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Native American Calling Thursday, January 30 - Spirituality Abuse: An Invisible Crime:

An excellent program on Spiritual Abuse focussing on Sexual Abuse. Unfortunately, abuse by spiritual leaders is not uncommon in Indian Country. Stories about abuse of power among self-proclaimed spiritual leaders are becoming more and more common. On of the worst abuses occurred when a man passing himself as a medicine man raped a woman who was nine months pregnant.

Guests include Arvol Looking Horse, Ray "Skip" Sandman from Duluth MN, a traditional healer for the Mille Lacs Band who grew up in the Fond Du Lac community, John Witherspoon of Charlevoix, MI, a founding member of Great Lakes Origins from the Bois Forte band of Ojibway, and Dr. Mimi Sa, a licensed clinical psychologist from the Grand Portage Rez in, MN, an advocate of culturally competent therapy.

It seems like you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a Cherokee Fraud these days. This site is a good source of information on them:

CAT Lodge Message Board Cherokees Against Twinkies

Committe to Combat Cherokee Fraud CENSORED

Awareness of Racism and Cultural Appropriation Sharing our Wabanaki Perspective by Dan Ennis

The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation Project University of Victoria Center for Studies in Religion and Society

Cultural Appropriation: Reckless Borrowing or Appropriate Cultural Sharing Religious Education Dept, UUA

Some Readings on Cultural Appropriations, Native America, and the New Age by Diane Bell,

Scenes from the Colonial Catwalk: Cultural Appropriation, Intellectual Property Rights, and Fashion by Peter Shand

New Age Cultural Colonialism

Sarlo's Guru Raging System

Learning in a Respectful Way

Dakota/Lakota/Nakota Human Rights Advocacy Coalition

Criticism of Wicca

An interesting preservation site for all the stuff the WiKKKanz don't want you to Rede - a great RESOURCE!
There's also a forum that poses the question: Is Wicca Counter-Revolutionary? Radical stuff

Dave�s Journal The Myth of the Burning Times

http://whywiccansstillsuck.bravehost.com/culturalimperialism.html

Bigotry in Wicca

Cultural Imperialism in Witchcraft

The Clannada na Gadelica, a Gaelic culture education facility.Why Wicca is Not Celtic by Iain Mac an tSaoir and Dawn O'Laoghaire

Pseudo-History, Fluff Bunnies and Wicca by Tony M.

Wild Ideas Why I Don�t Like Scott Cunninham

When a Celt is Not a Celt An Irreverent peek into Neopagan views of history by Joanna Hautin-Mayer

Wicca: A Bullshit Religion posted by Morivici

Criticism of the Nuage

Rick Ross Institute for the Study of Destructive Cults, Controversial Groups and Movements

The Fraudulent Origins of the New Age Theosophy: Origin of the New Age by C.C. Martindale, S.J.

Native American Tarot

New Age Fascism

The Anti-Fluff Bunny Movement among Pagans

What Makes a Fluff Bunny?

Cultural Appropriation: Perspectives from Other Cultures

Of Cultural Appropriation and White Feminists by Athaba Hijibiji

Transracial Abduction

Living Dolls: Transracial Adoption and Cultural Appropriation Abductees speak out

�Many white parents use their abducted child to complete their collection of ethnic accessories. The child becomes the centerpiece in the ethnically decorated house. The child becomes the passport into foreign countries and people of color spaces. Surrounded by so much difference, in the form of two, three, or more abducted children of color, the white parents feel justified; they use the number of children of color in their possession to shield themselves from charges of racism.�

Becoming Maya? Appropriation of the White Shaman. by Montejo, Victor D. v16 n1 p58-60 Spr 1999 ISSN-1092-3527
ABSTRCT: The history of anthropology among the Maya consists of both the literal exploitation of archaeological finds and the appropriation of Maya culture and history by the Western academic world to construct distorted theories of the Maya past. In the ultimate disgrace, some Mayan priests are training White anthropologists to become shamans themselves as they record sacred ceremonies.

Tourism Wars in the Yucatan

Remnants of Racism in Miguel Angel Asturias' Hombres de ma�z http://www.stetson.edu/~rsitler/CV/remnants.doc

Butterfield, Nancy "The New Age Movement Stealing American Indian Ceremonies". In The Seattle Times. Pp. A 15. Seattle.

Donaldson, Laura E 1999 On Medicine Women and White Shame-ans: New Age Native Americanism and Commodity Fetishism as Pop Culture Feminism. Signa: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 24(3):677-696.

Emerson, Bo 1991. "The Selling of Sacred Spirits: Popularity of Native American Lore Raises Question of Exploitation." In The Atlanta Journal and Constitution. Pp. D 01. Atlanta. October 4, 1991

Green, Rayna 1988. "The Tribe Called Wannabe." In Folklore 99(1):30-55.

