Just a month after a Tiverton man won the right to wear an Apache headband at the Adult Correctional Institutions, the state Department of Correction is facing yet another lawsuit accusing officials ...

(The Conversation) — Every November, numerous articles recount the arrival of 17th-century English Pilgrims and Puritans and their quest for religious freedom. Stories are told about the founding of ...

NMAI copy purchased with funds from the Lloyd and Charlotte Wineland Library Endowment for Native American and Western Exploration Literature 1. Revitalization, renewal, and reprise : on the modern ...

Introduction / Lawrence Sullivan -- Renewal as discourse and discourse as renewal in Native northwestern California / Thomas Buckley -- Traditional ways and contemporary vitality: Absaroke/Crow / John ...

Native American Church members in Texas have long used peyote in prayer and during religious ceremonies. But believers and academics now say there's a shortage of the bluish-green plant, best known ...

HEBBRONVILLE, Texas In this corner of southern Texas, the plump cacti seem to pop out of arid dust and cracked earth, like magic dumplings. It’s only here and in northern Mexico that the bluish-green ...

HINCKLEY, Minn. (AP) — At summertime social powwows and spiritual ceremonies throughout the Upper Midwest, Native Americans are gathering around singers seated at big, resonant drums to dance, ...

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Three Native American inmates at the ACI have filed a lawsuit alleging their religious practices are being denied. The ACLU is representing the inmates, claiming the ACI lacks policies accommodating ...

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