As leaders at the Department of the Interior and descendants of federal Native American boarding school survivors, we entered our roles in the Biden-Harris administration with a determined commitment ...
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 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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
American students are often first taught about Native Americans through the frame of European settlers, that native people were simply here when they arrived. But UNC-Chapel Hill history professor ...
A drumming circle at the Friendship House in San Francisco. Friendship House is a Native-led recovery treatment program that provides culturally relevant care. (San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst ...
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 ...