Every November, we take time to celebrate Native American Heritage Month, a period that honors the history and culture of the ...

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 ...

Colleen Benally, who lives on the Navajo Nation reservation in the American Southwest, spends a lot of time in her car. Her ...

Life for Native Americans in the U.S. has been marred by both resilience and heartbreak. From the Great Plains in Texas to the lush Pacific Northwest, these tribes — each with their own traditions, ...

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 ...

TEMPE, AZ (AZFamily) — The Office of American Indian Initiatives at Arizona State University is hosting an annual camp that helps connect Native American Students to campus life with a week-long ...

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 ...

“Anyone can love the mountains, but it takes a soul to love the prairie,” wrote Willa Cather, author of “O Pioneers!,” the saga of early westward struggles and the kind of character it took to ...

More than 3 million children in the U.S. had a disability in 2019. The rates of disability among U.S. children are increasing, with the highest rate of disability among Native American children, ...