:Manitonquat
{{Short description|American author (1929–2018)}}
{{Infobox writer
|name = Medicine Story
|pseudonym = Manitonquat
|image =
|caption = Manitonquat (Medicine Story)
|lead =
|birth_name = Francis Story Talbot
|birth_date = {{birth date |1929|07|17|mf=yes}}
|birth_place = Massachusetts, United States
|death_date = {{death date and age |2018|07|21|1929|07|17|mf=yes}}{{cite web |title=Manitonquat ist tot |website=ZEGG Gemeinschaft und Bildungszentrum gGmbH |date=2018-07-24 |url=https://www.zegg.de/de/mediathek/news-archiv/944-manitonquat-ist-tot.html |language=de |access-date=2018-08-20}}{{cite web |title=Morto Manitonquat, aveva 89 anni |website=Terra Nuova |url=http://www.terranuova.it/News/Crescita-interiore/Morto-Manitonquat-aveva-89-anni |language=it |date=2018-07-27 |access-date=2018-08-20}}
}}
Manitonquat (AKA Medicine Story; born Francis Story Talbot, July 17, 1929, died July 21, 2018) was an American author of two books, and several more self-published booklets on New Age philosophy, spirituality, and community sociology. He has led workshops and rituals at the Rainbow Gatherings held by the Rainbow Family.{{cite news|url=http://www.star.gr/Pages/Politismos.aspx?art=198669&artTitle=mia_thryliki_morfi_ton_indianon_parousiazei_to_vivlio_tou_stin_athina|title=Μια θρυλική μορφή των Ινδιάνων παρουσιάζει το βιβλίο του στην Αθήνα (Legendary figure of the Indians presents his book in Athens)|last=Efstathiou|first=John|date=2013-10-14|work=star.gr|language=el|access-date=7 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160127021803/http://www.star.gr/Pages/Politismos.aspx?art=198669&artTitle=mia_thryliki_morfi_ton_indianon_parousiazei_to_vivlio_tou_stin_athina|archive-date=27 January 2016|url-status=dead}} Since the 1970s, he has toured the United States and Europe teaching and lecturing on the adaptation of the application of philosophy to modern problems of society, community, and relationships.{{cite web|url=http://www.all-in.de/nachrichten/lokales/Indianische-Lebensart-in-Wolfartsberg-stoesst-auf-Interesse;art26090,978347|title=Indianische Lebensart in Wolfartsberg stößt auf Interesse (Native American way of life attracts interest in Wolfartsberg)|last=Hacker|first=Marianne|work=all-in.de - das Allgäu online |date=2011-06-15|language=de|access-date=7 January 2016}}
Manitonquat was a member of the Assonet Band,{{cite book|last=Wessinger|first=Catherine|title=The Oxford Handbook of Millennialism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dxCREXd3YKIC&pg=PA79|access-date=7 January 2016|date=2011-11-17|publisher=OUP USA|isbn=9780195301052|pages=79–}} a nonprofit corporation created in 1990{{cite web|url=http://corp.sec.state.ma.us/CorpWeb/CorpSearch/CorpSummary.aspx?FEIN=000327276&SEARCH_TYPE=1 |title=ASSONET WAMPANOAG INTER-TRIBAL COUNCIL, INC.|quotation=Business Entity Summary, ID Number: 000327276. at Corporations Division, State of Massachusetts|website=Corp.sec.state.ma.us|access-date=2016-10-19}} and based in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The group asserts a connection with the Wampanoag Nation but is not recognized by the state{{cite web|url=http://www.mass.gov/courts/docs/lawlib/eo100-199/eo126.txt |title=Archived copy |access-date=2016-01-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304131348/http://www.mass.gov/courts/docs/lawlib/eo100-199/eo126.txt |archive-date=2016-03-04 }} or Federal Government as a tribe, and has been criticized for not requiring proof of Wampanoag heritage as a condition of membership.{{cite book|last=Brooks|first=James|title=Confounding the Color Line: The Indian-Black Experience in North America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0rRLMElNjJEC&pg=PA277|access-date=13 January 2016|date=2002-07-01|publisher=U of Nebraska Press|isbn=9780803206281|page=277}} Manitonquat states in his biographical notes and publicity materials that he is a spiritual elder of the band.{{Citation |author= Edith Kirby |date= April 15, 1992 |title= Wisdom lightened by humor offered by native storytellers |work= Edmonton Journal }}{{Citation |author= John F. Kirch |date= May 9, 1993|title= Watershed Fair Promotes Fun, Environment \ Friends Of Wachusett |work= Telegram & Gazette |page= B4|url= http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=WO&p_theme=wo&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_dispstring=allfields(Manitonquat)%20AND%20date(5/9/1993%20to%205/9/1993)&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=5/9/1993%20to%205/9/1993)&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=(%22Manitonquat%22)&xcal_numdocs=50&p_perpage=25&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no|access-date=January 9, 2016}}{{Citation |author= Jessie Salisbury |date= July 6, 2005 |title= Foundation in Wilton teaching stewardship |work= The Telegraph (Nashua) |url= http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NTGB&p_theme=ntgb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_text_search-0=Manitonquat&s_dispstring=Manitonquat%20AND%20date(07/06/2005%20to%2007/06/2005)&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=07/06/2005%20to%2007/06/2005)&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no|access-date=January 9, 2016}} He was associated with the prominent German intentional community ZEGG{{cite web|url=http://www.zegg.de/en/program/summer-camp.html|title=ZEGG Summer Camp - Intentional Community ZEGG|website=Zegg.de|access-date=2016-10-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160914211246/http://www.zegg.de/en/program/summer-camp.html|archive-date=2016-09-14|url-status=dead}} and the "peace research village" Tamera in Portugal.{{cite web |url=https://www.tamera.org/fs/summer-university/ |title=Tamera Healing Biotope 1 - Summer University |website=Tamera.org |date=2013-07-19 |access-date=2016-10-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161011090247/https://www.tamera.org/fs/summer-university/ |archive-date=2016-10-11 |url-status=dead }}
