When Mary Sara, an 18-year-old Sami woman, died of tuberculosis in a Seattle sanitarium in 1933, the doctor treating her removed her brain and mailed it to the Smithsonian for a “racial brain ...

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 ...

Relatives of Mary Sara, an 18-year-old Sami woman who died from tuberculosis in 1933, gathered at her burial plot in Seattle late last month to bury her brain with the rest of her remains, ...

The director's latest feature, 'Je'vida,' won the top prize in Helsinki at the Finnish Film Affair’s showcase of fiction works in progress.

The gathering featured representatives and members of the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center Inc. (NIWRC), a Native-led nonprofit organization dedicated to ending gender-based violence ...

As of 2025, more than 4,400 Indigenous women serve in the military and more than 43,000 are veterans. Indigenous women also made up more than 11,600 business owners in the nation in 2024 who ...

SEATTLE — Donna Helterbridle-Baker is a mixed-media artist, a descendant of the Central Sierra Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk and Northern Yokut, and also a veteran of the U.S. Army. According to the U ...

November is Native American Heritage Month. You can celebrate with a talk in Moline on Nov. 25 about the lives, customs and impacts of Native women in Illinois.

“Native Hawaiian women have made incredible contributions to our communities and country, and it’s critical that we recognize their impacts on American history,” Schatz said in a statement.