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Title: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Sizzle Flambé on August 02, 2009, 07:42:41 am
Joining you at Debbie's invitation, after tussling with Betsy Ashby in the Usenet newsgroup alt.native for a while.

I write poetry, and also have a programmer's habit of collecting an object library (using tinyurl.com to save message-ID mnemonics), which has been progressively awkward for Ms. Ashby:

<http://tinyurl.com/bashby2 (http://tinyurl.com/bashby2)>
<http://tinyurl.com/betsy-ashby (http://tinyurl.com/betsy-ashby)>
<http://tinyurl.com/betsy-ashby-1 (http://tinyurl.com/betsy-ashby-1)>
<http://tinyurl.com/betsy-ashby-2 (http://tinyurl.com/betsy-ashby-2)>
<http://tinyurl.com/betsy-ashby-genocide (http://tinyurl.com/betsy-ashby-genocide)>
<http://tinyurl.com/betsy-ashby-rulebreaker (http://tinyurl.com/betsy-ashby-rulebreaker)>
<http://tinyurl.com/betsy-ashby-bigot (http://tinyurl.com/betsy-ashby-bigot)>
<http://tinyurl.com/betsy-ashby-hypocrite (http://tinyurl.com/betsy-ashby-hypocrite)>
<http://tinyurl.com/betsy-ashby-diamonds (http://tinyurl.com/betsy-ashby-diamonds)>
<http://tinyurl.com/guardian-insults-hawaiians (http://tinyurl.com/guardian-insults-hawaiians)>

Ms. Ashby's heartless attacks on an elderly couple continued after the husband's sudden (and apparently self-inflicted) death, giving the new widow no peace to mourn. In this ghoulish malevolence she was joined by another woman, whom I also saluted in verse:

<http://tinyurl.com/malica-charnel-thread (http://tinyurl.com/malica-charnel-thread)>
<http://tinyurl.com/monica-charles-lies (http://tinyurl.com/monica-charles-lies)>
<http://tinyurl.com/monica-charles-1 (http://tinyurl.com/monica-charles-1)>
<http://tinyurl.com/monica-charles-2 (http://tinyurl.com/monica-charles-2)>
<http://tinyurl.com/monica-charles-3 (http://tinyurl.com/monica-charles-3)>
<http://tinyurl.com/monica-charles-4 (http://tinyurl.com/monica-charles-4)>

As this person has joined Ms. Ashby in attacking NAFPS & Dr. Carroll, I think you may be excused some schadenfreude in savoring these poems in return. Bon appétit!

P.S. I took the liberty of citing NAFPS among others at:
<http://tinyurl.com/culturevulturelinks1 (http://tinyurl.com/culturevulturelinks1)>
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Cetan on August 03, 2009, 04:27:41 pm
If you have some suspicion that someone may be a fraud or exploiter please give your evidence; if you just want to sling mud and insult a well known elder like Monica take it back to alt.native or go throw mud at indianz.combatzone
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Sizzle Flambé on August 03, 2009, 05:20:29 pm
As to Monica J. Charles' long history of dishonesty and disinformation, <http://tinyurl.com/monica-charles-lies (http://tinyurl.com/monica-charles-lies)> includes quotes-and-cites from News from Indian Country specifically about her to that effect.

The very next link, <http://tinyurl.com/monica-charles-1 (http://tinyurl.com/monica-charles-1)>, quotes-and-links-to her racist claim that "Indians are HUMAN BEINGS. Whites are not."

The subsequent links concern her paradoxically making common cause with Betsy Ashby, in order to "sic" that abusive white-supremacist on unenrolled fellow Indians with whom Monica had had a falling-out. The harassment included publishing home addresses, the fear of Ashby's supporters staging raids,... it's not pretty at all. One man died <http://tinyurl.com/obit-ray-w-wilson-jr (http://tinyurl.com/obit-ray-w-wilson-jr)> -- and Monica cruelly mocked his widow <http://tinyurl.com/why-malica-charnel (http://tinyurl.com/why-malica-charnel)>, but that doesn't impair your respect for her at all, does it now?
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Rattlebone on August 03, 2009, 06:50:38 pm

 I don't like Ashby, but all I see here is you words in those links for the most part, and little to none of her's.

 So was this thread you sharing your poetry about her??? That is all I see there, and I was hoping for more evidence of her foul behavior.
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Sizzle Flambé on August 03, 2009, 07:32:53 pm
"Bashby" is a poem, yes, and is not entered as "evidence". It presumes prior knowledge on the part of the reader.

My Usenet posts either (a) contain links you may follow, or (b) are in reply to earlier posts which you may see by clicking the thread title at the top. These are snapshots in the discussions, not webpages about the discussions, so they're not as self-contained with footnotes and all; you can follow the discussions "live", so to speak.
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Cetan on August 03, 2009, 08:26:41 pm
I didn not see anything in the links giving any evidence that Monica Charles is a fraud, and as far as being a supporter of John Graham, well no one will ever really know the truth of what happens and graham will not be standing trial. As far as her dilike and distrust of whites, that is probably based on a lifetime of experience and who cares (except maybe some white twinkies).
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Sizzle Flambé on August 03, 2009, 10:01:16 pm
Well, Cetan, I see you choose your words carefully. No, no evidence of Monica Charles being a fraud, because no-one's accusing her of that particular form of dishonesty. Other kinds, yes, like disinformation and malicious smear jobs, but not for personal financial gain. Again, the links and threads are there for all (with open eyes) to see.
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Cetan on August 04, 2009, 03:27:22 pm
This forum is for information about Frauds and those that sell ceremony, not to throw insults at those you dont like or agree with
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Sizzle Flambé on August 06, 2009, 06:01:14 am
Ah, so you're not aware of Betsy Ashby's history, her "Gathering of the Tribes (http://www.pagan.com/gathering/)" ceremony-selling festivals (a label taken from another group (http://dynionmwyn.net/plagerize9.html#THE%20GATHERING%20OF%20THE%20TRIBES)), her subsequent efforts to drive out of business the vendors who would not participate with her (http://tinyurl.com/tipi-diamondbrown), her attacks on Al Carroll as a fake Indian (http://tinyurl.com/mexican-is-a-race), and on NAFPS itself as a "white nationalist group" (https://groups.google.com/group/alt.native/msg/dcc22aa13fb736e4)?

And you're not aware that Monica Charles backs her play (http://groups.google.com/group/alt.native/msg/7b48989d7971741a)?
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Moma_porcupine on August 06, 2009, 12:56:56 pm
Hi Sizzle Flambe and welcome

I agree with you that there is many ways of being a fraud and an exploiter, and one of the ones we run into here a lot is people making a big show of going after people they label frauds, when they hypocritically support and defend other frauds and exploiters, who happen to fit with their own agenda. I also agree that it's good to encourage some critical examination of people who have a pattern of behaving like this

I'm sure you have seen I've already said a lot about Betsy in the enemies of NAFPS thread. I don't know the other person you mentioned in this thread and haven't had time to read through all the links you posted. 

But it gets tricky when people who seem to haver another agenda get the support and backing of some otherwise good Native people. If you try and discredit the people who support these people, a lot of people are going to get offended. It may be more effective to just focus on pointing out the facts, or how you see the main person who is creating the problems, showing how they seem to be talking out of both sides of their mouth, or being dishonest or otherwise is doing harm, and hope others make constructive choices in how they choose to interact with the main problem.

Just my 2 cents worth...
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Sizzle Flambé on August 06, 2009, 04:38:04 pm
It may be more effective to just focus on pointing out the facts, [...] showing how they seem to be talking out of both sides of their mouth, or being dishonest or otherwise is doing harm [...].

Yes, well, that's why I provided links.

If it would be better to provide some sourced quotes those links led to:

| Monica Charles ... becomes "a person of interest"
| and the focus of some investigators because of
| information and statements she posts on the internet
| that appear to be an intentional attempt to create
| confusion in the Aquash and Peltier cases, a commonly
| used tactic by AIM leaders or supporters over the
| years to mislead journalists and the public.

  -- News From Indian Country
     <http://tinyurl.com/annie-mae-timeline-iv-2 (http://tinyurl.com/annie-mae-timeline-iv-2)>

| [Monica] Charles emerges as one of the few and
| loudest supporters of John Graham in recent years,
| posting discredited and false information online
| and drawing the attention of defense attorneys
| and federal authorities.

  -- News From Indian Country
     <http://tinyurl.com/annie-mae-timeline-iii-3 (http://tinyurl.com/annie-mae-timeline-iii-3)>

"Indians are HUMAN BEINGS. Whites are not." -- Monica Charles,
<http://tinyurl.com/monica-says-whites-not-human (http://tinyurl.com/monica-says-whites-not-human)>

Her attacks on other people in alt.native... did you want me to
quote them at length here too? Can't people read them there?
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Cetan on August 06, 2009, 05:52:06 pm
 Monica Charles ... becomes "a person of interest"
| and the focus of some investigators because of
| information and statements she posts on the internet
| that appear to be an intentional attempt to create
| confusion in the Aquash and Peltier cases, a commonly
| used tactic by AIM leaders or supporters
over the
| years to mislead journalists and the public.
 
Nothing wrong with that, and as far as grahams case goes - well it was thrown out of court

As far as believing whites are not Human, everyone has a right to their own beliefs and looking at the history of white actions in this country, can you blame someone for thinking like that?
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Sizzle Flambé on August 06, 2009, 07:43:06 pm
Cetan: "Nothing wrong with that" ?

Nothing wrong with misleading journalists and the public ?

Nothing wrong with posting discredited and false information online ?

Nothing wrong with dehumanizing an entire large group of people based on their color ?

Okay, we're not on the same ethical channel here.
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Cetan on August 06, 2009, 11:32:10 pm
why is it that white people always get so upset when people don't like them?
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Sizzle Flambé on August 16, 2009, 11:13:18 pm
why is it that white people always get so upset when people don't like them?

Why do you assume it's only white people getting upset?

Here's Ben Carnes, Sun Dance* Chief of the Choctaw, rebuking Monica's anti-white racism:
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{Reformatted with cleanup from <http://groups.google.com/group/alt.native/msg/8b9508350ad8e819 (http://groups.google.com/group/alt.native/msg/8b9508350ad8e819)>}

From: "Ben_Carnes"  <mountain_homie@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups: alt.native
Subject: Monica. Words from the Brown Idiot
Date: 16 Aug 2006

Communicating through the internet really sucks. First, you don't get to hear the inflection of a person's voice. Second, you don't see the person's face. and Third, we are still strangers to each other.

I am Kitty's husband, the one you called a brown idiot.  You know whether I agreed with you or not, I personally supported your stand on principle for Johnm Boys Graham and Arlo.  My true opinion on the entire case of Annie Mae, is the M-----F---ing feds were behind it. I don't excuse the person who pulled the trigger, but until the feds are on trial for Annie Mae's murder, every so called evidence is suspect to me.  We may never know the truth.

But on the other hand the one truth that I do know, which I know that you don't know is that I fell in love with a woman who happens to be white and does know who all her blood ancestry is, and is pretty damn proud of who she is.  She has never claimed to be Indian.  I spoke with a Mohawk woman once who told me that what business is it of anyone else's if you fall in love.  The color of a person's skin shouldn't matter.  That came out of a discussion because another Mohawk woman made a comment, "What is a man of his stature doing marrying a woman like that".  That comment came from a mother of another Sundancer, but I am accustomed to racism from our own people, even when it sounds like Aryan Nation rhetoric or bullshit.  Am I weak because the Creator or God allows me to love one of his children?  Are you saying the Creator is wrong for allowing me to love someone and their daughter who respects our way of life?  Come on Monica, I didn't wake up one morning and decide I'm weak, I guess I'll go and find me a white woman.

