Four states now allow government-run insurance programs to cover Native American healing practices. Jen Procter Andrews is Vice Chair for the Coquille Tribe based in coastal Oregon, and a member of ...

In October, the Biden Administration expanded both Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for practices that could include sweat lodges and drumming in Oregon, California ...

Sweat lodging, music therapy and other traditional healing treatments could now be covered by Medicaid in four states, including Arizona. Native Americans in Arizona and three other states could ...

Four states now allow government-run insurance programs to cover Native American healing practices. In October, the Biden Administration expanded both Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance ...

President Joe Biden visited the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona on Friday to deliver a long-awaited official apology to Native Americans for the federal boarding school system that severed ...

On February 11, 2025, a podcast produced and hosted by Wabanaki Public Health & Wellness, Aunties on Air… and Some Uncles Too ...

The Native American Church is considered the most widespread ... adding that he has seen the medicine work, healing people with various ailments. People treat the trip to harvest peyote as a ...

grandriver / Getty Images Given the unique hurdles and historic struggles that Native American people have endured, it’s vital for these communities to know what resources exist to assist them.

The property of the late Amada Cardenas, who was one of the first federally licensed peyote dealers, alongside her husband, to harvest and sell the sacramental plant to followers of the Native ...

(WOOD) — An award-winning hip-hop artist and Native American activist looks to ... looking at what concepts like music and healing and even activism means from a Native perspective,” Waln ...