainbow-hippies.html
 Rainbow of Light vs. Native Americans
ED ANDRIESKI/AP
Kate Briquelet ?
06.20.1512:10 AM ET

Lakota Warriors Vow To Crush Dirty Rainbow Hippies

The Rainbow Family of Living Light wants to hold its annual druggy love-fest in the Black Hills, but a local Native American group is fighting back.

James Swan parked his old Dodge alongside the South Dakota visitor center, where grungy hippies were sprawled on a lawn and passing around a feather. The two-dozen vagabonds are planning to unleash thousands of their brethren into the Black Hills for prayer and free thinking. But Swan wasn’t feeling the peace and love.

“We don’t want you here. You have no f—king respect for Lakota people!” the 54-year-old Native American yelled into a mic attached to his truck. His T-shirt bore another message: portraits of warriors who had shellacked the U.S. Army in the Battle of Little Bighorn, alongside the words “Original Homeland Security.”

“They aren’t listening to anybody,” Swan told The Daily Beast of the phalanx of graying flower children and their next-generation recruits. “This might work for them everywhere in other states, but they’re dealing with Lakotas now.”

“We’re a warrior society,” he added. “We don’t want violence, but this is our culture, our sacredness and we will protect it.”

Swan is not a tribal council representative and does not speak for the Sioux. That isn’t stopping him from fighting the Rainbow Family of Living Light, a counterculture group that’s held annual gatherings in national forests every July since 1972 to pray for world peace—and deliver drugs, nudity and sometimes murder and other crimes in their wake.

To some Lakota, the love fest threatens to desecrate the sacred Black Hills National Forest, where 5,000 to 20,000 hippies are expected to dig trench latrines, fire pits and kitchens. Swan and his band of activists with the United Urban Warrior Society say they’re planning a blockade and will remove the bums.

Swan said Rainbow Family adherents tried to soften him up by saying, “We’re just like you, [but] the government doesn’t recognize us as a tribe.”

“You’re not a tribe,” Swan added. “You’re fricking fruitcake people.”

The Rainbow Family is in the midst of “Spring Council” meeting to decide where they’ll set up camp this year. On Monday, Sioux tribal leaders met with a Rainbow members and the USDA Forest Service—a talk to which Swan was not invited.

Leaders of the Rosebud Sioux and Oglala Sioux tribes did not respond to the Daily Beast’s requests for comment. Neither tribes have approved of the Rainbow plans.

Swan protested against the unkempt wanderers for several hours, he said. After the interaction became heated, the Rainbow Family crew pulled back, held hands and formed a circle, the Rapid City Journal reported. Then the Rainbows chanted, “We love you!”

A week before their camp-out, the Rainbows are already in trouble with the law. On Wednesday night, five of the clan fell prey to South Dakota’s harsh marijuana laws and were arrested on felony charges. After a citizen reported aggressive panhandling, the suspected beggars fled in a car. Cops pulled them over after their vehicle ran a red light.

Police found two ounces of pot, paraphernalia, marijuana wax and open liquor containers during a consensual search, the Rapid City Journal reported. The visitors’ urine tests were positive for THC....

Swan and his supporters disagree...say the Black Hills really isn’t federal land because of the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty that granted Lakota ownership. The ownership of the Black Hills has been disputed in court for decades.

In Facebook groups, the Black Hills appears to have caused a schism among Rainbow devotees, some of which are still trying to get the blessing of the tribes. Others say they’re heading to Michigan instead.

“I really wanted to go to SD,” wrote Jordan Anthony, a Rainbow man from Michigan. “I thought we could do some great things there for the locals, natives, and ourselves. But this thing has gotten out of hand. We should have done our research and gotten permission first.”

Joelle Clark, 53, a Lakota activist in Gainesville, Florida, told The Daily Beast that native people from across the country plan to head to South Dakota to stop the Rainbow Gathering. “There are times when you have to make a stand,” she said, “and this is one of them.”

The free spirits are planning to dig toilet trenches and occupy the Black Hills at the height of the Lakota ceremonial season. “I’ve talked to several Rainbow people who I believe try to be decent human beings,” Clark said. “And then there’s a whole messload of them who—pardon my language—are totally freaking whacked.”

Swan and Joelle say it’s particularly disturbing that the Rainbow Family has no leaders, and no one is really accountable. They pointed to reports that one of the group’s hippie pow-wows cost taxpayers $500,000 in law enforcement and forestry management in 2013.

To prevent any waves of destruction, the Forest Service sends incident management teams from Washington, DC to the Rainbow Gathering every year to supplement local law enforcement.

Scott Jacobson, a Black Hills National Forest spokesman, said because no Rainbow individual is in charge and will sign an event permit, officials have a special operations plan. “We’re looking forward to a hopefully peaceful gathering,” he said.

Meanwhile, native activists published a June 16 letter to the Forest Service, Office of Tribal Justice and Department of Justice warning Lakota warriors would remove and confiscate any Rainbow encampments.

Swan’s online petition to keep Rainbow out of the Black Hills was signed by more than 2,200 people.

“We don’t want your drugs, alcohol, nudity, using parts of our spirituality in your rituals!, your free love, your lingo, your fashions, etc.,” Swan wrote on the site.

“I will say this!” he continued. “I have met a bunch of you and do find some of you to be legit. As far as the rest of you … you can burn in hell for all I care! I can handle it and encourage it! Bring whatever you think you got!”

