Stormy Summers aka DawnEagle Summers

[GhostBear]

She has 2 Yahoo 360 pages, 1 under each name, a Geocities page and is also Bella Online's "Native American Editor".  Everything she writes sounds more new-age than anything and when asked a serious question by someone about ceremony/tradition, all she replies with is stories/legends that she found online.  Anybody have any information on her and what can be done to inform Bella Online that she doesn't need to be representing us?

Here's the links to her pages:
Stormy Summers Yahoo360: http://360.yahoo.com/profile-JZdd814ib6k9VAIf_r7zSHVBw.qsOUA-?cq=1
DawnEagle Summers Yahoo360:  http://360.yahoo.com/profile-krLqPvI1erHnhQNZ8KT.dCnbXQ--?cq=1
Stormy Summers Geocities:  http://www.geocities.com/stormy_summers1/
Bella Online: http://www.bellaonline.com/site/nativeamerican

[frederica]

Claims to be Cherokee/Choctaw/Irish. About as New Age as you can get. http://www.geocities.com/dawneagle_summers/    Never mentions any prices. Never gives any concrete information.

[GhostBear]

I had noticed all that and she's now Bella Online's "Native American" Editor spouting the same stuff.  It just doesn't seem right to accept a position like that and then post vague or "New Age" stuff.  In something she wrote she mentioned the Medicine Wheel and colors of the 4 Directions "where she's from" not the Cherokee colors.  It seemed that she is Cherokee, living in New Mexico, and using whatever tribal traditions she can find on the Internet and a well know site is buying it.

[frederica]

She reads a lot of Manny TwoFeathers books.  Bellaonline I think is a family owned business, they may listen about the misrespentation of Indian Spirituality, but I think that Editor is just a title she has bestowed on herself.

[Defend the Sacred]

Don't know what her birth name is but...  "Dawn Summers" is the name of a character on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"  ;)

[frederica]

And Stormy Summers is the name of a woman who runs a Bordello.

[educatedindian]

All those Hamilton Mint Collection plates hurt my eyes, especially the one with a troll and an angel.

She's pretty out there, but seems like a sincere person who wants to believe her sleep disturbances make her reel spirchul.

http://mysticvisions.blogspot.com/
"You can also be a bridge to the past, and to your own past lives, to pull that knowledge into your life now. He showed me one of my past lives, that of an "Incan Princess??? (haha!). We looked out upon the horizon, after praying to Grandfather Sun, and could see Incan pyramids, cities, etc. Then I saw a woman on a horse or burro. It seems she was a part of the downfall of the Incans, who used blood sacrifice to achieve power. She gathered up barbarians for sacrifice by the priests."

Problem is, the Incans didn't have pyramids or sacrifices. Or horses or burros. The barbarian crack is racist.

"Yesterday, Masaw the Caretaker visited me again. I should say, an Elder visited me and took me to Masaw, who was in the same valley, in the Great Smokey Mountains, where I always meet up with him."

A Hopi deity insists you meet up in the Smoky Mountains?

"I was on a bus (why is it that my family always chooses to visit me on buses?!"

If you don't know, I don't either.

"They told me they were the Spiritual Assurance Committee, and that they had come to make sure I continued to talk to people about Spirituality. I asked them why they would need to do this, as this is something I plan to do anyway - it's a given, I said. They then said something about wanting to make sure that everyone had free and equal access to spirituality..."

How convenient.

"Then I wake up, remembering it all, especially the "Spiritual Assurance Committee", and my mother being a part of it all. My mother was always on numerous committees. I am glad to know she has found her one on the Other Side. This dreams helps me to understand why I am still here, and what they want from me. Everyone must have free and equal access to Spirituality!"

But if you post your "visions" on the net, tribal people have the least access of anyone, wealthy whites the most of anyone.