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 ...

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 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.

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 ...