Native American Women's Equal Pay Day is a powerful reminder of the ongoing struggle for economic equality faced by Native American women. Observed on November 30th each year, Native American Women's ...
A national support line for Native survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault has begun work to launch an ...
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 ...
The average profile of a missing child in Hawaii is a 15-year-old Native Hawaiian girl. Despite making up just 10% of the state’s population, Native Hawaiian girls and women account for nearly 2 in 3 ...
Female Native American lawyers often feel isolated and harassed, according to a new report published by the American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession, in collaboration with the ...
Gun ownership is stepping in to help bridge a safety gap in New Mexico’s vast Indian country, according to gun experts in the state. "No one is coming to save you" is a motto among Native Americans in ...
Rose Mcfadden is a leader of the Native American Women Warriors group, a community that seeks to aid Native American female veterans with recovery and in their transition out of the military.
Native Women Lead, the rapidly accelerating launch of the first initiative intended to prepare Native women for asset management and advance Native American women entrepreneurs, snagged a $650,000 ...
This story was originally published by The 19th and is republished here by permission. For Native American women, the gender pay gap reflects the systems that have oppressed them for centuries. The ...
The United States Department of the Interior has replaced a derogatory term for Indigenous women used for centuries in five areas across the country. The Board on Geographic Names (BGN) voted on ...