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Title: Serle Lovell Chapman aka Rain Bear Stands Last, claims Romani, MMIW Filmmaker
Post by: Bahesmama on January 05, 2022, 01:20:29 am
Recently profiled in this article:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/filmmaker-inspiring-change-through-documentaries-on-missing-murdered-indigenous-women-and-girls/ar-AASoON0?ocid=hplocalnews&fbclid=IwAR35vQwsB4A_dVVpk0cWtTEdm9bzZKXhVcHTDDf2NEo3MU58irzK-LuwjAE

Claims on his website to be:

Rain Bear Stands Last

Rain is the director of the trending documentary Somebody’s Daughter which focuses on the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women (MMIW) crisis. One review describes the film as “among the most important documentaries made on not only MMIW, but also on Indian Country in the twenty-first century.” His previous film, Not In Our Name, had the distinction of being entered into the Congressional record at a House Natural Resources Committee hearing in May 2019. Rain is a member of the Strange Owl family from Birney and Lame Deer, Montana. He is also Romani and is often listed among “notable Romani people.”

https://www.houseofthemoon.org/presenters-1/rain-bear-stands-last-
Title: Re: Serle Lovell Chapman aka Rain Bear Stands Last, claims Romani, MMIW Filmmaker
Post by: Bahesmama on January 05, 2022, 08:21:35 am
The shameless self-promotion on the Somebody's Daughter website. Nuts!

https://www.somebodysdaughter.com/rain
Title: Re: Serle Lovell Chapman aka Rain Bear Stands Last, claims Romani, MMIW Filmmaker
Post by: Diana on January 05, 2022, 06:47:51 pm
Yeah, who is this Rain person? I saw him on the Dr. Phil when they did a show called Missing and Murdering Montana. S20 E40. He was on there and seemed to dominate the conversation. He claimed to be Tribal and from the Romany Tribe..? that's what he called them. Even though he had blond hair and blue eyes. He came across as very strange and seemed to be trying to hide his identity with his big hat. I really couldn't see his face. He was dress kind of weird. Like he was at a circus. Anyway that's the impression I got. He was very out of place for something like that.

I tried to look him up after the show and couldn't find anything about him. What gives about this guy? And who is he and where does he come from? It's like he's a ghost. Why is this white guy attaching himself to this very devastating situation to Native Americans?
Title: Re: Serle Lovell Chapman aka Rain Bear Stands Last, claims Romani, MMIW Filmmaker
Post by: educatedindian on January 05, 2022, 09:24:48 pm
On several sites he describes himself as Romani, even wearing a t shirt saying Gypsy. Lame Deer is the Northern Cheyenne rez. Perhaps he married into them. Dressing up like Billy Jack is strange, though. Here he says he is Cheyenne and Arapaho also.
Title: Re: Serle Lovell Chapman aka Rain Bear Stands Last, claims Romani, MMIW Filmmaker
Post by: Diana on January 06, 2022, 04:43:20 pm
On several sites he describes himself as Romani, even wearing a t shirt saying Gypsy. Lame Deer is the Northern Cheyenne rez. Perhaps he married into them. Dressing up like Billy Jack is strange, though. Here he says he is Cheyenne and Arapaho also.

Hmmm, I'm not sure about that. From what little I could see of him on the Dr. Phil show, he wore a ton of eyeliner and mascara. He appeared very feminized.
Title: Re: Serle Lovell Chapman aka Rain Bear Stands Last, claims Romani, MMIW Filmmaker
Post by: cellophane on January 06, 2022, 07:05:47 pm
A Google search shows nothing of him under that name before 2014. In 2015 he appears as a co-founder of "Guardians of Our Ancestral Legacy" (GOAL).
https://wyofile.com/tribal-alliance-fights-to-maintain-yellowstone-grizzly-protections/

The webpage for goaltribal.org appears to empty throughout its existence, since 2014.
Title: Re: Serle Lovell Chapman aka Rain Bear Stands Last, claims Romani, MMIW Filmmaker
Post by: cellophane on January 07, 2022, 02:54:57 am
He also seems to be behind https://www.alter-nativemedia.com (unrelated to www.alter-native-media.com). More self-promotion. Most of the website is placeholder text. It promotes this book (with over the top testimonials):
https://www.alter-nativemedia.com/copy-of-psychopathogen
It gives a contact address as "Box 101, Billings".
Title: Re: Serle Lovell Chapman aka Rain Bear Stands Last, claims Romani, MMIW Filmmaker
Post by: cellophane on January 08, 2022, 03:18:56 am
GOAL, dedicated to protecting Grizzly bears, was founded by the late Don Shoulderblade, of the Northern Cheyenne, together with Rain:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/05/new-fire-in-the-battle-for-yellowstones-grizzly-bears/

