MOORHEAD - To Cera Swiftwater, the experience inside a sweat lodge is like a hot shower. It's a place to collect her thoughts and pray for family and a "cleansing for the week." "It's honestly one of ...

Delvin Rogers, member of Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, carries a tin can and sage to prepare for smudging, a traditional cleansing of energy, outside the community sweat lodge July 23. Rogers ...

MOORHEAD - To Cera Swiftwater, the experience inside a sweat lodge is like a hot shower. It's a place to collect her thoughts and pray for family and a "cleansing for the week." "It's honestly one of ...

>> THE FIGHT ISN FOR NATIVE ACTIVISTS TO PROTECT WHAT THEY CALL SACRED LAND. ODGO EVENING. >>HE T GUPRO IS PROTESTING A DEVELORPE RECENTLY APPROVED BY THE LINCOLN CITY COUNCIL. THEY ARE WORRIED THE ...

(CN) - A federal judge tossed a former inmate's lawsuit claiming his religious rights were trampled when he wasn't allowed to build a sweat lodge in prison and was denied raw meat to practice the ...

Hennepin County will pay to build two sweat lodges at the Adult Corrections Facility in Plymouth for American Indian inmates who want to attend ceremonies. The County Board approved a $30,000 contract ...

A ceremonial sauna for Native Americans could be coming to Benner state prison. Inmates Marvin Banks and Dale Arnold settled a federal civil rights lawsuit Tuesday with the state Department of ...

PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — Outside the Mi'kmaq Nation's health department sits a dome-shaped tent, built by hand from saplings and covered in black canvas. It's one of several sweat lodges on the tribe's ...

FLAGSTAFF — Self-help guru James Arthur Ray, charged with manslaughter for the Sedona sweat lodge deaths of three people, is taking his motivational messages to the Internet. In a video posted online ...

PRESCOTT — Documents released Monday by Arizona authorities investigating a fatal sweat lodge ceremony confirm that serious medical problems had occurred at past events led by self-help guru James ...

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to clarify the history of the Arapaho in Boulder County, and to include Col. John Chivington’s full name. For the Arapaho tribes that used to roam Boulder ...