Harley Reagan

Harley "SwiftDeer" Reagan is an American new religious movement leader, martial artist and gun enthusiast, controversial for teaching what he claims are ancient shamanic teachings. Reagan's critics include the American Indian Movement. They denounce his claims of shamanic knowledge and his controversial Chuluaqui Quodoushka sexuality seminars, among other things.
In 1986 Reagan founded the "Deer Tribe Metis Medicine Society" (DTMMS) "for the purpose of gathering, translating and teaching the Wheels and Keys of the Sweet Medicine SunDance Path." The mission of DTMMS is "to fight against ignorance, slavery, bigotry, racism, war, disease, dogma and superstition to seed future generations with beauty, power, knowledge and freedom."
Ancestry
Reagan says that he is primarily of Cherokee and Irish descent with ancestors listed on the Baker Roll. He is not a member of the Cherokee Nation.
Reagan's detractors have accused him of claiming Indian heritage in order to seek monetary profit:
"What we find are numerous false prophets out there playing Indian and making a buck. Frankly, we are overwhelmed with these folks," says Dr. Richard Allen, a research and policy analyst for the Cherokee Nation who has been receiving complaints about Reagan for more than 10 years. "To start with, claims he grew up on a Cherokee reservation in Texas. The Cherokee don't even have reservations. We've always owned our land, fee simple." Allen says Reagan's claims are merely a marketing technique. "He's not a member of the Cherokee Nation."
Military service
Reagan reports service in the United States Marine Corps staring in 1959 after leaving the United States Air Force Academy, and including four tours of duty in Vietnam as a gunnery sergeant, for which he claims he was awarded Bronze and Silver Stars. What ended his military service, in Reagan's account, was being blown out of a helicopter by enemy fire and tumbling 300 feet to the ground, after which he recovered in Bethesda Naval Hospital and was discharged in 1969. Later, Reagan claims, he performed "black operations" for the United States government.
Qualifications in martial arts
Reagan is Soke of the Ten No Kishi Dojo which blends seven distinct styles of martial arts with an emphasis on self-defense applications. Reagan has a black belt in Karate, Jui-Jitsu, and Judo, and is the "worldwide of the American Indian Fighting Arts Association", an organization of which he is a co-founder. (Soke is a Japanese term meaning "head master of a style of martial arts.")
Reagan teaches Jiu-Jitsu and Karate, and also blends these arts with fighting techniques from a wide range of Native American fighting systems to create Chulukua-Ryu. In 1970 this system became the first original American martial arts system accredited by the International Society of Black Belts.)
Sacred sexuality seminars
Reagan appeared on the HBO program Real Sex in America in 1992, referencing that his sex therapy "Chuluaqui Quodoushka" had Cherokee roots. Reagan and Gregory, his assistant, "now are careful to clarify that it is a blend of many ancient sexual traditions." There is no evidence of it having ever been a part of any Native traditions. Most of the terms are borrowed from Hindusim and the Kama Sutra. The chief of the Cherokee Nation at the time, Wilma Mankiller, threatened to sue HBO for misrepresentation, and a resolution was passed by the Cherokee condemning Reagan and other "plastic shamans".<ref name="Sacred Orgasm"/>
Cherokee Chief Wilma Mankiller even considered suing Reagan for slandering the Cherokee Nation with his comments about "Cherokee Fire Women".<ref name="bullshido"/>

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