🌥 ABOUT DR. ANTHONY G. PAYNE Ⓥ (SUMMER CLOUD) 🌥

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Greetings and welcome to my “Cerebratorium” — my sharinghouse  — a collection of writings, ideas, and more, some mine and some the handiwork of others, which is meant to inform, encourage, and hopefully challenge you.  I am your genial host & guide Dr. Anthony G. Payne (American Indian name “Summer Cloud” which in the Choctaw language is “Toffa Ulogilá”), a Native Texan and tribal member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. As you will discover I like to simplify-solve-resolve, having a special affinity for finding or forging alternatives to those institutions, things & traditions I find  “defective”, ineffective or lacking in some essential or fundamental way (Click to read “My Lifelong Quest for Alternatives“).

Among my passions: Faith, family, my sovereign (American Indian) tribe, and also writing (articles, journal papers, 4 books, more), spinning ideas (theorist, sometimes philosopher, sometimes contrarian), explorimentation (my term), and sketching & painting.

I love Goth, Steampunk, and the artwork of Jackson Pollock, and am a full lay monk in the (Celtic Christian, Franciscan) Knights of Prayer Monastic Order as well as a monk in several other religious communities & monastic organizations which are part of the New Monasticism movement.

 

Always trust your car to the man who wears the star*

Here is a link to my Google Scholars profile/page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xmV1ZCAAAAAJ&hl=en&authuser=5&oi=ao 

Kind words about moi by Rick Kozlenko, DPM, MPH, PhD, President and Co-Founder of Healthshares R & D, posted to my LinkedIn page:

I have had the privilege of a long term professional friendship in knowing this Renaissance man for nearly three decades–one of the most exceptional, science-based and clear–thinking minds I have ever known–often years ahead in his thinking and theories in health and disease.

Dr. Richard Kozlenko

 

 

Nota Bene my fellow American Indians: Prophetic Word: Restoration Promised to the First Nations of America (Also: Did the Almighty send an emissary to the ancient Cahokian (American Indian) people?)

For non-American Indians who’d like to know more about Native or indigenous peoples (especially their misrepresentation & exploitation by mostly Euro-Americans & their descendants in this country) 

“What it Means to be Native American in Twenty-First-Century America” (Article)

“8 Big Lies History Books Tell About Natives”

“Hitler’s Inspiration and Guide: The Native American Holocaust” (2013 article)  

VIDEO: “Broken Rainbow” (Full Documentary) – 1985, 1h8m

BBC VIDEO (1h28m): Rich Hall’s “Inventing the Indian” (28 October 2012)