Marissa Russo is a former STAT intern supported by the AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship. American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States live nearly four years less than ...
Over a six-year period in the 1970s, physicians sterilized perhaps 25% of Native American women of childbearing age ...
Over the centuries, Native Americans were pushed against their will onto reservations. Once there, Galanda notes, many young Native Americans were forced to move again into far-flung boarding schools ...
Official U.S. records dramatically underestimate mortality and life expectancy disparities for Native Americans, according to a new, groundbreaking study published in the Journal of the American ...
The highest risk factor for maternal mortality in Washington state is to be American Indian or Alaska Native, according to a new report from the Washington Department of Health's Maternal Mortality ...
Recent findings that Native Americans are more likely than any other racial group to die in encounters with law enforcement have deep roots, experts say. “I think first you have to put it in historic ...