Self Proclaimed Medicine Man, Nathan Chasing Horse used deceptions

This was my experience in confronting Nathan Chasing Horse in 2007. He had no compassion for his victims. His propensity for girls started being more openly displayed by the summer of 2007. Documentaries, Articles, Indigenous Podcasts, My Podcast is under construction. Archival documenting yearly posts posted with transcripts will be published here. I’ll also link my YouTube videos associated with each podcast published. I also created a link to my GOFUNDME account. I may link my TikTok account

Wednesday 30 August 2023

Troy Emery Twigg (August 30, 2023)

“ Oki Marina, sorry to inform you of some bad news, my son Troy just passed away early hour of the morning, please let friends know. I don't have a phone number for Tomas I would like to get a hold of him thanks.”

Farewell TROY on your journey into THE GREAT MYSTERY

These three YouTube videos do not do Troy Twigg justice to the work he did. I’ve heard people say about people who’ve died that they were loved; however, I’ve never felt so much love from all those who loved him & those he loved.

Thank you Creator for my memories of celebrating life and celebrating love with Troy Emery Twigg.

Troy Emery Twigg

Troy is from the Kainai Nation in Southern Alberta. He has worked as an actor, dancer, choreographer, director, dramaturg and instructor but is primarily an artist in movement, choreography and staging, mostly creating his own works which have been presented nationally and internationally including Iitahpoyii; They Shoot Buffalo, Don’t They?; Dancing the Universe in Flux; Pulse; and Static. Troy was one of the original visionaries and founding artists of the ground breaking Making Treaty 7 theatrical event. He is co-director for the young people’s theatre version of Making Treaty 7 titled We Are All Treaty People which has been nominated for a Dora Award in the Best Production, Theatre for Young Audience Division. Recently he has worked with Decidedly Jazz Danceworks; The Prairie Dance Exchange, and the Groundbreaking Iinisikimm puppet project with the Canadian Academy of Mask and Puppety. He has co-curated an exhibition called By Invitation Only: Dance, Confederation and Reconciliation for Dance Collection Danse. He has recently acted in Omari Newton’s Sal Capone: The Lamentable Tragedy of, at the National Arts Centre and in Lemon Tree Creations, Why Not Theatre and Buddies in Bad Times Theatre’s production of Lilies. He has directed and dramaturged Omaagomaan by Waawaate Fobister which premiered in Winnipeg at the Gas Station Arts Centre in the fall of 2019 and will be presented by Theatre Passe Muraille and Native Earth Performing Arts in April 2020. He is currently working on Closet Freaks with Stage Left Productions, which will premiere its work at the Great Canadian Theatre Company in the Fall of 2020. Troy has taught movement for actor training and various dance and movement workshops and lectures at several institutions and festivals nationally and internationally including the Centre for Indigenous Theatre; York University,; Quest Theatre; University of British Columbia Okanagan; Centre National de le Danse; The Talking Stick Festival; Canada Dance Festival; Dance In Vancouver; Dance Victoria; The Banff Centre for the Arts and Theatre Alberta (Rocky Mountain Lecture Series). His research has been presented at the American Library Association, American Theatre Association, Congress on Research of Dance, The Society of Dance History Scholars and has been featured in several publications.

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Troy Emery Twigg (September 27, 2022)

Forging a career in dance through choreography

CHERIE MCMASTER AND SABLE SWEETGRASS

A dancer and choreographer, Troy Emery Twigg is also known as a performer, teacher and mentor whose love of the art of dance began at an early age. Speaking to Calgary Arts Development’s Sable Sweetgrass outdoors at Writing-on-Stone/Áísínai’pi Provincial Park, surrounded by hoodoos and the sounds of nature, Twigg reflects on his interest in dance.

“I’ve always known I wanted to do (dance). I don’t know why I was so fascinated with movement in the body, and how expressive that was. I was raised in Old Agency, which is a section of the reserve, on the north section of the Blood Reserve. We only had two stations — one of them was CBC, so I used to get excited when the Royal Winnipeg Ballet would come on to do the Nutcracker. I was really excited to see it and I geared up for it… I just really liked the expressive body.”