I Speak of DreamsNew Age Profiteers

Johnson, Dirk 1993 Indians Complain of Religious and Cultural Theft. In New York Times. Pp. 1. New York.

Michel, Karen Lincoln 1994a Are Whites Using Indian Rites; 'Shake N Bake Medicine Men?' In St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Pp. 9D. St. Louis.

Michel, Karen Lincoln 1994b Pair offering Indian Rites -- For a Price; Tribes Resent 'Exploitation'. In Dallas Morning News. Pp. A12. Dallas.

Michel, Karen Lincoln 1995 Native American Traditionalists Worry as Sacred Rituals Become Mainstream. In The Buffalo News. Pp. 7A. Buffalo.

Cultural Property Rights

Riley, Angela, "Straight Stealing: Towards an Indigenous System of Cultural Property Protection" . Washington Law Review, Vol. 80, No. 69, 2005
Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=703283

Abstract:
Incidents involving theft of indigenous peoples' traditional knowledge and the blatant appropriation of culture have become more widely acknowledged in recent decades. It is now apparent that international, national, and tribal laws must work together to protect the cultural property of indigenous groups. However, tribal law, which provides vital cultural context, must serve as the foundation. Unlike top-down legal systems, tribal laws reflect tribal economic systems, cultural beliefs, and sensitive sacred knowledge in nuanced ways that national and international regimes simply cannot. Accordingly, this Article offers two central reasons why the development of tribal law is critical for indigenous peoples to direct their own cultures and destinies in a technological world. First, the essence of sovereignty for indigenous peoples means exercising their inherent authority to define tribal laws and be governed by them. The development and enforcement of tribal legal systems reinforces tribal sovereignty and affirms principles of self-determination. Additionally, when extant and ascertainable, tribal law can influence dominant legal systems. Adjudicatory bodies increasingly draw on tribal law to address issues that go to the essence of tribal life. Focusing on the sui generis, tribal law systems of federally recognized tribes in the contiguous United States, this Article examines in detail the actions tribes are undertaking to ensure the preservation of their cultural property.

Download paper here:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=703283

DRUG TOURISM AND OVERHARVESTING OF SACRED HERBS

LOVING US TO DEATH: HOW OVERHARVESTING OF SACRED HERBS THREATENS NATIVE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

STOP BUYING WHITE SAGE, SWEETGRASS and GOLDENSEAL!!!!

NEWS: The Chumash and other California Indian people are concerned about over-harvesting and disrespect of this plant for commercial purposes. New Age interest in appropriatingour practices is threatening our sacred herbs. If your truly care about preserving Native spiritual practices, you SHOULD NOT purchase any sacred herbs over the internet, nor should you engage in drug tourism. White sage, goldenseal has been severly overharvested for disrespectful commercial ceremonial products and is now on the united plant savers at risk list. Sage is NOT incense. It should never be disrespected and wasted by abusing it this way.

Wildcrafting is no solution to this problem. "The biggest stands of wild sweetgrass are in Canada where most of the commercial dried braids come from, but wildcrafting is hurting them," says Craig Dremann, owner of Redwood City Seeds in Redwood City, Calif. "Dried sweetgrass leaves contain very important soil nutrients. The phosphorus and other minerals removed with the harvested leaves are not being replenished, and, I believe, the subsequent diminished soil fertility is causing stands to decline."
The situation for white sage is bad, too. The plant is native to just a small strip of coastal Southern California, where development is intense. The sustainability of wild populations of white sage may be adversely affected by development, overharvesting and unfavorable weather, although the plant is a tough contender in drylands and in rough, unsettled country." Source: Sharing Sustainable Solutions

Ayahuasca tourism

A honest talk given by Jer�nimo M.Munez about how "genuine interest" can actually be very destructuve. The lecture was given at the 3rd Amazonian Shamanism Conference, addressing the commercialization and banalization of "shamanism." He discusses �the way that certain well meaning, but ignorant forms of interest can actually term tremendously destructive.� His analysis goes beyond the good that comes from the arrival of money and how it destabilizes the place and creates inequality that�s bad for the culture.He concludes that in many cases the very presence of the gringo with the super powerful currency is the imposition that slowly, but inevitably destroys indigenous culture.

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Mexico�s Peyote Endangered by Drug Tourists

Though peyote � a hallucinogenic cactus � has been used for hundreds of years by Mexican Indians, it only became popular outside of indigenous communities after Carlos Castaneda, then a student at the University of California, Los Angeles, wrote The Teachings of Don Juan in the 1970s. All of a sudden, Americans, Europeans and other foreigners began making pilgrimages to Mexico to hunt for peyote and consume it recreationally.

