March 20 marks the spring equinox, and for many Indigenous peoples, this is the start of the new year. It's a time when the death of winter gives way to the new life of spring. We watch as the Earth ...

First given as gifts to arriving explorers, it didn’t take long for colonizers to demand hammocks as tribute. In A Nutshell Hammocks date back nearly 9,000 years in the Americas and were central to ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Ofelia Opocué, a Nasa elder, was forced to leave her community in southwestern Colombia 23 years ago, and is now reviving her culture by creating ...

As dawn emerged Monday, tribal nations gave a special ceremonial blessing on top of Pikes Peak — one of the few times the city opens the summit before sunrise. It's the third year for the Indigenous ...

We’re great at talking molecules. We’re less honest about what holds a person together. Ceremony is the container: elders, songs, prayers, land, kin, language. Strip the container and outcomes wobble.

The show’s cross-generational pairings surface the institutional separations that kept Native artists from forming the kinds ...

As a baby, Elisa Fernández Sánchez’ mother would place her into the bow of the canoe and glide across the murky waters of the ...