The tragic case of a "sweat lodge" constructed by self-help "guru" James Arthur Ray in Sedona, Arizona which took the lives of three people in October of 2009 is again making the news. Ray is being ...

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 ...

If you ask anyone who has had a transformative spiritual experience – the kind that gifts a person clarity and perspective beyond the realm of the physical – where exactly they happened to have this ...

Hundreds of Native American tribes are getting money from lawsuit settlements with opioid companies. Some are investing the new funds in... A tribe in Maine is using opioid settlement funds on a sweat ...

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