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General => Research Needed => Topic started by: searching on November 10, 2008, 10:20:33 pm
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Does anyone know about Momfeather?
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Could you give us more information? Website? Location? Claimed Nation? Real name?
ETA: Is this who you mean?
http://www.manataka.org/page1562.html
http://friendsoftheindigenouselders.com/Board/Momfeather.html
http://migration.kentucky.gov/Newsroom/travel/momfeather.htm
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Yes that the person:
www.mantlerock.org
She claims to be Cherokee, Martha Erickson
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Name is Martha Erickson. Use to have ties to the "Southern Cherokee", but not sure which one, as they get around or did. Had ties to Warren "Redwing Ramey. who was also "Southern Cherokee" with a dash of nuage. Most of her website now are cooking or poetry.
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http://www.mantlerock.org/wisdom.asp
14th Annual Wisdom of the Elders
Oct. 3 - 5, 2008
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FACILITATORS:
Momfeather Erickson, Steve McCullough, and Bruce Hardwick
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FEES:
$150.00/person includes two nights’ use of Center space and all meals.
$100.00/person includes registration and meals only
$75.00/person for just Saturday with meals included
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Momfeather Erickson – Teachings from the Rainbow Prophecy
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Bruce Hardwick & Duane Kinnart - Fire Teachings and Sacred Songs
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Steve McCullough – Lakota Teachings
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Bob & Lee Nitsch – President and Program Coordinator, Seneca Indian Historical Society
Thread on Steve McCullough: http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=1245.0
Bob & Lee Nitsch: http://www.wolfclanteachinglodge.org/facilitators.html
Bruce Hardwick: http://www.soundhealing.com.au/SacredCeremoniesFrame.htm
...Bruce Hardwick, a Native American master of the Fire Ceremony tradition. ... In order to offer these ceremonies, this highly respected Shaman of the Ojibwa people will make a special journey from his home in Upper Michigan State bear country, on the Canadian border.
For many years Bruce has devoted his teachings to expanding the availability of traditionally exclusive cultural practices to uninitiated Native American men, women and children, and to all members of non-Indigenous societies. One very successful way in which he has achieved this is to teach all who wish to join together in playing the Big Drum. This art, in the past, has only been practised by initiated Native American men.
Bruce’s vision of creating ten Healing and Training Centres open to all comers, whatever their race or creed, is already being developed in the USA. His own home centre is named “4-All???. There is another Centre, “Sacred Waters???, in South Bend, Indiana, and two or three similar Centres to come in the USA. The remainder will be located in several other countries around the world.
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A person with the ID Momfeather joined a short time ago. Perhaps she'll give us her version and explain her involvement with ceremony sellers.
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The account was not activated within a reasonable time by the member clicking the link in the activation email that was sent, so I deleted it. No reason why this person shouldn't sign up again though.
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Momfeather claims Cherokee Heritage and helped form the Southern Band of Cherokee located in Mantle Rock, KY the last time I heard.
I've known many people with knowledge of/or ties to Momfeather. From the beginning, many expressed concerns over her legitimacy. Other friends/supporters started pulling away from her over questions of her "truths" and of her "agenda."
My own experience started out hopeful and warm and loving and respectful. After a couple years, I left with a sour taste in my mouth and the feeling I was screwed royally. But that is just my opinion; she may have 10 times as many supporters who back her 100%.
It was a great life lesson, though, and one which makes me appreciate this forum for the intent behind it.
Momfeather seems a lovely and sweet grandmotherly woman and may be everything she says she is. I wish her well.
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http://www.mantlerock.org/Home_Page.html
Registration form
http://www.mantlerock.org/uploads/15thAnnualWisdomOfTheEldersInsertFall10.pdf
FACILITATORS: Momfeather Erickson, Steve McCullough, and Bruce Hardwick
DATE AND TIMES:
FRIDAY, October 1, 2010 Arrival - 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. - Program from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
*PLEASE do not arrive before 4:00 p. m. Friday afternoon as people will be preparing the center.
SATURDAY, October 2, 2010 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. – Seminars and programs go all day and night.
SUNDAY, October 3, 2010 Sunday program from 8:00 a.m.- 10:00am - Sacred Water Ceremony
FEES: $125.00 per person includes registration and meals only
$100.00 per person for just Saturday with meals included .
*Let us know if you have any dietary needs.
REGISTRATION EVERYONE MUST REGISTER to attend this weekend. This is a fund raiser for the center as well as a gathering. Walk-in registrations are welcome, but you must call in advance for the purpose of food.
Contact: Dan Creely, Jr. at d-creely@neiu.edu or (773)442-5564.
SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKERS:
Tony Calabrese – Keeper of the Sacred Cave and Medicine Wheel Teachings
Momfeather Erickson – Teachings from the Rainbow Prophecy
Bruce Hardwick & Duane Kinnart - Fire Teachings and Sacred Songs
Jim Yellow Horse Man – Peace Elder and Medicine Teachings from the Heart
Steve McCullough – Lakota Teachings
Ohsamin Judy Meister – Elder of the Miniss Kitigan Band of the Ojibway (Grandmother Kee)
Magdala & Mario Ramirez – The Return of the Feminine Energy to the Earth
Dan Raven – Sacred Geometry and Walking the Labyrinth for World Peace
John Sweeney – Teachings of the Tong Ren (the role of consciousness in healing)
Ann Wells – The Peruvian Despacho Fire Ceremony
This is under programs
The Ceremonial Grounds
* Sacred Fire Circle with Grandmother Cedar Trees
* Apacheta
* Lakota Sweat Lodge
* Peace Pole & a Labyrinth
Link to Marty"Soaring Eagle" Martin and his cherokee tribe of ky. Has his hand one way or another in about everything going on in Ky
http://www.winterstubes.com/tribal2.html
http://www.martysoaringeagle.com/
References: Linda Dishon, Red Crow Indian Council: 502-543-8582 email ewasee@cs.com
Ken Phillips, Kentucky Native American Heritage Museum:606-528-6342 or 606-526-5635 email sioux80@msn.com
Momfeather Erickson, Mantle Rock Native Education & Cultural Center 270-704-1913 email: mantlerockctr@aol.com or momfeathr@aol.com
Jim Harris, SkyHawk Drum: 513-625-2669 or 513-315-8281
Has Ken Phillips as a Reference
good refernce http://thetimestribune.com/local/x1065252130/Club-busted-for-bootlegging
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Wow...you should copy and repost this to the Steve McCullough thread.
Superdog
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It's disturbing that a university would sponsor ceremony selling, and that the person selling sweats is likely McCullough. Contact information for that program is here.
http://www.neiu.edu/~team/contact.htm
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The reason first Nations people don't want to participate in Interfaith celebrations? Because they always reach out to the frauds.
Please call these people and tell them Mom Feather and McCullough are frauds. How ridiculous!! Mom Feather another one of these fools tried to start her tribe.
Native American Community
Soil Blessing
5 to 6p, Brown-Forman
Amphitheatre,Waterfront Park,
The Circle of Indigenous Spirit Women
offer prayers and a community ceremony.
Participants include Martha “Momfeather”
Kaelbli Erickson, founder and Executive
Director of the Mantle Rock Native Education
and Cultural Center in Marion; Steve
McCullough, “Chief Red Spider” of the Salt
Creek Sundance, a medicine man who travels
the world performing Native American
spiritual ceremonies; and Native American
and Kentuckian Sarah Elizabeth Burkey a
singer, song-writer and musician. Native
American ceremonial drumming provided by
the Kentucky-based “Istayapi.” Please bring a
handful of soil collected locally or from around
the world to offer as part of this ritual.
For more information about the Festival of Faiths please contact
jacque@interfaithrelations.org
For information about the Center for Interfaith Relations please contact:
vicki@interfaithrelations.org
502.583.3100 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 502.583.3100 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
415 W. Muhammad Ali Blvd
Louisville, KY 40202
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I am unsure why someone who is selling ceremonies needs more research. She and McCullough are documented on numerous occasions selling spirituality? Am I wrong on this?
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Is that an owl feather fan she has? It might be red tailed hawk but looks like owl to me.
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It looks like this is the website for the group hosting this: http://www.festivaloffaiths.org/
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She was born Martha L Sparks. Some of her heritage claims:
when I was a very young girl, my grandmother who was Cherokee taught me to stick weave. My dad made my first sticks from hickory.
http://moonmaiden.hubpages.com/hub/Stick_Weaving_For_a_Quick_Homemade_Gift (http://moonmaiden.hubpages.com/hub/Stick_Weaving_For_a_Quick_Homemade_Gift)
Erickson, one-quarter Cherokee
http://migration.kentucky.gov/Newsroom/travel/momfeather.htm (http://migration.kentucky.gov/Newsroom/travel/momfeather.htm)
Erickson, one-half Cherokee
http://www.manataka.org/page1562.html (http://www.manataka.org/page1562.html)
Mom Feather's grandmother Sally Brown (a Medicine Woman like her mother before her)
http://books.google.com/books?id=_TtwKw8WvbEC&lpg=PA1&dq=mom%20feather%20%22sally%20brown%22&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q=mom%20feather%20%22sally%20brown%22&f=false (http://books.google.com/books?id=_TtwKw8WvbEC&lpg=PA1&dq=mom%20feather%20%22sally%20brown%22&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q=mom%20feather%20%22sally%20brown%22&f=false)
She posted this on a genealogy site:
Martha Sparks Kaelbli Erickson <Momfeathr@aol.com>
Date: 2007-11-21
Comments:
I have been working on our Sparks family since about 1993.
