Native American women face higher rates of death than other demographics. In response, Native Americans have been working with state and federal officials to boost tribal participation and leadership ...

Official U.S. records dramatically underestimate mortality and life expectancy disparities for Native Americans, according to a new, groundbreaking study published in the Journal of the American ...

Marissa Russo is a former STAT intern supported by the AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship. American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States live nearly four years less than ...

Each summer the Office of Indigenous Relations at the University of Nevada, Reno, invites Native American high school students from across the state interested in attending college to participate in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The White House (Photo/Levi Rickert for Native News Online) Unlike his first administration, when he issued a presidential ...

The Detroit Institute of Arts has long been known for the strength of its Native American collection, yet the museum functioned without a Native American curator for more than a decade and it has been ...

CARLISLE, Pa. (AP) — The Carlisle Indian Industrial School had not yet held its first class when Matavito Horse and Leah Road Traveler were taken there in October 1879, drafted into the U.S.