You have no idea of what my life has been like, who I have been with, nor have you lived the experiences I have lived.  Yet, because I am with a white woman, I am a brown idiot. I can truly say that I am disappointed at what I consider a verbal affront through a public ng. I personally expected better of you. I know that you sometimes feel that you have to feel that you have to defend yourself from attacks, but I saw this as totally unnecessary. My wife was not attacking you, she only made a humourous remark to lighten the situation, and somehow I became a brown idiot.

When I met my wife, Kitty, I had pretty much gave up on any meaningful relationship with women.  I felt that my life was to be one of solitude, and working for the people.  If it meant that I may end up dying and never having children to carry on for me, then that is what I would do to honor the path the Creator had set for me.  Instead, we met and began a relationship. And Monica it hasn't been easy for her, because she is white.  But as I said, she knows who she is.  Look at it this way, say that if all you knew was that you were Indian, but didn't know what Nation you belonged to. Does that make you any less Native?

I am of the Choctaw Nation.  I traveled to Mississippi to the reserve there, and one of the Choctaw women asked me in our language if she was white. I said no, she is sicilian and Irish. I got an approving "Oh!" instead of a disapproving "Oh."  To me that just illustrates the stupidity of judging a person by the color of their skin.  I believe that we need to look what is in their hearts than the color of their skin.

In the practice of our spirituality, I have heard through the Lakota people that if you aren't of their blood, there are some ceremonies that non-Lakotas won't be able to perform.  So does that mean the Creator is a racist?  Is that also to imply that the white people are a mistake of the Creator?

When my wife first met me, she did not know that I was a ceremonial leader, mainly because I didn't tell her.  I wanted to be known just for who I am, not because of my "stature" or as an activist/warrior, or whatever people perceived me as.  I am just Ben, but I am stuck with being a Chief. And I respect that honor so much that I have paid for it through enduring the jealousies and enviousness of others.  But the people whom I have met and worked with and helped have respected me. As a Chief, there is responsibilities that has fallen upon my wife, and she is terrified of failing and disappointing me and other Elders and leaders.  But she is learning. And she is asking other Native women for help so that she can fulfill her responsibilities. She doesn't relish being the Chief's wife. She would rather be Ben's wife and not have to deal with the rest.

She is not an Annette Claypoole, but it seems your presumption placed her in that category, and I feel that is quite unfair. No one has known her to be a groupie of any kind and I have been the first Native man she has had a relationship with.

I had really hoped that there would have been more intelligent discussion on this ng than what I have seen. I can totally ignore the immature and childish cooments I have seen here, and I sometimes wonder why I waste any time.  I really wanted to see a place where discussions could be held. And opposing viewpoints could be discussed to show each other something we are over looking.

Frosty has been one of the few who can stay on point and elaborate on any topic, without falling into bs. I have utmost respect for his presence on this ng.  Which is the reason, I have began a new topic since it was not germane to his original topic.

I wonder if all the people on this group were to sit and appear before each other, with Elders present, minus barry and dirt clod, etc., if each of those people would behave in the same way they do on this group.  I actually doubt it.  Anonymity behind a keyboard gives some people the courage to speak in a way they wouldn't to a person face. It is a cowardly antic like writing on an elementary bathroom wall.

So maybe Monica you would like to give me a call so that we can talk about what happened here? I would be more than happy to talk with you over the phone. Just email me and make arrangments to talk with us. I do believe we will come to a better understanding at least through verbal communication.  I've been in touch with one of Arlo's cousins. A Lakota who calls me brother and my wife sister, about the information you have shared about Arlo's situation.

It is a small world after all, and we should all be careful about the hurtful things we say to one another, regardless of the circumstances.

In Unity,
Ben Carnes

Notice that Monica Charles had called the Sun Dance* Chief of the Choctaw a "brown idiot" for having a white wife. And yet here you are, getting offended that someone would dare "insult a well known elder like Monica" by calling her on her blatant racism. Talk about double standards!

*Later revised to note, per Rattlebone's correction, that Carnes is not the (overall national) Chief.
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Rattlebone on August 17, 2009, 01:45:07 am


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Here's Ben Carnes, Chief of the Choctaw, rebuking Monica's anti-white racism:


 Ben Carnes is NOT the chief of the Choctaw, and I don't know why you are trying to drag his name into this thread.

 Though I will agree with you that racism against any group of people regardless if they are white or not is wrong, it seems you are dropping the name of a native person in this thread as some sort of leverage.

 Just because one NDN person says this or that is wrong or right, does not mean that NDN person speaks on behalf of all.

  This thread is not about Ben Carnes or his family, so keep his name out of it.
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Sizzle Flambé on August 17, 2009, 02:48:53 am
Ben Carnes is NOT the chief of the Choctaw,...

So revised, and with due credit to you for the correction. He is the Sun Dance Chief of the Choctaw.

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... and I don't know why you are trying to drag his name into this thread.

The context was clearly given. Cetan suggested that only white people were offended by Monica's anti-white racism. Here was a prominent Indian who also was offended; in fact, this was his last post to alt.native. I actually held off reposting it here until the anniversary of its original posting date, August 16, 2006, in honor of the occasion. He spoke clearly and eloquently for himself, of his own will; he wasn't "dragged" into doing that. Those were his own words.
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Cetan on August 17, 2009, 04:49:31 pm
No disrespect meant to Ben Carnes but Sundance is not a Choctaw tradition, in recent times many people of other tribes have participated in Sundances but historically it is a Northern Plains tradition; so while Ben is a Sundance Chief he is a Choctaw who is a Sundance Chief but his is not the Subndance Chief of the Choctaw. I know there is a lot of controversy over whether someone from another tribe can even be a Sundance chief and if his Sundance is a L(DN)akota Sundance (singing the Lakota songs and running it the way the LDN Nation does) does he have a right to do that - and I dont want to get into that here; just pointing out the inaccuracy of calling him the Sundance Chief of the Choctaw.  Also that post is 2 years old and for all I know they have resolved their differences and quite honestly it is not uncommon to hear disapproval in the Native communities when a member marries a non-NDN.  But the main point, which you still dont seem to be able to get, is that whether or not you like or agree with Monica or not - this board exists to expose frauds - those that charge for ceremony and/or conduct unauthorized ceremonies. What evidence do you have that Monica has ever done either of those those things?
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Sizzle Flambé on August 18, 2009, 05:34:17 am
Cetan, I have not accused Monica of those things (charging for ceremony / unauthorized ceremony), so kindly stop trying to put words in my mouth by demanding I present evidence on accusations I never made. This is the second time we've gone around on the same point.

The dishonesty in question was her disinformation on public issues (as noted twice by News from Indian Country) and her malicious smear jobs against other people.

She also makes common cause with Betsy Ashby "Guardian", whose less-than-honorable activities were already of interest here.

Another of her close associates and mutual-supporters on alt.native is purported "Native American author" David Seals, to whom NAFPS might perhaps pay closer attention. Seals is active in AIM, and since back in the 1970s has variously claimed to be Huron or Cheyenne, but now (since the Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990) is far more coy about making any explicit claims of "Indian" status -- relying on implications -- and consistently evades answering questions about his enrollment. (Yes, I've got requests in to the Wyandotte and Cheyenne Nations, just in case. But I think his evasions answered the questions.)

Seals has made money, in fact a career, as a "Native American author"... and isn't one. Does that begin to resemble "fraud"?

Some links and quotes were provided in <http://tinyurl.com/daveseals-faux-indian (http://tinyurl.com/daveseals-faux-indian)>, but NOTE: that's addressed to alt.native regulars who deal with Dave Seals all the time and are familiar with his posts. It is not a self-contained compendium of his deceptions and evasions and all the "evidence" thereof. You can read around the newsgroup for the rest, if interested.
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Cetan on August 18, 2009, 03:11:47 pm
From this group
"PURPOSE OF THIS GROUP: All New People Must Read

New Age Frauds Plastic Shamans or NAFPS is an activist group of Native people and our supporters. We began NAFPS five years ago as a Yahoo club/group and went through a lot together, at least eight unsuccessful attempts to shut us down, empty threats of lawsuits, stalkers, identity thieves, libel campaigns, and even death threats. We have emerged from it all relatively unscathed and more determined than ever to continue our work.

Ths group and forum is for those concerned about the fraud, deceit, money hunger, sexual abuse, racism, control, hunger for power and ego, and cult-like tendencies of the New Age movement and pseudo "shamans." We investigate and seek to warn the public about impostors and exploiters posing as Native medicine people or elders. There are more than two hundred impostors out there posing as Cherokee medicine people alone. Multiply that by five hundred Native nations in the US, and add on the exploiters who abuse or lie about practices of Latin America's Indians, and you get an idea of the sheer, massive scope of the problem."

If you have an issue with David Seals then make a topic showing proof. And Indian Country Today is not the endall and beall of truthfulness in reporting, they have taken a pro-govt/anti-AIM, anti-grassroots position more than once. But again the purpose of this group is to expose frauds, nothing else. If you have issues with someones viewpoints then go express yourself on alt.native or indianz.com where catfights are the norm and stop wasting our time here with your personal vendettas and agendas
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Moma_porcupine on August 18, 2009, 04:02:57 pm
Cetan
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But again the purpose of this group is to expose frauds, nothing else. If you have issues with someones viewpoints then go express yourself on alt.native or indianz.com where catfights are the norm and stop wasting our time here with your personal vendettas and agendas

That about sums up my own take on this... And it's sad to see people who may have some legitimate concerns damage their own credibilty by getting into a mud fight.

I should explain that Betsy Ashby is only listed in NAFPS because she spreads so many wierd stories about NAFPS this needed to be addressed.

Betsy Ashby seems to enjoy setting up situations where she encourages Native people who are feeling overwhelmed at being repeatedly invaded to attack mixed blood people who are not causeing any substantial problems.  She does this by repeatedly incorrectly identifying these mixed bloods as White and faux Indians and their Native friends as the lap dogs of Whites, and manipulating Native peoples justified anger to target relatively harmless people.

If you look carefully at the reasons Betsy has given for going after "faux Indians ", you will see her excuses are full of contradictions .

Below is a link to the enemies of NAFPS thread where her contradictory behavior is discussed in a number of posts.

http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=1234.0

Betsy Ashby has a talent for selecting the facts that support the point she wants to make, inventing a few things that aren't fact at all,  and leaving out everything that doesn't support the story she wants people to believe .

What I find most disturbing about Betsy is she rarely or never goes after a "pure blood" White person who is using Native ceremonies or culture.  Betsy's targets are almost always mixed blood people and their NDN friends. 

It seems Betsy feeds on hatred and a sense of power and being connected through causing pain.  Besides being wrong and unfair, I don't think Betsy's target of annihilating the people she wrongly identifies as Faux Indians is achievable , and the only thing she is likely to achieve is creating more bad feelings and resentment.

I also don't like to see innocent people harrasssed, but this often happens in cyberspace. NAFPS doesn't usually list people just because they are online bullies, and people are usually discouraged from trying to get this message board involved in retaliating or trying to sort out who did what to who first.

Generally NAFPS only discusses people who claim some sort of  position of ceremonial leadership or political authority, which involves public trust which they may not be entitled to.

It seems you are just using Betsy's questionable behavior , and the fact that there is some discussion of Betsy's tactics here, as an excuse to bring your fight with Monica over here .

I've been reading a bit over on the alt.native site and I see both of you sometimes expressing yourself in needlessly inflamatory ways that hurt whatever legitmate point you  may have been trying to make.....  And to be honest, I have seen you make some seemingly unfounded accusations which go way beyond bitchy and trivial...

