Years ago I was riding on a
ferry from Manhattan to Staten Island and met a stranger who said he attended
Sweats. The lady I was travelling with asked me if this offended me and I said
no he has the right and freedom to do what he wants to do. This past week I ran
into some strangers who ran Sundance. Again, I am reminded that they too have
rights and freedoms to do what they feel like doing. Yes, I am of Sioux
descendent and could easy say that they don’t know what it’s like to live on a
Reserve or Reservation, but who am I?
There are far greater worries I
face than worrying about who does what and why. There are many Aboriginal
Peoples who practice Sweats and Sundance who have major mental health issues.
Peoples are following them, protecting them from the law and some are arrested
like my brother. About four years ago a Holy Man or so his followers called him
came into my community. It’s been four years since my step-niece confessed of
her lies. She told me this man; I will call him NCH slept with her. She was
fifteen at the time. Yes, she lied that she didn’t disclose this to me to
protect him. Why? He promised her he would take her as one of his wives.
At the time, I didn’t know his
history with teen girls or his lack of responsibility to his ten children and
their mothers. I didn’t know he was a clever business man who knew how to hide
his financial holdings. So, when my niece claimed he bought her over a thousand
dollars’ worth of clothing when he told me he had nothing, I questioned what
was happening. My step-niece said he told her he loved her and that he didn’t
have sex with his other girlfriends because he only had sex with her. It gets
worse; he also had sex with three other fifteen year olds. He is still
travelling with one who is now eighteen years old from here. There will be two
charges against him once my step-niece retracts her statement. I reported her
disclosure to the police. She lied at the time.
She lied because she also
disclosed that my brother was having sex with her. Because she lied about NCH the
police did not question him but they did question my brother and he confessed
that he was having sex with his step-daughter. My brother and NCH had talked
about my step-niece about taking her away. This is way my brother allowed NCH
to have so much said over her. Buying her clothes, sending her text messages,
having sex with her all with the plan that my brother would no longer have sex
with her, she believed everything these two men said to her.
Until this past month she
thought I blamed her because she didn’t have any contact with me. My brother is
serving a four years sentence. NCH is still out there practicing Sweats and
Sundance and gathering more teen girls to be his wives. NCH broke laws; first
he didn’t report my brother and second, he had sex with a minor. My brothers’
promise to NCH went so far that he got arrested trying to get a passport for
his step-daughter next. I told my niece what was the point of trying to get her
into the U.S.A. when she was under the Provincial Governments care until she
was eighteen years old. Now, she turning nineteen and has no hope of ever being
NCH’s sixth wife. She realizes she was used along with my brother.
NCH used both of them to get
money from our community. He took about $75,000.00 (approximately)from us over a two year
period. He is banded from here and anyone who reports him to the police when
they see him here can get him arrested. From what my niece reports is that she
was not the only girl like I said there were three others. And, for the ten
children that he’s behind child support payments there maybe more.
His five wives are like drug
monkeys. Any money does not touch his hands when a big financial deal is made
all money are handled by anyone of them. When a lawyer tries to bring evidence
that he does make money nothing can be traced to him. In the meantime, his ten
children get nothing and he continues getting his sexual appetite filled. No I
don’t worry about men trying out Sweats or Sundance that are not aboriginal;
however, I do have issue with actual medicine men or Holy Men of aboriginal descendant who used their own people against each other. This is what
non-aboriginal peoples do not understand. The problem of ritual abuse was
around from the beginning of time and will be here when I am six feet
underground.
Its amazes me that people who
are not of my culture continues to think that we are not sophisticated enough
to have psychopaths in our communities. This NCH is Canadian, but an American
and as you all know being an American means he can get away with this time of
lifestyle there. We are traditional here meaning that we are not just Sioux but
many tribes with the same mind set unlike the Americans who still cannot stop
this man. I know that the police there are watching him. If there is one this I
know about living in the State is they take Ritual Abuse seriously. We American
Indians may not or maybe so poor that we cannot see NCH through his many
disguises, yet some of us can.
Four years ago he lied to my
brother and my step-niece, he took advantage of them. He made himself look like
he was a Holy Man and that both were sinners. Each one trying to please this
Holy Man trying to give him was he wanted. He could not give them what they
needed just like he cannot give his children or his many wives what they want
only what they need. He was like a personal disorder blooming into a psychopath
here. Thank you!
