MOORHEAD - To Cera Swiftwater, the experience inside a sweat lodge is like a hot shower. It's a place to collect her thoughts and pray for family and a "cleansing for the week." "It's honestly one of ...

A sweat lodge ceremony where two people died last week in Arizona was improperly conducted and not representative of a true American Indian tradition, local American Indians said Wednesday. Larry ...

ST. LOUIS -- A federal appeals panel has restored a Missouri inmate's lawsuit demanding religious use of an American Indian sweat lodge, suggesting that the imprisoned killer perhaps deserved more ...

Art Martinez has seen the power of ceremony. Martinez, a clinical psychologist and member of the Chumash Tribe, helped run an ...

ALBANY - The boy who escaped in November from Oak Creek Youth Correctional Facility got out by first hiding in a American Indian sweat lodge and then scaling two fences. The sweat lodge has been shut ...

KEARNEY - As Susan Dixson sees it, the metal-lined fire pit in her backyard is an essential part of an American Indian religious ceremony performed in a domelike sweat lodge. City officials and a ...

KEARNEY - Early next week, Kearney City Manager Mike Morgan could issue a report on whether a conditional burn permit should be amended or revoked for an American Indian sweat lodge in south Kearney ...

PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — Outside the Mi'kmaq Nation's health department sits a dome-shaped tent, built by hand from saplings and covered in black canvas. It's one of several sweat lodges on the tribe's ...

Hennepin County will pay to build two sweat lodges at the Adult Corrections Facility in Plymouth for American Indian inmates who want to attend ceremonies. The County Board approved a $30,000 contract ...

The Southern Ute Indian Tribe said Friday that Republican congressional candidate Hope Scheppelman "inaccurately" claimed the tribe invited her to attend a sweat ceremony earlier this month and ...

Every time Jeremy Wolf heads out into the woods, it is an opportunity – more than just spending time in nature. “It’s for us, just being Indian. Just doing the things that we have been taught over the ...