And now you are starting in on David Seals...

Why?

It seemed you were hoping to show that Betsy Ashby's definition of who is a "faux Indian" is flawed, using David Seals as an example of an unenrolled person of some Native descent , who has contributed to the Native community and who Monica considers a friend . That seems fair enough and a reasonable thing to do. However, if that was your intention , why are you now trying to get NAFPS interested in the guy as a "faux Indian"?

As you yourself point out Seals wrote as a Native American author before it became the law people need to be enrolled to make this claim.

Whether or not Seal's is enrolled , he obviously does have very real connections with a Native community, and unless he is writing about a fake version of culture and history, I doubt his work as an author would be considered a fraud or a position of authority he is not entitled to.

It is becoming increasingly obvious that whatever legitimate concerns you may have had in your desire to confront Monica have been lost in your own need to be right, rather than stand up for what is right . 

In my own belief, when there is a problem it's important to first clearly identify what the problem is, and then try to pick targets that actually are central to the problem. I understand when we are offended and frustrated or scared it can be hard to lay aside the smashing and bashing, but I also think that it's important that when the central problems are identified we take the time to make a plan of attack which has a reasonable hope of reducing or eliminating the problem.   

And I agree with Cetan . However you and Monica sort out your differences that is probably something that doesn't belong on this message board.

There is one more thing I want to point out because it is offensive, though I think you are probably honestly unaware of this...

I see where you keep accusing Monica of being a racist . And yes,  Monica is outspoken about her strong dislike of non native people. But accusing her of being racist probably only reinforces her whole point.
 
Would you accuse a Jewish holocaust survior of being racist if they expressed a deep revulsion for Germans? Or would you understand there was probably some deep unhealed wounds behind such statements? ? If you knew a woman who was vocal about her distain for men , who said she did not think men were fully human, and you knew this woman had been repeatedly severly abused by men , from an early age , would you go on and on about what a hateful person she was - accusing her of having a problem, and being a malicious character? Or would you understand there was a lot of unresolved history behind that womans feelings?

If you are actually interested in resolving this, it might be more constructive to ask what it is specifically that non native people do that Monica doesn't like, and how exactly she see the general culture and Non native population supporting this? What does she see as ways to change this? What does she feel she needs to do to protect herself and her people from further abuse ? Even if Monica doesn't always express her feelings in a "nice' way  or target the real problems , she probably has some really good reasons for not feeling friendly.   

And when she does tell you ( and I see where she already has ) maybe you could try listening instead of trying to tell her she is wrong...

When you repeatedly accuse Monica of being racist and malicious, when there is some good reasons and a long history behind her feelings, these attacks on her character probably just reinforce her feelings that non native people don't have the capacity for basic human qualities like empathy and being able to respect things on their own terms. Your expectation that after all the history Native people should still feel friendly , should still be willing to cater to White peoples desires and say it's all OK and they forgive everything, sounds like one more manifestation of that same assumption that everything should revolve around White people and their needs. Yeah I can see where that would piss Monica right off.   

I agree with Cetan. I don't think this fight belongs here.... But it would be good if you could rethink your tactics. Because you do have some legitimate concerns and all you do is discredit both those legitimate concerns and yourself, when you get into unprincipled thoughtless mud slinging. 
 

Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Sizzle Flambé on August 18, 2009, 04:57:46 pm
And now you are starting in on David Seals...

Why?

Because this Welsh/Irish white guy barges around alt.native using his phony Big Name Native American Author status like a club against dissenters, and spits at real Indians: for instance greeted the news of Chief Joseph Medicine Crow's receiving the Medal of Freedom with "Uncle tomahawk" (http://groups.google.com/group/alt.native/msg/428a14d22200409c), and smeared even Anna Mae Aquash's daughter (http://groups.google.com/group/alt.native/msg/a58f549b949f3a84) -- see the daughter's stinging rebuke (http://indigenouswomenforjustice.org/seals.html) he's complaining about.

In the "Native American Authors Project" (http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/A461) he's billed as a "Huron novelist, publisher (Sky and Sage Books), freelance journalist, playwright, and documentary video producer." The movie Powwow Highway (http://www.ragbaby.com/magazine/19990618c.htm) was "Based on the 1979 novel by David Seals, a member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) and the Cheyenne Nation,...." Presumably he got money for at least some of those things -- the jobs, not being Huron and/or Cheyenne -- but he flacked them as his own Native American work, Native American insight, Native American art.

And the New York Times review of Powwow Highway was titled "A Cheyenne Mystic Who Transmutes Bitterness" (http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=950DE6DA103BF937A15750C0A96F948260).

Bingo. Spread across the world, a Native American author's own view of Native American spirituality. How authentic can you get? People read the book or saw the movie or both, and thought they were getting the real thing, just like... oh, say,... from Carlos Castaneda or Lynn Andrews! And how true that was.

Isn't that spiritual fraud?
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Moma_porcupine on August 18, 2009, 06:21:58 pm
Sizzle
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Because this Welsh/Irish white guy

But here you are, engaging in the same behavior you object to in others ,by making the complaint about someones race and enrollment , when the only legitimate concern is their behavior....

Sizzle
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In the "Native American Authors Project" he's billed as a "Huron novelist, publisher (Sky and Sage Books), freelance journalist, playwright, and documentary video producer." The movie Powwow Highway was "Based on the 1979 novel by David Seals, a member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) and the Cheyenne Nation,...."

I did see this, and your right it does seem contradictory. Maybe he descends from both people, or maybe the press got it wrong because the movie Powwow Highway has Cheyenne characters....  If he totally made this up and he has no descent from these peoples , I would I agree it's wrong to misrepresent himself. However , the evidence you are presenting is pretty weak. Even if he did misrepresent himself,  and I agree it would be good to point that out, I'm still not sure these books are him assuming a position of authority and undermining the authority of indigenous peoples ....   As far as I have heard Native people appreciate his books .

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And the New York Times review of Powwow Highway was titled "A Cheyenne Mystic Who Transmutes Bitterness".

Bingo. Spread across the world, a Native American author's own view of Native American spirituality. How authentic can you get? People read the book or saw the movie or both, and thought they were getting the real thing, just like... oh, say,... from Carlos Castaneda or Lynn Andrews! And how true that was.

Isn't that spiritual fraud?

No Sizzle I don't think it is.

That movie review sounds to me like it is reffering to the plot of the movie .

http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=950DE6DA103BF937A15750C0A96F948260

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Powwow Highway (1989)
March 24, 1989
Review/Film; A Cheyenne Mystic Who Transmutes Bitterness
By Janet Maslin
Published: March 24, 1989

LEAD: The scene-stealing figure in ''Powwow Highway,'' a road movie populated by Cheyenne Indian characters in the vicinity of Lame Deer, Mont., is a sweetly mystical giant named Philbert Bono (Gary Farmer). Philbert is notable for his tremendous appetite, his unflappably even keel, and his determination to find some kind of spiritual core in contemporary American Indian life.
You sound like you have never seen it.... It's a good movie. 

Once again it seems you are undermining your own credibility by looking for mud to sling and using whatever looks like it might stick. Same thing Betsy Ashby does. And once again I find that sad, as sometimes some of what you both are saying has some truth in it...
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Sizzle Flambé on August 18, 2009, 08:19:14 pm
Yes, Philbert Bono's just a "mystic" character by David Seals. And Don Juan was just a "mystic" character by Carlos Castaneda -- and Agnes Whistling Elk et alia were just "mystic" characters by Lynn Andrews -- and those were popular too, Moma Porcupine, so where's the harm, really, eh? You have no problem with any of them?

"Assuming a position of authority and undermining the authority of indigenous peoples"?

Well, gosh darn! Calling Chief Joe Medicine Crow "Uncle tomahawk", and tearing down Anna Mae's daughter in order to speak for "the Spirit of Anna Mae" himself, from his platform as a phony Big Name Native American Author -- I would have thought those pretty clear examples of exactly that.
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Cetan on August 18, 2009, 08:28:00 pm
the difference is Casteneda and Lynn Andrews tried to claim their characters were real people and their experiences actually happened; Powwow highway is a comedy film and Philbert is not presented as someone who exists in real life, he is only a character in a movie. Go rent the movie and watch it before you start throwing accusations about it - you are only making yourself look more ignorant every time you post
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Sizzle Flambé on August 18, 2009, 08:51:43 pm
When "Native American author" David Seals called Chief Joe Medicine Crow "Uncle tomahawk" (http://groups.google.com/group/alt.native/msg/428a14d22200409c), and tore down Anna Mae Aquash's daughter (http://groups.google.com/group/alt.native/msg/a58f549b949f3a84) for having rebuked his lies about the case (http://indigenouswomenforjustice.org/seals.html), he wasn't writing comedy, he was pretending to be real.

And his Big Name Native American Author status dates to that same comedic novel.
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Moma_porcupine on August 18, 2009, 09:41:58 pm
Sizzle

I'm not really comfortable bringing the name of a murdered Native rights activist into this.

I agree that if the information Seals is putting out there is fabricated, his using this is extremely disrespectful and offensive. The problem is, as long as the case is unsolved , when there is so many people with reasons to cover up the truth, it is hard to know who may have been decieved. All I know is I don't know enough to decide who's fingers may be pointing to a bit of the truth,  and I think this needs to be investigated from every possible angle. Assuming your link actually goes to a statement made by this womans daughter , I am inclined to believe the daughters probably know what is fact and what is fiction - and from the link you posted they appear to be clearly saying Seals information is fabricated.

http://indigenouswomenforjustice.org/seals.html

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We are disgusted that our mother's name and tragedy continues to be exploited in this way, and in the name of decency we ask this individual and others so inclined to cease and desist. As Anna Mae's next of kin, we hereby inform Seals and those responsible for this, that they do not have permission to use our mother's name.
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I continue to be disgusted by Seals and others like him whose morbid fascination with my mother's murder debases all that she lived and died for, and attempts to reduce her suffering, and ours, to the level of a sick hobby or Internet spectator sport.

I agree it is really offensive for anyone to use this womans name to make obviously incorrect or frivoulous accusations to further their own petty personal ambitions. 

But Sizzle,  I see where you are using this as ammunition in your personal on line disputes and as ammunition in your own war to be right.

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.native/browse_thread/thread/97d7eeb330e6b9e0#

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.native/browse_thread/thread/9be2c27afbfcaca3#

So assuming you actually have some evidence and you aren't just reducing this womans murder to nothing more than mud to throw, and assuming you really thought the best way to bring up this serious accusation was in the middle of a down and dirty flame war with Monica .... Did you have the families explicit permission to post these accusations?

Or are you doing more or less the same thing you are accusing Seals of doing?

Sorry but I find your choice of weapons really offensive.

Once again this looks like nothing more than mud slinging only serves to discredit whatever legitimate concerns and causes you claim to represent...
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Sizzle Flambé on August 18, 2009, 09:58:13 pm
I'm not really comfortable bringing the name of a murdered Native rights activist into this.

Look again. David Seals and his "Anna Mae Aquash Offense Committee" brought up her name.

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I agree that if the information Seals is putting out there is fabricated, his using this is extremely disrespectful and offensive.

That's how her family feel about it.

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/.../ Assuming your link actually goes to a statement made by this womans daughter, I am inclined to believe the daughters probably know what is fact and what is fiction - and from the link you posted they appear to be clearly saying Seals information is fabricated.

http://indigenouswomenforjustice.org/seals.html (http://indigenouswomenforjustice.org/seals.html)

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We are disgusted that our mother's name and tragedy continues to be exploited in this way, and in the name of decency we ask this individual and others so inclined to cease and desist. As Anna Mae's next of kin, we hereby inform Seals and those responsible for this, that they do not have permission to use our mother's name.
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I continue to be disgusted by Seals and others like him whose morbid fascination with my mother's murder debases all that she lived and died for, and attempts to reduce her suffering, and ours, to the level of a sick hobby or Internet spectator sport.

