A traditional sweat lodge sits in a clearing in the forest. Quiet and dark, a place for contemplation and prayer, where teachers and elders hold sacred ceremonies and young people growing up in the city learn about their rich native heritage.
It's where young and old come to understand who they are and where they're going.
BARRE— Bright sun, a nearly cloudless, azure sky and a light breeze. The conditions were perfect for a picnic in North Park.
And in fact, several on hand yesterday morning protesting the continued custody by the Barre Library Association of artifacts deemed to be sacred Oglala Sioux relics...
WASHINGTON—June 20, 2007—The Senate and White House immigration reform legislation continues to exclude Native Americans. It places Native American Tribes in a very difficult position when the immigration needs of immigrants and illegal immigrants are being addressed, while the border crossing and U.S....
WASHINGTON - Observances and ceremonies will be held across the country June 21 to mark the 2007 National Day of Prayer to Protect Native American Sacred Places. The exact times and days for public commemorations are listed below.
Some of the gatherings highlighted are educational forums, not religious ceremonies, and are open to the general public. Others are ceremonial and may...
The mother of a 7-year-old girl whose urine tested positive for mescaline claims the girl's father is giving her hallucinogenic peyote as part of sacred Native American rituals – and the mother wants it to stop.
"Peyote has nothing to do with the traditions of any Woodland Indian...
PRESCOTT, Ariz. -- Albert Laughter kneels near the fire pit in the center of the tepee, arranging his ceremonial arrowheads, bowls and pipes. He lays out the all-important eagle feathers, reverently unwrapping them...
BURLINGTON CITY — Burlington Island was once a place where Indian tribes native to Burlington City held meetings and performed religious ceremonies.
Yesterday, the island was used for that purpose for the first time in 200 years, according to Danawa Buchanan, the founder of the New Jersey American Indian...
MILWAUKEE -- When his students are in trouble, Jarod Pidgeon can burn grasses, sage or other herbs to open a connection with the spirit world. He can pray with the children or perform a ceremony inside a sweat lodge...
Fingers fly with mathematical precision as Sharron Nelson and Karen Reed weave strips of moistened cedar bark together.
The twin sisters work in a sunny corner of Nelson’s Browns Point kitchen, with its wide window overlooking the bay that provided sustenance for their ancestors. Nelson is making a small basket to hold her daughter’...
TRINITY - Sheryll Kremer had always heard tales about her Cherokee ancestors. Her mother had traced family roots back about a century to a union between a Cherokee woman and German man in rural South Carolina.
And Kremer, 51, says she's always been proud of her American Indian heritage.