Huitzilopochtli, a group from Denver that performs Aztec ritual dances, performs at the Native American Cultural Gathering on Saturday at Chimney Rock National Monument. Copy article link ...

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 ...

XINGU INDIGENOUS PARK, Brazil (Reuters) – When a big chief dies on the Xingu indigenous reservation, its tribes gather for a unique funeral ritual called the Kuarup. Wearing body paint and bird ...

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 ...

On Dec. 29, 1890, the Lakota people began a religious ritual called the Ghost Dance that Congress had outlawed. The cavalry ...