I agree it is really offensive for anyone to use this womans name to make obviously incorrect or frivoulous accusations to further their own petty personal ambitions. 

/.../

Did you have the families explicit permission to post these accusations?

That website, <http://indigenouswomenforjustice.org/seals.html (http://indigenouswomenforjustice.org/seals.html)>?

They posted it; I only linked to it.

My own text? That's my own responsibility. I've never claimed any authority.
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Moma_porcupine on August 19, 2009, 12:23:05 am
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That website, <http://indigenouswomenforjustice.org/seals.html>?

They posted it; I only linked to it.

My own text? That's my own responsibility. I've never claimed any authority.

Interesting, you edited out some of my comments in what you quoted... The ones which were obviously directed at the accusations YOU made in your posts at alt.native which I included links to. I guess with those comments edited out it isn't clear what I was reffering to.... And your accusations are so serious I'm not comfortable to quote you...

If you honestly weren't sure what I was reffering to I have to wonder why you removed all the comments which made this clear?

You're right you are responsible for those accusations... 

Sizzle
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I've never claimed any authority.

Um yeah... well . Either you believe what you write is true or you don't....

People intentionally lie because they are trying to trick people into doing something they would not chose if they had all the facts. When people lie they try and displace the authority of the truth, reality and peoples common sense.   

So either you honestly believe your allegations in the below link are likely to be true, and you are responsible for bringing this to the attention of the public in a disrespectful way that undermines the seriousness of these accusations, or you know this is false and you are trying to unfairly undermine whatever credibility and authority Monica may be rightly entitled to, by using lies and innuendos.

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.native/browse_thread/thread/3fd97b815d175f93#

Sorry but I am one of those people who believes that no matter which side we are on, justice is something that happens when we do our best to tell the truth, and nothing but the truth , and that without truth there is no real justice.

It looks to me like you are part of the problem .

(edited because I posted the same link as before which wasn't  the link I intended to post here)
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Rattlebone on August 19, 2009, 12:26:56 am
Cetan
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But again the purpose of this group is to expose frauds, nothing else. If you have issues with someones viewpoints then go express yourself on alt.native or indianz.com where catfights are the norm and stop wasting our time here with your personal vendettas and agendas

That about sums up my own take on this... And it's sad to see people who may have some legitimate concerns damage their own credibilty by getting into a mud fight.

I should explain that Betsy Ashby is only listed in NAFPS because she spreads so many wierd stories about NAFPS this needed to be addressed.

Betsy Ashby seems to enjoy setting up situations where she encourages Native people who are feeling overwhelmed at being repeatedly invaded to attack mixed blood people who are not causeing any substantial problems.  She does this by repeatedly incorrectly identifying these mixed bloods as White and faux Indians and their Native friends as the lap dogs of Whites, and manipulating Native peoples justified anger to target relatively harmless people.

If you look carefully at the reasons Betsy has given for going after "faux Indians ", you will see her excuses are full of contradictions .

Below is a link to the enemies of NAFPS thread where her contradictory behavior is discussed in a number of posts.

http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=1234.0

Betsy Ashby has a talent for selecting the facts that support the point she wants to make, inventing a few things that aren't fact at all,  and leaving out everything that doesn't support the story she wants people to believe .

What I find most disturbing about Betsy is she rarely or never goes after a "pure blood" White person who is using Native ceremonies or culture.  Betsy's targets are almost always mixed blood people and their NDN friends. 

It seems Betsy feeds on hatred and a sense of power and being connected through causing pain.  Besides being wrong and unfair, I don't think Betsy's target of annihilating the people she wrongly identifies as Faux Indians is achievable , and the only thing she is likely to achieve is creating more bad feelings and resentment.

I also don't like to see innocent people harrasssed, but this often happens in cyberspace. NAFPS doesn't usually list people just because they are online bullies, and people are usually discouraged from trying to get this message board involved in retaliating or trying to sort out who did what to who first.

Generally NAFPS only discusses people who claim some sort of  position of ceremonial leadership or political authority, which involves public trust which they may not be entitled to.

It seems you are just using Betsy's questionable behavior , and the fact that there is some discussion of Betsy's tactics here, as an excuse to bring your fight with Monica over here .

I've been reading a bit over on the alt.native site and I see both of you sometimes expressing yourself in needlessly inflamatory ways that hurt whatever legitmate point you  may have been trying to make.....  And to be honest, I have seen you make some seemingly unfounded accusations which go way beyond bitchy and trivial...

And now you are starting in on David Seals...

Why?

It seemed you were hoping to show that Betsy Ashby's definition of who is a "faux Indian" is flawed, using David Seals as an example of an unenrolled person of some Native descent , who has contributed to the Native community and who Monica considers a friend . That seems fair enough and a reasonable thing to do. However, if that was your intention , why are you now trying to get NAFPS interested in the guy as a "faux Indian"?


 



 I agree with you completely on this.

 When I first joined Indianz.com is when I first encountered her. It was at that time I noticed her saying things that were her attempting to say who was or was not native. Her viewpoints on this were very rigid, and at times very stereotypical. Nearly all of the time, her view points were very contrary to what I know to be true of Indian country in regards to how the Indian community recognizes a person to be Indian or not.

  As you said, much of this seemed to come as attacks on mixed people who were doing no harm. When I began to challenge what she was saying, she began to automatically attack me and said I was a fraud. I seen her engage in this behavior time and time again.

 She portrayed herself as a fraud hunter, but as you pointed out, she only seemed to target mixed bloods for this reason or that whom were doing nothing but acknowledging they had some native ancestry. When it came to people who were white and nothing but white by blood, she had nothing to say or would support them. This was the case in a person that was pointed out to be a fraud on this board. Betsy defended her very staunchly, and seemed to be very angry when I pointed out that this white person she was defending was an exploiter.

 Very nice post on your part MP...I agree with everything you said here.
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Sizzle Flambé on August 19, 2009, 01:53:06 am
Interesting, you edited out some of my comments in what you quoted...

And clearly marked those spots with "/.../", as I wasn't replying to them.

Lines listing links, for instance. Why list them all over again?

You don't quote all my comments every time either, and why should you?

As to your other complaints, what I posted first about "Native American author" David Seals was that he was someone "to whom NAFPS might perhaps pay closer attention."

(NAFPS as a group could have taken some initiative at that point, done your own checking around instead of sitting back on your hind ends waiting to be served on a silver platter, but no.)

Some links and quotes were provided in <http://tinyurl.com/daveseals-faux-indian (http://tinyurl.com/daveseals-faux-indian)>, but NOTE: that's addressed to alt.native regulars who deal with Dave Seals all the time and are familiar with his posts. It is not a self-contained compendium of his deceptions and evasions and all the "evidence" thereof. You can read around the newsgroup for the rest, if interested.
(bolding added)

If now you feel that link was not fairly evidential by NAFPS standards, well, it wasn't presented as such.

As for the newsgroup threads you bring up...

Dave Seals and Monica Charles and Betsy Ashby had been slinging around "sauce for the goose" (read: mud) by the bucketful on alt.native, for months -- in Dave's and Monica's cases, for years (Betsy came more recently) -- despite all appeals to truth and conscience. Now if finally they are getting "sauce for the the gander" (read: long-overdue exposés) back in their teeth, eye for an eye  . . . oh? how terrible? how rude? how thavage?

Sorry, lady, I haven't heard you folks complaining any about Dave and Monica's mud-slinging, using their (respectively) "Big Name Native American Author" status and "Elder" status as platforms to dump on "lesser" folks. What I've heard is defenses like that "well respected elder like Monica" BS from Cetan. Are these one-sided double-standard high-hatted stances supposed to persuade me of either your sincerity or your moral superiority?
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Moma_porcupine on August 19, 2009, 03:05:37 am
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Sorry, lady, I haven't heard you folks complaining any about Dave and Monica's mud-slinging, using their (respectively) "Big Name Native American Author" status and "Elder" status as platforms to dump on "lesser" folks.

But Sizzle, people who post here keep trying to tell you NAFPS members aren't usually interested in intervening in online mud slinging contests . And you yourself are clearly responsible for throwing at least some of it.

I can't speak for other NAFPS members,  but you are the one who has come over here wanting to get people here involved in taking your side in your disputes, and so my comments are directed to you. It's not my business to criticize Monica's personality - even if I disagree with her on some issues.

I'm trying to explain to you that I don't agree with the way you are behaving and because of that i can't provide the support you are requesting, even if I agree with you on some points.

If you hadn't repeatedly tried to get this support, i wouldn't be explaining why i am not comfortable giving it.

Even if someone is a chronic mean and nasty liar, they still don't ever deserve to be accused of a serious crime they didn't commit, and that you would use this woman's murder as a tool for your petty harrassment and retaliation is completely reprehensible to me. I notice you still aren't taking any responsibility for this.

Your excuse that you are just dishing out what was dished out to others is just avoiding your own responsibilty to make sure your own behavior is at all times good and honest. If everyone decides to give up and behave like Betsy Ashby - or the other people we disagree with , how is that going to make the world a better place? I think the saying is if we take an eye for an eye , soon everybody will be blind. Just being as honest and polite as i can manage, seems to work OK for me.

No double standards here. I annoy pretty much everyone with my big mouth.
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Sizzle Flambé on August 19, 2009, 04:05:50 am
you are the one who has come over here wanting to get people here involved in taking your side in your disputes

Wrong. I haven't asked anyone to take my side in disputes. Look again. I shared those first links as FYI, part of a self-introduction, no requests involved. People here demanded more info from me; that wasn't my demanding support from them. Even Dave Seals, I just started out saying NAFPS "might perhaps pay closer attention" to him; so see whether he fits your own criteria after your own investigation. At no point did I ask, invite, or suggest that people should come over to alt.native and jump into a mudfight, nor say to join my side of one.

By all means stay out of that. Take the info you need for NAFPS's purposes, leave the rest, and go do your own research on FAKE INDIAN AUTHORS and the like.

But no, you want to burrow further into the ohhh-so-naaassty mudfighting? Dig up those links instead to post here? Well, then, why feign shock and disgust? You made your choice.

But I find it hypocritical that the very thing "well respected elder" Monica is defended for, becomes accusations turned the other way. That is, it was "mud slinging" of me to point out that she'd been mud slinging at other people!

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that you would use this woman's murder as a tool for your petty harrassment and retaliation is completely reprehensible to me.

<http://groups.google.com/group/alt.native/msg/7c05d7da34c346dd (http://groups.google.com/group/alt.native/msg/7c05d7da34c346dd)>
Quote from: Monica
Quote from: oldwifetale
Um, monica... you are the one who dragged alt.native business 'outside'. But how do you really think this makes *you* look? These things you are posting to 'get back' at Sizzle contain words that strongly apply to your own 'morbid fascination' with Anna Mae's death.

It reminds me of the phrase... cutting off your nose to spite your face.

Are you trying another tactic to scare me away from the Anna Mae story daisy mae? Won't work.

