The first time Elena Giacci (Diné) heard of forced sterilization, she was at a conference. It was 1994, and she had just ...

New Mexico is taking on an investigation into the sterilization of Native women through coercion, deception and without consent.

March is Women’s History Month, and to celebrate, Native News Online will feature stories and interviews with Native American women to highlight all that they do for communities across Indian ...

Over a six-year period in the 1970s, physicians sterilized perhaps 25% of Native American women of childbearing age ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A demonstrator stands outside the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison, Wisc., in 2022 to commemorate missing and murdered ...

MOLINE, Ill. — November is Native American Heritage Month. It's a chance to celebrate and recognize the history, culture, languages and achievements of Native Americans and Alaskan Natives. Locally, ...

In recent weeks, survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse have gotten some of the spotlight they have long been denied. Perhaps talk of them even came up during your Thanksgiving holiday. For most of us, ...

Broadcast version by Mark Richardson for Arizona News Connection reporting for the KFF Health News-Public News Service Collaboration Just hours after Rhonda Swaney left a prenatal appointment for her ...

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 ...