It's a common problem for many Native American voters like Juan. ... Native Americans face voting hurdles as election looms. By Tom Hals. November 1, 2024 10:06 PM UTC Updated November 1, 2024 ...

Native Americans face huge healthcare disparities. Here’s a way to help close the gaps The Northern Navajo Medical Center in Shiprock, N.M., shown in 2019, is run by the Indian Health Service.

American Indians and Native Alaskans face a “disproportionate burden” of oral health disease in the U.S. from childhood onward, a crisis with roots in structural racism and exacerbated by lack ...

Kawena Pukui will be featured on the U.S. Mint’s 2025 Native American $1 Coin thanks to a letter sent by U.S. Senator Mazie K ...

Native Americans are also over represented in the homeless death data. In 2022, of the 250 homeless people who died in Sacramento, six were Native American, according to coroner data.

A century ago, Congress granted citizenship to Native Americans, providing them the right to vote. But a new report from House Administration Committee Democrats argues that the nation has failed ...

A woman wearing face paint looks on during the National Day of Mourning, on Thanksgiving day, November 25, 2021 in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Thanksgiving is not a celebration for all Native Americans.

A staggering 13.5% of U.S. households experienced food insecurity in 2023. Even more alarming is that during that same year, 25% of Indigenous households reported food insecurity. Many Native ...

These numbers mean that Native American people get less care and as a result die younger. They perpetuate a message that an Indigenous life is worth less than everyone else’s. There have been ...

Native American adoption era history. The Bureau of Indian Affairs established the Indian Adoption Project in 1958. Like the Boarding School Initiative, the goal of forced Native adoptions was to ...

Native Americans tend to die much earlier than White Americans. Their median age at death was 14 years younger, according to an analysis of 2018-21 data from the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Pins to promote voting by Native Americans are at a display counter during a cultural meeting at the Comanche Nation fairgrounds in Lawton, Okla., on Sept. 30, 2023.Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Images ...