Heart disease is the top cause of death for U.S. adults. And for American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AIN) women, the risk is particularly high during pregnancy and spans generations. To help lower ...

Native American mothers are less likely to exclusively breastfeed in their baby's first 6 months compared to women of other ethnic groups. It often takes longer for Native American women to get ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The first Native American woman in space said Wednesday she is overwhelmed by the beauty and delicacy of Mother Earth, and is channeling “positive energy” as her five ...

TULSA, Okla. — When Apollonia Piña, a citizen of the Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma, needed Plan B four years ago, she turned to the Indian Health Care Resource Center of Tulsa, where she received ...

It’s believed she is the first Native American to own property in the famous business and entertainment area. The moment in history is not lost on the member of the Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians.

American Indian and Alaska Native women of childbearing age are at heightened risk for heart disease, the American Heart Association warned May 31 — and high rates of trauma and violence ...

A Montana woman has been charged in the death of a Native American woman who authorities ... White “claimed she was passing a bottle back to her baby and didn’t see the deer,” the affidavit ...

Mika Matters A Montana mother of two is facing charges after allegedly hitting a Native American woman and fleeing the scene in a deadly hit-and-run, say authorities. Sunny Kathrinne White ...

Reigniting the conversation of Indigenous women in STEM positions is Nicole Mann, the first Native American woman in space in 2022, and Deb Halland, the US Secretary for the Interior. Finding ...

The U.S. Marine aviator was the first Native American woman to leave Earth; Mann is a member of the Wailacki of the Round Valley Indian Tribes in northern California. But after Mann's decades of ...