Siouxindianer.com German Pipestone Selling Site

[educatedindian]

Got an inquiry about this site. They sell pipestone and what they claim is authentic sacred Lakota music.
http://www.siouxindianer.com/

[Defend the Sacred]

Facebook link on the page goes to the personal page of one Robert Alan Packard

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1233918362&fref=ts
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Intro

    Works at Filmset Consulter, Schauspieler und Markenbotschaftler bei der Schuhfirma Sioux

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Google translation: "Filmset consulter, actor and brand messagemaker at the Sioux shoe company"
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Looks to me like yet another German dude who's fleecing the hobbyists. No mutual friends, no NDNs that I can see. Friends list is full of German newagers, mostly pretendians and shameon types, some with misspelled attempts at Lakota names. The usual "Indianer" hobbyist crowd.

[Defend the Sacred]

Or maybe he's Croatian. I've known Eastern European guys who look like this. Here he is on set in Croatia for a movie. Note the paintdown on the "Indian Maidens" [sic]

[Defend the Sacred]

If you can see the series of photos here... it looks like he's involved in staging some kind of bizarre, fake ceremony/performance for television here, with shirtless dudes and women in fringed minidresses (I think some of the same women from the paintdown photos).

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10208643904515067&set=pb.1233918362.-2207520000.1496087607.&type=3&theater

[Piff]

Sioux Indian found guilty of Nazi salute
by Seymour Gris July 18, 2014
http://www.exberliner.com/features/people/sioux-indian-found-guilty-of-nazi-salute/

Packard is a Sioux Indian from the Yankton Reservation in South Dakota. His life has taken him around the world from there to New Mexico to Paris (where he married) to Israel and finally Berlin, where he arrived 15 years ago. En route he was stationed with the US military in West Germany, saw combat in the Vietnam War, spent 12 years living in Paris where he worked as a model. He has a 29-year-old daughter who lives in London.

In June, in a trial that took just a few minutes, the judge found Packard guilty of using a symbol of a banned political organisation (the Hitler salute) and told him, "You can't insult people in this fashion." He was sentenced to pay a €300 fine or do 90 hours of community service.

[Defend the Sacred]

Their entire page on pipestone (Under "Catlinit" in the frames menu)  is copied and pasted directly from German Wikipedia, including the location photos:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipestone_National_Monument

The pipe photo doesn't seem to be online elsewhere.

[loudcrow]

http://www.endersandshirley.com/memsol.cgi?user_id=1639937