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Sep 15, 2007
Little Fraud?
3 of 3 found this helpful I know, I know, the book's ending left you in tears. It did me, too, because I knew it was a proven FRAUD, & that when Carter was uncovered as such, the publishers changed this book's genre to FICTION! Carter so obviously didn't even know the language OR the actual customs of the Aniyunwiyv , aka "Cherokee", that I'm surprised no one blew his cover before they did! If readers would only check with the Nations about whom so many books are written there would be far fewer best-sellers by wanna-be fake Indians! Every time these impostors have a best-seller it incites them to go even further down the trail of cultural theft & mis-information, writing new books that readers take as truth, & then even more readers are fed the FALSE beliefs about our People & Tribes.
Yes, you may say it's a sweet & moving story, but it is NOT factual, & Carter is NOT what he claimed to be.
Please, always go to the Real People & ask THEM. They will tell you the truths you seek!
If the pages of this book were GOLD, I would not pay a penny for it. To do so is to endorse culture theft & impostors.
Aug 13, 2007
SEVEN ARROWS OFENDS THE CHEYENNE PEOPLE!
8 of 10 found this helpful This book was found to be offensive by the Northern Cheyenne. It talks about the White Shaman's role in poetry.
PLEASE do a GOOGLE search for Hyemeyohsts Storm & add the word FAKE, or PLASTIC. See how Indian People feel about his books!
HYEMHOYOSTS STORM DESECRATES CHEYENNE BELIEFS
By Rupert Costo, President of the American Indian Historical Society and Publisher of The Indian Historian
Seven Arrows brings disgrace to its publisher, Harper and
Row. It falsifies and desecrates the traditions of the Northern
Cheyenne, which it purports to describe.
This reviewer withholds judgment as to whether Mr. Storm is a
Cheyenne as he claims to be.* He certainly shows little or no
understanding of the Cheyenne Way. The publisher circulated a letter giving Storm's enrollment number. But an enrollment number does not an Indian make! Quite a few Anglos and some blacks were adopted into Indian tribes. Sometimes the Indians were forced by the US government to accept them. In other cases whites were deceitful enrolled.
If indeed he is an Indian, the tribal chairman states "I
don't know how he got on the tribal rolls." Shame on him for making a blasphemous travesty of the Cheyenne Way in Seven Arrows.
This is a book put together with considerable pretensions.
The first thing that strikes the eye is the illustrative work:
1) The color plates are a solid disaster, in extremely poor taste, and the end result desecrates the Cheyenne religion. The Cheyenne do not use such garish colors. Theirs were the colors of the earth.
2) The designs are actually blasphemous to Cheyenne religion,
portraying their religious motifs in the worst possible manner,
making a mockery of the religious beliefs and the theological system of the people.
There are so many irreligious and irreverent inaccuracies in
this book that a committee of the Northern Cheyenne is now examining it in detail.** The reaction of Cheyenne people at Lame Deer was disbelief and anger: "Bunk!"
1) His description of the Sun dance is WRONG.
2) His drawing of the Sun Dance Lodge is NOT Cheyenne.
3) The Four Sacred Directions are INACCURATELY described as north-south-east-west. They are in fact the northeast-northwest-southeast-southwest.
4) The sacred number given is WRONG.
5) The Cheyenne shield colors are WRONG. They are red, black, white, and yellow, not the monstrosity of color shown in the plates.
6) The shield designs are WRONG and actually BLASPHEME the Cheyenne religion.
The publisher has boasted this will be a best seller. Not
surprising. This is a White Man's interpretation of the Cheyenne. A reader searching for a true interpretation of the Cheyenne people will not find it in this book.
It is most unfortunate that this author, who has no religious
or secular status in the tribe, is so presumptuous as to
bestow "Indian" names upon his White benefactor, Douglas Latimer, a vice president of Harper and Row. Only the tribe and religious leaders can do this. In performing such an irreligious act, Storm has outraged and insulted the Cheyenne, their tribal traditions, and religion. On the other hand, it is inconceivable any self respecting individual would accept a pseudo-Indian name given by one who is not authorized to do so. No self respecting Indian would do it either. It is ump quah, as we say.
This reviewer wonders whether Storm is attempting to create a
new theology for the Cheyenne.*** If so he has failed, and succeeded only in vulgarizing one of the most beautiful but least known
Oct 06, 2006
Red Earth, White Lies by Vine Deloria (1997)
2 of 4 found this helpful Deloria, sorrow at his going and peace to his ashes, was an author you either loved, which most Indigenous People did, or disliked , as most white intelligensia did. He wrote as he lived, and wrote what he knew from living & searching for TRUTH.
Most white reviewers, or critics, take issue with his head-on way of addressing the issues he covers in many of his books. They say he doesn't use "scientific evidence", or that he "doesn't really know his subject". I would ask, isn't MOST "scientific evidence" based on THEORY, educated CONJECTURE, or handed-down & often manipulated "findings" that just are NOT found by ALL?
In RED EARTH, WHITE LIES, Deloria outright accuses the scientific community of not only racism, & ethnic bias, but absolute lies. The scientific community says the same of Deloria, so who do we believe? Deloria seems to think that the scientists have been proven wrong by other scientists, & that those other scientists are then ridiculed & ostracized by the more learned scientists. WHO voted on which scientist is the most believable, the most learned? Deloria, like many of us, wants to know WHO has actually PROVEN that the Bering Strait Land Bridge THEORY is fact? Is there scientist ONE who was THERE? For a thing that supposedly opened up so many times, every time scientists NEED it as an explanation for something or someone coming to this continent, isn't it a wonder that we haven't seen it "open up" in the last several THOUSAND years? Think about that.
Every time new evidence is found by white scientists that prove a new, OLDER date of Indigenous occupation of the Western Hemisphere, the "land bridge theory" gets revamped! NOT very scientific!
Demonstrating that a theory is just that until it has been solidly proved, Deloria takes the scientific community to task for insisting on uniformity of opinion within academia while completely neglecting Native oral traditions about such events as the peopling of the Western Hemisphere and the disappearance of the giant animals of the Pleistocene era. While many may challenge Deloria's arguments, the author's insistence that scientists investigate non-Western knowledge in their search for the truth echoes a cry heard throughout Native American communities.
Deloria repeatedly asks what makes a WHITE theory better than a RED one, or written history better than oral history? Much of what is called scientific knowledge was handed down from guys who are dead now. So were Indian ORAL traditions! WHO decides which group of dead guys was the one to rely on? Is what was SEEN & told less credible than what was "THEORIZED" & written?
And who was actually & physically here back when all that megafauna wsa suppoedly wiped out? WHO actually OBSERVED that? Deloria suggests that most of the missing beasts & plants can be found in the mire of Siberia & Alaska. Has anyone bothered to go look?
Questions, questions, & who has the REAL answers? More importantly, who has a right to decide for ALL of us on ANYTHING? To some, all the so-called scientific knowledge accumulated thus far is a total bunch of DRIVEL! To others, it is law & gospel. SO WHAT?
Read, think, decide for yourself.