In passing the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (“VAWA”), Native Americans were granted jurisdiction over non-natives in domestic violence situations. These new VAWA provisions came ...

Sanchez declared this "the modern form of genocide." This began six years prior when physicians sterilized about 25% of ...

When author and journalist Mona Gable began writing about LaFontaine-Greywind, she learned that violence against Native American women is a widespread problem that has persisted for centuries.

Nearly 800 Native American women served as well, according to Judith Bellafaire, Ph.D., curator of women in military service for the Women in Military Service for America Memorial Foundation.

Inspired by the Native women who took part in the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, the art work represents an important event in Native American, American, and environmental history, and speaks ...

An installation at the Minnesota State Capitol memorializes the thousands of missing and murdered Native American women whose cases are still unsolved. Credit: Michael Siluk / Getty Images The ...

Although the 19th Amendment declared that the right to vote cannot be denied on the basis of sex, it did not guarantee voting access to all women. Citizenship laws, poll taxes, threats, and violence ...

It’s part of an ancient tradition, and more - for some Native American tribes ... “Native men and women fill that role through military service, through protecting the language, guarding ...

Native American women have the highest rate of ovarian cancer. Black women with ovarian cancer have lower rates of survival compared to white women. Finding ovarian cancer early can lead to better ...