WASHINGTON – Fred Willie doesn’t like to call himself a healer or a medicine man — “I’m just Fred Willie. Most people just call me ‘Uncle Fred.’” A member of the Navajo Nation, he frequently travels to other reservations to perform healing ceremonies and hold sweat lodges. He was visiting the Chiricauhua Apache when […]
WASHINGTON – Four hundred years ago, the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe in Massachusetts allied with English settlers in Plymouth and helped them through their first year in America. Friday, the U.S. Interior Department (DOI) informed the Mashpee it will disestablish the tribe and remove its 129-hectare Cape Cod reservation from federal trust. Tribal chairman Cedric […]
WASHINGTON – Native Americans in tribes across the United States are coming together to help safeguard their families and communities in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. They say they face worrying shortages of medical supplies, though, particularly coronavirus test kits. The Indian Health Service, an arm of the U.S. Health and Human Services […]
WASHINGTON – A group of Native American women from several tribes in Oklahoma have launched a nonprofit organization they’re calling the “Auntie Project: Native Women of Service.” Their goal is to help indigenous kids in need, beginning with child migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. The idea came to them in June, after hearing that the […]