St. Olga, a Yup'ik woman who died in 1979 at age 63, was a midwife, a mother of 13 and the wife of an Orthodox Christian ...

Among U.S. states, Michigan is among the top 10 for largest Native American population. The state's diverse population ...

Addressing maternal health disparities in American Indian and Alaska Native communities will require identifying data gaps ...

A 2022 study by the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control made headlines for revealing that Native Americans die on ...

WASHINGTON — Alaska Native and American Indian populations demonstrate notably higher prevalences of ANCA-associated vasculitis vs. white patients, according to data presented at ACR Convergence ...

Based on data from the American community survey in 2023, some 31% of American Indian and Alaska natives were enrolled in Medicaid compared to 20% for the general population. Among children up to ...

In North Dakota, Native Americans experience violent crime at 2.5 times the national average. In South Dakota, while Native ...

“To force the (American Indian and Alaska Native) population to work with agencies that only see the world from mainstream western cultural views is a form of assimilation and, compounded with ...

A new study found that the gap in life expectancy between American Indians and Alaska Natives and the national average was ...

Native American Heritage Month honors the history, culture and traditions of indigenous peoples in the United States. Here's what to know.

The discovery, which was published in a new research paper in the journal Nature, reveals that the long-held belief of a single founding population of Native Americans reaching the continent over ...