Native American Women's Equal Pay Day is a powerful reminder of the ongoing struggle for economic equality faced by Native American women. Observed on November 30th each year, Native American Women's ...
The United States Department of the Interior has replaced a derogatory term for Indigenous women used for centuries in five areas across the country. The Board on Geographic Names (BGN) voted on ...
Abigail Echo-Hawk, director of the Urban Indian Health Institute, recalled a Native mother in her 30s who started having memory loss and other dementia-like symptoms. The woman had suffered multiple ...
The average profile of a missing child in Hawaii is a 15-year-old Native Hawaiian girl. Despite making up just 10% of the state’s population, Native Hawaiian girls and women account for nearly 2 in 3 ...
Female Native American lawyers often feel isolated and harassed, according to a new report published by the American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession, in collaboration with the ...
The American Bar Association hosted a panel of prominent Native American women to talk about how they became lawyers. (Courtesy ABA) Whether it’s decades of litigation in the Katie John subsistence ...
A new report from Professor Stacy L. Smith and the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative examines Native American representation across 1,600 of the top-earning films from 2007 to 2022. The results are ...
We are celebrating the power, stories, & brilliance of Indigenous women in film. Welcome to Sovereign Innovations, where we are diving deep into the groundbreaking shifts in cinema. In this episode, ...
“Dignity of Earth and Sky,” unveiled in 2016, raises questions about who should depict Native people and how they should be portrayed. Dale Lamphere's "Dignity of Earth and Sky" (photo courtesy Dale ...