It took Rice, who is white, years to understand what he was participating in and witnessing, he said.

On the night of his induction about 20 years ago, he said a white troop leader wearing a feather headdress led him and the other boys silently through the woods of what was then the Rota-Kiwan Scout Reservation in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Around a bonfire, scout leaders chanted while wearing masks and animal pelts, Rice said. Then they told the boys to safeguard the secrecy of the ceremony and sent them off to spend a night silently in the woods.คาสิโนออนไลน์เว็บตรง