Native American Women's Equal Pay Day is a powerful reminder of the ongoing struggle for economic equality faced by Native American women. Observed on November 30th each year, Native American Women's ...

They're reddish, with black spots, and they are flying high this time of year. We're talking about lady beetles. Globally, there are about 6,000 lady beetle species. About 166 of those have been ...

Abigail Echo-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 ...

Native mothers deserve to survive pregnancy. They deserve to thrive after it. And they deserve a health care system that values their lives as much as it values the lives they bring into the world.

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 ...

Female Native American lawyers often feel isolated and harassed, according to a new report published by the American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession, in collaboration with the ...

Julia Pupko, with the Vermont Center for Ecostudies, caught this two-spotted lady beetle on June 19. Photo courtesy of Julia Pupko When Julia Pupko pulled a little red bug out of her sweep net in late ...

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 ...

Gun ownership is stepping in to help bridge a safety gap in New Mexico’s vast Indian country, according to gun experts in the state. "No one is coming to save you" is a motto among Native Americans in ...

The United States Department of the Interior has replaced a derogatory term for Indigenous women used for centuries in five areas across the country. The Board on Geographic Names (BGN) voted on ...

As winter approaches, non-native Asian lady beetles are swarming buildings in Missouri to find warm places to hibernate. These insects are distinguished by a "W" or "M" shaped marking on their heads ...