Article Summary Native Americans gathered at the Illinois Capitol on Tuesday for the fourth annual Native American Summit. Multiple representatives ...

For years, meals at the summer sun dance ceremonies on the Eastern Shoshone tribe’s lands in Wyoming were missing something that was once a staple of the sacred rituals. There was no presence of ...

More than a century after a mass bison slaughter, the animals are restoring Great Plains ecosystems and reinvigorating Indigenous customs like the sun dance. By Mike Ives For years, meals at the ...

The Arapaho name for the ceremony is hoseihoowu' . This word means roughly 'give away lodge.' The Arapaho do not really worship the Sun during this ceremony. Rather it is a time of prayer and ...