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, ...

Indian Health Services today issued an updated policy to ensure that Native American women can obtain emergency contraception at IHS facilities. The update comes more than two years after a federal ...

LANSING — State and federal officials, and representatives of Michigan Native American tribes on Friday announced a new task force that will take on the longtime problem of violence against Native ...

The bill was derailed in the House by now-retired Rep. Bob Goodlatte. Two senators reintroduced a bill Monday that aims to strengthen protections for Native American women, who face above-average ...

BROWNING, MT. — The murder rate for Native American women is 10 times higher than the rate for non-indigenous women. One man started a program to stop young girls on his reservation from becoming ...

When Officer James Saylor of the Crow Tribe Police Department came across Joshua Cooley parked along a rural stretch of highway on the tribe’s reservation in Montana in 2016, he first noticed the man ...

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 ...

Now in its 20th year, WeWin brings together more than 400 women across tribes and generations for prayer circles, keynote speeches and leadership training. When Susan Masten was growing up in Northern ...