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Native Americans have experienced a dramatic decline in life expectancy during the COVID-19 pandemic...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIndigenous patients who live in rural areas often have limited access to medical care. THE PALMER/E+...
Smallpox caused devastation among Northwest tribes including Eastern Washington Natives
The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOct. 27—As explorers and fur traders entered the Pacific Northwest by the 1700s, so did smallpox. Today, experts describe the infectious disease's blow to regional tribes as devastating, sometimes ...
Jacksonville is turning 200. But before there was a Jacksonville, these people were here
The Florida Times-Union via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMuch of Jacksonville’s written history is focused on the last couple of centuries, though that’s...
Hunt: The fact of the matter is that we can't tell facts from interpretation these days
The News Leader via Yahoo News· 9 months agoIf the Native Americans ever had a rally with people chanting “White People Will Not Replace Us,” we are unaware of it, and they would have been wrong. White people did replace most of them, ...
Happy National Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples Day! More on both holidays — and the complicated...
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 7 months agoRoxanne White, of Yakima Nation, sings as a group marches from Westlake Park to City Hall to mark...
Indigenous Peoples Day Continues To Become More Visible As The Columbus Day Alternative
Blavity via Yahoo News· 7 months agoMonday marks the holiday traditionally known as Columbus Day in honor of Christopher Columbus’...
10 Historical Untruths About the First Thanksgiving
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 5 months agoOn the fourth Thursday in November, Americans will gather to eat turkey and sweet potatoes, just like that first Thanksgiving ... Actually, not like that...
Leading the way: Abigail Echo-Hawk leading path toward proper Indigenous representation in 'The...
Tribune via AOL· 4 weeks agoApr. 4—One must follow the data to get all the information. But what happens when said data isn't complete? This is one of the many questions that Abigail Echo-Hawk (Pawnee) is asking as the ...
Rochester's first Black doctor spent a lifetime 'fighting and dreaming' of equality
Gannett via AOL· 3 months agoSchool 19 in Rochester is named for Dr. Charles T. Lunsford, the first Black doctor to establish a...
"Roots of America" speaker, others tell more on history of the Cherokee
The Oak Ridger via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThis is about the second in the series of "Roots of America" lecture series, sponsored by the Oak...