Native Women's Shelter's annual Spirit Walk celebrates voices of Indigenous youth

The Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal is holding its annual Spirit Walk fundraiser event this weekend. Na'kuset, the ...
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9 Native American women from history everyone should know

9 Native American Women From History Everyone Should Know ...
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For Native American women, stepping into leadership starts with reclaiming their past

When Susan Masten was growing up in Northern California, her familial traditions were lost in a confusion of cultures. Native American communities pass down traditions through the matrilineal line, ...

Breast Cancer in Native Women May Not Respond to Treatment the Same Way as in White Women, Study Finds

A first-of-its-kind study of breast cancer in Native women found that their tumors may respond differently to treatment than those of white women. Native women have breast cancer at lower rates than ...
Forbes

Closing The Financial Access Gap: Empowering Native Women, Transforming Economies

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 ...
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Native Hawaiian women too often go missing and face violence. A new federal policy may help.

The average profile of a missing child in Hawaii is a 15-year-old Native Hawaiian girl. Despite making up just 10% of the state’s population, Native Hawaiian girls and women account for nearly 2 in 3 ...
Hyperallergic

Who Gets to Honor Native Women in the US?

“Dignity of Earth and Sky,” unveiled in 2016, raises questions about who should depict Native people and how they should be portrayed. Dale Lamphere's "Dignity of Earth and Sky" (photo courtesy Dale ...
CNN

Oscar nominee Lily Gladstone’s mission to end violence against Native American women and girls

In the run-up to Hollywood’s biggest night, Lily Gladstone, breakout star of the Martin Scorsese-directed epic “Killers of the Flower Moon,” is spotlighting a cause close to her heart as she makes ...
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Native American Actors Make Up Less Than .25 Percent of Total Roles Over Last 16 Years, USC Annenberg Study Says

A new report from Professor Stacy L. Smith and the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative examines Native American representation across 1,600 of the top-earning films from 2007 to 2022. The results are ...
USA Today

In Oklahoma, Native American women struggle to access emergency contraception

TULSA, Okla. — When Apollonia Piña, a citizen of the Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma, needed Plan B four years ago, she turned to the Indian Health Care Resource Center of Tulsa, where she received her ...
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Native Women Lead snags big grant

Native Women Lead, the rapidly accelerating launch of the first initiative intended to prepare Native women for asset management and advance Native American women entrepreneurs, snagged a $650,000 ...
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‘Native women are unstoppable’: Lily Gladstone’s plan to expand Indigenous inclusion

LOS ANGELES – When all this is over, when Lily Gladstone no longer has to discuss and dissect and get all dressed up to celebrate “Killers of the Flower Moon,” the movie that first came into her life ...