In 1889 — 132 years before the ask — La Flesche made American history when she became the first Native American to earn a medical degree. Born in a tipi in 1865 on the Omaha reservation in northeast ...

Humetewa, the first female Native American federal judge, bridges her Hopi heritage and modern legal achievements ... as the first Native American woman U.S. Attorney in 2007.

After spearheading the modern fight for Native American rights ... the highest-ranking Native American woman elected to executive office in the US – are helping to protect and highlight ...

A new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum reveals how deeply embedded a Native woman’s perspective on our culture might be. When Jaune Quick-To-See Smith lit up the Whitney Museum’s ...

Peggy Flanagan, who is poised to become the first Native American woman ... and I would say Native women — have been leaders since time immemorial. It is just modern society that is catching ...

An Army major is celebrating one year of having earned approval to wear his hair and tribe-specific regalia items in a way that honors his Native American heritage during appropriate service ...

Native American campaigners are raising questions about the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s first-ever curator of Native American art — claiming she does not belong to a federally recognized ...

“I was really excited about being a Native ... images of children and women, both from the Israel and the Gaza side, being harmed in the name of you know suppression, oppression, war, land issues, etc ...

While Killers of the Flower Moon is among Oscars favorites, with Lily Gladstone tipped to become the first Native American woman to be named ... timely attention to a modern crisis of murders ...

Lily Gladstone made history as the first Native American woman to be ... which is also nominated for Best Picture, Gladstone plays Mollie, an Osage woman whose family members are murdered in ...