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 ...

Delvin Rogers, member of Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, carries a tin can and sage to prepare for smudging, a traditional cleansing of energy, outside the community sweat lodge July 23. Rogers ...

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 ...

A ceremonial sauna for Native Americans could be coming to Benner state prison. Inmates Marvin Banks and Dale Arnold settled a federal civil rights lawsuit Tuesday with the state Department of ...

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 ...

The first sweat lodge ceremony in a Maine prison happened May 18, 2007, at the Bolduc Correctional Facility in Warren. A year ...

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to clarify the history of the Arapaho in Boulder County, and to include Col. John Chivington’s full name. For the Arapaho tribes that used to roam Boulder ...

CAMP VERDE - In hindsight, says the family of a woman who died in an Arizona sweat-lodge ceremony, the red flags were obvious: Nearly $10,000 for a weeklong retreat with no refunds, led by a self-help ...

PRESCOTT — Documents released Monday by Arizona authorities investigating a fatal sweat lodge ceremony confirm that serious medical problems had occurred at past events led by self-help guru James ...