Over a six-year period in the 1970s, physicians sterilized perhaps 25% of Native American women of childbearing age ...
March is Women’s History Month, and to celebrate, Native News Online will feature stories and interviews with Native American women to highlight all that they do for communities across Indian ...
In the 1970s, the agency that provides health care to Native Americans sterilized thousands of women without their full and ...
MADISON, Wis. — March is Women's History Month, and For the Record is highlighting some influential Wisconsin women. Ada Deer ...
Native American women have long been powerful leaders, organizers, storytellers, and changemakers — not only within their communities, but across the broader landscape of American history. Their ...
Indigenous slavery, which lasted for centuries, has gone by many names. A new public history project wants us to see it for what it was.
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Members of the Native American Women Warriors, the nation’s first all-women Native American color guard, stand in a row wearing jingle dresses, ...
Indigenous women go missing and are murdered at higher rates than other ethnic groups. Federal laws try to address the problem, but in some cases they fail to meet their own deadlines for action. When ...
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In 1972, Jean Whitehorse went to an the Indian Health Service hospital in Gallup, N.M. treat a ruptured appendix. The 22-year-old mother left her treatment as the victim of a human rights abuse that ...