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MONDAY, MAY 12, 2003

"Lynn Case sought a path to spiritual enlightenment that led her, unpredictably, into the bed of a self-proclaimed Lakota medicine man.

The man's wife pleaded with the New York woman to sleep with him to "transfer energy" to the medicine man for the sake of the couple's children.

"I believed everything she told me, that one of her kids was going to get hurt," Case said. "She was crying and holding my hand. I was `all right, all right, all right.' I met her kids. I know her kids."

It was supposed to be a one-time, behind-closed-doors encounter. But two months later, the man's wife asked Case to repeat the act. She said no.

Last April, Case --who asked to be identified by her maiden name -- left the Wisconsin couple's group of non-Native followers. Unsure of what to do with the pipe she had carved for prayer, she gave it to Arvol Looking Horse, a Lakota spiritual leader from South Dakota's Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation."

Get the Story:
Indians at odds over sacred rites (The Rapid City Journal 5/12)

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