NAFPS Forum
General => Frauds => Topic started by: Ganieda on May 19, 2006, 12:49:34 pm
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Who is drummaker2000 ?
I received the following announcement in one of my groups....
SHARED VISIONS 2000 Invites you to a Native American Drummaking Weekend in a 25 acre woodland.
Lenwade, Norfolk
June 10 /11 June 24 / 25
for full details contact sharedvisions2000@hotmail.com or
07910244462
is he legit?
The only references I could find to "Shared Visions", mentioning anything about workshops, were cached pages....the site seems to be missing. ? The cached pages mention the name D.Stevens
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:VrNTIIalLUYJ:sharedvisions2000.co.uk/drumbookfrm.htm+%22SHARED+VISIONS%22+drum&hl=en&gl=ca&ct=clnk&cd=2
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:JFqFU4j3RKsJ:sharedvisions2000.co.uk/home.html+%22SHARED+VISIONS%22+drum&hl=en&gl=ca&ct=clnk&cd=1
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No, of course he's not a legitimate Indian spiritual leader, if that's what you mean: nobody who does that sort of thing is. His name's Jon or John Stevens: he's a British guy cashing in on having once met a couple of Navajos (http://www.spiritualdawn.com/Journey%20into%20Shamanics.htm) while on a trip to America to find himself among the Indians. He is a disciple of the late fraud Kenneth Meadows and his still-living wife Beryl.
He claims to have 'a great love for the peoples, their crafts and their culture (http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/sharedvisions2000/index.html)', but will sell you a 'vision quest (http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/sharedvisions2000/quest.html)' or a 'medicine bag (http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/sharedvisions2000/Medicine.html)'.
Stevens seems to think himself knowledgable about 'the Indian and their culture' (http://www.spiritualdawn.com/A%20Simple%20Start%20to%20Shamanics.htm). See also his encyclopaedic pages on 'legends' (http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/sharedvisions2000/Legends.html) and 'history' (http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/sharedvisions2000/History.html).
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Oh yuck. He has an association with Ken Meadows. I have a friend who "studied" with Meadows. She said he was not a nice man. He is arrogant and abusive.
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Not any more, he's not! But now we have to deal with all the mini-Meadows he produced.
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So, then, is anyone doing anything about these planned
Native American Drummaking Weekend
? ??
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I don't know. Why not see if there's one nearer to you than England and leaflet it?
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admits he not native but he makin loadsa money out of native crafts wonder if he givin any back
http://www.sharedvisions.co.uk/
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Doubt it. Very much, and I have never heard of any Plains Indian Arts Foundation. Just another jump on the band wagon rip off merchant. I will contact him and see what he has to say
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He mentions working with and being a follower of Kenneth Meadows. Meadows was an exploiter, a British man selling knockoffs of Lakota ceremony.