Protest February 26, 2011 Making a Noise about Kiesha Crowther's Exploitation

As indigenous people, we all need to take strong action to ensure that our culture would be carried on by the younger generations, and by the generations yet to come. Our relatives have sacrificed in many areas to ensure that both our language and way of life will always survive and flourish. For us NOT to take action against those who thoughtless exploit our life ways for money is not an option.

For more information, see this Press Release from AIM Santa Barbara:
http://is.gd/DeAs7H

http://www.aimsb.org/library/KCrowthe...

If you can't participate in the Little Grandmother protest, there are still things you can do to take a stand against her exploitation.

http://is.gd/U2frec

Join the Facebook group: League of Pissed off NDNZ for updates:

http://is.gd/Q5cOcf

The music you're listening to is Making a Noise by Robbie Robertson. You can get it here:

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The text from the video is as follows:

Making a Noise: Why Native People Must Speak Out Against Kiesha Crowther
(video I was called to be a shaman ...)
This is a big lie.
There is no such thing as a "shaman" of these tribes.
Picture collage --
This is the Salish Nation
These are our grandmothers and grandfathers.
We survived deliberate extermination and theft of land in the guise of religion.
We survived forced acculturation by missionaries in the Indian boarding schools.
We walked the Longest Walk from San Francisco to Washington D.C. to preserve our right to practice our religions.
So, why should we have to suffer the indignity of this cultural outsider's disrespect?
Just like her ancestors, Kiesha Crowther has broken every promise.
Native people are the rightful custodians of our peoples' history, culture and life ways.
When cultural outsiders believe that God is on their side, they can commit any offense against us.
Kiesha Crowther has arrogantly fabricated a make-believe tribe,
And arrogantly assigned herself the make-believe name, "Little Grandmother."
She has done this to facilitate the commercialization of sacred traditions.
She institutionalizes the sacrilegious imitation of spiritual practices
Under the guise of 'educational' programs in shamanism.
She has fabricated an identity in the style of racist white fantasies of Native culture.
She has created a hodge-podge of New Age nonsense that ...
Trivializes and minimizes the beauty and complexity of indigenous ceremonial life ways
While erasing the uniqueness and diversity of individual tribal beliefs.
Kiesha Crowther has no compassion for the pain and outrage of the Lakota people at her disgraceful expropriation of their sacred traditions.
She desecrated the sacred rites of the Lakota
And falsely represents them as universal to all indigenous cultures.
To gain financially, she has tried to make parallels to European cultures that in fact do not exist.
Kiesha Crowther has demonstrated contempt for the integrity of the spiritual practices she distorts.
She has formed pseudo-religious corporations and made obscene profits with them all over the world.
Resistance
What would Sitting Bull do?
Let's show Kiesha Crowther that we are united against her exploitation
Saturday February 26, 2011
Palm Springs convention center
Be there to speak out
The exploitation stops now!
Native Pride stronger than ever
"The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it."
Sing Loud
This is the beginning of a powerful movement.

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[MsWaboose]

The idea that she's bastardizing our Traditional Teachings&Medicines And making a profit from it really burns people up.

Haudenoshone, Cree, Anishnaubek, (First Nations/Native American people) historically share without question. We charge for for crafts and prepared food at pow wows but for Medicine or Spiritual advice? NEVER!

Trading or bartering for goods happens: I traded my Sweetgrass soap for deer hide I needed to make moccasins last week. but this chick is about outright fraud & deception

[PrincessMoonFeathers]

i think she is a fraud. i guess the white people are desperate to reconnect to nature and feel their own ethnicity and tribal selves, she takes advantage of that. what should white people do then? how do they find their ceremonies and lost past? i certainly dont think wicca is a valid path.

[BabyKieransParty]

Hello I am wondering how your protest went. And what happened at the end of it? Did this woman get help. Whats the story? I live in Scotland and this was the first time I heard of this. I understand how frustrating that must have been. Blessed Be...

[aovproject]

Brothers of the Indian Nations I am saddend by the exploitation of your culture.We have the same problem with new agers here in Hawaii exploiting the Hawaiian Nations for profit.They have stolen our land and now they want our spirit! Thank you for exposing this women.

[apacheflower]

I didn't misinterpret anything she said and she is NOT white buffalo calf woman ..... she is a FRAUD and yes it pisses us off when people like her tries to exploit our people!

[eveningstar1982]

and I'm tired of them exploiting the Native American culture, traditions and believes!!

[eveningstar1982]

I would like to help with exposing these frauds. We have a few of them in my country, calling themselves a shaman, and gives "shaman" educations for insane prices. What can we do to stop this?? I'm tired of new age people making lot's of money pretending to "help" people who are seeking.

[AuntieKhrist]

if you bring the truth there is no need to lie. Her message is fraud, telling you that you do not have to do anything but stop thinking and come from the heart. HELLO? Stop thinking? Creator of All Things Living gave me a brain for a reason. If her message of our future doom is true for her, why is she amassing so much wealth? Why is she falsely claiming other world elders support her? How can a message of "truth" be couched in so many lies? Think for yourself. Aho, Mitakuye Oyasin.

[AuntieKhrist]

Is the measure of a "teacher" to be how many lies they must tell in order to get a following? Keisha Rae Kreps, a former Mormon housewife and mother of two, deserted her family, created a whole new and false identity and started a cult. If her message is authentic, why lie about who she is? The culties on here fail to realize that we NAs are upset because she is charging for her nonsense under a banner of NA authenticity and that is wrong. She is a fraud who has made enough to buy a 350k house.

[interstellarwonder]

lay off buffalo calf woman, i can't believe you actually said that crap. i am native american , and i know who whit buffalo calf woman is, you don't and don't EVEN try to make this fraud into a something she is DEFINITELY NOT!

[interstellarwonder]

she IS a FAKE, so now what? what do ppl do with frauds?tell me?i can care less what you learned from her, she is a fake and a fraud who earns her money by lying and deception.

[lumeriam]

there is a rainbow tribe and she never started it you misinterpret everything. I only see blame, hurt, misplaced anger all over this page. What if she is white buffalo calf woman in the flesh, isn't this the time of prophecy? You're all too angry to see signs.