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Native Americans are killed by police at 3 times the rate of White Americans and 2.6 times the rate of Black Americans, yet rarely do these deaths gain the national spotlight. The initial lack of media coverage and accountability has resulted in Indigenous-led movements such as Native Lives Matter and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women ...
On a number of Native American reservations Native Women are murdered at a rate representing ten times the national average. Violent crime rates over all on Native American reservations are 2.5 times the national average while some individual reservations reach 20 times the national average of violent crime. [66]
The Native American and Indigenous Writers Committee ... to its vice chair Aiko Little — which was evidenced by the turnout of some 100 picketers who joined the NAIWC for a strike event in ...
This is a list of U.S. Supreme Court cases involving Native American Tribes.Included in the list are Supreme Court cases that have a major component that deals with the relationship between tribes, between a governmental entity and tribes, tribal sovereignty, tribal rights (including property, hunting, fishing, religion, etc.) and actions involving members of tribes.
Margaret Jacobs, a professor of American history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and director of the Center for Great Plains Studies, said the rhetoric used against Native American ...
Native Americans have gone missing at alarming rates for decades. Advocates hope a new alert tool will raise awareness and help bring them home.
The U.S. Department of Education, under the direction of the Obama Administration, and Obama appointee William Mendoza, as executive director of the White House initiative on American Indian and Alaska Native Education, [23] [24] has created policies that seek to address disparities in education that affect Native American and American Indian ...
The risk for suicide is highest for people aged 25 to 64. When disaggregated by race, American Indian and Alaska Native people—followed by white people—have the highest rate of suicide. Native ...