From sports mascots to Halloween costumes to Native American-themed dress-up, "Native Americans face mockery of our culture every day," said Keturah Peters, a member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe.

"The dance is like a prayer so the sounds kind of carry into heaven.” When the United States was hit with the influenza pandemic in 1918, the women of the Ojibwe tribe practiced a healing ritual known ...