In 2018, the Urban Indian Health Institute released an extensive study on missing and murdered indigenous women. As of 2016, there were 5,712 reports of missing American Indian and Alaska Native women ...

Andrews said this openness to incorporate Native American values and ties to the land is important. It also allows healing practices involving communal gatherings or plants to become more accepted ...

Traditional Native American dances were banned by the United States government in 1883. Though the code was repealed 50 years later, to Oxendine, learning and performing powwow dances is a process ...