Maria Naylin AKA "Maria Yraceburu"

CULTURAL FRAUD ALERT!

The White Mountain Apache Cultural Preservation Office says Maria Naylin and her teachings and claims are utterly fraudulent. "She and her works are among the latest in a long line of misguided efforts to make unauthorized and inappropriate use of Native American culture and history -- cobbled-together half-truths and fabrications intended to deceive and derive profit from the hopes and fears of those seeking to understand themselves and American Indians," according to archaeologist John Welch.

The "Quero Apache" simply don't exist. Naylin uses Navajo words and claims they are Apache, and teaches a ludicrous hodgepodge of Hinduism, New Age knockoffs of Plains Indian ceremonies, "core shamanism," and even stories about Atlantis. Naylin even uses the tribe's museum logo without permission, ignoring requests to stop.