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Here she is holding -- surprise -- a crystal!

Crowther calls herself "Little Grandmother," despite not being either, and also claims to be a member of the Sioux Salish tribe, despite certainly not being that. ("Actually there's no such tribe. The Salish and Lakota are unrelated peoples with very different cultures," says Proffessor Carroll.) For a while, she offered naive hippies the chance to join her "tribe of many colors," and take part in the $6000 ceremonies she completely made up. Dr. Carroll and other online activists began a concentrated media blitz:

"I think simply we started tracking down what info she said. A lot of it was really obvious false things; she was getting the tribal names wrong. And then we had the good luck that there was a relative who came to us and said she's had a long history of making up stories. And so we wrote articles that were published in independent media, so even within her own group, both online and in person, there were people who were starting to question her and she was constantly trying to tamp down criticism that was coming towards her and so it kinda snowballed. At one point she finally publicly apologized and moved to Europe. 'This is my own personal belief and it has nothing to do with indigenous people' and she's over in Holland somewhere and she's pretty much given up most of what she's said before."

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"I am so proud to be among you fine, Danish people!"

She's still making up vaguely spiritual crap, like this crystal ceremony in Rotterdam, but she's not claiming to be Native American Grandma Jesus anymore. So that's a win.

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