Mankato’s Centenary United Methodist Church prides itself as being an inclusive community that sponsors ministries that support various segments of the community. Most of these efforts rise up through ...

Native American spirituality encompasses the diverse beliefs and practices of hundreds of Native American tribes. Differences between tribes are great, but most share a common belief in the ...

BULL HOLLOW, Okla. (AP) — Ryan Mackey quietly sang a sacred Cherokee verse as he pulled a handful of tobacco out of a zip-close bag. Reaching over a barbed wire fence, he scattered the leaves onto the ...

Is the "North American berdache" merely a phantom in the imagination of Western social scientists? / Sue-Ellen Jacobs -- The Northern Athapaskan "berdache" reconsidered : on reading more than there is ...

The Grace Museum marked Native American Heritage Month recently by inviting Mitotiliztli Yaoyollohtli, a Dallas-based group, to perform traditional Aztec dances in the museum's ballroom. Garbed in ...

It’s a sunny spring morning as Nakai Clearwater Northup stands amid white pine trees, near a river, surveying the land. Looking at his Narragansett homelands in southern Rhode Island, he says hunting ...

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (WJAC) — Penn State University sponsored a traditional Native American powwow Saturday and Sunday. People from a number of tribes and nations gathered at a State College middle ...

White sage, which is sacred to a number of Native American tribes in the southwest United States, has been adopted by both some contemporary Pagans and New Age practitioners for purification rites. As ...

Native American spirituality: an introduction / Lee Irwin -- Mediations of the spirit: Native American religious traditions and the ethics of representation / Inés Hernández-Ávila -- Cultural identity ...

“It really, truly is just the opening up of space to invite Native American people to be able to learn how to practice their Christian faith and their Native American spirituality.” No set roadmap is ...