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, ...

But 55 cents is, in many ways, an incomplete figure. There is much that is unknown about the nuances of the pay gap for Native American women. For years, the United States has failed to invest in data ...

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 ...

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 ...

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Tamra Truett Jerus of the Alaska Native Women's Resource Center, about ways to draw attention to the 4,200 unsolved cases of missing and murdered Indigenous people.

Missy Hendricks’ (Apache) first race was a 5K through the mountains on the Mescalero Apache reservation with her dad more than 20 years ago. They woke up before sunrise and drove 100 miles from Las ...

Mary Johnson Davis (left); and a scene from Missing From the Fire Trail Road. Mary Ellen Johnson-Davis, of the Tulalip Tribes in Wash., disappeared in 2020. Her family is still waiting for answers.