For years, meals at the summer sun dance ceremonies on the Eastern Shoshone tribe’s lands in Wyoming were missing something that was once a staple of the sacred rituals. There was no presence of ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- As a young child, I remember going with my family to powwows and feeling mesmerized by the dancers. The songs. The sounds of jingling coming from dancers’ regalia. The skill, ...

SAN PEDRO DE MACHA, Bolivia — In the high altitude Bolivian town of San Pedro de Macha, hundreds of Indigenous Quechua men and women take to the streets for a ritual dance and combat known as the ...

Huitzilopochtli, a group from Denver that performs Aztec ritual dances, performs at the Native American Cultural Gathering on Saturday at Chimney Rock National Monument. Copy article link ...

Editor’s Note: The opinions expressed in these stories are solely those of the authors. Native Americans from diverse tribes and regions of the country have shared many stories about how Pow-wows ...

White sage, which is sacred to a number of Native American tribes in the southwest United States, has been adopted by both some contemporary Pagans and New Age practitioners for purification rites. As ...

In a study published in Telestes, Dr. Joshua Kumbani and Dr. Margarita Díaz-Andreu categorized the various dance scenes depicted in South African rock art, drawing on ethnographic sources, published ...