Monica is one of Dave Seals's fellow ghouls, you see.
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Cetan on August 19, 2009, 12:16:14 pm
but you are the one bringing your fight over here, no one else is. We have repeatedly told you what NAFPS is for. As for your comment
"As to your other complaints, what I posted first about "Native American author" David Seals was that he was someone "to whom NAFPS might perhaps pay closer attention."
(NAFPS as a group could have taken some initiative at that point, done your own checking around instead of sitting back on your hind ends waiting to be served on a silver platter, but no.)"

this board is just a group of individuals who post; it is up to the individuals who have questions or information to post a thread, usually in the research needed category outlining their questions/concerns/evidence and then others will respond. So if you are so convinced the someone is a fraud make a thread and present your information and then people will be glad to respond.
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: earthw7 on August 19, 2009, 01:49:00 pm
Well said Cetan, if get invovled in she said he said they said it ends without getting to the truth.

It has happen in the past were people bring information from another board here to fight and it always end
in just that he said she said.

Just post the evidence and we will research it
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Sizzle Flambé on August 19, 2009, 03:15:10 pm
Well said Cetan, if get invovled in she said he said they said it ends without getting to the truth.

It has happen in the past were people bring information from another board here to fight and it always end
in just that he said she said.

Just post the evidence and we will research it

With due respect, earth7, that has not been my experience here.

For instance, in sourced quotes at the link I posted, <http://tinyurl.com/daveseals-faux-indian (http://tinyurl.com/daveseals-faux-indian)>, or which you can find by Googling, "Native American author" Seals is variously identified as Huron or Cheyenne (not as "both" in any source), "Cheyenne" when his Cheyenne-character books came out, and "Huron" later on. Then gradually both tribal claims fade away; neither is in his current Wikipedia puff-piece entry. Yet he's still listed among "Native American authors".

No-one here has hinted at researching this oddity or the reason for the shift. (May I suggest the Cheyenne claim simply became untenable first? And then the 1990 Act made such lying-for-profit a federal crime?)

No-one is stopping you from researching the matter!

Don't pretend I'm holding you back by not posting the magic word on the proper forum.

Fire when ready, Gridley!
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Sizzle Flambé on August 19, 2009, 04:02:11 pm
...that you would use this woman's murder as a tool for your petty harrassment and retaliation...

Have you been looking up how Dave Seals and Monica Charles have used her, literally for years?

And have you found out some of why Anna Mae's daughter complained about it?

Well, here's a more recent example:

<http://groups.google.com/group/alt.native/browse_frm/thread/72a3d50d5f4cf062 (http://groups.google.com/group/alt.native/browse_frm/thread/72a3d50d5f4cf062)>

"Ward Churchill in South Dakota, 1975-76"

Yeah... Dave "O'Brien" Seals pins the murder on Ward Churchill....

Likewise, Monica Charles keeps saying that Richard Two Elk (who posts on alt.native) was "the FBI's first choice as the shooter" -- which can be taken two ways, since one of her many conflicting contentions has been that the FBI killed Anna Mae.

And even a newbie walking into the newsgroup can get slapped with Monica's all-purpose accusation that they are part of the FBI coverup of Anna Mae's murder.

So what you are complaining about, Moma, is return fire. Which I'll take about as seriously as anyone does who is returning fire, when you have uttered no reproach to those who opened fire in the first place.
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Cetan on August 19, 2009, 05:31:37 pm
Well said Cetan, if get invovled in she said he said they said it ends without getting to the truth.

It has happen in the past were people bring information from another board here to fight and it always end
in just that he said she said.

Just post the evidence and we will research it

With due respect, earth7, that has not been my experience here.

For instance, in sourced quotes at the link I posted, <http://tinyurl.com.daveseals-faux-indian (http://tinyurl.com.daveseals-faux-indian)>, or which you can find by Googling, "Native American author" Seals is variously identified as Huron or Cheyenne (not as "both" in any source), "Cheyenne" when his Cheyenne-character books came out, and "Huron" later on. Then gradually both tribal claims fade away; neither is in his current Wikipedia puff-piece entry. Yet he's still listed among "Native American authors".

No-one here has hinted at researching this oddity or the reason for the shift. (May I suggest the Cheyenne claim simply became untenable first? And then the 1990 Act made such lying-for-profit a federal crime?)

No-one is stopping you from researching the matter!

Don't pretend I'm holding you back by not posting the magic word on the proper forum.

Fire when ready, Gridley!


the link you posted doesnt work and quite honestly I have no problems with David Seals and you are the first person here who has questioned him
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Sizzle Flambé on August 19, 2009, 06:10:49 pm
the link you posted doesnt work

Missing slash. Fixed. <http://tinyurl.com/daveseals-faux-indian (http://tinyurl.com/daveseals-faux-indian)>

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and quite honestly I have no problems with David Seals

I can tell you're a mellow fellow. But personal problems aren't the issue, are they?

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and you are the first person here who has questioned him

Someone had to be the first. So, is it engraved in stone that we all sit on our hands now until a second person comes along to question him? Or a third? How many questions does it take to, um, raise the question?

The really big excuse for not even looking at him is that he's not NAFPS's concern at all unless his authorship veers from comedy novels into shamanism, right?

<http://www.examiner.com/x-7919-Phoenix-Native-American-Shamanism-Examiner (http://www.examiner.com/x-7919-Phoenix-Native-American-Shamanism-Examiner)>
David Seals
Phoenix Native American Shamanism Examiner


Next excuse...?
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Moma_porcupine on August 19, 2009, 08:20:11 pm
Oh for Petes sake... Ok Ok ...It seems Seals has some unusual ideas and he is a bit confused about where he came from ..... I'm not sure if this makes him a worthy topic for research or not , and personally, I wouldn't bother starting a thread on him based on what I found, but it is more than a little odd .   

Apparently Seals claims his family was abuducted by aliens, their baby boy ( himself ? ) first showed up out of nowhere ? during an alien encounter ( or something ) and these same alien monsters are also blamed for killing his 4 year old sister.

I'm not sure how this fits with his claims to be Huron or Cheyenne... His Mom's Dad is said to be Irish and it sounds like his Dad was in the military, and he grew up partly in Japan. His sister is said to have been blond, though that doesn't prove the family didn't have some native blood ... It's not unusual for mixed blood children to be blond... 

Must be read to be believed... and even then I gotta wonder - did he really write this ?   :o

http://www.frontierscience.us/article119.html

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ABDUCTION AT ROSWELL by David Seals

Maybe all the people you don't like are alien implants...

That would explain a lot ...

If you really think it needs researching start a thread... 
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Sizzle Flambé on August 19, 2009, 08:46:01 pm
<http://www.frontierscience.us/article119.html (http://www.frontierscience.us/article119.html)>
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Journal of Frontier Science: ABDUCTION AT ROSWELL by David Seals

"By the 90s, David was ready to go back to the 40s before he was born, thanks to decades of research, ceremonies with Indians, sessions with psychics, and memories of many hours of conversations with his mother and father. He was confident he had found a realistic way to remember and reconstruct what really happened at Roswell, and, even more challenging, to see it from the point of view of the Enemies!"

Yes, indeedy, David Seals in his family memoir -- straight biography, not comedy -- now tells about alien abductions from the aliens' viewpoint!

No wonder he also knows the whole truth about the Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash murder case, and every other historical mystery!

So as a matter of credibility: would an alien-abduction loon also make up Indian ancestry?

Meanwhile, Monica's doing a cycle of Anna Mae Conspiracy Theory (FBI-did-it) reposts today. Catch some:

<http://groups.google.com/group/alt.native/msg/54f4e74c417ff258 (http://groups.google.com/group/alt.native/msg/54f4e74c417ff258)>

<http://groups.google.com/group/alt.native/msg/fd0c0e489835cfa0 (http://groups.google.com/group/alt.native/msg/fd0c0e489835cfa0)>

<http://groups.google.com/group/alt.native/msg/5b70de65ea4ba683 (http://groups.google.com/group/alt.native/msg/5b70de65ea4ba683)>

And again, compare the remarks by Anna Mae's daughter:

<http://indigenouswomenforjustice.org/seals.html (http://indigenouswomenforjustice.org/seals.html)>
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Cetan on August 19, 2009, 10:10:40 pm
What is so wrong with Monica's posts - unless you dont believe the Feds had anything to do with Anna Mae's murder. Trying to blame the murder on AIM has been one of the fed's tactics since way back, read the history on Cointelpro, they have been trying to discredit AIM since back in the day. Do you believe the Feds now?
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Sizzle Flambé on August 19, 2009, 10:43:45 pm
What is so wrong with Monica's posts - unless you dont believe the Feds had anything to do with Anna Mae's murder. Trying to blame the murder on AIM has been one of the fed's tactics since way back, read the history on Cointelpro, they have been trying to discredit AIM since back in the day. Do you believe the Feds now?

Draw out your logic for me, Cetan.

"Trying to blame the murder on AIM" -- yeah, Anna Mae had been held prisoner by AIM members, transported by AIM members to Pine Ridge, last seen with AIM members, and then found dead. There's a certain suspicion that grows in most people's minds, cops included, after a chain of events like that.

"Trying to discredit AIM" -- to be sure, and not entirely for the reason above. Some federal agents died too. And on the other side a lot of AIM members. No love lost. But then it's also an honest opinion, isn't it? The FBI really does think AIM shouldn't be trusted as far as its collective membership could be picked up and thrown. (Feeling's mutual, right?)

"The Feds had anything to do with Anna Mae's murder" -- how would this follow?

This sounds more like AIM is trying to discredit the FBI, AIM is trying to blame the murder on the FBI -- and with no equivalent basis, since it wasn't the FBI toting Anna Mae around as a prisoner and up to Pine Ridge and having those meetings. The table doesn't turn around so easy.

No organization pulled the trigger. Some human being did. It's the nature of things that other human beings in the same organization never knew it, and never believed it. So the forensics aren't guided by what the organization members firmly believe to be true or false. I'm sorry that distresses you, Cetan, but there it is.
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Superdog on August 19, 2009, 10:44:52 pm
Yes, Philbert Bono's just a "mystic" character by David Seals. And Don Juan was just a "mystic" character by Carlos Castaneda -- and Agnes Whistling Elk et alia were just "mystic" characters by Lynn Andrews -- and those were popular too, Moma Porcupine, so where's the harm, really, eh? You have no problem with any of them?

I know I'm coming in way late and all....but have you read Powwow Highway???

I realllllllly don't see the correlation at all.

ok sorry...random I know.  Back to my popcorn.

Superdog
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Sizzle Flambé on August 19, 2009, 11:41:58 pm
Yes, Superdog, that's a "comedy"... and supposedly this isn't:
<http://www.examiner.com/x-7919-Phoenix-Native-American-Shamanism-Examiner (http://www.examiner.com/x-7919-Phoenix-Native-American-Shamanism-Examiner)>
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David Seals
Phoenix Native American Shamanism Examiner

Are we all caught up now?
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: bls926 on August 19, 2009, 11:45:56 pm
The FBI was definitely responsible for Anna Mae's death, regardless of who pulled the trigger. Whether an agent committed the murder or a member of AIM, the FBI is to blame. I don't know who did it. I do know that the FBI had created an environment of doubt, fear, mistrust, and paranoia thru their cointelpro operations. THE FBI is the domestic version of the CIA. Their actions at home, especially during the 70's, are no different than the CIA's actions around the world. They create problems where none exist and intensify existing problems. It's time the FBI was held accountable.
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Sizzle Flambé on August 20, 2009, 12:12:37 am
The FBI was definitely responsible for Anna Mae's death, regardless of who pulled the trigger. Whether an agent committed the murder or a member of AIM, the FBI is to blame. I don't know who did it. I do know that the FBI had created an environment of doubt, fear, mistrust, and paranoia thru their cointelpro operations. THE FBI is the domestic version of the CIA. Their actions at home, especially during the 70's, are no different than the CIA's actions around the world. They create problems where none exist and intensify existing problems. It's time the FBI was held accountable.

