Although it was technically spring, winter was still hanging on this April morning in the Grand Portage sugar bush. “Sap was ...

Despite a long history of traditional medicinal use in the United States, the collection, consumption and efficacy of the peculiar forest plant aptly named ghost pipe, scientific name Monotropa ...

In “Medicine River,” Mary Annette Pember recounts what happened to her mother, and many like her, who were abused in Indian ...

Mary Annette Pember’s mother​ attended an Indian residential school through the eighth grade. It forever changed her—and her ...

Imagine standing at the edge of a shimmering northern lake, the hush of morning broken only by the gentle rustle of tall wild ...

Students and staff from Turtle Lake-Mercer High School are sharing legends they say teach about many things, from history to ...

The Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center is planning a birth center will provide medical and cultural resources to ...

Discover more benefits, and read advice on how to integrate traditional ecological knowledge into curricula China’s climate education leans heavily on Western science, often neglecting traditional ...

In "Medicine River," Mary Annette Pember grapples with the harrowing legacy of boarding schools for Native Americans and the ...

Medicine River. According to Mary Annette Pember in her powerful new book of that name, the Ojibwe (sometimes Anglicized as Chippewa) believed that everything needed for a good life could be found ...

Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe tribal member Melissa Beson, 37, has been missing since March 17. Tribal police, with assistance from other agencies, have conducted extensive searches using various methods ...

All prices were accurate at the time of publishing. I grew up in a home that had a bathroom with a bulky medicine cabinet right above my sink, in which everything (and I mean everything!) was kept ...