Editing Nemenhah

{{Short description|Religious group}}

The '''Nemenhah Band''' is a religious group founded and headed by convicted fraudster <ref name=":0" /> Phillip "Cloudpiler" Landis. It was founded circa 2000 and claims about 4,000 members.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.nbcnews.com/id/30893871/ns/health-health_care/t/leader-defends-church-center-chemo-case/|title=Leader defends church at center of chemo case|last=Schiefelbein|first=Mark|date=2009-05-22|website=msnbc.com|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170815231456/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/30893871/ns/health-health_care/t/leader-defends-church-center-chemo-case/|archive-date=2017-08-15|url-status=dead|access-date=2019-04-04|ref=NBC1}}</ref> It practices [[alternative medicine]], specifically [[natural medicine]].<ref name=":0" />

The group says that it is composed of [[indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native American]] healers and those "spiritually adopted" into the band. Those who seek spiritual adoption must agree that natural healing is a significant part of their spirituality and that they seek to do no harm. The Nemenhah band also provides a curriculum to become a "[[medicine man]]" or "medicine woman". Some [[indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native Americans]] have criticized the group's practices.<ref>[http://www.startribune.com/local/44755337.html?elr=KArks:DCiUHc3E7_V_nDaycUiacyKUnciaec8O7EyUr A closer look contains hints of sham artist, not a shaman] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090514144449/http://www.startribune.com/local/44755337.html?elr=KArks:DCiUHc3E7_V_nDaycUiacyKUnciaec8O7EyUr |date=2009-05-14 }} Jon Tevlin, Star Tribune, 19 May 2009</ref>

==Controversy==
The group received widespread attention in 2009 when a judge ordered [[chemotherapy]] for a 13-year-old boy with [[Hodgkin's lymphoma]] whose family were members of the group; his mother fled with her son to avoid the [[court order]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090521/ap_on_re_us/us_forced_chemo |title=Minn. Dad in chemo dispute pleads for son's return - Yahoo! News |access-date=2009-05-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090527204149/http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090521/ap_on_re_us/us_forced_chemo |archive-date=2009-05-27 |url-status=live }}
</ref> but later returned.  Her son successfully completed chemotherapy and radiation.<ref>[http://www.startribune.com/projects/45440392.html Danny Hauser finishes his cancer treatment] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090525093736/http://www.startribune.com/projects/45440392.html |date=2009-05-25 }}, November 06, 2009</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.nemenhah.org/ Nemenhah web site]

[[Category:Religious belief systems founded in the United States]]
[[Category:New religious movements established in the 2000s]]