Totem animals and their meanings form a universal language of spiritual guidance found across cultures from Native American tribes to Celtic traditions and beyond. These animal spirit guides serve as ...

Native American spirituality: an introduction / Lee Irwin -- Mediations of the spirit: Native American religious traditions and the ethics of representation / Inés Hernández-Ávila -- Cultural identity ...

Forget everything you’ve heard about “spirit animals” being quirky memes or internet jokes. In Native American traditions, your spirit animal isn’t just a cute representation of your personality—it’s ...

PIPESTONE, Minn. Under the tall prairie grass outside this southwestern Minnesota town lies a precious seam of dark red pipestone that, for thousands of years, Native Americans have quarried and ...

Diane Orson is a special correspondent with Connecticut Public. She is a longtime reporter and contributor to National Public Radio. Her stories have been heard on Morning Edition, All Things ...

(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.

Native American Heritage Month, just concluded, represents an interesting tension for educators. There’s a drive to celebrate culture—and why not, when Native culture is so frequently overlooked or ...

Every November, someone contacts me to present about Native Americans for Native American Heritage Month. In such presentations, I provide background about the month and why it matters. But I also ...

It’s a sunny spring morning as Nakai Clearwater Northup stands amid white pine trees, near a river, surveying the land. Looking at his Narragansett homelands in southern Rhode Island, he says hunting ...

PIPESTONE, Minn. (AP) — Under the tall prairie grass outside this southwestern Minnesota town lies a precious seam of dark red pipestone that, for thousands of years, Native Americans have quarried ...