Many Native Americans living in North Dakota's Fargo area have suffered a series of indignities
A Native American sweat lodge located on city property in an industrial area of south Fargo, N.D., is pictured on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020.
“It would be equivalent to the Catholic Church shutting down its location here in the Fargo-Moorhead area because they realized they had issues they needed to fix,” Chalsey Snyder, a member of the city's Native American Commission, said recently, referring to Moorhead, Minnesota, which is across the Red River from Fargo. They are common on reservations, but less so in urban areas such as Fargo, which is the biggest city in North Dakota, with slightly more than 100,000 residents.
“The medical professional in me probably could not explain that with science, but the Lakota woman in me can explain that it was the strength of what happens in Inipi that helped save her life,” said Fear, a mental health nurse practitioner at a Fargo community health clinic. “A variety of people take part in the sweat and we just haven't had a consistent group or committee to manage it,” Mahoney said.
Snyder said that even though she's “in need of ceremony,” she hasn't used the lodge because she doesn't know if she would be “physically and spiritually" safe. She quoted her grandfather who told her, “If you don't know what you're doing or who is conducting the ceremony, you have no place there.” Fear was turned off by one of the users who offered a prayer urging Native women to stop marrying outside of their race.
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