An organisation that claims to be following traditional native American beliefs and healing practices. It has come in the news in May 2009 because of the dramatic case of Daniel Hauser, a 13 year old with Hodgkin’s disease who refuses chemotherapy in favour of alternology.

The Nemenhah is not a native American tribe, nor does it claim to be one. Non-native Americans can become members as well.

As always, before engaging in alternology, religious beliefs and other forms of superstition, some research is highly recommended.

The Nemenhah have a website, which can be found here: www.nemenhah.org

The Nemenhah did post a statement on its website when Colleen and Daniel Hauser fled to California in order to avoid chemotherapy.

Official Release:

It is the official policy of the Nemenhah Band and Native American
Traditional Organization to sustain and support the decisions of our members
with regard to the use of or the choosing of natural medicine and natural
medicine modalities. We believe these are gifts of the Spirit. In that we
fully sustain and support Colleen and Danny Hauser in their decision to seek
alternative modalities in treating cancer. Having said that we also must say
that it is not the policy of the band or anywhere in our belief system to
disregard an order from the judge and abscond with a young person that has
been placed in the custody of the court, this is a capital crime and this is
not the way to do it. Our counsel and our plea to Colleen is to come home.
The judge has said he would cancel the warrant for your arrest. There are
better ways to handle this, come home, bring that boy home.

Phillip R. (Cloudpiler) Landis,
Elected Principal Medicine Chief