Arvol Looking Horse's public statement in The Circle News, October 2009, is the on the record word of the 19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe Bundle, the Lakota nation's recognized spiritual authority, responding to deaths in a commercially run sweat lodge in Sedona and stating plainly that what happened there is not the Lakota ceremonial way of life and that death has never been part of a properly conducted inikaga. Its strength is that it is the direct word of the recognized authority on the matter, published in a Native-owned newspaper. Its limit is that it is a public statement of position, not itself a description of the ceremony's actual content, which this atlas does not draw from it and which remains closed practice.
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Arvol Looking Horse's October 2009 public statement in The Circle News, the top tier reflecting that it is the on the record word of the 19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe Bundle, the Lakota nation's recognized spiritual authority, published in a Native-owned newspaper. It is a public statement of position, not itself a description of the ceremony's actual content, which this atlas does not draw from it and which remains closed practice. NotesPublic statement issued October 2009 by the Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe Bundle, stating plainly that "what has happened...is not our ceremonial way of life" and that death has never been part of a properly conducted inikaga. The Lakota nation's own public word on the Ray case, exactly the class of source the register asks for; states the nation's position, not its ceremonial content.
Citation
AuthorArvol Looking Horse, 19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe Bundle
PublisherThe Circle News (Native-owned newspaper)
Publication Year2009
URLhttps://thecirclenews.org/arvol-looking-horse-on-the-deaths-in-sedona/
Source TypePrimary account
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- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Practices, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
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