The happy Rainbow camp has often displayed a dark side. Earlier this year, the Rainbows’ pacifist playground at the Apalachicola National Forest in Florida turned deadly.

Clark Mayers, 39, of Georgia was recording people burning tires at a regional gathering when someone slapped his camera into the fire, the Apalachicola Times revealed. He went to his car, got a gun and returned to the camp to allegedly fire three bullets into 24-year-old Wesley Jones’ back, lung and spine, paralyzing him.

When Jacob Cardwell, a man in his 20s from Arizona, tried to intervene, officials say Mayers killed Cardwell with two shots to the abdomen, the Times reported. Mayers has been charged with first-degree murder and aggravated battery.

In summer of 2014, the Rainbow Family gathered at Uinta National Forest in Utah, prompting a nearby summer camp for Mormon girls to scatter. “You’re a rainbow family. He’s a rainbow family. People in the White House are a rainbow family,” one reveler named Novel announced when he arrived.

“It’s about world peace,” Novel told FOX 13 in Salt Lake City. “But I personally believe it’s like a very excellent place to meet people, to network, to become the true you.”

But by the end of the event, a woman with black dreadlocks whose hippy name is “Hitler” had stabbed a man in the head and shoulder.

Leilani Novak-Garcia was charged with attempted murder, but prosecutors reduced her charges to aggravated assault after she pleaded “no contest.” The victim told police Hitler’s freakout was “out of character and likely the result of “taking some bad drugs.”...
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: Epiphany on June 21, 2015, 09:06:27 pm
The Rainbowers have rumor control contacts available, yet they themselves spread conspiracy rumors:

Quote
...it doesn't take much to figure out who is behind the smear Rainbow campaign in S.D. All those mining companies and others which are trashing the Black Hills hardly want to see a Rainbow Gathering there as we are so opposed to what they are doing.
Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out
So the plot thickens and off we go again in the battle against destruction and to save the Black Hills this time.

https://www.facebook.com/RainbowPeaceFleetCommunity/posts/471811536312025 (https://www.facebook.com/RainbowPeaceFleetCommunity/posts/471811536312025)
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: Epiphany on June 21, 2015, 10:06:37 pm
A reasonable voice:

Quote
Phillip Halfhill Hanson
June 19 at 10:16am · Edited
I've held back enough on this issue. But it's reached critical mass. Back when we were organizing and promoting the gatherings back in the 70s (and I'm one of the ORIGINAL FOUNDERS of the first gathering), we would have never, ever chosen the BLACK HILLS as a gathering site unless we were given permission by the LAKOTA PEOPLE. Now, you've all seen that the majority of the Lakota don't want the gathering there. You better wake up and smell the coffee! Yeah, you can say, "What do you know, Phil Coyote?" Plenty! A Group called the Christ Brotherhood sent out invitations in 1973 for the Wyoming Gathering. Those of us who had promoted the first gathering that occurred in Colorado in 1972 had not had any intention of there being a second gathering. But the Christ Brotherhood had invited everyone for the Wyoming deal to be HELD IN THE WIND RIVER Wilderness area, held sacred by the (Shoshone/Aprapaho). It became obvious that the tribes didn't want it there. So we redirected the gathering to PUBLIC LAND at South Pass, Wyoming. It all went smoothly, with 20,000 in attendance or so.The Christ Brotherhood nevertheless led their stubborn crew into the Wind River Wilderness area, They were arrested and went to Club Fed. We had warned them that something bad would happen. But they refused to listen. Too proud.
The Lakotas have made it clear they don't want a gathering on their sacred lands. So respect that. Otherwise, you're not being wise at all. Peace, Phil Coyote.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1433824536905546/permalink/1595060650781933/?pnref=story (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1433824536905546/permalink/1595060650781933/?pnref=story)

(my use of bolding)
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: Defend the Sacred on June 21, 2015, 10:09:06 pm
"Save" the Black Hills?! By trashing them?! Whoever thinks their appalling gathering doesn't harm the land has taken way too many drugs.

Since the 1960s hippies and activists have been different crowds. There's always been a bit of overlap, but basically the Rainbows are in the "drop out, tune in, turn on" camp - they don't blockade or do anything but think their drumming circles and drug trips will magically heal the earth. They don't do activism; that's a lie.

There have been a lot of comparisons to Sturgis. No one wants the bike gathering there, either. BUT, at least Sturgis takes place on paved areas, not in ecologically-sensitive, ceremonial areas. AND Sturgis bikers often arrive two to a bike, whereas Rainbows often show up as one or two persons per van.  Per person, the Rainbows are consuming more fossil fuels and causing more destruction. If the hippies want to help, let them go blockade the bike rally, or set up next to the invasive Man Camps and blockade the pipelines.

What? Not fun enough? Too hard? Too risky?

