On the day of winter solstice, many Native American communities will hold religious ceremonies or community events. The winter solstice is the day of the year when the Northern Hemisphere has the ...

SAN PEDRO DE MACHA, Bolivia — In the high altitude Bolivian town of San Pedro de Macha, hundreds of Indigenous Quechua men and women take to the streets for a ritual dance and combat known as the ...

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Growing up on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, Frank Waln was first introduced to hip hop music as a kid when he found a scratched-up CD of Detroit rapper Eminem, who’s been acknowledged as ...

BECKET — Seven women walk up the path and into the circle of people under the trees. Seven women in red capes and midnight skirts circle, lapping and overlapping. They stretch as though their bodies ...

Tibetan ritual dancer Losang Samten – who is also an award-winning visual artist and the spiritual director of the Chenrezig Tibetan Buddhist Center of Philadelphia (USA) – recently worked with ...

MAMBUNONG PETER AGUILBA, 68, reads the bile and liver of five pigs butchered during the Indigenous Peoples Month culminating ritual in La Trinidad, Benguet, seeking blessings and protection from the ...