The Latest Breaking News on Native America

Rates are so bad in Native American communities that public health experts have asked the federal government to declare an emergency. Inadequate prenatal care may be partly to blame.

Benedict was attacked at their Oklahoma high school, and found dead at home the next day. The medical examiner's office says the nonbinary 16-year-old died by suicide. Their family has questions.

Organizer Ivan Santiago told The Latin Times that the goal for 2025 is to take the festival to a broader audience

"It represents a resistance against the loss of our identity while being in a culturally different country," Organizer Ivan Santiago told The Latin Times.

Across California, voters decided on 138 local ballot measures, in addition to the statewide measure, Proposition 1, on March 5. While we are awaiting finalized results for the ballot measures, below is a selection of local ballot measure outcomes, which addressed policing, voter ID, school curriculums, and more:

Biden administration funds renewable energy projects in rural and Native American areas to enhance clean energy access and infrastructure.

First Nation members say in lawsuit that radiologists subjected them to a secret study without their knowledge or consent

Indian student Akul Dhawan's death in Washington, DC prompts questions about police negligence and safety of Indian students in the US.

In the shade of a sacred tree, Indigenous wise men chew coca leaves as they mull the threats to their home among the melting, snow-capped peaks of Colombia's Sierra Nevada mountains.