Abortion bans in the U.S. have affected Black, American Indian and Alaska Native women the most, new research suggests. The new study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, ...

Experts are concerned that already at-risk Black, American Indian and Alaska Native women will suffer the worst consequences of abortion bans. (Jose Luis Magana/AP) The new findings have experts ...

Nonprofit Native Women Lead has announced the hiring of a new executive director, Shadiin Garcia, a Chicana from Laguna Pueblo. Nusenda CEO announces retirement ...

Teri Greeves builds on a legacy of artistry, rarely recognized by mainstream institutions, that stretches through generations of Native women. Credit... Supported by By Julia Carmel Photographs and ...

Vernette Kountz had given birth to four children in hospitals — including a set of surrogate twins — before deciding she was ready for a different experience. Kountz said while her previous deliveries ...

This story was originally published by The 19th and is republished here by permission. For Native American women, the gender pay gap reflects the systems that have oppressed them for centuries. The ...

Hospital staff is always quick to notice when there’s a Hummingbird in the facility. If the doctors and nurses have been through this before, they know the birthing team tending to the pregnant ...

About 30 years ago, doctors in an Indian Health Service clinic in Tuba City, Arizona, told Jamescita Peshlakai that her health would be at risk if she continued her pregnancy. Peshlakai, who is a ...