I know just what you mean, bls926 ! Why, I am SO stressed out by the environment of doubt, fear, mistrust, and paranoia right here on this very thread that there's no knowing what *I* may do next! Smash a store window, or pee on a cop, or bite a dog, or something! And when they arrest me, I'll tell them, "NAFPS is to blame!" So pack a little night bag and mark your lawyer's number on your forearm, and be ready to go quietly when they come to your door, okay? And remember these words: "DON'T TAZE ME, BRO!"
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Moma_porcupine on August 20, 2009, 12:53:06 am
And so... Sizzle

You came here announcing your tussle with Betsy Ashby brought you here.
 
Your concerns about Ashby seem to have been shelved almost immediately and you moved onto trying to discredit Monica.

Then you began trying to discredit Monica's friend Seals, but you don't seem concerned enough about him somehow violating public trust or misrepresenting Native people to actually start a thread on him.

Apparently your interest in Seals only continues as long as it takes to establish that he is an odd ball , or possibly of extraterestrial descent,  as now  Seals is being used to once again try and discredit Monica by pointing out her questionable judgment in choosing freinds.

And you seem real interested in using this to try and discredit Monica's posts containing information skeptical of the FBI involvement in Anna Mae's murder. You keep coming back to that .

Why ?

Who's interests do you imagine you are serving here ?

Must be one of those illusions of cyberspace but Gosh you do remind me of Betsy Ashby. Quite a bit... I must be loosing my marbles...


Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Cetan on August 20, 2009, 01:59:06 am
The only sizzle I smell here is bacon, oink oink
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: bls926 on August 20, 2009, 02:43:46 am
The FBI was definitely responsible for Anna Mae's death, regardless of who pulled the trigger. Whether an agent committed the murder or a member of AIM, the FBI is to blame. I don't know who did it. I do know that the FBI had created an environment of doubt, fear, mistrust, and paranoia thru their cointelpro operations. THE FBI is the domestic version of the CIA. Their actions at home, especially during the 70's, are no different than the CIA's actions around the world. They create problems where none exist and intensify existing problems. It's time the FBI was held accountable.

I know just what you mean, bls926 ! Why, I am SO stressed out by the environment of doubt, fear, mistrust, and paranoia right here on this very thread that there's no knowing what *I* may do next! Smash a store window, or pee on a cop, or bite a dog, or something! And when they arrest me, I'll tell them, "NAFPS is to blame!" So pack a little night bag and mark your lawyer's number on your forearm, and be ready to go quietly when they come to your door, okay? And remember these words: "DON'T TAZE ME, BRO!"


Your sarcasm is noted. You may think you're being witty, but you aren't. Your comments are juvenile, immature. All you've accomplished is to show your complete lack of understanding.

Why are you here? 
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Sizzle Flambé on August 20, 2009, 04:38:34 am
You came here announcing your tussle with Betsy Ashby brought you here.

Nope.

Joining you at Debbie's invitation, after tussling with Betsy Ashby in the Usenet newsgroup alt.native for a while.
(Post hoc est non propter hoc.)

Your concerns about Ashby seem to have been shelved almost immediately and you moved onto trying to discredit Monica.

You vastly overstate my investment in cause advocacy here. This is my self-introduction thread, so I shared as FYI the sorts of things I've been writing. Poems and "object-library"-type Usenet tidbits. I wasn't asking anyone to DO anything about them!

Some people complain that's not properly evidential. Look again. I wasn't presenting it as an evidential case.

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Then you began trying to discredit Monica's friend Seals, but you don't seem concerned enough about him somehow violating public trust or misrepresenting Native people to actually start a thread on him.

How diffident (http://vocabulary-vocabulary.com/dictionary/diffident.php) must one *be* to say "NAFPS might perhaps pay closer attention" to Seals?

Am *I* the Boss of *you*?

You are now aware of Seals; of who he is; of what he does.

If you feel no concern whatsoever about him, then my posting to every other forum here, and jumping up and down and screaming, wouldn't make a difference, would it? So what would be the point?

And if you DO feel concern, then you don't need me anyway to take action. Good luck.

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Apparently your interest in Seals only continues as long as it takes to establish that he is an odd ball, or possibly of extraterrestrial descent, as now Seals is being used to once again try and discredit Monica by pointing out her questionable judgment in choosing friends.

The Monica-and-Seals-to-Anna-Mae-Conspiracy-Theory links to that stinging rebuke from Anna Mae's daughter exist quite independently of Seals's alien-abduction lunacy. Their ghoulishness doesn't depend on his Little Grey Men.

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And you seem real interested in using this to try and discredit Monica's posts containing information skeptical of the FBI involvement in Anna Mae's murder. You keep coming back to that .

Why ?

I pointed you to them without telling you to believe or disbelieve, to laugh or cry.

Recall how you said, "use this woman's murder as a tool for ... petty harrassment and retaliation" ?

Monica Charles sets the stage for the Grand FBI Conspiracy, yes... and then accuses the people she dislikes on the newsgroup of being part of that conspiracy. Senator Joe McCarthy, writ small.
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Sizzle Flambé on August 20, 2009, 04:42:16 am
The only sizzle I smell here is bacon, oink oink

And look! There's Roy Cohn!
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Superdog on August 20, 2009, 01:53:03 pm
Yes, Superdog, that's a "comedy"... and supposedly this isn't:
<http://www.examiner.com/x-7919-Phoenix-Native-American-Shamanism-Examiner (http://www.examiner.com/x-7919-Phoenix-Native-American-Shamanism-Examiner)>
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David Seals
Phoenix Native American Shamanism Examiner

Are we all caught up now?

still not seeing it.....just hard to imagine anyone interpreting Philbert as mystical anything.  If anything, I'd classify the character as a holy fool.  But oh well....I'm just a fan of the book (and movie...Gary Farmer played a great character), don't know much about David Seals, but the book was a great read and if there's anyone in modern times that gets Indian humor in literature he and Sherman Alexie both seem to have a knack for it.  But back to your discussion, i'm sidetracking it.

Superdog
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Moma_porcupine on August 20, 2009, 03:03:42 pm
Sizzle
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This is my self-introduction thread, so I shared as FYI the sorts of things I've been writing. Poems and "object-library"-type Usenet tidbits.

Right, so the question bls926 asked you

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Why are you here?

And the question i asked

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You seem real interested in using this to try and discredit Monica's posts containing information skeptical of the FBI involvement in Anna Mae's murder. You keep coming back to that .

Why ?

Who's interests do you imagine you are serving here ?

Are entirely relevent to your introduction and explaining who you are, and what you are hoping to accomplish here.

I would add to that

What do you hope to acomplish here? What are your goals?

I find it really odd you keep side steping those direct and relevent questions.

And why are you so anxious for someone else to be responsible to start a thread on Seals?

You obviously do feel some concerns. Why don't you want to take responsibility and take action ? What are you trying to set up?

I'm not sure if I am hearing the sizzle of bacon or the russle of feathers and crashing and bashing you hear when there is a blood crazed weasle in the hen house, but something here isn't adding up.

I wasn't able to do a thorough check of all the posts over at alt.native but it looks like Sizzle showed up there as a regular poster a couple weeks before Besty Ashby AKA Guardian ( last mid May early June ) . Sizzle seems to spend most of their time posting on pagan and wiccan message boards ,and I don't see where they seem to have much interest in anything else ... At least not under that user name. Probably just my over suspisious mind at work, but I gotta wonder just what the connection is between Sizzle and Betsy ....

Sizzle maybe you could explain this?

Sizzle, this is just my own opinion , but if you want to change peoples personalities, the only real hope you have of doing that is by earning their respect and setting a more efficent example and inspiring people. Bashing people into submission never works for very long and takes too much energy.

If you just want to retaliate for some personal injury, that probably isn't going to be welcome here.

If you want to lay out some evidence about how someone might be seriously misleading the public in some way , it seems the way to do this would be to  start a thread. As it is, it seems you are making a lot of  underhanded attacks which aren't very substantial, and you avoid taking responsibility for this "because it is just your introduction thread."

I think you need to clearly define your targets and explain why you feel this is important , and what you hope to do about it by posting here.....

Sizzle
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Monica Charles sets the stage for the Grand FBI Conspiracy, yes... and then accuses the people she dislikes on the newsgroup of being part of that conspiracy.

There is lots of reasonable people who have some legitimate questions about the case against members of AIM in the death of Anna Mae.

Even if Monica sometimes discredits herself by engaging in what look like senseless petty personal attacks, and frivolously accusing people of being FBI ...  and even if Dave Seals did write that stuff about alien abductions, the unexplained and seemingly unexplored holes in the case are still there, and appear to be very real.

I see Monic is recomending the book   THE UNQUIET GRAVE by Steve
Hendricks.

There is also a link hear to what sounds like a report of the court case against Arlo Looking Cloud.

http://www.grahamdefense.org/trial1.htm

If this is accurate and not altered, even with Looking Clouds confession,  and assuming this confession wasn't gained under some kind of threat,  it leaves so many unanswered questions to leave them unexplored in a court of law sounds completely negligent.  This wouldn't be the first time i have seen people involved in what happened at Wounded Knee say things that seem to defy logic. I have to wonder if some people don't feel safe to tell the truth. I am not familiar with all the details of the case , or what is known for sure and what may have been fabricated, but there is so many Native people who have very real reasons to mistrust the justice system, it seems like the justice system needs to take the time to explore all possibilities, and make a real effort to be sure everyone involved feels justice has been served. If these questions are not answered i find that completely outrageous and unacceptable.

Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Sizzle Flambé on August 20, 2009, 08:59:20 pm
"Why are you here?" "What do you hope to acomplish here? What are your goals?"

I answered these with my very first words on the forum: "Joining you at Debbie's invitation".

As I'd previously added NAFPS to my Culture Vulture Links and had been vigorously defending NAFPS and Al Carroll from Betsy Ashby's and Monica Charles's "White Nationalist" accusations on alt.native, it was clear I was already aware of NAFPS before that (and kindly inclined), so Debbie extended the invitation. I didn't come hat in hand needing anything from you.

You help further answer your own question below.

I wasn't able to do a thorough check of all the posts over at alt.native but it looks like Sizzle showed up there as a regular poster a couple weeks before Betsy Ashby AKA Guardian ( last mid May early June ) . Sizzle seems to spend most of their time posting on pagan and wiccan message boards ,and I don't see where they seem to have much interest in anything else ... At least not under that user name. Probably just my over suspicious mind at work, but I gotta wonder just what the connection is between Sizzle and Betsy ....
(bolding added)

Very simply, Moma, I'm a poet. I respond to things with poetry. A troll named Sidney Lambe afflicted alt.religion.wicca; I responded with a song/poem cycle, and got other members involved contributing their own pieces to it. Here's the contents/links page: <http://tinyurl.com/sidney-lambe (http://tinyurl.com/sidney-lambe)>.

I'd already been on alt.native for a while, hanging with friends, when Betsy Ashby barged in and started bashing people, including Norah RunningWolf, a great lady for whom I'd already developed the greatest respect (and who deserves it). Ooh. Not nice. Here comes a poem about it: "Bashby" <http://tinyurl.com/bashby2 (http://tinyurl.com/bashby2)>.

But under continued harassment, Norah's husband died, and Norah continued -- still continues! -- being harassed in her time of grief. Monica Charles even made a point of mocking her grief, and *that* is what prompted the poem of "Malica Charnel": <http://tinyurl.com/malica-charnel (http://tinyurl.com/malica-charnel)>.

These are *poems*. Verbal artwork. They don't require anyone to DO anything.

