Freedom of religion is something that we here in America treasure. It's our First Amendment. But for so long, Native Americans have not had that right. And even today, there are fights to protect not ...

Three Native American inmates at the ACI have filed a lawsuit alleging their religious practices are being denied. The ACLU is representing the inmates, claiming the ACI lacks policies accommodating ...

(The Conversation) — The eruption of Mauna Loa is a profound spiritual experience for many Native Hawaiians. An anthropologist explains Native American beliefs on the living Earth and volcanic lava.

A Tiverton man serving a life sentence at the state Adult Correctional Institutions is suing corrections administrators over their refusal to allow him to wear an Apache headband in keeping with the ...

NMAI copy purchased with funds from the Lloyd and Charlotte Wineland Library Endowment for Native American and Western Exploration Literature 1. Revitalization, renewal, and reprise : on the modern ...

(RNS) — ‘It’s important that we unify, and we work together, and share the teachings to protect our sacred areas because once God, once our sacred and holy places are gone, we will no longer exist.

Editor’s note: This story was supplied by The Conversation for AP customers. The Associated Press does not guarantee the content. Every November, numerous articles recount the arrival of 17th-century ...

The Native American Church is considered the most widespread religious movement among the Indigenous people of North America. It holds sacred the peyote cactus, which grows naturally only in some ...

HEBBRONVILLE, Texas In this corner of southern Texas, the plump cacti seem to pop out of arid dust and cracked earth, like magic dumplings. It’s only here and in northern Mexico that the bluish-green ...

Just a month after a Tiverton man won the right to wear an Apache headband at the Adult Correctional Institutions, the state Department of Correction is facing yet another lawsuit accusing officials ...