The Rev. Leslie Scoopmire Readings (Feast of Martin of Tours): Isaiah 58:6–12 Psalm 15 Matthew 25:31-40 Some of my favorite childhood...

November is Native American Heritage Month. To help celebrate, and to acquaint ourselves with the richness of Native spirituality in the...

In 1830, after decades of pressure from Southern states, and at the urging of President Andrew Jackson, who had risen to power in part as...

In 1824, Bishop of Louisiana William DuBourg established the second Roman Catholic boarding school for Native children in Florissant off...

The Iowa, who call themselves Bah Kho-Je (People of the Grey Snow) were, as mentioned previously, once probably affiliated with the...

In 1673, Pere Jacques Marquette and adventurer Louis Jolliet met a tribe of indigenous Siouan people who called themselves the Niutachi,...

The Wazhazhe People call themselves “The Children of the Middle Waters.” French trappers and traders who encountered them mispronounced...

From about 800 CE to 1600 CE, the banks of the Mississippi River near St. Louis were home to a flourishing great civilization known as...

For millennia, the Confluence Region of North America, where the Ohio, Missouri, and Mississippi Rivers and their tributaries meet, was a...