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'''Luisah Teish''' ({{IPAc-en|t|iː|ʃ}} {{Respell|TEESH}};<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgesG5Hs5vU&list=PL2A81FB8C7FD4F591&index=1 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/fgesG5Hs5vU| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Growing up in New Orleans; Learning from Elders; Connecting with Spirit (Part 1/7)|website=[[YouTube]] |accessdate=22 October 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref> also known as '''Iyanifa Fajembola Fatunmise''')<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q4kBbOOWRDsC&pg=PA91
==Life==
Luisah Teish is an African-American, born in [[New Orleans, Louisiana|New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]]. Her father, Wilson Allen, Sr. was an African Methodist Episcopal whose parents had been two-generation servants and only one generation away from slavery. Her mother, Serena "Rene" Allen, was a Catholic, of [[Haiti]]an, French, and [[Choctaw]] heritage.<ref>{{usurped|[https://web.archive.org/web/20100126100809/http://www.nativevillage.org/INTERNATIONAL%20COUNCIL%20OF%2013%20INDIGENOUS%20GR/Other%20Women%20Elders/Luisah%20Teish/Luisah%20Teish.htm Luisah Teish, Adapted from "Grandmothers Council the World" by Carol Schaefer, Trumpter Books, 2006]}}</ref> Her original ancestry also includes [[Yoruba people|Yoruba West African]].<ref name=rountree>Kathryn Rountree. ''Embracing the Witch and the Goddess: Feminist Ritual-Makers in New Zealand''. Routledge 2003. Quote: "In 1992 Luisah Teish, who is well known internationally in Goddess circles as a writer and ritual-maker, visited New Zealand. Teish is of Yoruba (West African) ancestry, although she was born and raised in New Orleans. She was the guest facilitator at residential weekend workshops in Auckland and Hamilton dedicated to exploring sensuality and creativity in ritual contexts. Her book Jambalaya: The Natural Woman’s Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals (1985) is well known among feminist witches in New Zealand"</ref>
In the late 1960s, Teish was a dancer in [[Katherine Dunham]]'s group, where she learned and performed traditional African and Caribbean dances.<ref name=albert/> After leaving the dance company, she became a choreographer in St. Louis. In 1969 she joined the Fahami Temple of [[Amun-Ra]], and it was here that she took the name "Luisah Teish", which means "adventuresome spirit".<ref name=albert/><ref>[http://noetic.org/directory/person/luisah-teish Directory, Institute of Noetic Sciences: Luisah Teish, wuote: "In 1969 she received initiation into
In the late 1970s she became an initiate and priestess of the [[Lucumi religion]],<ref name=albert/> and began teaching students in 1977.<ref>Greta S. Gaard. ''Ecological Politics: Ecofeminists and the Greens''. Temple University Press, 1998</ref> She currently resides in [[Oakland, CA|Oakland]], [[California]].<ref>Aikens, Charles. "Teish Says Oakland Deserves To Be Saved". ''[[California Voice]]'' [Oakland, Calif] 08 Dec 1991: 4.</ref><ref name=eason/>
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