Q: Have women ever run a Native American nation? Virginia Plumley | Huntington, West Virginia Native women, especially respected elders, have always been involved in important decisions.

For many, this coexistence of American patriotism and Indigenous pride may seem contradictory Naomi Skiles Members of the Native American Women Warriors, the nation’s first all-women Native ...

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 ...

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 ...

and nearly 30 fighting for women's suffrage, Susan B. Anthony stepped down as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Anthony chose as her successor Wisconsin native Carrie ...