Katherine Goodlow holds Coco the puppy outside her grandmother’s home in Hisle on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. (Arielle Zionts/KFF Health News) HISLE, S.D. — Katherine Goodlow is only ...

ARLINGTON, VA (June 26, 2023) – NATIVE AMERICA returns this October to PBS with four new hour-long episodes that present a groundbreaking portrait of contemporary Native America. Building on the first ...

Life expectancy for American Indian and Alaska Natives declined over the past two years, and dropped more than other populations in the U.S., according to a recently released national study. For ...

Movies are the ultimate representation of what Native Americans do best: storytelling. From stories that span modern Native life to history's reverberating impact on the U.S. trust and treaty ...

Katie Nelson was frustrated that she couldn't help her patients with their end-of-life needs. As a nurse caring for Native American individuals, her hospital did not have proper space available for ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Native life has returned to the island of Kaho’olawe after decades of work to restore the former military bombing range. The state is celebrating two Hawaiian Green sea ...

Native Americans had a life expectancy of 71 years, according to a recent CDC study -- compared to Hispanics at 82 years, whites at 78.8 years, and Blacks at 74.8 years. Heart disease was the leading ...

Native Americans experienced disproportionately high rates of deaths from COVID-19 due to poverty, crowded housing, high rates of chronic disease, employment in frontline jobs, and limited access to ...

Each summer the Office of Indigenous Relations at the University of Nevada, Reno, invites Native American high school students from across the state interested in attending college to participate in ...

For Kaelene Ashmore, staying at UC Riverside for an entire week was a way to make new friends — and embrace her Navajo culture. Ashmore was one of 35 students admitted into the eight-day Gathering of ...

Soft watercolor smudges of vibrant red, turquoise, and yellow sprawl across the first pages of the children’s book Jingle Dancer, by Cynthia Leitich Smith. Head in hand, Smith’s young protagonist, ...

The Indigenous Archival Photo Project began in 2015, when the Willow Cree writer Paul Seesequasis had a conversation with his mother about the way First Nations, or Native, peoples were depicted in ...