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Indigenous women in Kansas are more likely to die during pregnancy. New doulas could help

Stephanne Rupnicki, left, teaches breastfeeding best practice to an Indigenous mom. Rupnicki is on the forefront of an effort to train Indigenous doulas to help curtail rising maternal mortality rates ...

Domestic violence in Native communities is focus of new survey

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 blows to her ...
WMUR

Suspect arraigned after Hooksett native's body found wrapped in blankets in car

PORTLAND, MAINE. WMUR. TOM GARRIS IS HERE NOW. WITH TODAY’S COURT HEARING. JEN. MARISSA DECLAN PERRY WAS FOUND DEAD, WRAPPED IN BLANKETS IN A CAR OUTSIDE SOUTH SHORE HOSPITAL. CHRIS KATHERINE ...

Native Women Share Their Journeys in Higher Education in New Book

Three Native women—a president, a professor, and a student—are sharing their personal journeys in higher education in a new ...
Smithsonian Magazine

On International Day of Indigenous Women, Meet Native Women Skaters Making Space in the Sport

This is how Imilla Skate celebrates skateboarding’s Indigenous past and present. Tia Merotto Deysi Tacuri skates on the half-pipe outside the National Museum of the American Indian. She is a member of ...