“She’s taught all of us that Native values make Americans stronger.” - President Barack Obama Dennis Zotigh President Barack Obama awards Suzan Shown Harjo with a 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom, ...
Mary Ellen Johnson-Davis, of the Tulalip Tribes in Wash., disappeared in 2020. Her family is still waiting for answers. FBI;FilmRise Mary Johnson Davis (left); and a scene from Missing From the Fire ...
When Susan Masten was growing up in Northern California, her familial traditions were lost in a confusion of cultures. Native American communities pass down traditions through the matrilineal line, ...
In Native communities across the United States, we have always known: when you invest in women, you invest in whole nations. Women are the backbone of our communities, the culture-bearers, the ...
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 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 ...
KWETHLUK, Alaska — 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 of an ...
SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - For some families, justice never comes, but that doesn’t mean their stories are forgotten. Something that the family of a woman whose murder case has remained unsolved for 33 years ...
It's a complex history of displacement and forced assimilation as well as one of self-determination and, strangely enough, ...
PERSON TO THE DEPARTMENT. WELL, TRIBAL LEADERS AND SURVIVORS GATHERING IN SANDOVAL COUNTY TODAY. THE COALITION TO STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST NATIVE WOMEN HOSTED THE EVENT TO DISCUSS STRATEGIES TO COMBAT ...
In the run-up to Hollywood’s biggest night, Lily Gladstone, breakout star of the Martin Scorsese-directed epic “Killers of the Flower Moon,” is spotlighting a cause close to her heart as she makes ...
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 ...