Rites of passage require a number of fundamental things. First and foremost, it requires a community. We have a challenge there in our culture because we have these sub-communities, but a community is witness. In order to create a rite of passage, there has to be a separation from that community. It has to be a leaving. That experience has to be felt by that adolescent for the key time like that. The second piece necessary for a rite of passage, is some type of confrontation, some type of test, or some type of ordeal; that which the expectation of completion is questionable. Third, and perhaps the most important, is the triumphant return. The triumphant return requires the recognition and the honoring by the rest of the tribe. The idea being that child, that man or woman, has been forever changed. In indigenous cultures, a boy or girl would be taken from the tribe, have the vision quest, perhaps be told to get an animal or track a red tailed hawk and get a feather. Upon their return, they would have their name changed. There would be no question that he or she had been honored into the next stage of their lives.