The Indian Health Service was mostly spared in the federal government's widespread staffing cuts, but tribal governments and organizations have lost funding elsewhere.

As Amanda Takes War Bonnett wrote for the Lakota Times, one of the major differences between ... Long before Europeans conducted surgery with anesthetics, Native American medicine men and other ...

The U’s Native American Medicine Garden was established in 2003 by Barbara Graham-Bettelyoun (Sicangu Lakota), director of what was then the U’s participation in the Woodlands Wisdom Nutrition Project ...

Witnessing a Native woman die due to the refusal of a white doctor to treat her ignited Picotte's resolve to pursue medicine ... American woman to head the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Mary Brave Bird, ...

The curriculum was developed over 10 years as a framework for cultural exchange in South Dakota, where Dakota, Lakota and ... and as a medicine by Native American people for millennia.

Peyote has been used spiritually in ceremonies, and as a medicine ... Native American people to organize as a church, said Darrell Red Cloud, the great-great grandson of Chief Red Cloud of the ...

Peyote has been used spiritually in ceremonies, and as a medicine by Native ... governments encouraged Native American people to organize as a church, said Darrell Red Cloud, the great-great grandson ...

Since this story aired more than 20 years ago, a 30-acre park has been developed around the medicine wheel. It includes twelve replica Native American burial mounds. These mounds are the same type ...

so they can play games and make crafts inspired by Native American culture in order to learn more about the American Indians. Ceremonies and events in the Medicine Wheel Garden The Golden Eagle ...

For the fifth year in a row, a thunderous roar echoed through on the first Sunday of the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. Streaks of red ribbons flew in the wind and more than 200 motorcyclists ...

It was not until the late 1970s that the American Indian Religious Freedom Act directed government agencies to make policy changes “to protect and preserve Native American religious cultural ...

who quite evidently was modeled on a Lakota man — an insight Dallin is believed to have cultivated in Paris sketching the dress and accessories of Native American participants in Buffalo Bill ...