Art Martinez, a clinical psychologist and member of the Chumash Tribe, helped run an American Indian youth ceremonial camp.

Members of Sonoma County's Indian community will pray for healing today as they grieve and struggle to understand the suicides of two young men. Family members and Indian leaders said they hope the ...

For years, meals at the summer sun dance ceremonies on the Eastern Shoshone tribe’s lands in Wyoming were missing something that was once a staple of the sacred rituals. There was no presence of ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Laughter can combat trauma. Spiritual cleansings could be used to fight an opioid addiction. Cactus extract may battle diabetes and obesity. These insights are from curanderismo - ...

Dewey Schanandore is one of thousands of Indigenous people who attended a residential school in the United States. He shares ...

Castro is a retired charter driver and lives in Cortez Hill. When I was diagnosed with pre-diabetes, and weighed 228 pounds at 65, I was referred to a pre-diabetes class held at San Diego American ...

Regrowth and renewal were the themes of a special ceremony in Blue River this past Sunday. The event was also to highlight the history of Native Americans in the McKenzie River Corridor. Katherine ...

In this 2022 file photo, Wayne Wilson, holds eagle feathers that he uses in traditional healing ceremonies, as he stands in a hogan at the Native American Baha’i Institute in Houck, Arizona. Arizona ...

On any Tuesday night, 13 women fill the main area of South Dakota Urban Indian Health’s downtown community center to see Shaina Yellowback. Yellowback, 34, is one of two who lead a culturally based ...

KPFA brings you the Annual Indigenous Peoples’ Day Sunrise Gathering live from Alcatraz Island — a powerful celebration of resistance, remembrance, and renewal. Organized by the International Indian ...

AMES, IA — Sarah Dees pulls several yellow-tinged booklets out of plastic bags. Flipping through one titled “Life Among the Indians,” she points out sections on ceremonies and customs. Toward the back ...

DURANGO — Ernest House Jr. pulled the plaque off one of the stone columns beneath the clock tower at the heart of Fort Lewis College, one of three panels that for the last two decades have offered an ...