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For advocates, dehumanization of indigenous people is at the root of the issue. More than a decade ago, Sundance, a member of the Muscogee tribe, led a successful effort to change the mascot of a high ...

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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 ...

For the fourth year in a row, Native American children made up more than 70 percent of children in the South Dakota foster ...

It’s estimated that around 7 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease, a number that’s expected to double by 2060. But researchers have found that some of the highest rates of cognitive impairment ...

There's a history of forced experimentation on Native communities. Navajo medicine man Timothy Lewis starts each day with a corn pollen seed offering to the creator. He prays for his family and the ...