There are several Ojibwe traditions I was taught concerning funerals and death. For instance, when I was growing up and somebody died, my mother would crinkle up a little strip of birch bark like an ...

ST. PAUL -- The Twin Cities Hmong community is searching for another location for its elaborate, traditional funerals, which often last several days and include hundreds of relatives and friends. The ...

In the United States, mourners typically dress in black to attend a funeral, but that isn’t the tradition everywhere. In East Asia, people wear white to funerals, because it’s a color that represents ...