No, they'd rather be racist colonizers, violating the boundaries of the tribes and spreading lies.
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: RedRightHand on June 22, 2015, 12:13:32 am
A reasonable voice:

Quote
Phillip Halfhill Hanson
June 19 at 10:16am · Edited
I've held back enough on this issue. But it's reached critical mass. ....
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1433824536905546/permalink/1595060650781933/?pnref=story (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1433824536905546/permalink/1595060650781933/?pnref=story)

In that Facebook group, Robin Denton the Rainbow Rapist is participating in the discussion. And they are allowing it. Until they are willing to kick people like that out, their words mean nothing.
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: Defend the Sacred on June 22, 2015, 12:14:43 am
And Denton is lying on his page and petition, saying that Arvol invited them. LIAR.
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: Defend the Sacred on June 22, 2015, 12:24:04 am
Other white Drainbows are claiming they carry eagle feathers. Time to call Fish and Wildlife on them.
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: Autumn on June 22, 2015, 01:29:01 am
So, they get one Lakota to give them a "thumbs up" and they have the approval of every Lakota?  At least, that is the way it appears.

https://www.facebook.com/RainbowPeaceFleetCommunity/photos/p.471811659645346/471811659645346/?type=1&theater

I don't know who Farron Blake Ross King is but I get the impression he is very young and extremely naive.  He says:  "We live in our tiny little "rez boxes".  These people live outside in accordance with the mother."

So, "these people" live outside ALL THE TIME, it that right, Farron Blake??
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: Ingeborg on June 22, 2015, 01:40:39 am
So, they get one Lakota to give them a "thumbs up" and they have the approval of every Lakota?

Well. that's the way a good part of the territories were 'bought'... So the Drainbows are good colonialists, very traditional, very entitled, and very full of it.
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: Defend the Sacred on June 22, 2015, 04:08:04 pm
Found some kid who likes to smoke pot and gave him some beads.
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: browndiasporia on June 23, 2015, 04:07:50 am
so this is gonna happen, disregard for native voices as usual :(
is there anyway that a post can be made with guidelines and rules to follow for the people that are going to attend? ex. no alcohol no new age sweat lodges no traditional clothing.
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: browndiasporia on June 23, 2015, 05:24:53 am
http://midwestornewenglandgathering2015.blogspot.com/2015/06/town-hall-meeting-tuesday-june-23.html
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: Defend the Sacred on June 23, 2015, 01:43:58 pm
They were told to stay away, and they spit in Native's faces. They've shown they don't care what NDNs want. Does anyone really think they're going to now listen to NDNs and stop doing their drugged freakout pretendian sweats? Or dressing however they like? Or smoking pot in fake chanupas?

The hippies who have respect, or who were able to learn and change, are headed to Michigan, or staying home. The only ones who are coming are the boundary-violating, criminal offenders who believe they are already the better Indians than the NDNs themselves.

Even though the fake Rainbow Prophecy - that hippies will replace the Indians and take over Indian culture and ceremonies - has been debunked as racist propaganda, they still feature it on their website and trot it out when people tell them they are not a real tribe.

If they cared what NDNs think, if they saw the Hills as sacred, they wouldn't be there.
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: Defend the Sacred on June 23, 2015, 02:32:31 pm
PRESS RELEASE Rainbow Family Of Living Light June 22 2015

"We call on all like minded Rainbow family members to boycott the Annual National Rainbow Gathering of the self-empowered Rainbow scouts and come home to California, Michigan or Shawnee. We love all of our Family dearly, as well as all First Nations peoples and we ask that you act accordingly with a peaceful, ethically motivated, self-evacuation of the site in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Please join the great majority of Family already gathering elsewhere."

Full statement: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17rCVWPWTqsjrm5VnGTH111C2Yl2ZbUkqkLTm25vVcz0/mobilebasic?pli=1

None of them signed it, so it's still not clear who is in which faction. I assume this statement is from some of the older, founding Rainbows who have been speaking out against invading the Black Hills.
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: Defend the Sacred on June 23, 2015, 06:38:55 pm
More of the older Rainbows are urging their people to leave the Black Hills:

"What just happened to the Rainbow Gathering"

http://www.unnecessaryg.com/blog/?p=3347

(http://www.unnecessaryg.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/11057778_10155757870965002_7133155558556826729_n.jpg)

"Now the Rainbow family is in a bizarre argument with the Lakota, supporting the USFS against the sovereign custodians of the Black Hills. Breaking our own traditions to do so. I don’t know if you know this, but the Lakota never gave up the Black Hills. They were taken after a treaty that they refused to sign, paid for with money that they have refused to accept, and generally wrangled away from them in a process so disgustingly corrupt that even the United States Supreme Court said we had to give the Black Hills back. Which the government refused to do. Even the UN supports the Lakotan claim to the land. So why are we acting like the Black Hills are an American national forest? Is that what we want?"
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: RedRightHand on June 25, 2015, 12:19:39 am
Without going into the various other controversies in and around Cante Tenza, or the people who have been affiliated with them... I'm posting this here for the record as it explains a lot of what's been going on.

The stuff referred to above about someone's adopted nephew going off to do drugs with the Drainbows and setting up offensive deals behind their elders' backs? Here you go:

https://cantetenza.wordpress.com/2015/06/24/lakota-grandmother-society-sanctions-rainbow-supporters/

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Lakota Grandmother Society Sanctions Rainbow Supporters
June 24, 2015 Strong Heart Warriors   

On behalf of the Lakota Grandmother Khahtela Society

from Cante Tenza Okolakiciye – Strong Heart Warrior Society
MEDIA RELEASE: June 24, 2015 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Mary Felicia 605-454-4421

Email: cantetenza13@gmail.com

Lakota Grandmother Society Sanctions Supporters of Rainbow Gathering

Pine Ridge – A traditional society of Lakota grandmothers today issued a strong sanction against a group of Lakota women and young people who have publicly supported the gathering of the Rainbow Family in the sacred Black Hills and endorsed hurtful public statements dismissing and neglecting the traditional cultural roles of Lakota elders.