Rain has referred to Don Shoulderblade as his uncle, for example here:
https://aplaceforgrizzlies.com/grizzlies-lost-a-champion-this-week/

Rain says that Don Shoulderblade has bestowed his own name on him:
https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/northern-cheyenne-sun-dance-priest-don-shoulderblade-leader-of-grizzly-bear-struggle-passes
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Uncle Don’s contributions will live on in the community, and his cultural knowledge will reverberate for generations,” film director Rain told Native News Online. Shoulderblade bestowed his traditional name, Náhk?xho’óxeóó’?stse (Bear Stands Last), upon the filmmaker when they worked side-by-side on the grizzly issue.

Rain is not among the list of nephews or other relatives in Shoulderblade's obituary:
https://stevensonfuneralhomes.com/obituaries/donald-shoulderblade-of-lame-deer/

I am allowing myself to guess that if Rain had biological Native American ancestry, he would have mentioned it. I hope someone more knowledgeable than me could explain if and how Rain might be acknowledged as a member of the Northern Cheyenne.
Title: Re: Serle Lovell Chapman aka Rain Bear Stands Last, claims Romani, MMIW Filmmaker
Post by: Smart Mule on January 09, 2022, 06:32:58 pm
I've been told this is him, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/dec/15/society (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/dec/15/society) Serle Chapman, a white guy from England who was "adopted".
Title: Re: Serle Lovell Chapman aka Rain Bear Stands Last, claims Romani, MMIW Filmmaker
Post by: educatedindian on January 10, 2022, 06:45:08 pm
Chapman looks much like RBSL. Here he claims Cheyenne descent.

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https://www.devanstuartlesley.com/touching-indian-ways
....His own forebears include legendary frontier scout Amos Chapman and Mary Chapman, also known as Long Neck Woman, the daughter of Southern Cheyenne Chief Sleeping Bear and adopted daughter of Chief Stone Calf.

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But here he claims adoption.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/dec/15/society
....For most of the year he lives near Bear Butte, the sacred mountain of the Cheyenne, and has an adoptive Cheyenne "mother", educator and campaigner Dr Henrietta Mann. But his accent has a mid-Atlantic twang, and he cheerfully admits that he was born and raised in West Yorkshire.

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Mann, to put it wildly, is very well known. Chapman's work would be very laudable. So would RBSL (if he's not the same person) if it weren't for the name and his cosplay causing some deliberate confusion. He (they?) aren't anything like the usual exploiters we look at. There is some self promotion getting in the way, drawing attention away from pretty damn important issues. But you can't point to direct profiting or harm as we're used to seeing.
Title: Re: Serle Lovell Chapman aka Rain Bear Stands Last, claims Romani, MMIW Filmmaker
Post by: Bahesmama on January 13, 2022, 04:36:16 pm
Yes, it appears Rain Bear Stands Last is Serle Lovell Chapman. Author of several books.

He goes from not claiming Native in a 2001 Guardian interview (he's from Yorkshire, England) to falsely claiming in his 2004 book on the Bozeman Trail to be of Cheyenne descent through a US army private in the Indian Wars. We have done his tree and he has no American ties. Strictly English with some Scottish and Irish ancestry.

I wonder if he went underground after he was accused by AIM of being a government informant in the trial of Richard Marshall for the murder of Anna Mae Aquash? (See here: https://www.lakotatimes.com/articles/is-aim-being-pushed-over-a-cliff/)

I heard his wife is also falsely claiming to be Alaskan Native. She is also from Yorkshire.
Title: Re: Serle Lovell Chapman aka Rain Bear Stands Last, claims Romani, MMIW Filmmaker
Post by: cellophane on January 17, 2022, 06:19:30 am
Bahesmama, is the Romani ancestry claim supported?

