At least 355 Native American and Indigenous candidates ran or are running in local, state and federal primary and general elections this year — a record number.
These are some of the most interesting and shocking facts about Native Americans—many you might not have learned about in ...
Today is Indigenous Pink Day. Here is What You Need to Know About Breast Cancer in Native Americans.
Breast cancer is the most common cancer found in American Indian and Alaska Native women. While Native women are diagnosed with breast cancer less frequently than white women, they die from the ...
In 2020, a record-setting six Native American candidates secured seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. This year, nine Native candidates ran for Congress, including four incumbents.
In late October, President Joe Biden issued an apology for the U.S. Indian Boarding Schools program, a century-long concerted effort by the federal government to destroy Native American culture and ...
Native American student enrollment has been on the decline for the past decade, dropping 40 percent between 2010 and 2021, a loss of tens of thousands of students. Of the 15.4 million undergraduate ...
Donald Fixico, Thomas Bowlus Distinguished Professor of American Indian History and Director of the Center for Indigenous ...
Native people inhabited the land that would become the United States long before the Declaration of Independence in 1776. But it wasn’t until 1924, when Congress passed the Indian Citizenship Act, ...
Native people with cancer who are enrolled in Medicare spend more money on treatment and die more often than the rest of Medicare patients with cancer, according to new research published last week ...
Oweesta Corporation has been an innovator for Native economic growth since 1999. As the longest-standing intermediary for Native Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs), Oweesta is ...
Last year, the Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security launched Operation Metro Surge, sending over 3,000 federal agents to the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area to arrest ...
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