Hello readers:

This is Harold and we now begin a new investigation and the person we will be investigating is Dhyani Ywahoo.

Dhyani Ywahoo lives in Vermont where she runs a series of businesses including a Drikung Kagyu Nunnery.

Ms Ywahoo's personal claim to fame is that she claims to be a Cherokee, a Cherokee Chief( Green Mountain Band of the Eastern Cherokee) and the 27th lineage holder of something called the Ywahoo Lineage. You can check out her claims at her websites of www.sunray.org and www.vajradakininunnery.org. Dhyani Ywahoo teachs in the United States, Canada and Europe.

There are some disturbing allegations on the web about her claims of being a Cherokee, a Cherokee Chief and that the Ywahoo Cherokee Lineage is fake (Google Dhyani Ywahoo FAKE and read for yourselves).

I contacted Dhyani Ywahoo on numerous occasions by email and telephone over a long period and her answers to me were SILENCE. Not the response one would expect from an "Enlightened Being". I was giving her all these chances to answer these disturbing questions about her Cherokee background and the Ywahoo Lineage.

I began a series of emails to various federally recognized Cherokee bands. I whated to know if they had heard about Dhyani Ywahoo and the Green Mountain Band of the Eastern Cherokee Nation.

Please read below the email reply I received about Chief Dhyani Ywahoo from Principal Chief Chad Smith of the "Western Cherokee Nation" located in Oklahoma. This Cherokee Band is formally recognized by the United States Government.

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Friday, September 5, 2008 10:59 PM

From: "Chad Smith" Add sender to Contacts To: charlenej@rogers.com

She is not recognized by the cherokee nation and the tribe referenced is made up.

----- Original Message -----
From: charlenej@rogers.com
To: Chad Smith
Sent: Fri Sep 05 21:52:52 2008
Subject: Chief Dhyani Ywahoo

I am interested in taking teachings from Chief Dhyani Ywahoo of the Green Mountain Band of the Eastern Cherokee in Bristol, Vermont.
(see www.sunray.org)

I was told that you would validate her status.

Thank you

Harold

Well, well Dhyani Ywahoo is not recognized by the Cherokee nation. The Green Mountain Band of the Eastern Cherokee of which she claims to be the Chief is made up. So says the Principal Chief of the federally recognized Western Band of the Cherokee Nation.

Well readers this is were this investigation starts. In our future articles we will she what other native indian bands and the Government of Vermont say about Dhyani Ywahoo and her Green Mountain Band of the Eastern Cherokee.

Harold