Originally Posted by StandnWolf

I'm not going to use the entire quote from Yellowbearwmn, it's too long to put in here, besides you can read it all and then come back to this post. I am sorry you have gotten the opinion of the ppl who's names you put out here for all to see.

It is not just an opinion, it's hard cold facts that are substantiated by paper documentation.

Some are friends of mine and others I don't speak of, because I don't know them. Of the ones I do know, you need to go talk to them and get to know them a little better, I think you'll find you may have made a mistake in your judgement of them.

I think that you need to reanalize your relationship with these people. Unless you are one of the wannabes who run around in dyed cowskin, or dyed deer skin and wanna shake your booty an be all new wave.
The biggest mistake I have made was taking so long to post the truth.

Shadow Wolf for one trys to honor our Vets with his POW-MIA area and is a fine and loving man, his wife works by his side and believe me it's work. I for one am grateful to him and all he does, his message is "never forget".

This person is not enrolled in any tribe, and I am still waiting to see if this person's family is indeed native.
He claimes Eastern Cherokee. Not so.
Also we have people looking into his military background.
I know about this person's traveling show.
his Exploitations of a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient.
His exploitations of people and committees.
He uses people to get what he wants.
I have seen and have a considerable amount of documentation regarding this man and his show.

Another is Corky, he also is a wonderful man and has helped more ppl than you know. He walks in the right way and isn't ashamed to be who he is, if you took time to talk with him and approach him like a human being, you'd see that.

Corky Knox or what ever he is going by these days is not what he says he is. He is not an enrolled member of the Tlingit Nation. I have the paperwork from the tribe that verifies this. We are checking on his residency for the state at this time.
The Tlingit Tribe has never heard of Corky Knox, Ellwood Knox, Corky Clairmont, Ellwood Clairmont.
He is NOT, I repeat Not from the RAVEN CLAN.
This is verifiable through the Clan registrations.

As for Hoka, he is very good man and maybe he does give some ppl heck and not others. But yelling? I have NEVER heard him yell at anyone, he tries sometimes too hard to please everyone, that may be the one fault he does have. But it's a good one.

This man is not enrolled in the Blood (from Canada) nor the Peigan people. He does not know the language. He also does not know an eagle feather from a owl feather.
Who said this person yelled???? If you are claiming I did, then you need to get your eyes checked.
This man is also one who claims to have knowledge that he does not!
He has no authority to do many of the things he does, especially on his own. Such as bestowing Elder status on people. Especially since they are not from his nation.
He has no special "Medicine Man" powers.

John Spotted Horse an honorable man who does things behind the scenes to help and never looks for glory.
I don't know why you have attacked these people, the ones i know and the ones I don't. As for "proof" who cares?
Yes many things go wrong at pow wows, here and other places too. People do wrong things and gossip and all that you have written, but not all of them do that.

Song theft is serious.

I hope you will read this and understand, I could not sit by and watch you trash people that you clearly don't know as well as you think. With respect to you, I ask that you get to know some of these people a little better, then make your decision. Don't go by your first encounter, maybe it was a bad day for them, who knows? Maybe it was one of those days when you've been up 18 hrs. getting a pow wow together,working with the commitee, helping vendors, or hungry, many things may have influenced them and you.