Honoring the work to respond to Murdered Missing Indigenous Women and Relatives (MMIWR ... Interior’s Indian Affairs staff, American Indian and Alaska Native people are at a disproportionate ...

These women became part of public lands history as they demonstrated the principles of equality and justice celebrated each May during Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific ... often wearing ...

Many Native American tribes used them in clothing, jewelry and sacred traditions ... Longer shells held more value. Blackfeet and Lakota women layered strands of dentalium over buckskin dresses. Some ...

The Native American organization ... you are going through. Indigenous women and two spirt participants learn how to make regalia like ribbon skirts, accessories and more. The hope is to connect ...

A woman is dressed in traditional Native American clothing and backed up against ... the epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. “I think within the Native community, we understand ...

Their skirts are strung with dog tags ... us,” says Natalie Holt Breen (Abenaki), board member of the Native American Women Warriors (NAWW) and participant in the Folklife Festival.

Native Americans are speaking out decades later ... the children to take on English names and give up their style of clothing and hair, as well as their traditional languages, religions and ...

Native American women are victims of murder more than 10 times the national ... It is hard to ignore a red dress or red skirt hanging from a tree. Most recently, in October, a red skirt hung from a ...

Christian Women’s Connection will host a buffet ... past to life as a model and actor who wears period-correct Native American clothing in his appearances. Thomas will be sharing artifacts ...