This article:
https://billingsgazette.com/news/features/magazine/author-photographer-documents-indian-culture/article_a17520f6-9f10-5eea-a625-f190b72d1a00.html

says, "His biological father, Thomas Howard Chapman, is a decorated World War II Air Force veteran, and his birth mother is Margaret Elizabeth, a member of the European Kalderas tribe." The Kalderash are a Roma subgroup.
Title: Re: Serle Lovell Chapman aka Rain Bear Stands Last, claims Romani, MMIW Filmmaker
Post by: Diana on January 18, 2022, 01:35:19 am
Cellophane,  you need to post the article. It won't let anyone read it unless you pay a subscription of $5.99. We always post the articles in full. A lot of times the links to the original article often disappear or are archived by the magazine, newspaper or author. This way we will always have them. Thanks 😊

Bahesmama, is the Romani ancestry claim supported?

This article:
https://billingsgazette.com/news/features/magazine/author-photographer-documents-indian-culture/article_a17520f6-9f10-5eea-a625-f190b72d1a00.html

says, "His biological father, Thomas Howard Chapman, is a decorated World War II Air Force veteran, and his birth mother is Margaret Elizabeth, a member of the European Kalderas tribe." The Kalderash are a Roma subgroup.
Recently profiled in this article:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/filmmaker-inspiring-change-through-documentaries-on-missing-murdered-indigenous-women-and-girls/ar-AASoON0?ocid=hplocalnews&fbclid=IwAR35vQwsB4A_dVVpk0cWtTEdm9bzZKXhVcHTDDf2NEo3MU58irzK-LuwjAE

Claims on his website to be:

Rain Bear Stands Last

Rain is the director of the trending documentary Somebody’s Daughter which focuses on the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women (MMIW) crisis. One review describes the film as “among the most important documentaries made on not only MMIW, but also on Indian Country in the twenty-first century.” His previous film, Not In Our Name, had the distinction of being entered into the Congressional record at a House Natural Resources Committee hearing in May 2019. Rain is a member of the Strange Owl family from Birney and Lame Deer, Montana. He is also Romani and is often listed among “notable Romani people.”

https://www.houseofthemoon.org/presenters-1/rain-bear-stands-last-
Title: Re: Serle Lovell Chapman aka Rain Bear Stands Last, claims Romani, MMIW Filmmaker
Post by: Laurel on January 18, 2022, 10:34:23 am
Here's the article text:

 Author/photographer documents Indian culture

 CHRISTENE MEYERS of the Gazette Staff Nov 16, 2002

 Author and photographer Serle Chapman has created a photographic homage to the Native American culture with two handsome and thought-provoking coffee-table books.

"We, the People" and "Of Earth and Elders" are two very different books with a common theme.

"Of Earth and Elders" has entered a second edition after five reprints.

The recently published "We, The People" is attracting attention for its gorgeous portraits and moving documentation of the contributions, hardship and triumph of native peoples.

From graceful young dancers to wrinkled and wise elders, from Oklahoma to Washington to an Alaskan village and the Flathead Reservation in Montana, Chapman and his tape recorder and camera have documented the frustrations, hopes, anger and insights of Indian people.

Many of his subjects have connections to Montana, either by birth or relatives or through visits on various circuits, including Writer's Voice.

Musician and poet Joy Harjo, for instance, played her saxophone, sang and lectured here. Artist Kevin Red Star maintains his gallery and family connections to Montana. With more than 35 years of experience in art, Red Star's observations represent the earnest and dedicated sense of survival inherent in much of the culture today.

Chapman captures that spirit, both in his portraits and his well-chosen quotations from both famous and little-known Native Americans.
Redstar

Red Star was born in Lodge Grass on the Crow Indian Reservation. He reflects on the artistry of his mother, a bead worker, whose beautiful designs on moccasins, vests and hair barrettes inspired his early-day drawing. His policeman-game warden dad was a moonlighting musician, who with his buddies formed a band called the Reservation Hot Shots.

In Chapman's book, Red Star recalls his dad and the guys "playing all those old Hank Williams honky-tonk and country songs … I was a young guy surrounded by music and art and that combination is still with me when I work."

The book is both a visual and literary assemblage of contemporary Native America, and the author lets the people take their own time, often getting close to the bone in their observations of broken treaties, lost land and life.

Chapman takes an unhurried look at dozens of Indian lives, from author Vine Deloria Jr. to activist Russell Means, tribal chairmen, composers, lawyers, actors, poets, educators, students, journalists, historians and more.
Find out more Kibler & Kirch Gallery, 2815 Second Ave. N., carries "We, The People" and "Of Earth and Elders," royalties of which support tribal colleges of the American Indian College Fund. Call 238-9955.

The Gallery also handles Kevin Red Star originals and prints. Both Red Star and writer Serle Chapman will be at the Dec. 6 Artwalk.