I have not had a lot of time lately but keep trying to find more. I would like to add to this...My grandfather was John Sparks, great grandfather Franklin Sparks, great great grandfather John G. Sparks, great great
great Issac Sparks, Jr. and great great great great Grandfather Issac Sparks. I do have an abundance of information on this side of the family. Back to the first tax records of Kentucky.
http://resources.rootsweb.com/~guestbook/cgi-bin/public_guestbook.cgi?gb=6579&action=view (http://resources.rootsweb.com/~guestbook/cgi-bin/public_guestbook.cgi?gb=6579&action=view)
I found obit of her father Stanley Sparks http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ERlBAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gagMAAAAIBAJ&dq=anna%20sparks%20kaelbli&pg=6067%2C414504
(http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ERlBAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gagMAAAAIBAJ&dq=anna%20sparks%20kaelbli&pg=6067%2C414504)
She does have a grandmother named Sally Brown, listed white in census, as were Sally's parents.
While working on her genealogy I discovered that Martha Sparks Kaelbli Erickson has already posted her genealogy on ancestry.com. She knows her heritage several generations back, she knows they are all white Kentucky folks.
Her husband is Dean E. Erickson, their two Marion, Kentucky non profit companies are MANTLE ROCK CHEROKEES, INC. and MANTLE ROCK NATIVE EDUCATION AND CULTURAL CENTER, INC.
Kentucky corporation searches http://www.sos.ky.gov/business/online/ (http://www.sos.ky.gov/business/online/)
A Leonard Soaring Eagle Martin is also active in both those corporations.
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As Feather's son in law let me clear so misconceptions up if I may. If you feared for your life because you knew first hand of the disappearances of Native American people during the trail of tears and were multiracial would you add your names to a government list and live on a reservation or would you hide and live as they did in the hills of eastern Kentucky? Martha's grandmother named her Feather and taught her the ways of her ancestors. Martha Sparks was one quarter Cherokee. The familes were not full blood for generations. But they never forgot what their grandmother taught them. Why do you think she and her children were
always mistaken for Cherokee on the reservations when they visited friends, if they are just common run of the mill white folks?
Walk in beauty,
Alex
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Martha "Momfeather" Kaelbli-Erickson
Sep 15, 1939 - Apr 8, 2017
Martha “Momfeather” (Sparks) Kaelbli-Erickson, 77, of Shepherdsville, KY, departed on her spiritual journey on Saturday April 8, 2017.. She was born on September 15, 1939 in Harlan County, KY to Stanley and Callie (Halcomb) Spar
http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=1234.msg43717#msg43717
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Martha "Momfeather" Kaelbli-Erickson
Sep 15, 1939 - Apr 8, 2017
Martha “Momfeather” (Sparks) Kaelbli-Erickson, 77, of Shepherdsville, KY, departed on her spiritual journey on Saturday April 8, 2017.. She was born on September 15, 1939 in Harlan County, KY to Stanley and Callie (Halcomb) Spar
http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=1234.msg43717#msg43717
The full text of that obituary, and more, can be read here:
http://www.maramanbillings.com/obituaries/Martha-Kaelbli-Erickson/
http://www.maramanbillings.com/obituaries/Martha-Kaelbli-Erickson/#!/Obituary
— The rest of the misplaced post partly quoted by Piff reads:
As Feather's son in law let me clear so misconceptions up if I may. If you feared for your life because you knew first hand of the disappearances of Native American people during the trail of tears and were multiracial would you add your names to a government list and live on a reservation or would you hide and live as they did in the hills of eastern Kentucky? Martha's grandmother named her Feather and taught her the ways of her ancestors. Martha Sparks was one quarter Cherokee. The familes were not full blood for generations. But they never forgot what their grandmother taught them. Why do you think she and her children were
always mistaken for Cherokee on the reservations when they visited friends, if they are just common run of the mill white folks?
Walk in beauty,
Alex
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— The rest of the misplaced post partly quoted by Piff reads:
The misplaced post has been moved into the present thread and is now located here:
http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=1995.msg43717#msg43717