Herbalist Sage LaPena explains that a resurgence of traditional medicinal practices. Herbalist Sage LaPena explains that a resurgence of traditional medicinal practices in Native communities and in ...
Emery Tahy of San Francisco knows firsthand the struggles of addiction and recovery — a journey that, for him, is intertwined with his experience as a Native American. In his twenties, Tahy landed on ...
Historians know that turkey and corn were part of the first Thanksgiving, when Wampanoag peoples shared a harvest meal with the pilgrims of Plymouth plantation in Massachusetts. And traditional Native ...
The Navajo, or Diné, language doesn’t have a word for diabetes, so when Ernest Harry Begay sees Native patients who have the condition he instead translates it to them as “being killed by sugar.” Many ...
PHOENIX – Native Americans in Arizona and three other states could now see government health coverage for some traditional healing practices. On Oct. 16, the Biden administration announced it had ...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Native American traditional healthcare will now be covered by Medicaid in New Mexico. New Mexico was one of four states to receive federal approval to use Medicaid funding ...
Whether in a somber performance in the National Portrait Gallery or in her wry takes on Native humor, Anna Tsouhlarakis follows her heart Anna Tsouhlarakis was a self-described “math and science nerd” ...
: [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: This story incorrectly says that Arizona was among the states in which Medicaid would soon cover traditional healing practices for Native Americans. For the change to go ...