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 ...

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 ...

Alaska has the third-highest rate of intimate partner violence against women in the nation, and men kill women in Alaska at a ...

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 ...

Julia Pupko, with the Vermont Center for Ecostudies, caught this two-spotted lady beetle on June 19. Photo courtesy of Julia Pupko When Julia Pupko pulled a little red bug out of her sweep net in late ...

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 ...

The bill was derailed in the House by now-retired Rep. Bob Goodlatte. Two senators reintroduced a bill Monday that aims to strengthen protections for Native American women, who face above-average ...

Native Women Lead, the rapidly accelerating launch of the first initiative intended to prepare Native women for asset management and advance Native American women entrepreneurs, snagged a $650,000 ...