One such statement said that elders are no longer needed and that youth, “must take control from the old people.” Statements like this create deep hurt and isolation among Lakota elders already struggling with poverty and harsh conditions of life on Pine Ridge Reservation as well as harm the survival of the Lakota Nation itself by the disregarding of the many years of experience and knowledge held by grandmothers and grandfathers.

Elders of the Grandmothers Khahtela Society from the Porcupine, Manderson, Pine Ridge, and Oglala districts as well as others throughout all nine districts on Pine Ridge are supporting sanctions against Lakota women who have facilitated the entry of the Rainbow members into the Black Hills as well as onto Pine Ridge Reservation while being openly dismissive of traditional Lakota protocols and societies that have worked to defend and preserve Lakota language and culture for decades.

The list of Lakota women ordered to appear in front of the Grandmothers Khahtela Society are:

Olowan Martinez

Misty Little

Autumn Two Bulls

Joanne Spotted Bear

Doris Respects Nothing

Lakota grandmothers are also disturbed by the public actions and social media postings of Lakota youth Leo Cordier, who has been openly critical and dismissive of Lakota elders and efforts by the Black Hills Treaty Council and Strong Heart to vacate the Rainbow festival from unceded Lakota territory in the Black Hills.

Mr. Cordier is serving as a so-called “Rainbow Ambassador” encouraging Lakota youth to visit the Rainbow Gathering. On Tuesday he took the lead in organizing a Rainbow bus to visit Pine Ridge to pick up trash. On social media he wrote, “NEED SOMEONE TO GET A HOLD OF KIANI, AND/OR LUCID. HERE ON THE REZ AWAITING THE RAINBOW BUS TO HELP CLEAN UP THE PARK AND TRANSPORT INDIGENOUS TO THE GATHERING AS WELL AS DROP OFF FOOD.”

But the innocent sounding trash pick-up was revealed as an opportunity to share drugs and recruit Lakota youth to the gathering. A concerned source inside the Rainbow Family reported, “By [Rainbow] giving tours of their buses and offering marijuana to young adults within the Lakota Nation, they have sown the seeds of distrust, rebellion and isolation.”

Many of the traditional Lakota grandmothers are a part of the small percentage of Lakota people who still speak fluent Lakota and hold onto cultural traditions. They are vocal in speaking out against the corruption within the Oglala Sioux Tribe (OST) Government and often face elder abuse in the forms of verbal abuse, neglect, physical assault, threats, and blacklisting from needed services like housing, healthy food, and funding for travel to receive medical care necessary for life. Despite these obstacles, these elders are the foundation for Lakota sovereignty and independence and critical to the survival of the Lakota Nation.
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: RedRightHand on June 25, 2015, 10:14:36 pm
http://midwestornewenglandgathering2015.blogspot.com/2015/06/town-hall-meeting-tuesday-june-23.html

Karin, the Drainbow whose blog that is, is spreading blatant disinformation. Her "Lakota who welcomed us"? - The few abovementioned young people who like to smoke pot (and at least one of whom was not raised in Lakota community) who are accused of setting up drug deals, and who have now been called out by the Grandmothers for disrespecting the Lakota elders, traditions and community.

Natives and allies have tried to post on Karin's blog to clear up her disinformation, and she does not let our comments go through. It's clearly a page for spreading propaganda and lies.
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: RedRightHand on June 26, 2015, 05:14:39 pm
Cordier has basically admitted that they are being paid to exploit rifts in the Lakota community.

This is an outside job, during a time when Lakota, LDN, and Plains NDN unity is needed to stop the pipelines and the man camps.

A small group of drug users are being supported as they go behind elders' backs, as they cheer for elders to disappear so young people who weren't even raised in community can inflict their colonized ways on the community, sow discord, and pave the way for devastation of the landbase.

Notice who is supporting him. Notice who has a history of destroying communities and activist groups. Notice who has money to support the disruptive people.

Sometimes, when you choose fools to disrupt things for you, the fools forget to keep your secrets.

https://www.facebook.com/leo.cordier.1/posts/10153857937613973?comment_id=10153859151808973&offset=0&total_comments=7&comment_tracking={%22tn%22%3A%22R1%22}&pnref=story

Leo Cordier
Resources are being provided by a secret circle, for whatever I and a small group chooses. This secret circle wants us to survive and succeed. 
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: RedRightHand on June 26, 2015, 10:27:38 pm
Behold "The Lakotas who invited the Rainbows."

Here is the great "Lakota/Rainbow Alliance, " the young people who want to oust the elders and be the new leaders. And the Drainbows who smoked a bunch of pot with them. The squatting boy on the right, with the wavy hair, blonde beard and joint in his hand, is Leo Cordier, who set this betrayal up.  :o

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152963986516966&set=gm.848039695288139&type=1

(https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/p600x600/10252165_10152963986516966_2088654284651520276_n.jpg?oh=f8ada9e1b8ea773ab8a507b6f783ac24&oe=561C5FD6)

https://www.facebook.com/leo.cordier.1/posts/10153856790198973

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Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: kahtboosted on June 27, 2015, 04:39:28 am
Behold "The Lakotas who invited the Rainbows."