For Twigg, entering the world of dance proved challenging when faced with his own expression. Meeting One Yellow Rabbit members Denise Clarke and Michael Green and seeing how they adapted and interpreted performances helped steer him towards his creative path. “I couldn’t make it as a dancer — not the way I wanted to do it — so I came at it from another angle, which was theatre. So I studied… clowning and movement and contemporary dancing, was taking workshops (at Keyano College School of Visual and Performing Arts). When I moved to Calgary… I knew I was wanting to get into contemporary dance and theatre, that I can actually construct something and still be in the dance world, I can start telling my own stories in this form that I create. So I really was exposed to independent dance artists that were making their own dances. (Calgary Arts Develooment)

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Memories of my late mother saying her dad, my grandfather taught her in a warning that the Dakota Medicine was good, but not anymore. As far back as 81 years ago, fake medicine people deceived their own people for money, power, and glory. Our grandmothers showed us through their prayers helping us celebrate love and helping us celebrate life within our families. Through my own lived experiences, I had to eliminate my own self-defeating behavior. Our people are depending on us to bring justice into our Indigenous Communities. Our Indigenous girls and women are going missing at an alarming rate and are being human trafficked. With little help in finding them or bringing their killers or abusers to justice, I started this blog. I never thought I would live to see such as year as 2023. Today, I feel blessed to be able to hold those who reached out to me in high regard. I am truly grateful, Creator’s Will guided me in my lifetime to see Nathan Chasing Horse arrested. And, yet at the same time, I grief for all his victims who died before they could see him brought to justice.

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Intergenerational truama further perpetuated.

It was a HBO movie set I first met Nathan Chasing Horse. I worked along side my late mother who was literate in Dakota. We didn’t spend too much time with him as he knew how to somewhat speak Lakota. Mostly we were around Actors like Adam Beach and Eric Schweig teaching them the proper pronunciations. My first impression of him was not that of an actor rather that of an indigenous young man with many ex-girlfriends. I ignored his arrogance as I managed my way through being a consultant on behalf of my later mother for the Director and the executive producers of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Micheal Spears was stopped at the Canadian border so his role needed to be filled and since Nathan Chasing Horse was available he auditioned for the part with my mother speaking Dakota to him. The original intention of the movie was to have most of the dialogue in Lakota; however, as production started only few dialogues were kept. The Sioux culture needed representation. I advised them that the songs sung in Lakota would add a difference to the lack of dialogue and they agreed. I suggested they use Nathan’s singing ability and his ability to pronounce Lakota correctly as an asset. Prior to this Nathan was only hired as a stand-in as a Sioux Jailer for Sioux prisoners, nothing more and nothing less. It was in the fall of 2006. Nathan made connections with my younger brother and my oldest niece whom I took on the movie set. My brother started promoting Nathan in the schools and asked if I could help connect him with others within my community. From the ending of the movie in November of 2006 until March 2007, Nathan, and his entourage of three men left. During this time, I reached out to my friends who were having problems with the daughters. We met and hatched a plan to raise money for the mother’s and their daughters to attend Yuwipi, sweats and Sundance. It was the trip to the Sundance in Wolf Point that would cost the most. We tried to fund raise that turned out to be a disaster; however, once members of my community met and supported Nathan the money for the Yuwipi and Sweats were found, but not the Sundance; however, my younger brother was helped with Nathan and his entourage for his Sundance in the summer of 2007. Our ancestors carried within them intergenerational trauma that was further perpetuated in the creations of Indian Residential Schools. It’s a dark place of racism and genocide. Much of what I’ve written about pertains to sexual deviancy. I basically thought the 12-step programs of AA, Al-Anon, Sex Addiction and other 12-step programs helped. As we’ve all grown up around family violence; I’ve met many men who were exposed to such extreme violence. Much I write about here is focusing on is Limerence, because of intergenerational trauma. As the Yuwipi focuses on Limerence practices and I believe was once good. I’ve found as more and more non-indigenous people and indigenous people seek out by cultural appropriation through exploitation. Culturally appropriating our sweats and ceremonies doesn't mean you are healed or that you are automatically adopted into an Indigenous way of knowing. Being around indigenous communities isn't a place to hide your disorders rather it needs to be a place of communities like AA, Al-non and other 12-step programs. There’s no magic wand nor some psychic Psyche who can conjure up a quick fix. It takes time and a lot of hard emotional work. It's just sad that our own people are predators to our own girls and women. I was born into such a way of thinking, and I don’t blame anyone. I’ve learned we as human beings have more in common than our differences. This need for validation and acceptance is as old as time itself, so be kind to yourself and love the person you discover within yourself.

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