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 ...

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) ...

Emery Tahy of San Francisco knows firsthand the struggles of addiction and recovery — a journey that, for him, is intertwined with his experience as a Native American. In his twenties, Tahy landed on ...

CAROLYN MORRIS flicks through a bulky folder in her office in To’Hajiilee, New Mexico. The clinical psychologist has filled it with the sorts of billing, evaluation and note-taking procedures that are ...

PHOENIX – Native Americans in Arizona and three other states could now see government health coverage for some traditional healing practices. On Oct. 16, the Biden administration announced it had ...

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 ...

Five years ago, Jack Dark’s cousin came to him with a suggestion. His cousin, a fellow member of the Nansemond Indian Nation, urged him to join the Red Crook-ed Sky dance troupe and learn the grass, ...

PHOENIX — Native Americans in New Mexico, Arizona and two other states could now see government health coverage for some traditional healing practices. On Oct. 16, the Biden administration announced ...