Now, having been invited here, after defending NAFPS publicly, I shared some of my work by way of self-introduction.

That's not waving any banner and shouting "follow me".

That's not presenting "evidence" in any quasi-court proceeding.

As you yourself point out, this isn't the forum for that, anyway.

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Sizzle, this is just my own opinion , but if you want to change peoples personalities,...

Whoa! This ain't Orwell's 1984, and I'm not O'Brien!

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If you just want to retaliate for some personal injury, that probably isn't going to be welcome here.

I have not been personally injured. I am hale and whole. Outraged at how innocents have been abused, yes, but if you are not, then I pity your shriveled soul.

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If you want to lay out some evidence about how someone might be seriously misleading the public in some way, it seems the way to do this would be to start a thread.

Feel free, if that is your strength and skill. You now know where to look.

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I see Monic is recomending the book THE UNQUIET GRAVE by Steve Hendricks.

There is also a link hear to what sounds like a report of the court case against Arlo Looking Cloud.

http://www.grahamdefense.org/trial1.htm

If this is accurate and not altered, ...

That's the big "IF".

| [Monica] Charles emerges as one of the few and
| loudest supporters of John Graham in recent years,
| posting discredited and false information online
| and drawing the attention of defense attorneys
| and federal authorities.
  -- News From Indian Country
     <http://tinyurl.com/annie-mae-timeline-iii-3 (http://tinyurl.com/annie-mae-timeline-iii-3)>

| Monica Charles ... becomes "a person of interest"
| and the focus of some investigators because of
| information and statements she posts on the internet
| that appear to be an intentional attempt to create
| confusion in the Aquash and Peltier cases, a commonly
| used tactic by AIM leaders or supporters over the
| years to mislead journalists and the public.
  -- News From Indian Country
     <http://tinyurl.com/annie-mae-timeline-iv-2 (http://tinyurl.com/annie-mae-timeline-iv-2)>
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Sizzle Flambé on August 23, 2009, 01:22:40 am
This wouldn't be the first time i have seen people involved in what happened at Wounded Knee say things that seem to defy logic. I have to wonder if some people don't feel safe to tell the truth.

Some don't. But the coverup may not be in the direction you think it is.

Try reading <http://www.aim.org/aim-column/pbs-accused-of-distorting-indian-history/ (http://www.aim.org/aim-column/pbs-accused-of-distorting-indian-history/)>.
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: earthw7 on August 24, 2009, 08:06:02 pm
I still don't understand why this information is here on NAFPS
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Sizzle Flambé on August 24, 2009, 10:17:43 pm
I still don't understand why this information is here on NAFPS

"Sizzle Flambé says Hello" (http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=2312.msg18586#msg18586) could have stayed that first single post, a short intro with links to stuff I wrote. But people were interested in discussing it, so the questions/answers and demands/responses went on a bit. A thread is made by its participants. Congratulations, you and I together have now added another two posts to the length of this one.

Betsy Ashby and Monica Charles have attacked NAFPS online; Dave Seals makes common cause with them, has dubiously claimed tribal affiliations* to be a "Native American Author" (http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/A461), and cites his comedy novel about a shaman in his credentials (http://www.examiner.com/x-7919-Phoenix-Native-American-Shamanism-Examiner#fragment-2) to write about real shamanism. You think that might be of interest?

(Note Dave's own back-cover photo (http://www.abductionatroswell.com/images/cover_back_web.jpg) in front of an Apache sweat lodge. Nice beard!)

*But evaded answering direct questions whether he's enrolled, with replies like "Are you?" (http://groups.google.com/group/alt.native/msg/860702a90b8a73e5) He also still uses the old term "Huron", which the Wyandotte Nation themselves "do not proclaim ourselves to be... in this day and age" -- per email telling me Seals is not enrolled there. But Seals doesn't claim he is Huron-Wendat, from Quebec....
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: earthw7 on August 25, 2009, 02:24:28 pm
So do what does an author have to do with selling ceremonies
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Cetan on August 25, 2009, 05:00:51 pm
I still don't understand why this information is here on NAFPS


neither does anyone else
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Sizzle Flambé on August 25, 2009, 09:12:21 pm
So do what does an author have to do with selling ceremonies

So we should strike Carlos Castaneda and Lynn Andrews and all the other phony shamanism book-writers (http://www.geocities.com/dontpay2pray/list.html#books) from the lists of frauds?
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Cetan on August 25, 2009, 09:54:33 pm
the difference is Casteneda and Lynn Andrews tried to claim their characters were real people and their experiences actually happened; Powwow highway is a comedy film and Philbert is not presented as someone who exists in real life, he is only a character in a movie. Go rent the movie and watch it before you start throwing accusations about it - you are only making yourself look more ignorant every time you post
I guess sizzle still thinks Powwow Highway is a documentary
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Sizzle Flambé on August 25, 2009, 10:21:08 pm
I guess sizzle still thinks Powwow Highway is a documentary

No, but David Seals cites it in his credentials to write about real shamanism as the "Native American Shamanism Examiner": "His novel The Powwow Highway, which George Harrison made into a feature film of the same name, follows the modern adventures of a shaman from Montana to New Mexico." (http://www.examiner.com/x-7919-Phoenix-Native-American-Shamanism-Examiner#fragment-2)

So if you're saying he's only a comic novelist and doesn't claim any more.... Wrong.
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Superdog on August 25, 2009, 11:07:03 pm
I guess sizzle still thinks Powwow Highway is a documentary

No, but David Seals cites it in his credentials to write about real shamanism as the "Native American Shamanism Examiner": "His novel The Powwow Highway, which George Harrison made into a feature film of the same name, follows the modern adventures of a shaman from Montana to New Mexico." (http://www.examiner.com/x-7919-Phoenix-Native-American-Shamanism-Examiner#fragment-2)

So if you're saying he's only a comic novelist and doesn't claim any more.... Wrong.

Honestly....a "My bio" blurb written in the third person doesn't really prove that he's claiming anything.  Also the title "Native American Shamanism Examiner" is also kind of dubious proof of anything.  The website is Examiner.com...all the authors are some type of examiner...Political examiner, Christian religion examiner, marriage examiner...etc....the title could be there out of a lack of choices..as in "Native American spirituality and political examiner" was already taken or something.  I agree with you I don't like the use of the word "shamanism" next to "Native American", but it seems sometimes the authors have little choice in that matter if they want to write there.  You're also leaving out the part of the blurb where it's written that he has Huron-Cheyenne heritage...a claim you made earlier that he always puts Huron or Cheyenne but "NEVER" both seems to have been forgotten.

I'm sitting here with my objective face on...I don't really see what you're seeing and I believe this is more of a personal battle between you two than anything.  The articles by Seals on the site are well written, the subjects are valid and he examines them pretty well. 

I'm not arguing your right to dislike the guy or what he's about.....but I'm not seeing anything that says fraud or a plastic shaman selling ceremonies and the corollary to Castaneda and Lynn Andrews doesn't fly as well......the character Philbert.....well....you'd really have to read the book and you might see for yourself how he can't be mistaken for anything but what he is...the movie doesn't even really do him justice.....they leave out a bunch of stuff to make the film more friendly to a movie audience.

But I'll leave it all alone.  I could be wrong and I'm always open to that, I'm just saying that as far as Seals goes you really haven't convinced me with what you've presented.

Superdog

Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Sizzle Flambé on August 26, 2009, 01:11:16 am
You're also leaving out the part of the blurb where it's written that he has Huron-Cheyenne heritage...a claim you made earlier that he always puts Huron or Cheyenne but "NEVER" both seems to have been forgotten.

You put "NEVER" in quote marks, as if that's a direct quote.

If you're going to imply dishonesty, why use false quotation to do it?

For instance, in sourced quotes at the link I posted, <http://tinyurl.com/daveseals-faux-indian (http://tinyurl.com/daveseals-faux-indian)>, or which you can find by Googling, "Native American author" Seals is variously identified as Huron or Cheyenne (not as "both" in any source), "Cheyenne" when his Cheyenne-character books came out, and "Huron" later on.

Later I came across an additional site:

The really big excuse for not even looking at him is that he's not NAFPS's concern at all unless his authorship veers from comedy novels into shamanism, right?

<http://www.examiner.com/x-7919-Phoenix-Native-American-Shamanism-Examiner (http://www.examiner.com/x-7919-Phoenix-Native-American-Shamanism-Examiner)>
David Seals
Phoenix Native American Shamanism Examiner


Next excuse...?

So your complaint is that at 9:15 am I didn't yet know what I knew at 12:10 pm?
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Superdog on August 26, 2009, 12:39:59 pm
You're also leaving out the part of the blurb where it's written that he has Huron-Cheyenne heritage...a claim you made earlier that he always puts Huron or Cheyenne but "NEVER" both seems to have been forgotten.

You put "NEVER" in quote marks, as if that's a direct quote.

If you're going to imply dishonesty, why use false quotation to do it?


sorry for the misunderstanding.  the quotes shouldn't have been there....i was trying add emphasis where i really didn't need any.   my apologies.  I do not imply that you are dishonest at all (again i apologize if you misunderstood me)....simply a little overly biased when it comes to Seals.  But like I've been saying, I don't know the guy, I just don't get the same conclusion out of the information you've presented.  In fact, the info you've presented when you explore it further makes the case for him that he writes well and he's knowledgeable about his subjects, so the end result of whatever he might claim is that he makes quality work and that gains points with me.  But I do concede that I could always be wrong....I am human.  No excuses here...I simply disagree with you on this one subject.

Superdog
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: earthw7 on August 26, 2009, 11:02:36 pm
I think she just want to argue
maybe she thinks this site is like a mesage or chat board where they exchange
angry words between each other.
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Sizzle Flambé on August 27, 2009, 05:54:30 am
I think she just want to argue
maybe she thinks this site is like a mesage or chat board where they exchange
angry words between each other.

Take that up with...

The only sizzle I smell here is bacon, oink oink
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: earthw7 on August 27, 2009, 06:28:42 pm
cetan is my friend i have no argue
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: earthw7 on August 27, 2009, 09:25:21 pm
Now back to what this post is about
an Introducation who are?

What tribal nation are you from or not?
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Cetan on August 27, 2009, 11:10:42 pm
wopila earth7
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Sizzle Flambé on August 28, 2009, 02:40:59 am
What tribal nation are you from or not?

Not.
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Sizzle Flambé on August 28, 2009, 08:08:03 am
Honestly....a "My bio" blurb written in the third person doesn't really prove that he's claiming anything.

Then who do you think wrote "My Bio"? Third-person is standard format.

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Also the title "Native American Shamanism Examiner" is also kind of dubious proof of anything.

His sequel Sweet Medicine is flacked with the blurb: "A novel of modern confrontation between Indians and Anglos, by the Native American author of The Powwow Highway". (Google Search: <http://tinyurl.com/daveseals-faux-na-author (http://tinyurl.com/daveseals-faux-na-author)>)

You think they snuck that through without his approval?

<http://www.ragbaby.com/magazine/19990618c.htm (http://www.ragbaby.com/magazine/19990618c.htm)>: The Peace Pipe in Powwow Highway
"Based on the 1979 novel by David Seals, a member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) and the Cheyenne Nation,...."

Who gave them that idea? Do you think they just made it up?

<http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/A461 (http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/A461)>: Native American Authors Project
"David Seals , 1947-
"Huron
"Davydd ap Saille (the spelling used by the author) is a talented Huron novelist, publisher (Sky and Sage Books), freelance journalist, playwright, and documentary video producer."

Who do you think provided them with all that info?

