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Lorain Fox Davis (LFD): My path spans both Native American and Tibetan spirituality. On my mother’s side, I’m Cree from Canada and Blackfeet from Montana. I studied for many years with a traditional Lakota teacher, Irma Bear Stops. While it is rare for women to sun dance, Irma was a very respected sun dancer. Although I wasn’t Lakota, she introduced me to Lakota spirituality, and I was honored to dance by her side for seven years at Pine Ridge, South Dakota. My husband and our oldest son also danced there. My son and one of our daughters have returned to our Blackfeet ways, and they sun dance in Montana.

I was introduced to Tibetan Buddhism over 30 years ago, and my primary Tibetan Buddhist teacher is Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, who married my husband and me when he came to Crestone, Colorado, in 1981.

For me, the sweat lodge, or stone people’s lodge, is a bit like the Tibetan Buddhist mandala.

The Sun Dance of the Plains Indians is the center of our spiritual traditions.

Lorain Fox Davis, is an elder in the Cree/ Blackfeet (Blackfoot) lineage.

She was born in 1938, in Browning MT.

She has 7 children and 22 grandchildren and lives with her husband David, in Lakewood, CO.

Scott is survived by his mother, Pamela Hanson; and sister, Leah Yellowbird; aunt, Nancy (Howard) Francis; uncles, Billy (Barb) Hanson, Maurice (Julie) Titus, and Mike (Myrna) Hanson; and cousin, Adam Hanson.

The intention of the law is to not mislead the consumer and take economic growth away from native communities.

False advertising without a single sale is prohibited.

If you violate the Act, you face up to $500,000 in fines or 5 years in prison. If a business knowingly violates the Act, they face civil penalties or fines up to $1,000,000.

As a consumer, it is important to think critically about items when purchasing them. Instead of supporting a native artist or community, without due diligence you may be causing harm.

I started a Talk page on her Wikipedia entry, looks like they won't update with a correction. Genealogy records won't work.

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Then it looks like it's updated as much as it can be, pending a reliable source that specifically details the fact that she traded on a false identity to aid her career. As it reads right now, the article does confirm that she was not in fact of Native descent, but it doesn't really say much about her use of the false identity. I think that deserves a mention, but we need a reliable source.

Read full discussion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Gail_Tremblay

The last video interview Gail Tremblay made before she died has been removed. https://daybreakstarradio.com/2022/12/gail-tremblay-interview/ I believe they were contacted by IACA tasked agents who informed them. In the Daybreak Star interview she was specifically asked if she was enrolled in a federally recognized tribe, she responded that she was.

Some museums have updated attribution http://portlandartmuseum.us/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=6661;type=701 but I've not found any authoritative source that affirmatively states that Gail Tremblay's claims were fraudulent. Nothing that Wikipedia will accept.

From what I see online, almost all bios are inaccurate.

Wikipedia would perhaps accept an affirmative statement from a Smithsonian, The Evergreen State College, Onondaga Tribe, DOJ .......... but I don't know that any of that will happen. I asked a federal agent if a public statement would be made, they replied one wouldn't be coming from them. So NAFPS may remain the only accurate discussion available online.

ARTSWA Washington State Arts Commission has clearly corrected the record on Gail Tremblay. … This is wonderful. I'm impressed.[…]
https://www.arts.wa.gov/artist-collection/?request=record;id=4806;type=701

Gail Tremblay (December 15, 1945 – May 3, 2023[2]) was an American writer and artist from Washington State. She is known for weaving baskets from film footage that depicts Native American people, such as Western movies and anthropological documentaries. She received a Washington State Governor's Arts and Heritage Award in 2001.[3]

Background
Tremblay was born on December 15, 1945, in Buffalo, New York.[1] She claimed her father was of Mi'kmaq and Onondaga ancestry,[2][4] and that her great-grandfather once lived in Kahnawake near Montreal, but she never offered any documentation of this.[5] Her father was Roland G. Tremblay (1917–2013), who was born in Somersworth, New Hampshire, to Peter Tremblay and Bernadette Demers Tremblay.[6]

I will be doing the first cogendered  drum making ceremony in January. This will be a weekend for both men and women to create and go through a process of ceremony on the land together.
Feel empowered through learning new skills, creating a new tool and a powerful ceremonial rite of passage.

Community sweat lodge, Inipi Ceremony at Ochre Creek Ranch
271 Kanervo Rd, Koah
This Sunday the 24th of November

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