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.”