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Looks like the typical shower-boycotting filthy hippy trash.
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: Autumn on June 27, 2015, 12:25:53 pm
From that photo, I count 17 people and about 9-10 bags of trash.  Wow!  Impressive! 

Leo says that he is 26 years old and an old soul, but from his photos he looks like he is around 50, so he is more like an old person with an old soul.  Too much drugs, Leo, too much drugs.

Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: educatedindian on June 30, 2015, 02:45:07 pm
http://nativenewsonline.net/currents/rainbow-family-leaders-want-to-deal-with-real-lakota/
Guest Commentary

What has been interesting about watching the Rainbow’s Gathering in the Black Hills fiasco unfold, as Lakota line up in support and opposition to the U.S. Forest Service permitted encampment for 20,000 on their sacred land, are the ways in which white Rainbows have been picking and choosing who is a “real Lakota” to them based on stereotypes and self interest.

Here is a group (the Rainbows), ostensibly without leaders themselves, trying to discern who the real authentic Native leaders are on Pine Ridge, a reservation with a long (and well-documented) history of discordant internal national politics. And the Rainbows are seeking these leaders to get approval after the fact for a decision they made without proper consultation, a fait accompli.

And, of course, they are relying on all the stereotypes of the “spiritual Indian” to dismiss “angry Indians” as not being real Lakota.

It’s such a strange playing out of all these issues Native people have been discussing through social media (#NotYourMascot) of the pigeonholing Native people face (and are limited by) created by stereotypes in the American consciousness. In this case, it is dividing a tribe for the benefit of a gathering on the 4th of July by a group of white anarchists in the Black Hills, sacred land still illegally held by the United States affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1980 in United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians.

A recent 2013 documentary “Red Cry” made by Cante Tenza, the Strong Heart Warrior Society that is leading the opposition against the Rainbow Gathering can be found on their website. In the documentary, the leaders of this group can be seen being interviewed about their views on the state of the Lakota Nation today. Contrary to the Rainbows dismissive assumption of these grassroots leaders who trace their society’s existence to Crazy Horse and the original akicita, these Lakota come across as thoughtful and active in issues on the Pine Ridge.

Not so thoughtful are some of the attacks on Native American dissenters by Rainbows on social media. Two Rainbows, Sadie Marie Whitmer and a White Buffalo Calfwoman Twin Deer Mother (her actual Facebook profile name) have issued threats to shut down a Native American woman, Toyah Browneyes’ (Cherokee) Facebook account using Facebook’s Real Name policy. Native American activists on Facebook have been retaliated against for their activism by the reporting of their Native surnames as fake.

Today, on the 139th anniversary of the Battle of Greasy Grass (to Americans, the Battle of the Little Big Horn) the Strong Heart Warrior Society is delivering an eviction notice to the Rainbow encampment. They are accompanied by Rainbows who agree with them. In their press release, they state, “The delegation will be peacefully asking the Rainbow gathering to vacate the land and “No Trespassing” signs will be posted to warn others coming in after the eviction. The Lakota vow to follow through with the eviction and will be monitoring the situation into the planned July gathering dates.”
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: AClockworkWhite on June 30, 2015, 03:16:02 pm
It doesn't help matters when now people like Chase Iron Eyes are working with these clowns. His Facebook page is littered with collaboration/apologist posts and comments. Sorry... but I don't have a damn thing to learn from white men about our sacred ways and the future of my race. Sellouts gotta sellout, I suppose.
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: earthw7 on July 01, 2015, 10:27:00 am
i think Chase is finding out it was not a good thing to side with this group because it is
so mixed up that half of the so called rainbow want to kill us and the other half was to pray for us
they are armed with the american lies, most want to get us high :o.
Strange
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: Diana on July 01, 2015, 01:44:32 pm
i think Chase is finding out it was not a good thing to side with this group because it is
so mixed up that half of the so called rainbow want to kill us and the other half was to pray for us
they are armed with the american lies, most want to get us high :o.
Strange

Yeah I was shocked too when I read his facebook page. He thought those rainbow squatters would make good allies. I just don't know how he could make that connection...??? They have the worst reputation for culture appropriation, drugs, alcohol, nudity and just all around slackers. These aren't the kind of people I would want to be associated with,  professionally or socially,  especially for an attorney. Unless of course they were a client....very strange indeed.
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: AClockworkWhite on July 01, 2015, 08:00:02 pm
Shock is the perfect word. I go read the blogs he's posted on LRI and I still can't believe what I'm reading. After ALL the stuff he said and the things so many of us believe about preserving our ways OUR way, and then this. It's disheartening.
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: earthw7 on July 02, 2015, 06:57:18 pm
I think he is finding out it was not a good choice, he met some old folks but did not meet the ones who are trouble makers
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: AClockworkWhite on July 03, 2015, 04:06:13 am
I agree. It is easy to be deceived by a group that is notoriously fluid and so layered. They claim no leaders but seem to always have leaders to deal with local authorities. There is only one way to ensure that one is never fooled, and that is to not deal with any who are not already working with tribes or ones who are working to ensure these people are not allowed to hold these events at places like these.
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: Defend the Sacred on July 03, 2015, 03:50:12 pm
White people who want access to NDN lands and culture will lie to get what they want. I'm not saying everyone does, but just look at history already. I am shocked that Chase took these people at their word and face value. Who does that?!

