James Arthur Ray: Lakota Nation Sues And Dead Woman’s Friends Attack
JAMES Arthur Ray: “Some friends of James Arthur Ray sweat lodge victim Kirby Brown are doing their part to spruce up the view from the New Age guru and motivational speaker’s Carlsbad, California offices.
“They’ve hung the above pictured banner in a spot that ensures Ray will have something to read every day when he goes into the office.
“It reads:
BE ACCOUNTABLE JAMES ARTHUR RAY. YOU WERE TRUSTED BY OUR FRIEND KIRBY BROWN AND NOW SHE AND TWO OTHERS ARE DEAD!
In other news from Our Man in LA:
The lawsuits keep piling up on James Ray’s doorstep.
This time it’s the Lakota Indian nation of North and South Dakota that’s piling on.
The tribe has filed suit against the U.S. government, the State of Arizona, James Ray and the Angel Valley Retreat where Ray’s fatal sweat lodge ceremony was held on October 8th.
According to the lawsuit, the Lakota Nation considers its sweat lodge ceremony, the Oinikaga, one of the seven sacred rites of the Lakota.
The suit refers to the Treaty of Fort Laramie between the United States and the Lakota Nation from 1868, which says “if bad men among the whites or other people subject to the authority of the United States shall commit any wrong upon the person or the property of the Indians, the United States will (…) proceed at once to cause the offender to be arrested and punished according to the laws of the United States, and also reimburse the injured person for the loss sustained.”
The Lakota say Ray and the Angel Valley Retreat Center “violated the peace between the United States and the Lakota Nation.”
The lawsuit also claims Ray and the retreat center committed fraud by impersonating Indians and must be held responsible for causing the deaths of the victims and injuries of the survivors, and for the destruction of evidence through the dismantling of the sweat lodge.
This ones got a long way to run…
All the news here.
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November 14th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
I am Yanktonai Hunkpati Dakota Sioux from South Dakota and while this lawsuit won’t deter the thieves and exploiters. At least, we are sending a message to those who continue to defile our culture. James Arthur Ray and his supports now have traditional enemies and we will stop fighting their “fat stealing” ways.