Sedona Fire Chief talks about James Ray's Sweat Lodge

This was the first time Chief Jerry Doerksen stepped in front of a camera to talk about the Angel Valley Sweat lodge deaths. He choked up a couple times and he was very kind.

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News & Politics

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• Sweat Lodge deaths
• Angel Valley Ranch
• Sedona AZ
• Traditional Healing
• 2 die
• Arizona Sweat Lodge
• Jerry Doerksen

[MayaAYGm]

Wow. I wish you ALL blessings of healing. The dead, the responsible, the critics all. May we one day support one another and work together to make things better.

[Javadavida]

Thank you. The responses are getting more compassionate. However, I don't want to cut the critics either. This is a tragedy. In the responses, I hear Shock, Denial, Anger, Sadness...all part of a process most of us go through before we get to acceptance--whatever the loss or injury.

[TheHazard2010]

Just don't practise what you don't know the sweatlodge is a doctoring place you don't see us pretending to be doctors some serious stuff

[NATIVEpridehope]

YOU ARE THE NEW AGE WITCH! i know you support this disgusting fake native trash..

[tmad890]

i agree...no true native speaks like this fake...maybe he is the true fake native but is trying to discredit real native indiginous people, so that he can look better..

for one, i heard that there was money involved with this sweat lodge, and that is where it went wrong..but i wont say any more about that, so this idiot dont realize the errors in his so called beliefs..

[apachesbutterfly]

You poser theres lot's a fakers out there, what are you waiting for, try to catch up with us Natives who actually do some thing about these people.

[apachesbutterfly]

You are so fake, we natives don't even beleive in the devil, poser wannabe.

[apachesbutterfly]

You are no leader of any Native group, we wouldn't have you around even to clean up after us.

[apachesbutterfly]

NATIVEpridehope, you are the fake native around here, you don't even know what the BIA is. Since you threatened me. I've been following your comments, you wannabe, not native will ever believe you are a native.

[kadashkushaiah7]

LMAO....