The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department is accused of destroying sacred plants belonging to an affiliate of the Native American Church in Southern California. Getty Images/iStockphoto A Native ...

A branch of the national Native American Church has accused the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department of violating its constitutional rights in two raids in the last seven months that seized ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The Native American Church is considered the ...

San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon D. Dicus is pushing back against a federal lawsuit alleging that the seizure of 60,000 marijuana plants in a pair of raids has deprived a Native American Church ...

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The Reuben A. Snake, Jr. Papers, located in the Cultural Resource Center of the National Museum of the American Indian, contain writings, correspondence, biographical materials, and written materials ...

Ben Black Bear Jr., at far left, with (back row) his wife Arlene, mother Iva and father Ben Black Bear Sr., and daughters (front row) Benita and Berlene, on his ordination day in 1976. Credit: St.

This is a still from the recently released documentary "Trailblazers of Faith: The Legacy of African American Catholics" from the Black and Indian Mission Office in Washington. It tells the story of ...