Many traditional Native American healing practices have proven health benefits. Sweat lodges, for example, have been documented as being helpful in ridding infections from the body, helping with ...

PHOENIX — Native Americans in New Mexico, Arizona and two other states could now see government health coverage for some traditional healing practices. On Oct. 16, the Biden administration ...

[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 ...

A parade was supposed to kick off American Indian Month at the beginning of May, but a wave of murders and trauma in the ...

A bill that would have made Arizona one of the first states in the U.S. to have traditional healing as a Medicaid benefit stalled in the Legislature.

Advocates say there’s more work to be done in incorporating traditional Native American healing practices into Western medicine, which has potential. But stigma and views of this approach being ...

Their skirts are strung with dog tags, and when they begin to move, their bell-like jingles promote healing for the ... that the highest honor in Native American culture is to be a warrior.

but traditional healing methods were often excluded from coverage, leaving many Native American patients without access to treatments that aligned with their cultural values. “What California is ...