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==Biography==

==Biography==

Storm was born in 1931<ref name="McClinton">McClinton, Jennifer; Velie, Alan R: Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature, New York 2007, p. 346 </ref> or 1935, according to a text written by Storm<ref name="metis">http://www.universeofpoetry.org/metis.shtml accessed 07/05/2012 </ref>, and is a US citizen of German ancestry. According to Storm, his father was a German imigrant who came to the US after World War I, while he claims his mother was Cheyenne. In lectures done in Europe, Storm also seems to have mentioned his father came from a place near the town of Danzig and was a WWI veteran who had suffered injuries from war gas. An unemployed joiner, Storm Sr migrated to the US due to the difficult economic situation in Europe<ref name="KarlMay">www.karl-may-gesellschaft.de/kmg/pinnwand/kmgnachr/110/index.htm, accessed 07/04, 2012</ref> and died when Storm was very young.

Storm was born in 1931<ref name="McClinton">McClinton, Jennifer; Velie, Alan R: Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature, New York 2007, p. 346 </ref> or 1935, according to a text written by Storm<ref name="metis">http://www.universeofpoetry.org/metis.shtml accessed 07/05/2012 </ref>, and is a US citizen of German ancestry. According to Storm, his father was a German imigrant who came to the US after World War I, while he claims his mother was Cheyenne. In lectures done in Europe, Storm also seems to have mentioned his father came from a place near the town of Danzig and was a WWI veteran who had suffered injuries from war gas. An unemployed joiner, Storm Sr migrated to the US due to the difficult economic situation in Europe<ref name="KarlMay">www.karl-may-gesellschaft.de/kmg/pinnwand/kmgnachr/110/index.htm, accessed 07/04, 2012</ref> and died when Storm was very young.

Storm is married to Swan Storm, real-life name Stephanie Leonard-Storm<ref name="storm">http://www.oocities.org/soho/lofts/4414/storm.html accessed 07/04, 2012</ref>, born 1957<ref>http://faqs.org/copyright/undercurrents-between-a-breakdown-and-a-breakthrough/ accessed 07/04, 2012</ref>, who is his business partner in selling indigenous spirituality and gets called Storm's „medicine twin“<ref>http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/09.12.96/native-9637.htm accessed 07/05/2012 </ref>. Leonard-Storm claims to be Métis without naming any indigenous nation she may descend from.

Storm is married to Swan Storm, real-life name Stephanie Leonard-Storm<ref name="storm">http://www.oocities.org/soho/lofts/4414/storm.html accessed 07/04, 2012</ref>, born 1957<ref>http://faqs.org/copyright/undercurrents-between-a-breakdown-and-a-breakthrough/ accessed 07/04, 2012</ref>, who is his business partner in selling indigenous spirituality and gets called Storm's „medicine twin“<ref>http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/09.12.96/native-9637.htm accessed 07/05/2012 </ref>. Leonard-Storm claims to be Métis without naming any indigenous nation she may descend from.

==Contradictions in biographical information==

==Contradictions in biographical information==

The biographical details given by Storm, his followers, or his publishers vary, and his early life has not been established sufficiently; the Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature describes it as „murky“ <ref name="McClinton" />. Storm claims his mother's name was Pearl Eastman<ref name="CHEROKEE">http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/CHEROKEE/1998-11/0909930126 accessed 07/03/2012</ref>, a Cheyenne with family not only in the Cheyenne nation, but also among the Crow and „many other reservations“<ref name="metis" />. In one article, Storm describes his mother as a „Cheyenne, Sioux, and Irish-American“ without mentioning any Crow relations<ref name="metis" />.

The biographical details given by Storm, his followers, or his publishers vary, and his early life has not been established sufficiently; the Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature describes it as „murky“ <ref name="McClinton" />. Storm claims his mother's name was Pearl Eastman<ref name="CHEROKEE">http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/CHEROKEE/1998-11/0909930126 accessed 07/03/2012</ref>, a Cheyenne with family not only in the Cheyenne nation, but also among the Crow and „many other reservations“<ref name="metis" />. In one article, Storm describes his mother as a „Cheyenne, Sioux, and Irish-American“ without mentioning any Crow relations<ref name="metis" />.

