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 ...

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 ...

Each summer the Office of Indigenous Relations at the University of Nevada, Reno, invites Native American high school students from across the state interested in attending college to participate in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The White House (Photo/Levi Rickert for Native News Online) Unlike his first administration, when he issued a presidential ...

The Detroit Institute of Arts has long been known for the strength of its Native American collection, yet the museum functioned without a Native American curator for more than a decade and it has been ...

It’s a sunny spring morning as Nakai Clearwater Northup stands amid white pine trees, near a river, surveying the land. Looking at his Narragansett homelands in southern Rhode Island, he says hunting ...

Just hours after Rhonda Swaney left a prenatal appointment for her first pregnancy, she felt severe pain in her stomach and ...

Over two hot summer days in July, nearly 170 13-to-16 year-old players from more than 40 Native American tribes assembled at the spring home of the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies in ...

Window Rock, Ariz. — Navajo Nation leaders took turns talking with the U.S. government's top health official as they hiked along a sandstone ridge overlooking their rural, high-desert town before the ...