In 2024, the most recent year for which data for the population is available, Native American and Alaska Native people had the highest pregnancy-related mortality ration among major demographic groups ...

Between 1907 and 2018, the forced or coerced sterilization of Indigenous women and other women of color in New Mexico often ...

The release of the 2026 Native American $1 coin by The United States Mint is in recognition of the heroism of Polly Cooper ...

EDGEWOOD, N.M. (AP) — The reverse side of the U.S. Mint’s 2026 Sacagawea $1 coin will feature Polly Cooper, a woman from the ...

Purdue women's basketball guard Kiki Smith finds inspiration as a member of the Comanche tribe and All-Native club team in ...

A 20-year-old woman living in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, alleges in a lawsuit the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services negligently allowed her to be adopted out of foster care by a convicted ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Members of the Native American Women Warriors, the nation’s first all-women Native American color guard, stand in a row wearing jingle dresses, ...

Monet Eliastam had no time to feel nervous. On Nov. 23, a small plane dropped her off in ferocious winds on the Hercules Inlet along the outer edge of Antarctica.

A young, white oil worker goes missing on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota. The backdrop is an oil boom that's bringing in lots of money and a lot of crime to the reservation. That ...

Rep. Bob Goodlatte is standing between the bill's passage and failure. In the waning days of their congressional careers, two lawmakers are waging a war to solidify their legacies, and a bill to ...

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