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Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan could be nation’s first Indigenous woman to serve as governor

8:00am August 23, 2024

Flanagan, a former state lawmaker and children’s advocate, would ascend to the office if Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz win in November.

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Mujeres indígenas participan en la marcha en Puyo, Ecuador, el 8 de marzo de 2024.

Razones por la que mujeres indígenas Ecuatorianas marchan en 8M

12:35pm March 16, 2024

by Tatiana Lopez

Mujeres de diferentes nacionalidades indígenas viajaron desde sus territorios a Puyo, Ecuador, para marchar por las calles de la ciudad como lo hacen cada año en el Día Internacional de la Mujer.

"My participation in the march as an Amazonian woman is to praise our rights and violence worldwide." Portrait of Josefina Tunki, the ex-Executive President of the Government Council of the Shuar Arutam People in Puyo, Ecuador, March 8, 2024.

Ecuadorian Indigenous Women on why they march

12:35pm March 16, 2024

by Tatiana Lopez

Women from different Indigenous nationalities traveled from their territories to Puyo, Ecuador on March 8 to march through the city's streets as they do every year on International Women's Day

Grete Bergman, left, and Sarah Whalen-Lunn at their StoryCorps recording in Anchorage, Alaska, in 2018.

With 3 bold marks, Indigenous women helped revive a once-banned tradition

9:10am October 15, 2021

Grete Bergman was among the first Gwich'in women to get traditional facial markings since colonizers barred the practice. She and markings artist Sarah Whalen-Lunn did it for their daughters.

A memorial to missing and murdered Indigenous women is set up in St. Paul, Minn.

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Media Fascination With The Petito Mystery Looks Like Racism To Some Native Americans

12:04pm September 21, 2021

by Kamila Kudelska

Media coverage around the death of 22-year-old Gabrielle Petito looks racist to those who note that murders and disappearances of Native Americans are mostly ignored.

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A memorial to Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind outside the apartment where Greywind lived with her parents in Fargo, N.D., pictured in 2017. Savanna's Act requires the Department of Justice to strengthen training, coordination and data collection in cases of m

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Savanna's Act Addresses Alarming Number Of Missing Or Killed Native Women

7:33pm September 28, 2020

by Maureen Pao

Sarah Deer, citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and University of Kansas professor, discusses the measures to strengthen investigation procedures and why it's taken so long to address the issue.

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Self-defense student Megan Fleury holds her hands up and faces a potential assailant.

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Kidnapping Threat Is Higher For Native Women, So They're Learning Self-Defense

10:49am January 31, 2020

by Quincy Walters

In some communities, Native American women are kidnapped and killed at a rate 10 times higher than the national average.
Now, some are teaching each other to fight back.

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Attorney General William Barr speaks with Myrna DuMontier (left) and Charmel Gillin (right), councilwomen with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes on Friday on the Flathead Reservation in Pablo, Mont.

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Barr Announces Plan To Address Crisis Of Missing And Murdered Native Americans

7:55pm November 22, 2019

by Richard Gonzales

Studies find that Native Americans, especially women, are victims of disproportionate levels of violence, and state and federal databases inadequately track the crisis.

Gregory Day holds a placard covered in photos of his deceased daughter, Dawn. It's the one he carried in a Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women's march last spring.

7 States Step Up Efforts To Fight Violence Against Indigenous Women

5:01am July 23, 2019

by Melodie Edwards

Native girls and women are more likely than average to be the victim of a violent crime. Now, several state task forces will try to better identify and locate indigenous crime victims.

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