IMPOSTORS IN OUR MIDST There are people online and elsewhere who claim to be Native American shamans or medicine people or full blood native One such claimant had an ad on eBay, auctioning off the opportunity to study under that person to become a Cherokee shaman. The same person who ran the eBay ad also has several other sites offering for sale Cherokee shamanic services. These services include tarot readings, astrological charts, psychic readings, etc., according to her claims. SENAA does not condone such charlatans; and we will do all in our power to stop the perversion and desecration of Native American sacred ceremonies and the exploitation on the Internet and elsewhere of Native Americans by these people who offer as Native American spiritual teachings bogus rituals that have no place in Native American spirituality. ceremony does not include crystal gazing, tarot readings, psychic phone advice, nor does it include selling ones services for a set price, per minute rates, or to the highest bidder. It is a sacrilege in every tribal nation that I am aware of for a medicine man or woman to charge for his or her services. It is unthinkable for a medicine man or woman to advertise his or her services for hire and set prices for each type of operation. The spiritual leaders and medicine people that I know or know about do NOT advertise their services. They dont have to. They were taught from childhood in herbal and spiritual knowledge and in the traditional culture of their tribal nation. Sacred ceremony among Native Americans is jealously guarded in each tribal nation. It is among their most precious and valuable treasures. Medicine people are the most devout of traditionalists and the most adherent to their culture and hold that culture and tradition in highest regard. It is, in fact, one of the duties of the medicine people to preserve and protect their culture and sacred ceremonies. A medicine man does not have to advertise, because he is already known by the people he has been trained to serve. If the medicine man receives any pay, it is given to him by a patient in gratitude for his services. The medicine man does not send the patient a bill or require payment by credit card. The medicine man gives medicine, ceremony, or council because it is his duty to do so, not because he gets paid X amount of dollars for the service. Creator has chosen the medicine man for that path; it is not a self appointed career, and that position certainly cannot be bought at an auction, online or otherwise, for the highest bid! Medicine people of all indigenous nations have worked very hard to achieve their status, and their teachers have invested their very hearts and souls into training their protégés. They deserve our respect and admiration, not the degradation that todays charlatans have brought to be associated with them. ; anyone who and makes self aggrandizing claims; anyone who mixes tarot cards, astrological charts, and crystal gazing with ceremonies billed as native or any other Native American tribal origin is not a legitimate spiritual man or woman. Such people are impostors of the most disgusting sort. These people do not pray with but prey upon their unwitting victims. Their victims are usually people who sincerely seek and need spiritual or emotional guidance. Through their smooth, sympathetic tone, poetic monologues, and assurances of spiritual bliss, the phony spiritual lures these poor souls into a spiritual nightmare of false hope, deception, and deepening spiritual darkness. These are the most malevolent of thieves, the most sordid and morally depraved individuals that a spiritually starved soul can ever have the misfortune to encounter. Not only are these impostors doing the gravest of injustices to their poor victims, they are desecrating the spirituality of legitimate Native American people and making a mockery of Native Americans most valued treasure. We cannot undo or even assess the damage done to those who have come to these frauds for help, but we can do something about their misrepresentation of Native American spirituality and perhaps keep them from injuring other unwitting victims in the process. We can do this by educating the public, thereby alerting everyone of the tactics and false claims of these fraudulent individuals.always ask to see something ,to verify who they really are check profiles, your bound to see natives pictures pow wow events clothing jewelry, for most natives americans love there culture, so it shows not in just words also native american have the elders of there family look for pictures
Posted on: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 01:18:39 +0000
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