Blue Panther,
He's from Alabama. ? Is a self-proclaimed keeper of Stories. ? Last week a friend invited two of my friends and me to her group. ? Blue Panther had joined and had been posting his collection of stories. ? Some of these did not go over well. ? They were very fraudulent. ? One of the members of this group is an apache and was very upset over the posting of stories this man said was apache and had very little resemblance to anything he'd been taught. ? One he called an apache story "Grandfather Stone".
Needless to say, we confronted him and asked him about where he had permission to do this. ? First he said he'd been taught by a cherokee elder woman in a medicine lodge in OK and she had given him his name and permission to tell the stories. ? LOL. ? My friend confronted him with the fact that he is a CNO member and no cherokee would give a person the name of blue anything. ? Then he denied it. ? He denied calling himself keeper of stories, but he had used that to sign his stories on the group and was BUSTED in a lie. ? He denied knowing anything about Manataka and his connection to them. ? BUSTED. ? We posted one of his stories from there with his little moniker of Blue Panther, Keeper of Stories. ?
Five years ago he asked someone’s advice about collecting stories. ? She is a Cherokee (member of CNO) and advised him against doing so. ? He has not gotten any permission from an elder of any federally recognized tribe to be posting any of the stories. ?
Five years ago this same woman met him and his live-in woman, Little Mother. ? She told she was Cherokee/Cree and had no upbringing with the Cherokee people and knew nothing of their ways. ? At that time, Mr. Stalvey told her he was not Cherokee. ?
We are putting the word out to everyone we know about Manataka and about this man. ?
Real name is David Stalvey. ? He also goes by the moniker of Climbing Bear. ? Just a few of his groups: Yahoo: Native_Playpen, ? Ucan Tribal web page, ? Native Village, ? First Nations Stories and Legends Archive and 4 MSN sites ? Keeper of Stories, Keeper of Stories 2, Remember The Cherokee/ Tsalagi, and
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