SALEM, Ore. — A prison is perhaps one of the last places you’d expect to find beauty. But razor wire and metal detectors won’t stop swallows from snatching up worms in carefully tended gardens. Nor ...

Inmates chop wood for a sweat lodge ceremony at the South Dakota State Penitentiary on Aug. 17, 2018, in Sioux Falls. (Briana Sanchez photo/courtesy Argus Leader) The South Dakota Department of ...

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — In the decade since Fargo agreed to host a sweat lodge for the many Native Americans who live in the area, the simple structure and its users have suffered a series of indignities: ...

Staying awake for several days at the top of Ute Peak without food or water, after having the same dream four times, is part of the spiritual practice on the Ute Mountain Ute reservation in Southwest ...

HOT SPRINGS - The participants emerged from the small canvas enclosed space smiling, sweat pouring from their scantily clad bodies that gleamed in the noonday sun. They were exhausted, but they also ...

On Thursday October 8th two people died and 19 others were taken to a hospital from the Angel Valley Retreat Center, in the Sedona area, a renowned resort in central Arizona, after spending time in a ...

Hundreds of Native American tribes are getting money from lawsuit settlements with opioid companies. Some are investing the new funds in... A tribe in Maine is using opioid settlement funds on a sweat ...

Standing in the Tierrasanta parking lot where we’d agreed to meet, I spy David Warren Goodknife down in an adjacent canyon — one of several that carve through the sleepy suburban neighborhood. He’s ...