Betsy Ashby Guardian and the Diamonds (Brown and Yonvadisi)

Norah RunningWolf isn't the first elderly or disabled
unenrolled Indian that the malignant Betsy Ashby
has set her sights on and abused mercilessly:

<http://tinyurl.com/tipi-diamondbrown>

It's ironic that she should accuse Al Carroll of
confusing Brooke Edwards with Brooke Schiavi,
because here she confused Diamond Brown with
Diamond Yonvadisi/Runningbear -- and proceeded
to try very hard to ruin the latter man's life.

{"... COMPLETE and TOTAL Annihilation...."}
-- <http://tinyurl.com/betsy-ashby-genocide>

<http://www.runningbearsden.com/store5/agora.cgi>

.....

Someone else's first-person experience with Ashby:

<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rhuddlwm1/message/3>

I read this earlier and noticed that the link was not working. I
contacted the Yonvadisi's to let them know they were being brought up
on alt.native.
They are in the process of revamping their online store and changing
servers so the store front currently is not working but they plan to
have it back up and running in a few weeks after everything is in
place. I figured I best let you know as no doubt Ashby will try to
take credit for " closing them down" There is a thread about this on
the wicca board, I'll c/p the link here.

http://www.groupsrv.com/religion/about311766.html

I have been firmly corrected on one point:

Diamond Yonvadisi __is__ an enrolled member of the EBCI.

Yawnnn...old news.

http://www.pagan.com/FauxIndians/RunningbearsDen/
Will the REAL "Diamond Brown, Cherokee Storyteller from Snowbird"
please stand up?

Since approx 2001 a cadre of Caucasians have been pretending both on-
line, and in person, to be an enrolled member of the Eastern Band of
Cherokee Indians named "Diamond Brown, Jr" and/or his wife and/or his
"granddaughter" Below you will find links to, and screen shots of
numerous on-line posts where email accounts belonging to individuals
using the names "Robbie Green" "Mickey Campbell" or "Cathy Blake"
claim to be Diamond Brown and/or Diamond "Yonvadisi" aka "Diamond
Runningbear" and/or his wife and/or his daughter/granddaughter In
addition, they have brazenly misrepresented themselves in the flesh to
people who have known the the real Brown family for years and
continued with their deception even after being publicly exposed in
the Cherokee One Feather. "Robbie Green" and "Mickey Campbell" are
publicly listed as owners of a store called "Runningbear's Den" where
they claim to be selling Cherokee made items. "Cathy Blake" works at
Runningbears Den, and promotes it extensively on-line. The physical
storefront has finally closed, but they STILL have an on-line store.

http://www.pagan.com/FauxIndians/RunningbearsDen/OneFeatherScans.html

Twice a year, the official newspaper of the Eastern Band of Cherokee
Indians ... "The One Feather" ... prints a complete list of Enrolled
Members. I guess they got tired of people pretending to be Cherokee
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We scanned the relevant portions of the "R" and "Y" sections to show
there are NO members by the name "Runningbear" or "Yonvadisi" We
blacked out the first names to protect the privacy of the REAL Tribal
members listed here.

http://www.pagan.com/FauxIndians/RunningbearsDen/NativeAmericanFriends.html

The Diamond Brown impostor(s) was very active in several MSN groups,
including one called Native American Friends. Upon joining NAF,
"Runningbear" claimed to be Diamond Brown aka Diamond Yonvadisi and
sent Managers of NAF pictures of the real Diamond Brown Jr. "He" was
made an Assistant Manager of the group, and given his own teaching
board "Runningbears Den" After a time, managers of the group got
suspicious because "Diamond's" story wasn't adding up. In February of
2003, the managers of NAF contacted the real Brown family, and the
impostor was exposed on the Native American Friends forum. These
"Explanation" posts were forwarded to the Brown family by the Managers
of Native American Friends, and then passed on the Bryson City and
Cherokee Police authorities investigating the impostors.

http://www.pagan.com/FauxIndians/RunningbearsDen/Beadstyle.html

On the Beadstyle forum, "Diamond Yonvadisi" states "I am a 66 year old
male, my wife and I own a shop in Cherokee, NC. I am eastern Band
Cherokee. I am a native storyteller and historian and I travel the US
with a program that breaks the stereotypes of Native People. You may
also check out my teaching site at:
http://groups.msn.com/RunningbearsDenAgain
This is a group that is about native people and I also teach the
Cherokee language there."

