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Maintaining a Happy Relationship

Even when a relationship is going good, it’s important to work at it and not take it – or the person you’re dating – for granted. The best way to keep a relationship strong, healthy and growing is for you to be aware of your own needs and expectations and…
Categories: Dating, My Relationships

Male Condoms

Condoms are thin sheaths most often made out of latex (rubber). Male condoms, also called external condoms, are worn on the penis while it is inside the partner. How effective is it in preventing pregnancy? Typically, only 13 of 100 couples will have a pregnancy in the first year in…
Categories: Birth Control, My Relationships, Sexual Health

Man in the Maze

“The maze is a symbol of life … happiness, sadness … and you reach your goal … there’s a dream there, and you reach that dream when you get to the middle of the maze … that’s how I was told, my grandparents told me that’s how the maze is.”…
Categories: My Culture, Traditional Stories and Teachings

Managing Relationship Pressures

When you’re in a sexual or romantic relationship, you might experience different kinds of pressure, either from within the relationship, or from other people. Relationship pressure can involve many different factors, including culture or race, age and maturity, family, religion, money, jealousy, mental illness, friends, living together, and sex. Feeling…
Categories: Dating, My Relationships

Masturbation

Most people do it – yet so many people worry about it! That’s because there are a lot of myths out there that masturbation is dirty, dangerous, or something to be embarrassed about doing. But the truth is, masturbation is a safe and healthy way to have sex, and it’s…
Categories: My Relationships, Sex, Sexual Health

Medicine Wheels

Medicine Wheels are a powerful intertribal symbol that represents living a balanced life. They are also known as Sacred Hoops, and while nowadays they are most often seen beaded or on t-shirts, originally they were large rock formations with spiritual significance, the oldest being in Big Horn, Wyoming. Each of…
Categories: My Culture, Sacred Elements

Men’s Fancy Dance

The men’s fancy dance is one of the most exuberant and wildly original powwow styles. Dancers, who are clad in flashy regalia, often in shades of bright neon and embroidered with elaborate applique patterns, dance fast, displaying an aerobic set of often choreographed moves. This dance is difficult to describe.…
Categories: My Culture, PowWow

Men’s Grass Dance

A dancer, clad in bright colors, sways and moves as a strand of grass in the wind. That same dancer, wearing long ribbons and fringes, flattens the grass as a young warrior preparing the ground for a ceremony. The dancer, an air of dignity in his whirling, patterned steps, celebrates…
Categories: My Culture, PowWow

Men’s Northern Traditional

The Northern Traditional dance evokes the style of Plains Indians, their hunting parties and warriors, their Traditional outfits, and their bravery and courage as peoples of America who lived off the land long before settlers came and disrupted their ways of life. The traditional style we see today in powwows…
Categories: PowWow

Moving To The Rez

I was born when my parents lived on the reservation, and lived on that land until I was a couple of years old and they made the transition back to city life, moving nine hours away from our tribal land. My heart never really left our reservation, though, because we…
Categories: My Culture, Rez Life - Urban Life

Native Baseball

This game is simple and does not require a lot of space to play. This game is to test hand eye coordination with the use of two sticks. Sticks can be around two feet or so, unless you would like to have a longer or shorter one to use. To…
Categories: My Culture, Traditional Games and Sports

No Method: Wishing and Hoping

Wishing and hoping is not really a method. It doesn’t work! How effective is it in preventing pregnancy? NOT effective at all! 85 of 100 couples would be pregnant by the end of a year—this is the same pregnancy rate as those who are trying to get pregnant. How effective…
Categories: Birth Control, My Relationships, Sexual Health
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