The Native American Youth and Family Center expands housing for Native community members with a family shelter named khwat yaka haws, meaning Auntie’s Place. Oscar Arana, Chichimeca, interim CEO ...

It was Native American Heritage Day, and Minnesota Wild goalie Marc-André Fleury said he would wear the goalie helmet designed by Taylor, a Mdewakanton Dakota artist, for the game that evening.

Native American Sweat lodge Prison Ceremonies Oregon Culture Healing Incarcerated SALEM, Ore. — A prison is perhaps one of the last places you’d expect to find beauty.

Instead it is saved or ceremonially burned with sage or sweetgrass. Aside from long hair, braids are a common style sported by Indigenous people, but the reason goes beyond aesthetic purposes or ...

The nomadic reindeer herders often braid sweetgrass, putting the braids in their hats and storing them with their clothes. The Sami also use sweetgrass as a medicine in tea and mix it with tobacco.

125 Years Later, Native American Tribe in Montana Gets Federal Recognition For decades, the Little Shell tribe had no legal status. That changed in December, when Congress granted recognition to ...

WHIGHAM, Georgia — Inside a sage green building off wooded Highway 93 in rural South Georgia, glass cases are lined with braided sweetgrass, bright sewn patchworks, turtle-shell rattles and ...

Loey Bell, 9, at right, braids sweetgrass with the help of friend Kehtsin Stiffarm, who braided sweetgrass for the first time. CHRIS JORGENSEN, Billings Gazette Facebook ...

US scientists have identified the chemicals responsible for the mosquito-repelling activity of sweetgrass, a plant traditionally used by some Native Americans to fend off the bugs.

Sweetgrass had many ceremonial uses among Native Americans. Some people wore braids of it around their necks or adorned their homes with the aromatic plant to help repel mosquitoes.

One of the most sacred plants for the Native Americans of the Plains is sweetgrass. It is traditionally used after the sage or cedar has driven out negative influences. Sweetgrass brings in the good ...