Researchers compared life expectancy at birth in 2019 to 2020 and 2021 when COVID-19 cases were surging. Native Americans’ loss in life expectancy at birth in 2020 was more than three years above that ...

Photographer Edward S. Curtis spent 30 years photographing more than 80 Native American tribes in the early 1900s.Edward S. Curtis/Library of Congress Edward S. Curtis spent 30 years documenting over ...

ARLINGTON, VA (June 26, 2023) – NATIVE AMERICA returns this October to PBS with four new hour-long episodes that present a groundbreaking portrait of contemporary Native America. Building on the first ...

Native Americans experienced disproportionately high rates of deaths from COVID-19 due to poverty, crowded housing, high rates of chronic disease, employment in frontline jobs, and limited access to ...

New federal data outline the scale of suffering among Native Americans and Alaska Natives. By Simon Romero Roni Caryn Rabin and Mark Walker Carol Schumacher, 56, who was raised in the remote community ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Native life has returned to the island of Kaho’olawe after decades of work to restore the former military bombing range. The state is celebrating two Hawaiian Green sea ...

Last week we learned that our lawns are not good for the environment, and that is true even if you do not water or fertilize them. They just simply do not support our native ecosystems. It’s easy to ...

Native Americans had a life expectancy of 71 years, according to a recent CDC study -- compared to Hispanics at 82 years, whites at 78.8 years, and Blacks at 74.8 years. Heart disease was the leading ...

Native Americans experienced disproportionately high rates of deaths from COVID-19 due to poverty, crowded housing, high rates of chronic disease, employment in frontline jobs, and limited access to ...

Wednesdays, Nov. 13 - 20 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream Seasons 1 - 2 now with KPBS Passport! NATIVE AMERICA returns this October with four new hour-long episodes that present a groundbreaking portrait ...

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, an artist and curator who blazed a path for Native Americans in the contemporary art world, deftly exploring themes of Indigenous identity, ecological destruction and ...