The books are published by Mountain Press of Missoula, 1-800-234-5308.

Whether Pulitzer Prize winner, descendant of a great chief, pageant-prize winner or college drop-out, the insights are thought-provoking, occasionally raw and sometimes troubling.

The diversity of his subjects immediately fascinates. Their observations range from blunt to eloquent, controversial and angry to touching.

The thoughts are as varied as insights into the family structure, the meaning of sacred dances, thoughts on war, observations about the corruption of the younger generation and cryptic criticism of the American obsession with money and profit at the expense of the planet.

"I feel that we will see a great resurgence of our people and I believe our spiritual struggle will prevail," writes Floyd Red Crow Westerman, an award-wining film actor, musician and activist.

He relates the Native Americans' struggle for spiritual and cultural survival to the need to preserve the land.

Their politics range from mildly conservative to militant, but there is a moving undertone of commitment to the culture.

Grace Thorpe reminisces about her father, the legendary athlete Jim Thorpe, and talks of her own efforts to fight the placement of nuclear waste on Indian land.

Chapman took three years to compile "We, The People."

He is a world traveler and adopted son of Cheyenne teacher Henrietta Mann, endowed chairman of Montana State University's Native Studies Department. His biological father, Thomas Howard Chapman, is a decorated World War II Air Force veteran, and his birth mother is Margaret Elizabeth, a member of the European Kalderas tribe.

The family traces its lineage from Europe to the Dakotas, and one of Serle's greatest influences was the late Dakota elder, Fern Eastman Mathias.

Based near Cody, Wyo., Chapman is recently back from Paris, where he finalized a contract for a French-language edition of "We, The People." That will be published in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Quebec and Africa.

"Of Earth and Elders" showcases more of Chapman's gorgeous photographs, but with the bonus of an originally conceived portfolio of animal photos - fox, bighorn sheep, moose, elk, bison, coyote and antelope. Christene Meyers may be reached at 657-1243 or at cmeyers@billingsgazette.com.
Title: Re: Serle Lovell Chapman aka Rain Bear Stands Last, claims Romani, MMIW Filmmaker
Post by: cellophane on January 20, 2022, 12:01:15 am
Thanks, Laurel, you beat me to it.
The article also has a photo of him seated in front of what seems to be a Northwest Coast totem pole:

(https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/billingsgazette.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/e/31/e3193e01-250b-538a-b119-44606efd30ae/e3193e01-250b-538a-b119-44606efd30ae.image.jpg)
Title: Re: Serle Lovell Chapman aka Rain Bear Stands Last, claims Romani, MMIW Filmmaker
Post by: Laurel on January 20, 2022, 09:30:54 am
Oh good! I disabled java to get the text, meaning I couldn't copy the photo.
Title: Re: Serle Lovell Chapman aka Rain Bear Stands Last, claims Romani, MMIW Filmmaker
Post by: Defend the Sacred on January 20, 2022, 08:27:15 pm
He has a business leading tours of Reservations and, if I'm reading this right, sacred sites, to anyone with the money to pay. The wording is careful, but it's clearly spiritual tourism and pay to pray is heavily implied.

https://www.yelp.com/biz/go-native-america-billings

https://www.gonativeamerica.com/

"What we do

We take you traveling like an insider with Native American guides, visiting the areas where tribal cultures were formed and history was made. You'll learn by experience - meeting Native people, hearing their stories as handed down through generations and witnessing true tribal lifeways.
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How we do it

By curating special journeys based on connections . . .

meet Medicine people, powwow dancers, storykeepers, culture-holders tribal historians and dreamers.  We offer you the chance to immerse yourself in the indigenous philosophy embodied by "Mitakuye Oyasin" - All My Relations.

?Where you will go

You will visit reservations, cultural sites, historic hotspots and original homelands that are now designated as National Parks. It's a unique chance to visit places that hold tribal stories - the secrets that most tourists miss.

Why it works

. . . because we create the connections you can’t make for yourself.

People travel with us because they want to go places they can’t access alone, meet people they would never otherwise meet, and get an insider’s understanding of cultural, historic or spiritual matters that's off limits to the average tourist."
Title: Re: Serle Lovell Chapman aka Rain Bear Stands Last, claims Romani, MMIW Filmmaker
Post by: Bahesmama on January 21, 2022, 09:04:07 pm
A Google search shows nothing of him under that name before 2014. In 2015 he appears as a co-founder of "Guardians of Our Ancestral Legacy" (GOAL).
https://wyofile.com/tribal-alliance-fights-to-maintain-yellowstone-grizzly-protections/

The webpage for goaltribal.org appears to empty throughout its existence, since 2014.

