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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Burning-Man-Ravers-Lectured.html"><P id="paragraph1">A party for a group of <A href="http://www.nbcbayarea.com/topics?topic=Burning+Man" title="Burning Man">Burning Man</A> festival devotees in <A href="http://www.nbcbayarea.com/topics?topic=Oakland" title="Oakland">Oakland</A> billed as a "fundraiser for the <A href="http://www.nbcbayarea.com/topics?topic=The+Native+American+Church" title="The Native American Church">Native American Church</A> <A href="http://www.eastbayexpress.com/music/burners_torched_over_native_party/Content?oid=954007" target="_blank" class="external">touched off tensions among Native Americans</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Burning-Man-Ravers-Lectured.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nbcbayarea.com/img/57438909-1E9B-47CD-81BE-4FE4FFA28167" alt="Neo-pagans might want to come up with new gods instead of aping the old ones." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Burning-Man-Ravers-Lectured.html"><P id="paragraph2">The "Go Native" party was scheduled for Saturday night at the Bordello, and a discount was initially offered to attendees who arrived "in Native costume."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Burning-Man-Ravers-Lectured.html"><P id="paragraph3">Instead, it become a lesson in cultural sensitivity as actual natives lectured the partygoers for hours, leaving some in tears.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Burning-Man-Ravers-Lectured.html"><P id="paragraph5">Organizers of the Visionary Village camp had sponsored the party, <A href="http://sanfrancisco.tribe.net/event/GO-NATIVE-Fundraiser-for-Evolutionary-TempleVisionary-Village-Burning-Man-and-Native-American-Church/oakland-ca/c9aa2876-0b5e-40dc-aefd-7297df487618?tribeid=2a015c8a-8c2f-4657-8716-9395874aa780&nextpage=%24thispage" target="_blank" class="external">but after Native Americans discovered the party listing on Tribe.net</A>, a war of words began.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Burning-Man-Ravers-Lectured.html"><P id="paragraph6">Eventually, organizers met with local tribal leaders and promised to cancel the party.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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