<http://www.coloradoaim.org/why.html (http://www.coloradoaim.org/why.html)> -- footnote # 11:
"As the noted Paiute poet/novelist Adrian C. Lewis put it in a letter to Churchill on Sept. 21, 1992 (copy on file), 'David Seals...now has a sequel to Pow Wow Highway out. Although he claims AIM connections, etc., he is really not an Indian. He's a new age weirdo and a terrible writer at that.'"

Despite all those claims, "David Seals...is really not an Indian."

So somebody's been telling a lot of lies, haven't they? Who?
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Superdog on August 28, 2009, 12:56:37 pm
Honestly....a "My bio" blurb written in the third person doesn't really prove that he's claiming anything.

Then who do you think wrote "My Bio"? Third-person is standard format.

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Also the title "Native American Shamanism Examiner" is also kind of dubious proof of anything.

His sequel Sweet Medicine is flacked with the blurb: "A novel of modern confrontation between Indians and Anglos, by the Native American author of The Powwow Highway". (Google Search: <http://tinyurl.com/daveseals-faux-na-author (http://tinyurl.com/daveseals-faux-na-author)>)

You think they snuck that through without his approval?

<http://www.ragbaby.com/magazine/19990618c.htm (http://www.ragbaby.com/magazine/19990618c.htm)>: The Peace Pipe in Powwow Highway
"Based on the 1979 novel by David Seals, a member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) and the Cheyenne Nation,...."

Who gave them that idea? Do you think they just made it up?

<http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/A461 (http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/A461)>: Native American Authors Project
"David Seals , 1947-
"Huron
"Davydd ap Saille (the spelling used by the author) is a talented Huron novelist, publisher (Sky and Sage Books), freelance journalist, playwright, and documentary video producer."

Who do you think provided them with all that info?

<http://www.coloradoaim.org/why.html (http://www.coloradoaim.org/why.html)> -- footnote # 11:
"As the noted Paiute poet/novelist Adrian C. Lewis put it in a letter to Churchill on Sept. 21, 1992 (copy on file), 'David Seals...now has a sequel to Pow Wow Highway out. Although he claims AIM connections, etc., he is really not an Indian. He's a new age weirdo and a terrible writer at that.'"

Despite all those claims, "David Seals...is really not an Indian."

So somebody's been telling a lot of lies, haven't they? Who?

Seems like you're spending a lot of time with me trying to prove I'm wrong.  My stance is....I currently have no stance so you're spinning your wheels. 

What it boils down for me is that I don't care if he's enrolled somewhere or not, enrollment doesn't define a person's culture.  I have several friends who aren't enrolled, can't be enrolled, but they've been raised within their culture, speak their language and they are recognized by their community as one of them....there's absolutely no doubt that they are Indian, however.  He gets it right when it comes to Indian humor, he writes articles that are very knowledgeable of his subjects.  He's a little out there with the alien abduction stuff, but a person can make a healthy career out of that kind of writing...ask Whitley Strieber.

So again, (one more time) it seems this is more of a battle on a personal level between the two of you (in fact it's obvious).  It's really up to the Huron and Cheyenne if they wanna claim him or not....not me, not you, so this is really a pointless conversation and it's obvious we're gonna run this circle over and over again.  If you wanna be right on this subject Sizzle then take solace in the fact that I haven't proved you wrong and I can't prove you wrong....so from your perspective you are right.  However, from mine, I just don't draw the same conclusions you do and that's certainly within my rights to do so, but (again) I could be wrong.....and if I ever come to that conclusion, you'll be the first person I'll post to.

Superdog
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: earthw7 on August 28, 2009, 01:35:30 pm
this should be in research topic
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Sizzle Flambé on August 28, 2009, 11:36:32 pm
What it boils down for me is that I don't care if he's enrolled somewhere or not, enrollment doesn't define a person's culture.  [...]  He gets it right when it comes to Indian humor, he writes articles that are very knowledgeable of his subjects.  He's a little out there with the alien abduction stuff, but a person can make a healthy career out of that kind of writing...ask Whitley Strieber.

So as long as he's entertaining (popular) and persuasive, being actually genuine isn't important?

By this standard, Carlos Castaneda and Lynn Andrews have it made. Why are THEY on fraud lists?

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So again, (one more time) it seems this is more of a battle on a personal level between the two of you (in fact it's obvious).

Then are all the people on <http://www.geocities.com/dontpay2pray (http://www.geocities.com/dontpay2pray)> there because of someone's "personal" dislike -- not because of principled objections to their false representations?

Well, I suppose there's a gaping loophole to let in every fake "Indian" on that list: get adopted by an enrolled Indian in Canada -- it instantly qualifies you to register as "Indian" yourself under Canadian law, even if you have not a drop of Indian ancestry and never learned anything about any tribe's culture:

<http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/br/is/scs/faq-eng.asp#q23 (http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/br/is/scs/faq-eng.asp#q23)>: "Canadian law is different in that registration as an Indian under the provisions of the Indian Act is not based on percentage of Indian blood quantum. Under previous Indian Acts, it was possible for non-Indians to gain Indian status through marriage. Under the current Act, non-Indians can gain status through adoption by registered Indians."
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Cetan on August 29, 2009, 01:47:06 am
Adoption is not something done lightly, read Earth7's thread  on adoption ceremonies
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Moma_porcupine on August 29, 2009, 03:08:59 am
Gee Sizzle...You really don't seem to understand the principles underlaying what people here target and what people here DON'T target, and WHY .

This is just how I understand this, but after participating here for a few years this is what I have noticed...

People who post here don't usually target peoples claims to be of Native descent if this is the only questionable thing they are doing.

First off, as has already been explained to you, as long as people aren't claiming a political identity , whether or not they are enrolled may not be that important in decideing if a person is somehow legitimately connected with a Native community.

While it may be possible to prove whether or not a person is enrolled, even that can be difficult and both sides of a debate on this subject can post scans of letters and documents , but the other side can make equally compelling arguments that all this is fake. Unless you know the people involved, this can be almost impossible to verify one way or another and the fights over this can rage on for years , never getting resolved.

If a person isn't enrolled and claims some Native descent, proving this is non existent can be next to impossible , as the person can always claim their ancestor was wrongly recorded and occaisionally this may be true.

If you want to go after people purely because they claim some unverifiable Native descent , i gotta tell you , even if you could recruit hundreds of people to help you, and you made this your full time job for the next 20 years. and the only progress you are likely to make is creating a lot of angry people and disagreement.     

The next problem is that even if someone claims to be of native descent and you do the very intensive and time consuming genealogical research to prove beyond all reasonable doubt the person can not possibly have any substantial amount of native blood, you still haven't proven they are a liar or a bad person because many people were told this by their families, just believed it to be true and were accepted into a native community for decades on this basis. Not everyone who mistakenly claims Native ancestry is a deceptive person.

As I understand it, it is for all these reasosn people who post in NAFPS don't generally worry about validating peoples ancestry unless this is being used to gain public trust.

The works of fiction you have cited in this thread , by David Seals, are works of fiction, and don't really involve "public trust"   

The books written by Lynn Andres and carlos Castenada were not presented as works of fiction and both these people also gave workshops based on the allegedly real spiritual teachings presented in these books. That is the difference. it is a subtle distinction, but it is a distinction it would really help you to be able to make.

People who post in NAFPS generally target people who are advertising and charging for Ceremonies , or Spiritual or cultural teachings which the Spiritual authorities of the tribe these cultural practices are maintained by , say should not be commercialized.

Books sold as fiction would not fall in this catagory.

People who post in NAFPS generally target situations where what is being taught as a Native tradition isn't, and the person teaching this just made this up , or has partly made this up.

Books sold as fiction might be offensive but would not usually fall in this catagory.

People who post in NAFPS also target people claiming some sort of position of authority , when this authority is not recognized by the persons claimed Native community.

Writing a book marketed as fiction is not claiming a position of authority.

Also using knowledge of Native ways to obtain sexual favors will get someone criticized here.

People who claim to be a charity serving Native people who may be  using too large a portion the funds for personal use , will also sometimes get discussed here.

Peoples personal claims of ancestry , just in themselves, usually aren't questioned unless this is being used to prop up other claims which involve the public trust.

being an author of fictional books does not.

Or would you also go after authors like Tony Hillerman, who's books contain Navajo characters and a fictionalized Navajo culture?

I hope this helps you understand why people here aren't supporting you.

I think there is usually some well thought out reasons and principles behind what we choose to target and what we don't choose to target.
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: Sizzle Flambé on August 29, 2009, 04:37:27 am
People who post here don't usually target peoples claims to be of Native descent if this is the only questionable thing they are doing.

Oh my, it hasn't been. More from Colorado AIM's "why" page, footnote #11 (http://www.coloradoaim.org/why.html#11.%20In%20a%20letter%20to%20the%20editor%20published%20in%20Indian):
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In fact, a Black Hills Alliance investigation of Seals was convened in 1982 after he "accidentally" bankrupted the organization's newspaper, Paha Sapa Report, by causing the wrong front page to be printed. He then wandered up the street to volunteer his services to the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, located in Rapid City in those days, later disappearing with about $1500 in donations. Reemerging in Denver, he began his ongoing campaign to undermine the credibility of Churchill, Glenn Morris and Colorado AIM more generally, while writing his initially selfpublished parody of the movement, Pow Wow Highway (made into a movie by exBeatle George Harrison over the strenuous objections of the Northern Cheyenne).

And he keeps leveraging his "Native American author" claim for more and more influence.

First off, as has already been explained to you, as long as people aren't claiming a position of political leadership, [....]

In big glaring green letters?

David Seals
Secretary and Ambassador, Bear Butte Council
(44 hereditary chiefs, of the many Confederacies and leagues formed in the Louisiana Purchase lands)


<http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/2691/tribunal.htm (http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/2691/tribunal.htm)>

("David Seals, born in Denver in 1947, was a member of the American Indian movement, and is founder of the Bear Butte Council. He has worked as a reporter and a professional actor.") <http://www.penguin.ca/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000029297,00.html (http://www.penguin.ca/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000029297,00.html)>

David Seals himself writes: "I only ran into David Hill a few times, in 1991, when the Lakota Sovereignty Committee was helping the Bear Butte Council declare independence from the US and Canada, according to the great 1851 Fort Laramie Treaty." <http://www.grahamdefense.org/20040110seals.htm (http://www.grahamdefense.org/20040110seals.htm)>

Yah, the group he founded declared "independence from the US and Canada". You want a claim of political leadership?

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The works of fiction you have cited in this thread , by David Seals, are works of fiction, and don't really involve "public trust". [....]

Books sold as fiction [....]

Books sold as fiction [....]

Writing a book marketed as fiction [....]

being an author of fictional books [....]

Not everything he writes is presented as "fiction": but even on those books, "by a Native American author" is a statement presumed to be true, non-fictional, something readers can rely on when deciding whether to buy the books.

As that helps sell books (both his "fiction" and his "non-fiction"), it makes him money.

And if it's false... taking people's money under false pretenses is fraud.

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Or would you also go after authors like Tony Hillerman, who's books contain Navajo characters and a fictionalized Navajo culture?

Hillerman's books were never falsely flacked as "by Native American author Tony Hillerman".

You're getting hung up on whether the content of the books is fiction.

I'm talking about whether the author's own ethnicity (in the real world; not that of his narrative voice in the books) is a lie used to market those books... and, as above, leverage the author into greater influence.
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: wolfhawaii on August 29, 2009, 06:16:39 am
I think the introduction and the Seals discussion should be separated into appropriate threads.
Title: Re: Sizzle Flambé says Hello
Post by: earthw7 on August 29, 2009, 11:04:03 pm
I think I was trying to say that but following on deaf ear :(