I n Native American culture, totem animals or spirit animals are spiritual symbols that protect and guide a person or their family or tribe.Some of these spirits would bring messages or direction ...

Whether or not a tribe actually follows the "spirit animal" ideal, animals play a huge part in Native culture ... I'm not 'Indian,' I'm Native American, Indigenous, or First Nations.

From takedowns of sports team mascots to calling out clueless questions about spirit animals, four Indigenous comedians riff ...

Native American ... plants and animals came to be, such as Narragansett storyteller Tchin’s lesson of why rabbits have such long ears. Other stories explain ceremony and ritual, such as Hoskie ...