The Native American Church is considered the most widespread religious movement among the Indigenous people of North America. It holds sacred the peyote cactus, which grows naturally only in some ...

The Wichita United Methodist Church ushered in 2026 with drums and dancers for the 15th annual Sobriety Powwow.

The winter holidays and especially Christmas have different meanings to tribes and Native individuals across Indian Country as they commune with friends and family Dennis Zotigh Beckham Barehand (Dine ...

KWETHLUK, Alaska (AP) — It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael quietly lived her entire life as a midwife and a mother of 13. As the wife ...

A branch of the national Native American Church has accused the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department of violating its constitutional rights in two raids in the last seven months that seized ...

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 ...

(RNS) — The recent controversy over an Episcopal priest who was dismissed for promoting psychedelics for spiritual awakening raises urgent questions about how organized religion in America relates to ...

SAN ANTONIO (RNS) — Native American Church members say the presence of double-crested cormorants in Brackenridge Park is vital to their religious ceremonies, but city leaders need to remove their ...

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