Native youth in Sacramento use powwow dances like jingle as cultural healing tools. Traditional practices address trauma and mental illness amid limited Native therapists. Culturally rooted events ...

The 23-year-old had grown up as the only Native American at her high school in a small western Louisiana town of about 1,600.

Ruth Swaney smiled as she watched her 5-year-old grandson, Talus Endfield, perform his first "fancy dance" Saturday afternoon at the 2017 Native Youth Powwow, an annual event which honors Native ...