July 4 is a day many Americans celebrate to honor the country’s independence from Great Britain. For many Native Americans, ...

The saguaro cactus is the iconic plant of the Arizona borderlands, and in June and early July, its fruit ripens.

In some of the earliest settlements in North America, specifically in Jamestown (in modern-day Virginia), and the Plymouth colony (in modern day Massachusetts), the original settlers that survived ...

The history of encounters between Catholicism and Native spirituality has often been marred by violence and oppression.

A forensic pathologist has revealed the cause of death of an American tourist who died after taking ayahuasca. Aaron Wayne Castranova, who was visiting a spiritual retreat in Peru, died after ...

A Spokane congregation has won a first-of-its-kind federal approval to possess and partake of the powerful hallucinogenic drug ayahuasca that is central to its religious practice. “It’s a huge ...

A new study has found that Indigenous cave art near Santa Barbara, California likely depicts a hallucinogenic “trance flower” known as Datura wrightii. Beside the drawing, researchers also found ...

Earlier this month, the Illinois House passed legislation — House Bill 1237 — that would phase out the use of Native American-based mascots and logos in our state’s elementary and high schools.

As Congress mulls potentially massive cuts to federal Medicaid funding, health centers that serve Native American communities, such as the Oneida Community Health Center near Green Bay, Wisconsin ...

Native Americans have sometimes been mistaken for being Latino, activists said. “The communities have raised concerns about the potential of racial profiling,” De León said.