Breast Cancer in Native Women May Not Respond to Treatment the Same Way as in White Women, Study Finds

A first-of-its-kind study of breast cancer in Native women found that their tumors may respond differently to treatment than those of white women. Native women have breast cancer at lower rates than ...
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9 Native American women from history everyone should know

9 Native American Women From History Everyone Should Know ...

The first Indigenous women in Congress carry a legacy older than American democracy itself

The Declaration of Independence promised equality while denying power to Native Americans. Deb Haaland and Sharice Davids are ...
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Native Woman Won $400,000 from Abuse Settlement, Then Vanished. Inside a Family's Quest to Find Out What Happened

Mary Ellen Johnson-Davis, of the Tulalip Tribes in Wash., disappeared in 2020. Her family is still waiting for answers. FBI;FilmRise Mary Johnson Davis (left); and a scene from Missing From the Fire ...

First comprehensive look at breast cancer in Native American women reveals key genetic differences

Researchers from the University of Notre Dame have published the first known detailed study of breast cancer tissue from ...
Forbes

Closing The Financial Access Gap: Empowering Native Women, Transforming Economies

In Native communities across the United States, we have always known: when you invest in women, you invest in whole nations. Women are the backbone of our communities, the culture-bearers, the ...
Fox News

Native American women refuse to live in fear amid soaring crime, arm themselves and take gun classes

Gun ownership is stepping in to help bridge a safety gap in New Mexico’s vast Indian country, according to gun experts in the state. "No one is coming to save you" is a motto among Native Americans in ...
Los Angeles Times

Alaska Native woman, ‘everybody’s helper,’ is Orthodox church’s first female North American saint

KWETHLUK, Alaska — It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael quietly lived her entire life as a midwife and a mother of 13. As the wife of an ...
The Spokesman-Review

‘Native women are unstoppable’: Lily Gladstone’s plan to expand Indigenous inclusion

LOS ANGELES – When all this is over, when Lily Gladstone no longer has to discuss and dissect and get all dressed up to celebrate “Killers of the Flower Moon,” the movie that first came into her life ...
MinnPost

Minnesota Native groups expand efforts to protect unhoused women

MinnPost’s journalists are out in the community to report on the things that are happening in Minnesota. Your support right now will help fund their work AND keep our news paywall-free. This story ...
Southeast Missourian

Alaska Native woman, 'everybody's helper,' is Orthodox church's first female North American saint

KWETHLUK, Alaska (AP) — It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael quietly lived her entire life as a midwife and a mother of 13. As the wife ...