Abigail Echo-Hawk, director of the Urban Indian Health Institute, recalled a Native mother in her 30s who started having memory loss and other dementia-like symptoms. The woman had suffered multiple ...
This story was originally reported by Jasmine Mithani of The 19th. Meet Jasmine and read more of her reporting on gender, politics and policy. The Department of Justice website has removed at least ...
The organization was given 60 days to raise $135,000 but it fell short of their goal. In December, the Edmonton Community ...
October is National Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevention Month. The leading national Native American group, National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center (NIWRC), is joining with advocates and ...
This article was produced through a partnership between Newsweek and the Osage News, the official independent media of the Osage Nation. The cooperative reporting process aims to shine a light on the ...
*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. The reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) 2022 made some important changes that address the needs of ...
Alaska has the third-highest rate of intimate partner violence against women in the nation, and men kill women in Alaska at a ...
PHOENIX — Seven days a week, 365 days a year, the StrongHearts Native Helpline provides care and services for Indigenous people experiencing domestic violence. On Sept. 24, it earned the title of ...
The story of what happened to Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind is both uniquely hers, and one shared by too many Indigenous women. When author and journalist Mona Gable began writing about ...
Indigenous people have made great contributions to the state of Wisconsin yet the alarming rates of violence against them ...
Two things are true about Indigenous girls, women, and gender-diverse people in Canada. First, as Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson notes, they “reproduce and amplify” ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) announced on Wednesday the creation of a national domestic violence ...