Yes, we found that his real name is Serle Lovell Chapman, an Englishman from Yorkshire. Also, his Romani claims appear suspect. We did his family tree and had a Romani researcher look at it and no dice.
Title: Re: Serle Lovell Chapman aka Rain Bear Stands Last, claims Romani, MMIW Filmmaker
Post by: educatedindian on January 22, 2022, 02:54:15 pm
He has a business leading tours of Reservations and, if I'm reading this right, sacred sites, to anyone with the money to pay. The wording is careful, but it's clearly spiritual tourism and pay to pray is heavily implied.

https://www.yelp.com/biz/go-native-america-billings

https://www.gonativeamerica.com/


At "Our Ethics." Bolding is mine.

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Perpetual questions: Can I go in a sweat lodge, can I participate in a Sundance? Can I do a vision quest? And ironically folks often cite the desire to adhere to tradition and etiquette which leads them on their own personal Red Road.

Go Native America is not part of the tribal warrior societies that have the burden of ‘policing’ these kinds of ceremonial abrogation, and the arduous responsibility of stopping bogus ceremonies is not ours to shoulder. However in support of the wishes of Elders and ceremonial people across the continent, let’s be clear that no-one on an Go Native America journey will ever participate in ceremony of any kind as part of their tour with us.
 
Think of it like this: Meaningful, traditional and powerful ceremonies were given by the Creator to particular Peoples, and are their responsibility to conduct.

Ceremonies take time, understanding and long-term preparation. 

They are NEVER a vacation activity.

Anyone who is telling you otherwise is not being fair to you, or to the indigenous people to whom the right and responsibility to fulfill those ceremonies was given.
Title: Re: Serle Lovell Chapman aka Rain Bear Stands Last, claims Romani, MMIW Filmmaker
Post by: RedRightHand on July 01, 2022, 08:59:55 pm
"Our Ethics."

Lots of exploiters are smart enough to include these disclaimers in the fine print. Whereas on the first page, all the text about access to "secrets" and "authentic lifeways" is what is featured. The guy is a chronic liar. I believe what's on the front page. He's making a living misrepresenting himself. Though on the Yelp reviews it seems people who've signed up for tours have been ripped off and ghosted, so, I guess there's that.
Title: Re: Serle Lovell Chapman aka Rain Bear Stands Last, claims Romani, MMIW Filmmaker
Post by: Sparks on July 02, 2022, 12:17:29 am
Serle Chapman has been mentioned once before in the forum, in this thread:

http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=858.0
[Arkansas Event: Sequoyah Research Center Symposium]

Serle Chapman (Cheyenne) “Whining Cheyenne Racists and Why Native People ‘Have No Understanding’ of their Noble Ancestors."
Title: Re: Serle Lovell Chapman aka Rain Bear Stands Last, claims Romani, MMIW Filmmaker
Post by: ska on July 04, 2022, 05:03:35 am
"Pretendian Country Today" is a subscription portion of Indianz.com - they are featuring an expose on ". . . two Pretendian figures — Rain aka Rain Bear Stands Last aka Serle Chapman aka Serle Lovell Chapman and Sara Atiqtalik aka Sarah Ann Gilbertson aka Sarah Mathuin aka Sarah Anna Mathuin aka Sara Anna Mathuin aka Sarah Chapman — and their fascinating journey from the United Kingdom and into Indian Country, all with the help of the U.S. Department of Justice and tribal and taxpayer dollars . . ."

ska
Title: Re: Serle Lovell Chapman aka Rain Bear Stands Last, claims Romani, MMIW Filmmaker
Post by: Sparks on July 04, 2022, 03:25:57 pm
"Pretendian Country Today" is a subscription portion of Indianz.com - they are featuring an expose on "… two Pretendian figures …".

https://indianz.substack.com/p/from-cheyenne-royalty-to-federal

Part of it is visible to non-subscribers. Two photos and several links in there:

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From Cheyenne royalty to federal informant to 'tribal member'

Or, how to exploit #MMIW for financial gain

This is the first part of a Pretendian Country Today series into Rain Bear Stands Last. It’s gonna be long!

The Indian internet lit up on the afternoon of Friday, July 1, 2022. And it wasn’t because y’all were getting ready for the Fourth of July — powwows, fireworks and all.

