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New Age Fraud and Plastic Shamans website. " This site and forum is for those concerned about the fraud, deceit, money hunger, sexual abuse, racism, control, hunger for power and ego, and cult-like tendencies of the New Age movement and pseudo "shamans." |
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An incredible 45-minute video talk by Jerónimo Muñoz about the crass commercialization of Latin American shamanism, given at the 3rd Amazonian Shamanism Conference, Iquitos, 2007. Posted here 10 December 2007. |
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"The
selling of Indian culture," from website of the Dakota-Lakota-Nakota
Human Rights Advocacy Coalition. Contains many links to related sites,
with emphasis on Plains Indian tribes. |
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Denunciations
of Marlo Morgan's Mutant Message Down Under by Dumbartung
Aboriginal Corporation, Western Australia |
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High
Country News story
about fake Navajo healers, 1997 |
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List
of New Age websites offensive to Native American leaders, from A
Line in the Sand website |
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Link
to information
about Susan's Smith's 1994 documentary Sweating Indian Style. |
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Blue
Morpho Tours website,
with information on "shamanic tours" to the Peruvian and
Brazilian Amazon |
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Michael
Brown's article "Cultural Records in Question: Information and its Moral Dilemmas,"
1998, full-text (pdf) |
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"The
Plastic Medicine People Circle," by Helene E. Hagan. Sonoma
County Free Press. Article apparently dates to 1992. |
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Entry on "Plastic shaman" in Wikipedia. |
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"Quests
for dollars," an article
reprinted from the Navajo Times, September 5, 2002, about the
rise of fake Indian ritual experts on the Internet. |
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Philip Jenkins, Dream Catchers: How Mainstream America Discovered Native Spirituality. (Oxford UP, 2004). |
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From
New Age Retailer (with permission): "Selling
the Sacred? American Indians and the New Age." Article
by Ray A. Hemachandra, Nov./Dec. 2003 (full-text pdf) |