Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three Native women—a president, a professor, and a student—are sharing their personal journeys in higher education in a new book ...

In 2024, Brian Steven Smith was found guilty of murdering Kathleen J. Henry and Veronica R. Abouchuk Months after Alaska Native Veronica R. Abouchuk was reported missing in 2019, police found Kathleen ...

Abigail Echo-Hawk, director of the Urban Indian Health Institute, recalled a Native mother in her 30s who started having memory loss and other dementia-like symptoms. The woman had suffered multiple ...

In recent weeks, survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse have gotten some of the spotlight they have long been denied. Perhaps talk of them even came up during your Thanksgiving holiday. For most of us, ...

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In many Native cultures, it is common for women to hold leadership roles in society. Join Renée Gokey and Yadira Hadlett, from the National Museum of the American Indian, to explore a new teaching ...

In the 1970s, the U.S. agency that provides health care to Native Americans sterilized thousands of women without their full and informed consent, depriving them of the opportunity to start or grow ...

Allison Haro, pictured Nov. 21, achieved sobriety and now works to provide services for relatives and community members at the Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center. When it comes to staying ...

KWETHLUK, Alaska (AP) — It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael quietly lived her entire life as a midwife and a mother of 13. As the wife ...