==Claims of Enrollment==

==Claims of Enrollment==

As mentioned above, the first attempt at presenting a card of tribal enrollment was exposed as fraudulent. Storm continued to claim Cheyenne ancestry, though, and tribal enrollment: In a letter published in a mailing list on November 1, 1998, a poster claimed to copy a letter sent by Storm which read: „Sure I can fly my enrollment flag-A.C. Storm I. D. number 207U002973, Bureau of Indian Affairs-- Billings Area Office, Billings, Montana“<ref name="CHEROKEE" />.

As mentioned above, the first attempt at presenting a card of tribal enrollment was exposed as fraudulent. Storm continued to claim Cheyenne ancestry, though, and tribal enrollment: In a letter published in a mailing list on November 1, 1998, a poster claimed to copy a letter sent by Storm which read: „Sure I can fly my enrollment flag-A.C. Storm I. D. number 207U002973, Bureau of Indian Affairs-- Billings Area Office, Billings, Montana“<ref name="CHEROKEE" />.

Despite the criticism brought forward since long by indigenous nations as well as academic reviewers, Storm's books are still taken for Native American novels and are included in reputable publications and lectures. In June 2006, the IAA Institute of Rostock University organized a Fulbright Lecture Series ''American Culture, Past and Present''. In the series' fifth lecture, Double Crossing the Western Frontier in Native American Literature, speaker Cheli Reutter attributed Storm as the „...world's foremost speaker for the Mixed Blood People and a famous writer...“; the report on the lecture even provides a link to Storm's website<ref>http://www.iaa.uni-rostock.de/fileadmin/IANGAM/Downloads/Fulbright/Fulbright_Summary_06.pdf, accessed 07/05/2012</ref>.

Despite the criticism brought forward since long by indigenous nations as well as academic reviewers, Storm's books are still taken for Native American novels and are included in reputable publications and lectures. In June 2006, the IAA Institute of Rostock University organized a Fulbright Lecture Series ''American Culture, Past and Present''. In the series' fifth lecture, Double Crossing the Western Frontier in Native American Literature, speaker Cheli Reutter attributed Storm as the „...world's foremost speaker for the Mixed Blood People and a famous writer...“; the report on the lecture even provides a link to Storm's website<ref>http://www.iaa.uni-rostock.de/fileadmin/IANGAM/Downloads/Fulbright/Fulbright_Summary_06.pdf, accessed 07/05/2012</ref>.

==Organisations==

==Organisations==

Storm has founded several organisations during his career. One is the Cirle of the Earth Temple of which Storm claims to be founder and director.<ref name="storm"/> The COTET has been defunct for a long time or has been dissolved; there is only scarce information to be found on this organisation. The same is true for the „International School of Metis Art“ of which Storm was founder and director, too.<ref name="storm"/> There are, however, still individuals who continue to mention this institute in biographical information or interviews<ref>creation-designs.com/gracemillennium/sojourn/Spring97/html/coverstory.html , www.xarto.com/profil/index.php?id=1365 accessed 07/04/2012</ref>, and it is to be noted that one of them can hardly claim Métis descent, as the person happens to be German. Evidence available suggests that it was active until at least 1999<ref>In an e-mail dd August 3, 1999, National American Metis Association functionary Mary Harper-Bellis wrote: „Friends of mine are involved in the International School of Metis Art and they teach as well as produce stunning work in sculpture, painting, jewelry art, drums, and many other mediums.“ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MetisCulture/message/336 accessed 07/04/2012</ref>.

