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Creature Teachers: A Guide to the Spirit Animals of the Native American Tradition

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As a long-time student of Grandmother Twylah Nitsch, I cannot begin to express how valuable a tool she has given us with her book, Creature Teachers. There is so much we can learn from our fellow inhabitants of Mother Earth, the animals. This book will aid all in finding their kinship to their own personal "Creature Teachers".

My mother went to high school with Twyla, graduating around 1932, and my mother met Twyla's medicine man grandfather. My mother was telling me about the grandfather when I was in elementary school in the 1960's and totally impatient with being taught about Seneca history. Twyla was very far from a "new ager" as the nasty reviewer writes. Twyla was talking about the information in her books long before the concept of new agers even existed. In the late 1980's I began to see the criticism of Twyla by Seneca MEN who were primarily interested in controlling the tribe through the U.S. Government imposed democratic system of government, rather than the historical clan mother dominated Seneca system. The reason for these MEN's desire for control was money, pure and simple. The wanted Indian gaming just like California tribes. The tribe is now secular and corrupt, run by people whose only interest is money. Of course, the nasty reviewer didn't bother to disclose those facts, but the Tonawanda Seneca, Cattaraugus Seneca and Salamanca Seneca know all about them.

This book should come with a warning or disclaimer: Silly New Age Nonsense Within, Does Not Represent or Tell the Truth About Native Beliefs".

Nitsch is NOT a Seneca elder at all. The Seneca can't stand her and have barred her and her New Age businessses from the reservation. She's made a lot of money from selling "adoptions" of ceremonies to every gullible New Ager that she could pull in. She's also branched out by "commissioning" white New Agers to act as her salespeople. A lot of pay to pray offensive nonsense from her. Avoid at all costs, unless you want to wind up a victim too.