All it takes is a simple google search to find the news stories about the devastation this group has caused, and the lies they spread about NDNs. Even if he didn't want to listen to those of us who've dealt with these people before, he could have taken the time the rest of us did to go to their pages and see how they act, to see their disrespect towards women and elders, to see their belief they should be the better NDNs and invade ceremonies with their drugs and alcohol and violence against women. Even their older members, who seem sane at first, close ranks and defend the liars and appropriators in their midst when s*** gets real.

Of course a few of their people, maybe even most, will ramble on about peace and unity and protecting the earth. But it's just words. You have to look at the group as a whole. You have to look at their deeds, not just what they say in efforts to get what they want.

I can't believe we're having to point out something this basic. This is 101 stuff.
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: Defend the Sacred on July 03, 2015, 05:20:36 pm
From the Oak Lake Writers' Society
Since 1993, the Society has endeavored to strengthen and preserve Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota cultures through the development of culture-based writing.
https://oaklakewriterssociety.wordpress.com/2015/07/02/open-letter-protect-he-sapa-stop-cultural-exploitation/

Open Letter: Protect He Sapa, Stop Cultural Exploitation

The planned Rainbow Family of Living Light gathering (herein Rainbow) in He Sapa, the Black Hills, has caused serious tensions within the Oceti Sakowin. Many of us see the Rainbow gathering as engaging in cultural exploitation, and some of their activities as desecrating our holiest site by appropriating and practicing faux Native ceremonies and beliefs. These actions, although Rainbows may not realize, dehumanize us as an indigenous Nation because they imply our culture and humanity, like our land, is anyone’s for the taking. As outsiders to our Nation and struggles, the Rainbow gathering has caused and will cause more harm than good.

Some argue that Lakota and Dakota nations need to choose sides on whether or not we should support the gathering. These same people have also attempted to form an “alliance” with Rainbow attendees by publicly welcoming their presence and supporting their encampment in the hopes of facilitating an occupation that would in turn demand the return of stolen treaty lands in He Sapa.

Other Lakota activists have set up a protest camp and have called for the eviction of the Rainbow camp over fears of desecrating a sacred site, the cultural appropriation of sacred Native ceremonies, and the violation of the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty, which reserves exclusive use to He Sapa for the Lakota, Dakota, and Arapaho nations.

Many Lakota and Dakota peoples have weighed in. Some express sympathy for allying with the Rainbows. And some, like us, express serious reservations about the Rainbow gathering including critiques of the tactics of certain celebrity Lakota activists who ally with the Rainbows. A majority of Rainbow members have also decided to respect the wishes of Native opponents to the gathering by not attending. Those who have consciously ignored the divisive chaos that has ensued after Rainbow plans to gather in He Sapa and calls to boycott the gathering have begun setting up camp regardless and are aligning themselves with sympathetic Lakota “allies.”

While sympathetic Lakota “allies” and supporters are concerned about making the Rainbow attendees feel comfortable, a simple fact remains: the tens of thousands of Lakota and Dakota people currently living in He Sapa and those who make annual pilgrimages for ceremonial and cultural obligations are not made to feel comfortable, at all.

Those Lakota and Dakota people who live in Mni Luzahan, Rapid City, a notoriously racist border town, for example, experience the highest rates of poverty—nearly fifty percent—more than any other urban demographic in the nation, and higher than many American Indian reservations. Natives also make up twelve percent of Rapid City’s population but account for three-quarters of the homeless population and half the county jail population.

Paradoxically, Rapid City economically depends on Lakota and Dakota business from surrounding communities and reservations. The annual Lakota Nation Invitational basketball tournament, for instance, is the second largest money-maker for the city, next to the Sturgis Bike Rally and the He Sapa Powwow. Yet, the history and pervasive anti-Indianism directed at Native people who visit, shop, and live in Rapid City is nothing short of an outrage.

As a Nation of intellectuals, writers, artists, professionals, and educators, the Oceti Sakowin has much to celebrate in our achievements and contributions to our national culture and to politics. Aligning with the Rainbow Family, a group that cites a fictitious “Native American prophecy” as informing their self-identification as “warriors of the rainbow” and willfully appropriates Native cultural practices, is not only adventurist and dangerous, but offensive to many of us who advance and continue to defend the spiritual, the cultural, the sacred, and, most importantly, the political vitality and vision of the Oceti Sakowin.

In a recent letter to the editor in Indian Country Today, one Rainbow member justifies Native appropriation: “I see how cultural and spiritual appropriation is disrespectful and harmful but I also see how the actual practices heal and rebalance everyone,” as if “everyone” is in need of rebalance. The sense of entitlement to Lakota and Dakota spirituality and culture illustrates a common belief of white settler society: like it was entitled to our land, it is therefore also entitled to our culture and our humanity for its own benefit. The U.S., a settler nation, was built violently upon this myth: white people who feel they lack meaningful ancestral ties and relationships to this land turn to new forms of theft. Our remaining land, sacred sites and cultures are open for plunder and theft as whites seek spiritual meaning and personal self-actualization. They may need “rebalance” after the colonial atrocities of white society. We need what we have always wanted, the dignity and right to exist as an indigenous Nation in our homelands. How does Rainbow further this other than to mock and appropriate our culture?