Instead it was an episode of Dr. Phil that got people talking. A rerun — no less — of a show that originally aired in November 2021, during National Native American Heritage Month.

But with Indians watching TV at home (or maybe watching at work? no judgment here!), this replay of a program about the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women started making the rounds, with many seeing it for the first time.

Well that means it’s time for Pretendian Country Today to spill the tea about a “tribal filmmaker” and his spouse, both of whom played a role in getting one of the biggest shows on the air to focus on an issue that Indian Country has been talking about since the dawn of colonization on Turtle Island.

So if you want to learn more about two Pretendian figures — Rain aka Rain Bear Stands Last aka Serle Chapman aka Serle Lovell Chapman and Sara Atiqtalik aka Sarah Ann Gilbertson aka Sarah Mathuin aka Sarah Anna Mathuin aka Sara Anna Mathuin aka Sarah Chapman — and their fascinating journey from the United Kingdom and into Indian Country, all with the help of the U.S. Department of Justice and tribal and taxpayer dollars, you’re gonna have to keep scrolling.

Paid subscribers only!
Title: Re: Serle Lovell Chapman aka Rain Bear Stands Last, claims Romani, MMIW Filmmaker
Post by: cellophane on July 08, 2022, 01:29:31 am
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Sara Atiqtalik aka Sarah Ann Gilbertson aka Sarah Mathuin aka Sarah Anna Mathuin aka Sara Anna Mathuin aka Sarah Chapman

Who is she? Serle's collaborator? Wife?
Title: Re: Serle Lovell Chapman aka Rain Bear Stands Last, claims Romani, MMIW Filmmaker
Post by: Sparks on July 09, 2022, 01:10:47 am
Quote from:
https://indianz.substack.com/p/from-cheyenne-royalty-to-federal
Sara Atiqtalik aka Sarah Ann Gilbertson aka Sarah Mathuin aka Sarah Anna Mathuin aka Sara Anna Mathuin aka Sarah Chapman

Who is she? Serle's collaborator? Wife?

His wife, if we are to believe this 2009 CNN Money article:

Quote from: https://money.cnn.com/2009/01/06/smallbusiness/tribal_travel.fsb/index.htm
The drawings come alive as Chapman, who owns GNA with his wife, Sarah, tells a creation story.

Also mentioned at the bottom of this 2006 book review:

Quote from: https://friendslittlebighorn.com/promisebozemanstrail.htm
Webmaster's Note: Promise was awarded the Wyoming State Historical Society prize for history writing in 2006. Mr. Chapman, along with his wife Sarah, runs Go Native America, which provides an incredible assortment of tours to historical places in the American West. I had the opportunity to spend a day with Mr. Chapman in early November 2006. He graciously led me across eastern Wyoming, and north of the Black Hills to places of historical significance for the Cheyenne and Lakota. Mr. Chapman is a great storyteller; he is a modern-day oral historian, and anyone lucky enough to take a tour of the west with him via Go Native America is fortunate.

Some boldings mine. Go Native America (GNA): https://www.gonativeamerica.com
Title: Re: Serle Lovell Chapman aka Rain Bear Stands Last, claims Romani, MMIW Filmmaker
Post by: cellophane on July 09, 2022, 04:19:37 am
Looks like the two of them used to run Indian tours while they were still living in the U.S.
Both Sarah Ann Gilbertson and Serle Lovell Chapman are listed as directors of Bear Print International, Limited, Unit 3 Chapel Mews, Grange Moor, Wakefield WF4 4EG, West Yorkshire, from 9/23/1997 to 10/3/2006:
https://www.companieslist.co.uk/03438317-bear-print-international-limited

The company is described in this 2013 "Alternative Travel" guidebook:
https://books.google.com/books?id=7W5TAQAAQBAJ&lpg=PA71&pg=PA71
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Bear Print International
Tours to Native American lands and communities run with tribal leaders and Native American educators and cultural representatives. Tours aim to give a real insight into the history and lives of Native Americans, rather than the tourist stereotypes. Trips to different regions and tribes including the Navajo, Lakota (Sioux), Cheyenne and Blackfeet. Bear Print also publishes The Trail of Many Spirits by Serle Chapman, about the history and contemporary culture of Native America.

