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 ...

When he was a teen, Vince Flores-Maldonado was drawn to gangs in the Yaqui community of Guadalupe, south of Phoenix. His mother raised her son with morals and values, but he put those teachings aside ...

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 ...

A map of the 2022 Prayer Run. Runners from the Native-led nonprofit SLC Air Protectors traveled through Provo Friday on their third annual Running As Medicine Prayer Run. The theme of this year’s ...

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 ...

The desert has been regarded as a place of spiritual healing for centuries; the dry climate, natural springs, cavernous valleys and immense mountains attract yoga gurus, landscape worshipers and ...