Jonathon Ellerby answers questions about sweat lodges to respond to the deaths at the James Ray sweat lodge. While Ellerby does attempt to distinguish between non-Native and Native sweat lodges, and discuss the cultural appropriation problems with new age sweat lodges, commenter Nishnabe replies succinctly:
“More Indians and minorities on Huffpo would negate the need to find ‘experts.’ Geesh.”
Turtle Talk 
This is an interesting case.. I’ll be interested to see if Ray is found guilty, and if so, what sort of sentence he’ll receive.