Storm has founded several organisations during his career. One is the Cirle of the Earth Temple of which Storm claims to be founder and director.<ref name="storm"/> The COTET has been defunct for a long time or has been dissolved; there is only scarce information to be found on this organisation. The same is true for the „International School of Metis Art“ of which Storm was founder and director, too.<ref name="storm"/> There are, however, still individuals who continue to mention this institute in biographical information or interviews<ref>creation-designs.com/gracemillennium/sojourn/Spring97/html/coverstory.html , www.xarto.com/profil/index.php?id=1365 accessed 07/04/2012</ref>, and it is to be noted that one of them can hardly claim Métis descent, as the person happens to be German. Evidence available suggests that it was active until at least 1999<ref>In an e-mail dd August 3, 1999, National American Metis Association functionary Mary Harper-Bellis wrote: „Friends of mine are involved in the International School of Metis Art and they teach as well as produce stunning work in sculpture, painting, jewelry art, drums, and many other mediums.“ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MetisCulture/message/336 accessed 07/04/2012</ref>.

The third organisation is the National American Metis Association which seems defunct, but which still is mentioned online, so e.g. even by one university who lists it as a genuine indigenous organisation and even recommends it as a „good source for teachers“<ref>http://www.eastern.edu/publications/emme/2001fall/reviews.html accessed 07/04/2012</ref>. The association seems to have been founded in 1978<ref name="METISGEN"/>. The organisation then disbanded, either in 1985<ref name="METISGEN" /> or in 1981<ref name="metis2065">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/metis/message/2065, accessed 07/04/2012</ref>, and reconstituted in 1998.<ref name="METISGEN">http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/METISGEN/2001-07/0995118410</ref> It has to be noted that all three mails quoted happen to have been written by the same person, Mary Harper-Bellis, who also held a position as a „second president“<ref>http://www.biopark.org/wolf/wolfsong.htm, accessed 07/04/2012 </ref> within the organisation. Harper-Bellis mentioned as her „partners in this venture, the other members of the Board of Directors are Billy Brady, Chet Alexander, Erena Lall-Brady, Rainbow LaLand, and Forest Helstrum“.<ref name="metis2065" /> In a post to a mailing-list written in January 2001, Harper-Bellis speaks of „The org that I am the president of ...“<ref name="METISGEN" />, so she may have held different positions in the association.

The third organisation is the National American Metis Association which seems defunct, but which still is mentioned online, so e.g. even by one university who lists it as a genuine indigenous organisation and even recommends it as a „good source for teachers“<ref>http://www.eastern.edu/publications/emme/2001fall/reviews.html accessed 07/04/2012</ref>. The association seems to have been founded in 1978<ref name="METISGEN"/>. The organisation then disbanded, either in 1985<ref name="METISGEN" /> or in 1981<ref name="metis2065">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/metis/message/2065, accessed 07/04/2012</ref>, and reconstituted in 1998.<ref name="METISGEN">http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/METISGEN/2001-07/0995118410</ref> It has to be noted that all three mails quoted happen to have been written by the same person, Mary Harper-Bellis, who also held a position as a „second president“<ref>www.biopark.org/wolf/wolfsong.htm accessed 07/04/2012 </ref> within the organisation. Harper-Bellis mentioned as her „partners in this venture, the other members of the Board of Directors are Billy Brady, Chet Alexander, Erena Lall-Brady, Rainbow LaLand, and Forest Helstrum“.<ref name="metis2065" /> In a post to a mailing-list written in January 2001, Harper-Bellis speaks of „The org that I am the president of ...“<ref name="METISGEN" />, so she may have held different positions in the association.

In another post to METISGEN in January 2001, Harper-Bellis states that the associated had „200 members from about 20 states“. It is also rather noteworthy that Harper-Bellis claims they were „in communication with the Metis group in Scandinavia“<ref name="METISGEN14">http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/METISGEN/2001-01/0980776414, 07/05/2012</ref>, although she does not elaborate any further about the membership or character of that group.

In another post to METISGEN in January 2001, Harper-Bellis states that the associated had „200 members from about 20 states“. It is also rather noteworthy that Harper-Bellis claims they were „in communication with the Metis group in Scandinavia“<ref name="METISGEN14">http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/METISGEN/2001-01/0980776414, 07/05/2012</ref>, although she does not elaborate any further about the membership or character of that group.

==Works==

==Works==

Seven Arrows

Seven Arrows

The Song of Heyoekah

The Song of Heyoekah