Mexico's Peyote Endangered by 'Drug Tourists' by Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

The Washington Post In Deep South Texas, peyote harvest dwindling By Sylvia Moreno

Drug Travel: Peyote North and South of the Border

What's Hot

Mander, Jerry, In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nation San Francisco, Sierra Club Books, 1991. pp.206-211.

Plastic Shamanism is all about conformity, refusing to admit that one was wrong or has been duped, and the inability to resist social influence. Dr. Phil Zimbardo, who conducted the Stanford Prison Experiment, has a web site that lists ways you can resist the influences of authority. Everything here can be applied to Plastic Shamanism.

Dr. Z�s 20 Hints About Resisting Unwanted Influences On You

A Ten-Step Program to Build Resistance and Resilience

LINKS TO SOURCES OF ONLINE NEWS

Links to Native News Streams and Alternative Media Streams

BOOKS WE RECOMMEND

Many people have asked for a list of good books on Native Spirituality, we can't find any legitimate books that reveal any legitimate indigenous spiritual practices. Like gramma say, a good rule of tumb to follow is: "Those who know, don't tell. Those who tell, don't know." That's more "Native Wisdom" than you'll ever get in any book. We can recommend some books that you need to read in order to understand why spiritual appropriation is so damaging to indigenous communities. Please don't purchase these books from Amazon dot com - they censor indigenous criticism of their twinkie books. Please support small, locally owned bookstores that make it their policy not to carry Nuage books that appropriate Native Spirituality.

Book and Journal List

Malcolm Chapman. The Celts: Construction of a Myth. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.

Elizabeth Cook-Lynn Why I Can�t Read Wallace Stagner and Other Essays A Tribal Voice (Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1996).

Philip G. Davis The Goddess Unmasked: The Rise of Neopagan Feminist Spirituality Dallas: Spence Publishing Co., 1998 . ISBN 0-9653208-9-8

Philip Deloria, Playing Indian (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998).

Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger (London: Routeledge, 1995)

Tom Greaves, ed Intellectual Property Rights for Indigenous Peoples: A Sourcebook (Oklahoma City: Society for Applied Anthropology, 1994).

Rayna Green, "The Tribe Called Wannabee," Folklore99 (1988):30-35.

Geary Hobson 1978 "The rise of white shaman as a new version of cultural imperialism." The Remembered Earth, edited by Geary Hobson, (Albuquerque: Red Earth Press 1978).

Peter Kratz Die G�tter des New Age Berlin: Elefanten Press, 1994)

Kimberly J. Lau New Age Capitalism: Making Money East of Eden (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000).

Victor D. Montejo, "BECOMING MAYA? APPROPRIATION OF THE WHITE SHAMAN" Spring, 1999, Native Americas Journal. http://nativeamericas.aip.cornell.edu/spr99pe.html

Sharon O'Brien, "A Legal Analysis of the American Indian Religious Freedom Act", in Handbook of American Indian Religious Freedom, ed. Christopher Vecsey, (New York: Crossroad, 1991).

Deborah Root Cannibal Culture: Art, Appropriation, and the Commodification of Difference Westview Press 1996.

Wendy Rose, "The Great Pretenders: Further Reflections on Whiteshamanism." The State of Native America: Genocide, Colonization, and Resistance, edited by Annette Jaimes, (Boston: South End Press, 1992).

Mikael Rothsteined New Age Religion and Globalization (Denmark: Aarhus University Press, 2001).

Dusty Sklar Gods and Beasts: The Nazis and the Occult (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1977).

Robert Sitler, �The 2012 Phenomenon: New Age Appropriation of an Ancient Mayan Calendar� Nova Religio, Vol. 9, Issue 3 (www.ucpress.edu/journals/nr/).

Andrea Smith, Chapter 6 "Spiritual Appropriation as Sexual Violence" in Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide, (Cambridge: South End Press, 2005).

Haunani-Kay Trask, From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaii (Monroe: Common Courage Press, 1993).

David Treur Native American Fiction: A Users manual (Saint Paul: Graywolf Press, 2006).

Laurie Anne Whitt, "Cultural Imperialism and the Marketing of Native America," in Natives and Academics: Researching and Writing About American Indians, ed. Devon Mihesuah (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998).

Bruce Ziff and Pratima V. Rao. Borrowed Power: Essays on Cultural Appropriation, Rutgers University Press).

Please be cautious and responsible! Don't contribute to the destruction of Native American Spirituality. Check out the plastic's claims by contacting LEGITIMATE tribal leaders. BIA 2007 Directory of Tribal Leaders

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