White settlers who appropriate Native cultures for their own benefit do not advance nor align with the values of Wolakota, the Lakota and Dakota way of living, values that have been passed down and protected by our ancestors. In fact, it furthers the belief that Native peoples and cultures exist for pure entertainment and ownership for white settlers, a belief that saturates the popular imaginary in the form of racist sports mascots and other dehumanizing caricatures, and fantasies of perceived or fabricated Native ancestry. The appropriation of our sacred spaces, practices, and our very identities violates us as a people, a nation, and it violates our sovereign right to determine for ourselves who we are in this world and this universe. It jeopardizes our legal, political, and spiritual claims as rightful caretakers of the land and He Sapa.

As Dakota and Lakota nations, we have been tolerant to other worldviews and have even come to accept some of them, as taught through Wolakota. This has been our greatest strength and our greatest weakness—because it is often exploited. In the past and currently, we strategically align with other Native and non-Native people and causes when it is in the best interest of our nations and the land. These alliances are necessary for our continued survival and for seeking justice for historical and ongoing wrongs. There are non-Natives who are sympathetic to and allied with our causes, but who do not find it necessary, nor should they, to appropriate and distort our cultural practices, and traditions for their own benefit.

When Ptehincala Ska Win, the White Buffalo Calf Woman, gave us the canupa, the pipe, and our sacred ceremonies, she gave them to us, the Oceti Sakowin, not to anyone else. She gave us specifically a burden to bear, that we as a people should guarantee our survival and continuance as a Nation in our own lands. Ptehincala Ska Win’s message was for us to stand as one nation, whether we disagree or not. When the U.S. and occupying forces ripped us from our homelands, forced us onto reservations, and attempted to destroy us as a people, those burdens of genocide became ours, and they also became everyone’s responsibility to help right these ongoing crimes against humanity. Appropriating our practices and sacred spaces does not right historical wrongs. It adds to them.

Uniting with the Rainbow people, whose gathering in our most sacred site promises only further cultural and spiritual exploitation, has fractured us. It has sown seeds of disunity at a time when we desperately need unity to combat the exploitation and violence against our land, water, youth and women, and the continued desecration of our sacred sites at places like Mato Paha, Bear Butte, where hundreds of thousands of mostly white bikers gather for weeks of debauchery at the Sturgis Biker Rally during our ceremonial season. Do they understand the power of these hills, of this place? Or is it simply a piece of earth they roar into once a year and which they objectify for their pleasure? Although the Rainbow gathering has a veneer of “spirituality” one could ask the same question of them. And we do, as individuals whose peoples arose as peoples in this place, and who have been powerfully connected to it for millennia.

Let’s use our hearts, minds, and bodies towards continuing these struggles instead of aligning ourselves with cultural exploiters and those who detract from the long, hard task of unity as a Nation.

Hecetu Welo!

Nick Estes (Kul Wicasa Oyate), PhD candidate, University of New Mexico

Kimberly TallBear (Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate), Associate Professor, University of Texas, Austin

Tasiyagnunpa Livermont (Oglala Sioux Tribe), writer and blogger

Richard Meyers (Oglala Sioux Tribe), Assistant Professor/Director of Tribal Outreach, South Dakota State University

Joel Waters (Oglala Sioux Tribe), poet and writer

Taté Walker (Mniconjou Lakota), social service/justice professional and human rights activist

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https://oaklakewriterssociety.wordpress.com/2015/07/02/open-letter-protect-he-sapa-stop-cultural-exploitation/
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: earthw7 on July 05, 2015, 02:13:48 pm
I think not for sure but Chase seems to be camping in the hills with one of the groups has no ideal
what is being said about him, the Bismarck Tribune ran an article about him saying he did not
respond but he is in the Black Hills, about his heat the rez, i believe it was one of the rainbow that
sent the information to the paper. It is like one group is saying everything that the natives want to hear
save the Black Hills, free Leonard, Save the water and land but in reality the other group are doing the opposite.
One wrote that his dream was to complete the extermination of my people i have to shake my head and wonder
on one hand we have people who want to be us, steal our ways, make money off our backs, and the other want to
kill us and take our land.
That is why i wonder why would anyone want to be us, being Native is hard
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: ska on July 05, 2015, 05:45:58 pm
He may be in the Black hills but Chase Iron Eyes has also been "on the grid", posting regularly in the past few days, both on "Last Real Indians" and on facebook:

http://lastrealindians.com/should-lakota-nation-welcome-rainbow-family-chase-iron-eyes/ (http://lastrealindians.com/should-lakota-nation-welcome-rainbow-family-chase-iron-eyes/)

https://www.facebook.com/ChaseIronEyes (https://www.facebook.com/ChaseIronEyes)

He's tweeting too:

https://twitter.com/lastrealndn (https://twitter.com/lastrealndn)

