The states affected are Arizona, California, New Mexico and Oregon, which contain just over a quarter of Native Americans.

A young patient watches a medicine man, right, and helper prepare a sandpainting as part of her healing ceremony in 1980. Credit: Photo courtesy of the National Library of Medicine, Navajo Area Indian ...

“Somewhere, a person gets out of balance,” Begay said, “and the intent is to get him back in balance.” One of the rare studies published on Native healers, a 1998 study in the Archives of Internal ...

Arizona is one of four states included in a program to allow for the coverage of traditional Native American healing ...

GANADO — The 9-year-old boy was hurting himself, running into walls and banging his head into them. He was directed by a spirit voice who told him to do it, Harrison Jim said, recalling the patient.

Both of his parents were also traditional Navajo healers, and he says they instilled in him a responsibility to help others whenever possible. “My parents would have liked this,” Lewis said. “They ...

WINDOW ROCK — As a Marine private, Ronnie Tallman was torn between the military life and his traditional life on the Navajo Nation. Tallman comes from a line of both warriors and healers, which might ...

PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5)-- Author Brian Young (Navajo) talks about his books for young adult readers that explore Navajo identity paying homage to tradition in modern times. The two-time Ivy League grad ...

As noted in the prior related post, Jerome Bernstein (2005) was pushed into changing his therapeutic practice. He encountered many people whose childhoods could not explain their current agitation. At ...

PHOENIX – The most recent album from Hataalii, a Navajo Nation indie-rock artist, closes with a pair of instrumental tracks called “Rain.” The songs, the artist said, are inspired by the relief that ...