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St. Olga, a Yup'ik woman who died in 1979 at age 63, was a midwife, a mother of 13 and the wife of an Orthodox Christian ...
Native Prospects, at the Farnsworth Art Museum, infuses the American landscape tradition with Indigenous perspective ...
The effort to gain greater legal status for a group of Native Americans in the heart of West Michigan has a renewed attempt ...
State legislators and advocates are trying once again to ban Native American mascots in Massachusetts high schools.
Large differences in life expectancy between American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) individuals versus other U.S. residents ...
Explores the challenges faced by Native Americans, particularly the Navajo, in 1971. Highlights cultural identity, government ...
Native American imagery is all around us, while the people are often forgotten. For indigenous people, everything from the word “America” to the insulting ways native symbols are used is a ...
A new study overturns the idea that Native Americans originated from Japan’s Jomon people, showing stronger links to Siberian populations. (CREDIT: CC BY-SA 4.0) ...
About 30% of Native American and Alaska Native people younger than 65 are enrolled in Medicaid, and the program helps keep Indian Health Service and other tribal health facilities afloat.
The Trump administration’s recent sweeping cuts have thrown the tradition of U.S. assistance into doubt. Without American help, Indigenous people in the Amazon are worried.
But the Trump administration’s recent sweeping cuts to the agency have thrown that tradition of U.S. assistance into doubt, and Indigenous people in the Amazon worry that without American ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Miguel Guimaraes Vasquez fought for years to protect his homeland in the Peruvian Amazon from deforestation related to the cocaine trade, even laboring under death threats ...