PO Box 1, Wakefield, West Yorkshire WF4 4YB

I'd be curious to know how she picked an Inuit name. Perhaps the Indianz.com article has more details.
Title: Re: Serle Lovell Chapman aka Rain Bear Stands Last and wife Sara(h)
Post by: Sparks on July 09, 2022, 02:24:10 pm
I'd be curious to know how she picked an Inuit name. Perhaps the Indianz.com article has more details.

I found this July 4 (2022) article: https://indianz.substack.com/p/famous-last-words-rain-bear-stands-last

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‘If you deny a people their identity…’
Famous last words from Rain Bear Stands Last [Indianz.Com Jul 4]

If you haven’t checked out the latest Substack on Pretendian Country Today, you’re missing out on quite the tale, as Rain Bear Stands Last and his wife Sara Atiqtalik (these names are inventions, btw) just might be the first Pretendian figures to have originated from the United Kingdom.

They also appear to be the first Pretendian characters whose grift was aided and abetted by the U.S. government! We’re calling it the Pretendian Witness Protection Program (tm).

Sadly, though, Rain’s tactics, along with those of his wife, are the same as Pretendians who are born and bred on Turtle Island. Expect trauma-dumping, guilt-tripping and plenty of applications for COVID-19 relief as Pretendian Country Today spills the tea on this British couple in an ongoing series.

Still, few in the Pretendian game have leveled up as strongly as Rain, who managed to convince Dr. Phil and his television program that he is a “tribal filmmaker” and a “Roma tribal member.” Quite the feat — duping one of Oprah Winfrey’s protégés.

But all Pretendian figures tell on themselves in one fashion or another. And Rain did the same when Dr. Phil asked why no one seems to care when actual American Indian and Alaska Native people go missing and murdered.

“If you deny a people their identity,” Rain told Dr. Phil, “they become invisible.”

Clips from the Dr. Phil episode titled “Missing and Murdered in Montana” below.

Boldings in the original text. The two phrases in italics are clickable links there.

I cannot access anything at www.drphil.com/ (http://www.drphil.com/) (Error 405 Not allowed), but I can watch the three videos at YouTube.

Googling "Sara Atiqtalik" gives some interesting links. I will revert about them.
Title: Serle Lovell Chapman aka Rain Bear Stands Last, claims Romani, MMIW Filmmaker
Post by: Sparks on July 10, 2022, 12:52:16 am
I found this July 4 (2022) article: https://indianz.substack.com/p/famous-last-words-rain-bear-stands-last

At the top of the article there is a 59 seconds long video from the Dr. Phil show. Here Serle Chapman is introduced as "Rain — ROMA TRIBAL MEMBER" and "Rain — EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR - GLOBAL INDIGENOUS COUNCIL".

According to Google, Serle Chapman is the one and only "ROMA TRIBAL MEMBER" on the entire visible Internet. As for that other entity (not mentioned before here in the NAFPS forum) there is a lot to be found. Here are a few top hits:

https://www.globalindigenouscouncil.com/homepage
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The Global Indigenous Council (GIC)

"Founded by a resolution of the Great Plains Tribal Chairman’s Association, the Global Indigenous Council (GIC) has members from the Americas to Australasia. It has published a manifesto, provided testimony to the US Senate, contributed to the acclaimed documentary Remaking the Sacred Hoop, presented official declarations on behalf of 130 tribes to the State of Wyoming opposing its trophy hunt of the sacred grizzly bear, and has formulated a now operational ID card 'to provide primary tribal and sovereign status to tribes and those tribal people with no nation, state, territorial or provincial official identification of standing.'

As stated in founding GIC resolutions: 'Many tribes outside of North America do not have the legal standing afforded by treaties with colonial, nation-states. As a result, the sovereignty of those tribes is consistently threatened, and the rights of those tribal citizens are routinely undermined or ignored, due to a lack of documented legal status.'"

NATIVE NEWS ONLINE [https://nativenewsonline.net/ (https://nativenewsonline.net/)]

Current and Urgent Work:
In conjunction with the Rocky Mountain Tribal Leaders Council and the Great Plains Tribal Chairmans Association, GIC is implementing Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women (#MMIW) initiatives to counter the endemic devastation being wrought on our communities by murders and assaults on Native women, children, and two-spirit people.  We are currently engaged with lawmakers in the US Congress and Senate to deliver bi-partisan legislation to fight this onslaught against our lifegivers, youth and children.

https://www.globalindigenouscouncil.com/
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STATEMENT BY RAIN
Periodically, allegations are made against people who work in or with the Tribal community. Some arise from rumor and innuendo, some from a lack of clarity or misrepresentation in reports, some from genuine confusion, and some from tabloid sensationalism and worse.  It has come to my attention that I am now the subject of such, joining the likes of Suzan Shown Harjo (Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient), Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Sovereign Bodies Institute founder Annita Lucchesi, Johnny Depp, and hundreds of others on a so-called “list” that is described as being constructed from the “use of lateral violence, colonial trauma, and colonial recognition as weaponized structures.”  Should you have any interest in this gibberish, the central “claims” being made about me are addressed in the affidavits and statements that can be read in full on this page.

