Making a Noise : Why Natives Should Protest Kiesha Crowther

The purpose of this video is to motivate people to protest Kiesha Crowther aka Little Grandmother. She is a charlatan. She has no compassion for Native people and she is not concerned that she is harming future generations by confusing authentic traditions with imitation rituals and non-Indian occult practices in an offensive and harmful pseudo-religious hodgepodge. Her activities create a momentous obstacle in the struggle of traditional people for mainstream recognition of our legitimate political, legal and spiritual concerns. She is doing great harm to native peoples because her bogus teachings supplant Native values of cooperation, generosity, sharing, honesty, and courage with vapid, narcissistic New Age self-centered values.


She refuses to deal honestly with the Native people she has outraged and offended and she will only acknowledge a vague, unnamed "elder" to validate the ridiculous story she has concocted to justify her exploitation, abuse and deliberate misrepresentation of sacred traditions.

Kiesha Crowther has no wisdom to teach. She should be learning a lessons from Native and environmental activists, not demonizing them and telling to stop thinking.

Kiesha Crowther is not the fulfillment of any Native prophesies. She is nothing more than a cult leader who promotes abominable and obscene imitations of sacred Lakota rites while promoting a dangerous and destructive philosophy that violates an individual's basic human right to reason, analyze and attribute his own meaning to the world around him.
I call on all our indigenous brothers and sisters from reservations, reserves, and traditional communities in the United States and Canada to actively and vocally oppose this alarming take-over and systematic destruction of sacred traditions.

I urge all indigenous people to coordinate with their tribal members living in urban areas to identify instances in which our sacred traditions are being abused, and then to resist this abuse, utilizing whatever specific tactics are necessary and sufficient.

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.


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

http://www.aimsb.org/library/KCrowtherPressRelease.pdf

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:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/robbie-robertson/id657429

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• Mayan prophesy
• activism
• cultural appropriation

[MissSolidarity1]

I hope everyone understands that this is not Ndn:s positioned against non-Ndns - this is not one culture against another culture. I am European and most of us do NOT want this kind of frauds and exploiters in our countriers. We are sick and tired of cultural genocide and appropriation. It is time that we in Europe put our feet down and say STOP! Natives should not have to fight this themselves - let´s make some European noise, too! :))

[wyomingoutdoorsman]

@MissSolidarity1 Thank you!

[wyomingoutdoorsman]

@SuperSPatrick - Sorry, I accidentily deleted one of your comments, when I was deleting he crazy lady's latest rant. You can repost it if you like.

[JaneEyre1920]

I used to support Kiesha but I have changed my mind. I'm sorry that I was fooled. After seeing how she treated all her people on her web forum by closing it within an hour I started to see her for what she is. She has set up a webcast site now where she charges people to watch her talk on camera. You can see 20 min for free after that you pay for it. She looks sickly now and greasy like she has not bathed. I think I see how she has wronged the indians and plan to speak of this to all i know.

[wyomingoutdoorsman]

@JaneEyre1920 The important thing is that you realized she's a fraud. Now, you have to find out what part of you was vulnerable to her lies. What hooked you in in the first place. If you deal with that, your chances of being fooled again will be very low. You can also really help people by speaking out and telling your story. thanks for the comment

[corine68]

Great video- compliments to the artists and producers of this youtube

[wyomingoutdoorsman]

@corine68 Thanks, I had a LOT of help.

[SmoothCinnamonX]

While much of what she says feels very true, I'm still undecided on this whole "crystals" issue. That part I am very skeptical about because where do these crystals come from, and is it good to put yet one more thing jammed into mother earth?

[articlescholar]

This video went viral on Libya

[interstellarwonder]

@MarcfromTreasureNet1 keep the priest and white family services away from native american children

[interstellarwonder]

@Seelentrommeln troll

[Seelentrommeln]

just listen - to the words - and feel the truth - who cares what.. maybe we were indians in a former life. - now white - so what? dont you indians always tell them whites... we are all one??????????? start spreading news to inspire people worldwide to just change the world.... and go... for this dir. . . . . . how long do indians want to sit and cry over their owning some treats and ceremonies..whatever..she says something ... here in europe indians sell

secrets... and lies for money..

[MarcfromTreasureNet1]

stop worrying about Keisha and start worrying about all of the sexual abuse and incest on the rez

[NopeJPeg]

@wiccannicky

So the purported beliefs of one tribal nation encompasses the hundreds of other Indian nations throughout the whole of the Americas? And then folks wonder why Indians are seen as a monolithic culture rather than a variety of different, and sometimes opposing, belief systems.

[MultiAquarius71]

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