He seems to be keeping up on the ongoing discussion.
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: AClockworkWhite on July 06, 2015, 03:54:58 am
I think not for sure but Chase seems to be camping in the hills with one of the groups has no ideal
what is being said about him, the Bismarck Tribune ran an article about him saying he did not
respond but he is in the Black Hills, about his heat the rez, i believe it was one of the rainbow that
sent the information to the paper. It is like one group is saying everything that the natives want to hear
save the Black Hills, free Leonard, Save the water and land but in reality the other group are doing the opposite.
One wrote that his dream was to complete the extermination of my people i have to shake my head and wonder
on one hand we have people who want to be us, steal our ways, make money off our backs, and the other want to
kill us and take our land.
That is why i wonder why would anyone want to be us, being Native is hard
This is exactly what the Rainbows are becoming known for. I have a few non-Native acquaintances in my life who were dismayed at the lack of respect for the areas they were partying in, the lack of actual spirituality, and simply left the entire scene. I have NO problem with most hippies... but any involved with anything that says rainbow ANYTHING is automatically suspect in my eyes. I can't help it now. My Hopi relatives had so many problems with these people and I have seen and read absolute horror stories about what a negative impact these gatherings truly have on the local ecology and communities. They're like locusts.
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: educatedindian on July 09, 2015, 01:29:46 pm
Rainbows ordered to leave at another gathering some went to as an alternative to the Black Hills. The comments have some whites and some hippies agreeing to leave sacred sites alone.

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http://nativenewsonline.net/currents/winnemem-wintu-tribe-gives-cease-desist-order-to-rainbow-family/comment-page-2/#comments

Winnemem Wintu Tribe Gives Cease & Desist Order to Rainbow Family
 by Levi Rickert / Currents / 04 Jul 2015
 
Rainbow Family ordered to not to return

REDDING, CALIFORNIA — On Saturday, July 4, 2015, the Winnemem Wintu Tribe ordered the Rainbow Family and the Antique Rainbow Roadshow to evacuate the Mt. Shasta region in northern California.

Acting on its own behalf, as well as the Pit River and Modoc Tribes, the Winnemem Wintu Tribe ordered the Rainbow Family to “cease and desist” trespassing on Mt. Shasta, which the tribes consider a sacred site.

The Rainbow Family and Antique Rainbow Roadshow are using a portion of Mt. Shasta that is operated by the U.S. Forest Service to have a camp to gather. Another segment of the Rainbow Family are camping out in the Black Hills to the displeasure of the majority of Lakota people in South Dakota.

The Rainbow Family is a group of New Agers who function with no leadership. They use federal property to camp where they reportedly gather to pray. The group has been around since the anti-war days of the early 1970s.

The Cease & Desist Order was written by Chief Caleen Sisk, chief and spiritual leader of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe.

“There is no place in our indigenous territories for Rainbow Family activities, and you are ordered to not to return to Mt. Shasta for future Rainbow Family gatherings,” writes Chief Sisk. “By holding such large group encampments and gatherings in ecologically and culturally sensitive areas, you are causing harmful impacts that cannot be undone by even the most fastidious clean up,” Chief Sisk continues.

After the Cease & Desist Order was released, members of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe went to Panther Meadows in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest to post a “CLOSED” sign. Members of the Forest Service law enforcement were confused and asked the tribal members to use different word.

“We will take it under advisement,” stated Chief Sisk. The “CLOSED” sign remains up.
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: Defend the Sacred on July 09, 2015, 03:58:52 pm
The "Antiques Roadshow" group the Rainbows refer to is a sub-group of older Rainbow (the "antiques"). Not to be confused with the TV show on PBS.

After the tribe closed access to the mountain, one of the Rainbows trespassed and went into an ecologically-sensitive area. He sat down on new plant life that needs to be left untrampled at this time of year, and responded obnoxiously to the women who confronted him. He even responded to them with a misogynist, racist, sexual slur: "How about S***w Meadow? How 'bout I go to S***W Meadow!?"

After disrespecting the women, the men had to step up. Only the assertion from the men that they would carry him out of there if he refused to walk made him leave. This is the arrogance we've seen when trying to dialogue with these white supremacists in tie-dye. They love their b.s. stereotypes of Natives as spirchul noble savages, just dying to share it all with the hippies. But when faced with real Natives who set limits on them, the racism just floods all over.

Video: https://youtu.be/QopPwlN68GQ
Title: Re: Rainbow Gathering in Black Hills
Post by: AClockworkWhite on July 13, 2015, 07:16:37 pm
The "Antiques Roadshow" group the Rainbows refer to is a sub-group of older Rainbow (the "antiques"). Not to be confused with the TV show on PBS.

After the tribe closed access to the mountain, one of the Rainbows trespassed and went into an ecologically-sensitive area. He sat down on new plant life that needs to be left untrampled at this time of year, and responded obnoxiously to the women who confronted him. He even responded to them with a misogynist, racist, sexual slur: "How about S***w Meadow? How 'bout I go to S***W Meadow!?"

After disrespecting the women, the men had to step up. Only the assertion from the men that they would carry him out of there if he refused to walk made him leave. This is the arrogance we've seen when trying to dialogue with these white supremacists in tie-dye. They love their b.s. stereotypes of Natives as spirchul noble savages, just dying to share it all with the hippies. But when faced with real Natives who set limits on them, the racism just floods all over.

Video: https://youtu.be/QopPwlN68GQ
I could not have remained as calm with that guy. After saying all his BS to the women leading this effort... I would have just throat-punched him and fireman-carried his smelly ass out of the park. Kudos to those men for keeping their tempers in check. I probably would have done the same, btw. The throat punch is a nice afternoon daydream while watching that video, though.