Native youth in Sacramento use powwow dances like jingle as cultural healing tools. Traditional practices address trauma and mental illness amid limited Native therapists. Culturally rooted events ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — At Northern Quest Casino, typical bells and whistles could be heard from wall to wall. But inside the Pend Oreille Pavilion, spectators listened to different bells as dancers from ...

This video is no longer available. The crowds gathered around a space just inside the entrance to the National Museum of the American Indian. They listened as Misty Rose Nace [Solorio], a member of ...

Hema Ramaswamy, a young Indian-American woman with Down syndrome, performs her arangetram, the public presentation of bharata natyam, a classical South Indian dance form. (Preston Merchant) ...

SANTA FE, N.M. — New Mexico Medicaid now covers traditional healing practices for certain Native American Medicaid members. Members in participating tribes, nations or pueblos can receive coverage for ...

Many traditional Native American healing practices have proven health benefits. Sweat lodges, for example, have been documented as being helpful in ridding infections from the body, helping with pain ...

In October, the Biden Administration expanded both Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for practices that could include sweat lodges and drumming in Oregon, California, New ...

With more than 1,200 entries, the Encyclopedia of Native American Healing introduces readers to renowned Native American healers throughout history; societies and divisions into which healers were ...