One day a Navajo man approached a traditional healer from his tribe and said, "I want you to pray for me, because I just found out I have diabetes." "Well, I'll do that," replied the healer. "But I'm ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Castro is a retired charter driver and lives in Cortez Hill. When I was diagnosed with pre-diabetes, and weighed 228 pounds at 65, I was referred to a pre-diabetes class held at San Diego American ...

The Lakota Way Healing Center says its mission is helping people recover from trauma, addictions and homelessness through ...

Plants have been used as medicine for thousands of years by cultures around the world. Many of these plants have been studied ...

Former Cowlitz Indian Tribe chairman and spiritual leader Roy Wilson died early Tuesday morning at age 97, just days before the 25th anniversary of the tribe’s federal recognition on Thursday. Cowlitz ...

BOULDER, Colo. - A Native American community honored the victims of a mass shooting at a Colorado grocery store earlier this month by participating in a healing dance, an event meant to offer peace ...

A new Antioch church that offers marijuana as part of its healing process has been ordered to stop doing so by Friday or face legal action. Antioch interim attorney Derek Cole sent the Oklevueha ...