Thanks for visiting the site. Now I’m going back to work.

https://www.indigenouswatchdog.org/background-content/theme/indigenous-alliances/environment/
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January 1, 2018  — Global Indigenous Council
“Founded by a resolution of the Great Plains Tribal Chairman’s Association, the Global Indigenous Council (GIC) has members from the Americas to Australasia.
“GIC’s mission includes membership, representation and participation for all tribal nations in the four hemispheres. The challenges, crises, and legacy of colonial conquest are not unique to the Americas. Throughout Europe, Africa, Asia, Australasia and Oceania, the experience of indigenous peoples replicates ours.

A purpose of GIC is to bring unity, re-establish ancient relationships, develop new alliances, exchange knowledge, and find commonality in our shared purpose of vision and strength for our future generations.”

Great Plains Tribal Chairman’s Association Resolution. January 2018. https://www.globalindigenouscouncil.com/ (https://www.globalindigenouscouncil.com/)

Global Indigenous Council's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7qk5DjyBNZifNY_Mr0qiQw

Global Indigenous Council's Twitter Account: https://twitter.com/globalindigeno1

Global Indigenous Council's Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/globalindigenouscouncil

On several sites he describes himself as Romani, even wearing a t shirt saying Gypsy.

Photo of that here: https://speakforwolves.org/conference/2021-program/rain-bear-stands-last-filmmaker-global-indigenous-council/
Title: Re: Serle Lovell Chapman aka Rain Bear Stands Last — and wife Sara Atiqtalik
Post by: Sparks on July 10, 2022, 01:33:25 am
Googling "Sara Atiqtalik" gives some interesting links. I will revert about them.

Sara Atiqtalik at Linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sara-atiqtalik-45bb151a3?original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F
"Sara Atiqtalik — National Coordinator at Alter-Native Media - Billings, Montana, United States".

Sara Atiqtalik at Quora: https://www.quora.com/profile/Sara-Atiqtalik

Sara Atiqtalik mentioned as 'spokeswoman' or 'GOAL Tribal Coalition’s national coordinator'; etc., in all these articles:

https://news.yahoo.com/yellowstone-area-grizzlies-no-longer-protection-u-says-120328825.html
https://www.outdoornews.com/2015/05/18/grizzly-bear-czar-taken-to-task-by-western-tribal-leaders/
https://www.indianz.com/News/2015/017198.asp
https://wyofile.com/tribal-alliance-fights-to-maintain-yellowstone-grizzly-protections/
https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/wildlife/montana-wyoming-tribes-formally-oppose-grizzly-bear-delisting/article_67f9dc10-9860-11e4-b5e5-4f3c6ea3a637.html

Article by Sara Atiqtalik (Censored News): https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2015_05_09_archive.html

Facebook Profile: https://www.facebook.com/sara.atiqtalik.5 [Sara Atiqtalik (Sara)]

I found posts by that profile in these two groups:
https://www.facebook.com/MMNAWM/  [Missing and Murdered Native Americans]
https://www.facebook.com/hopirelief/  [Hopi Relief]  (See also: https://hopirelief.org/ (https://hopirelief.org/))

https://www.facebook.com/MMNAWM/posts/786278532016920
https://www.facebook.com/hopirelief/posts/hello-everybody-wanted-to-let-you-know-about-this-opportunity-no-acting-experien/546687027049698/
Title: Re: Serle Lovell Chapman aka Rain Bear Stands Last, claims Romani, MMIW Filmmaker
Post by: cellophane on July 10, 2022, 06:17:06 am
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Sara Atiqtalik aka Sarah Ann Gilbertson aka Sarah Mathuin aka Sarah Anna Mathuin aka Sara Anna Mathuin aka Sarah Chapman

Mathúin is Irish for 'bear', and atiqtalik is eastern Inuktitut for 'polar bear with cubs'. I guess these guys really like bears, as well as having various ethnic identities.