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 ...

The Native American community is coming together to heal by ending American Indian Month with a celebration and parade in Minneapolis. At the end of April, the community faced murders and trauma, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The consequences of American colonialism still reverberate throughout urban Indigenous communities. From the dissolution of languages inherent to Native American cultures in the Southwest to the ...

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 ...

: [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: This story incorrectly says that Arizona was among the states in which Medicaid would soon cover traditional healing practices for Native Americans. For the change to go ...