Teachings
Manitonquat taught that individualistic society is a source of unhappiness, and that cities are dehumanizing for their residents. He argued that it is better to live in small groups, with each group able to define its own rules and practices. He advocated for self-sufficient and environmentally-friendly communities.{{cite web|url=http://www.ilcambiamento.it/eco_vicinato/manitonquat_ecovillaggio_ispirato_indiani_america.html|title=Manitonquat e l'ecovillaggio ispirato agli indiani d'America (Manitonquat and eco village inspired by the American Indian)|last=Crippa|first=Michela|date=2012-08-24|publisher=il Cambiamento|language=it|access-date=7 January 2016}}
He said "We're creating another world... The basic thing is: We're all equal. The basic thing is: We love this world we're on. We are the next spiritual transformation of humankind."{{cite news|url=http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1987-07-04/news/8702260310_1_rainbow-gathering-rainbow-family-hippie|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151009115620/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1987-07-04/news/8702260310_1_rainbow-gathering-rainbow-family-hippie|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 9, 2015|title=Rainbow Family 'Comes Home' To Place Where Time Stands Still|last=Cohen|first=Michele|date=1987-07-04|work=Sun-Sentinel|access-date=13 January 2016}}
Rainbow Gatherings
Manitonquat had described his involvement in early Rainbow Gatherings as being important to the development of his beliefs. Describing an early gathering, he said "People stayed together all day on that mountain. We fasted and remained in silence until, sometime after noon, someone started singing an Arapaho chant. All of us took up that chant to honor the traditional caretakers of that land. When we left that gathering everyone had the feeling that something very important had happened, and was happening all over the world".{{cite book|last1=Harvey|first1=Paul|last2=Goff|first2=Philip|title=The Columbia Documentary History of Religion in America Since 1945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d_Nyi_Ur3pAC&pg=PA109|access-date=13 January 2016|date=2010-06-01|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=9780231510363|page=109}}
Works
- Return to Creation: a survival manual for native and natural people, Bear Tribe Publishing, Spokane, Washington (First Edition, July 1991). 188 pages, 22 cm. {{ISBN|9780943404202}}{{cite book|title=Return to Creation: a survival manual for native and natural people|last=Medicine Story|date=1 January 1991|publisher=Bear Tribe Pub.|oclc = 25375592}}
- The Children of the Morning Light: Wampanoag tales with Mary F. Arquette, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing (April 1994). 72 pages, color illustrations, 27 cm. {{ISBN|9780027659054}}{{cite book|title=The Children of the Morning Light: Wampanoag tales|last1=Medicine Story|first2=Mary F|last2=Arquette|date=1 January 1994|publisher=Macmillan ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International|oclc = 26766636}}
- Ending violent crime: a report of a prison program that is working and a vision of a society free of violence, Story Stone Publishing (1996). 75 pages, 22 cm. (also eBook{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=znFHAAAAMAAJ|title=Ending violent crime: a vision of a society free of violence : (a community building program tested and proven successful under the most adverse conditions) : a report of a successful prison program|last=Medicine Story|date=1 January 1996|publisher=Story Stone Pub.|via=Open WorldCat}}) {{ISBN|9781456584825}}{{cite book|title=Ending violent crime: a report of a prison program that is working and a vision of a society free of violence|last=Medicine Story|date=1 January 1996|publisher=Story Stone Pub.|oclc = 276932702}}
- The Circle Way, Story Stone Publishing / self-published (1997) 90 pages. {{ISBN missing|date=January 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.circleway.org/MettanokitOrder09.pdf |title=Mettanokit Order Form |website=Circleway.org |access-date=2016-10-19}}
- The original instructions: reflections of an elder on the teachings of the elders, adapting ancient wisdom to the twenty-first century, Story Stone Publishing. AuthorHouse (2009). 165 pages, 23 cm. {{ISBN|978-1438980799}}{{cite book|title=The original instructions: reflections of an elder on the teachings of the elders, adapting ancient wisdom to the twenty-first century|last=Medicine Story|date=1 January 2009|publisher=AuthorHouse|oclc = 620131463}}
- Have you lost your tribe? The paradise on Earth now under construction - Welcome home. Story Stone Publishing. (2011) 378 pages, 22 cm, {{ISBN|9781461115120}}{{cite book|title=Have you lost your tribe?: the paradise on Earth now under construction -- welcome home|last=Medicine Story|date=1 January 2011|publisher=Story Stone Pub.|oclc = 840494160}}
- Thanksgiving Day : let's meet the Wampanoags and the Pilgrims. with Barbara DeRubertis, Thomas Sperling, Adolfo Troncoso and Carol Cucumber. New York, Kane Press. 1992 and 1996 editions. Audio tape + book (32 pages color, 24 cm.). {{ISBN|0791519139}}.{{cite book|title=Thanksgiving Day: let's meet the Wampanoags and the Pilgrims.|date=1 January 1996|oclc = 038861686}}