THERE IS NO "DIAMOND YONVADISI" IN THE EASTERN BAND OF CHEROKEE
INDIANS!! The only "full blood Cherokee" named "Diamond" in the
Eastern Band who "travels the US with a program that breaks the
stereotypes of Native People" is DIAMOND BROWN, Jr. and he had never
heard of Robbie Green, Mickey Campbell, or Cathy Blake until the
impostors were exposed and confronted ....and it wasn't pretty

http://www.pagan.com/FauxIndians/RunningbearsDen/RunningbearsAngel.html

These screen photos come from yet another MSN group "Native American
Nation" where Robbie is an Assistant Manager.
Here "Robbie Yonvadisi" explains how she got the nickname
"Runningbears Angel" She also says that her husband is a "Full
Blooded Cherokee from the Eastern Band of Cherokee" and promotes their
store "Runningbears Den" in her intro. She claims her "husband" the
Cherokee Full Blood makes most of the crafts at Runningbears Den. As
mentioned above, the Eastern Band of Cherokee DOES NOT have any
members with the last name of "Runningbear" or "Yonvadisi"

Robbie also lists her occupation as "Medical Billier"
Hey, if you can make up an Indian husband, ya might as well make up
your own words too? LOL
Seriously though, this is an important footnote. I {Betsy Ashby
reporter/webmaster for Faux Indians} was physically present when
Cherokee Tribal authorities told the real Diamond Brown and family
that a woman named "Robbie Green" who worked in the billing
department of the Hospital had been "caught pulling up Diamond's
medical records on her computer" and that she had been "escorted from
the hospital"

http://www.pagan.com/FauxIndians/RunningbearsDen/CathyBlake.html

Cathy Blake aka "Snoopycathy" shows up as part of the Runningbears Den
harem somewhere around 2002. Here she signs a wrestling guest book in
her home state of Alabama with "Cathy and Diamond Brown" I personally
questioned this women at Runningbears Den about this post and she told
me "I was just playing a joke on Diamond's wife Robbie" However, when
she was physically confronted by Diamond Brown's REAL wife (he only
has ONE) Sandy Brown was told by Cathy Blake "I married Diamond on-
line two years ago" Hmmmm... you have to wonder if Cathy thinks
wrestling is real too?

http://www.pagan.com/FauxIndians/RunningbearsDen/NativeOwned.html

Runningbears Den "Native Owned" ...NOT In this ad for Runningbear's
Den on InterTribal Rez "SnoopyCathy" aka "Cathy Blake" claims that
Runningbear's Den is "Native Owned" by the "Runningbear Family" They
also promote custom made regalia and their "community board"

If you have purchased regalia from these people thinking it was
"Cherokee Made" PLEASE contact us!

http://www.pagan.com/FauxIndians/RunningbearsDen/NCArtsCouncil.html

Mickey Yonvadisi In this screen photo, a white woman named "Mickey
Campbell" aka "Melinda Sue Campbell" uses the name "Mickey Yonvadisi"
and lists herself as an owner of Runningbears Den on the NC Arts
Council website. She promotes the sale of "Authentic Native American
Arts and Crafts" at Runningbears Den.

http://www.pagan.com/FauxIndians/RunningbearsDen/DYonvadisi.html

DYonvadisi On Rootsweb, "D Yonvadisi" claims to have been born in
Snowbird and to have lived in Cherokee for 68 years. DYonvadisi
writes an extensive rant regarding how "he" has been discriminated
against for being an Indian. In this post, the impostors sound more
like they are physically describing Diamond Brown Jr.'s elderly FATHER
Diamond Brown Sr. who does not know how to operate a computer either.
Nether Brown, father or son, teach, chat, or post on-line!!!! Diamond
Brown Sr. does not "travel the country teaching" either, he was a cop
for 30 years...his son Diamond Jr. is the educator.

http://www.pagan.com/FauxIndians/RunningbearsDen/WheelchairJunkie.html

Wheelchair Junkie Profile In this Wheelchair Junkie profile, Yonvadisi
claims to be a "Native Storyteller" whose interests are "keeping my
native tradition alive"
Whatever would the real Indian Tribes do without these Faux Indians to
keep their Traditions alive? LOL

... much off the point.

Nowhere on the Yonvadisi/Runningbear family website do they lay claim
to the family name "Brown". In fact, they point out their website
name, "Runningbear's Den", is based on the fact that their family name
"Yonvadisi" translates as "Runningbear" -- if their name was "Brown"
the website would be named "Brown's" or some such.

All the other insistent references to Diamond *Brown* -- photos, etc.
-- are on *your own* website, Betsy Ashby! *You* are the one trying to
create the confusion between the two men! You have manufactured the
entire soap opera from start to finish! So neatly everything happens
just as *you* step in to intervene, but alas! not quite grab everyone
red-handed to turn over to the police, only to *tell* about it later
on the Internet....

It'd be ever so much more convincing if we hadn't watched you do it
all again, with Norah RunningWolf, and now starting all over with
bluturtle....