ALBANY - The boy who escaped in November from Oak Creek Youth Correctional Facility got out by first hiding in a American Indian sweat lodge and then scaling two fences. The sweat lodge has been shut ...

ST. LOUIS -- A federal appeals panel has restored a Missouri inmate's lawsuit demanding religious use of an American Indian sweat lodge, suggesting that the imprisoned killer perhaps deserved more ...

PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — Outside the Mi'kmaq Nation's health department sits a dome-shaped tent, built by hand from saplings and covered in black canvas. It's one of several sweat lodges on the tribe's ...

The American Indian has been raped again, only this time it is spiritual. When we see people such as self-styled guru James Arthur Ray using the American Indian sweat lodge in a large revival setting ...

ESTANCIA, N.M. -- Melvin Martin was once seething behind bars. But the Navajo inmate says these days he is feeling relaxed, respectful and reconnected to his culture -- all because of weekly sessions ...

ESTANCIA, N.M. -- Melvin Martin was once seething behind bars. But the Navajo inmate says he is feeling relaxed, respectful and reconnected to his culture these days, all because of weekly sessions in ...

PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) — Self-help author James Arthur Ray faced more than a judge at his sentencing last week for a sweat lodge ceremony that left three people dead. Members of the American Indian ...

The Southern Ute Indian Tribe said Friday that Republican congressional candidate Hope Scheppelman "inaccurately" claimed the tribe invited her to attend a sweat ceremony earlier this month and ...