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'''Francis Talbot''', full name '''Francis Story Talbot II''', a.k.a. '''Manitonquat''' resp. '''Medicine Story''' (born July 17, 1929), has been operating as a plastic shaman since the 1970ies. Despite having a completely Euro-American ancestry, Talbot claims to be a member and even a medicine person, resp. "ceremonial medicine man" of the Wampanoag nation. His clientele are mainly affluent white middle-class Euro-Americans and Europeans with whom he previously also meant to initiate a new „tribe“ on his premises in New England.
'''Francis Talbot''', full name '''Francis Story Talbot II''', a.k.a. '''Manitonquat''' resp. '''Medicine Story''' (born July 17, 1929), has been operating as a plastic shaman since the 1970ies. Despite having a completely Euro-American ancestry, Talbot claims to be a member and even a medicine person, resp. "ceremonial medicine man" of the Wampanoag nation. His clientele are mainly affluent white middle-class Euro-Americans and Europeans with whom he previously also meant to initiate a new „tribe“ on his premises in New England.
==Biography==
==Biography==
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Talbot was born into a family of entrepreneurs with him as well his ancestors all being listed as „white“ in past census records dating back into the 1840ies.<ref>http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=888.msg34610#msg34610 </ref> He did a course of studies at Cornell University and became a playwright under the names of „Story Talbot“ and „F. Story Talbot“ and further claims to have been an actor and theatre director, too.<ref>http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=888.msg34610#msg34610</ref> <ref>http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=888.msg34610#msg34610</ref> He is also apostrophied as a founder, co-founder, resp. early member of the Rainbow Gatherings.
Talbot was born into a family of entrepreneurs with him as well his ancestors all being listed as „white“ in past census records dating back into the 1840ies.<ref>http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=888.msg34610#msg34610 </ref> He did a course of studies at Cornell University and became a playwright under the names of „Story Talbot“ and „F. Story Talbot“ and further claims to have been an actor and theatre director, too.<ref>http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=888.msg34610#msg34610</ref> <ref>http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=888.msg34610#msg34610</ref> He is also apostrophied as a founder, co-founder, resp. early member of the Rainbow Gatherings.