The Massachusetts Daily Collegian

The untold suffering of Alaska’s Indigenous women

A smoke screen fortified by the U.S. government and judiciary system has blinded society. This illusion promotes the supposed idea that because of recent progress in securing rights, job equity and ...

Alaska police agency failed to protect Indigenous women, says ACLU

The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday accused police in Nome, Alaska, of "a systemic and disastrous failure" to keep Native women safe from sexual assault. ACLU's Alaska branch made that ...
Yahoo

‘Lost Women of Alaska’ Team on Spotlighting the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Crisis: The Community ‘Has Been Through a Lot’ and ‘Hasn’t Been Heard’

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The team behind the docuseries “Lost Women of Alaska,” which explores the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) crisis, ...
Alaska Dispatch News

National Native helpline for domestic violence and sexual assault to open Alaska-specific service

A national support line for Native survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault has begun work to launch an Alaska-specific service. Strong Hearts Native Helpline is a Native-led nonprofit that ...
Healio

Strategies needed to cut ‘unacceptably high’ maternal deaths of Indigenous women

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Clinicians should encourage Native American and Alaska Native women to embrace pregnancy as a time to improve CV ...
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Trump DOJ renews effort to find missing indigenous women

(The Center Square) – Following through on a commitment made during his first term, President Donald Trump’s administration has surged resources to investigate thousands of violent crimes committed ...
Healio

Risky pregnancies, driven by CVD risk factors, remain common for Native women

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . American Indian and Alaska Native women face substantially higher risk for heart disease, particularly during ...
Hartford Courant

Alaska Native woman, ‘everybody’s helper,’ is Orthodox church’s first female North American saint

KWETHLUK, Alaska (AP) — It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael quietly lived her entire life as a midwife and a mother of 13. As the wife ...
Us Weekly

Octavia Spencer's 'Lost Women of Alaska' Will Tell the 'Stories We Hadn't Heard'

Octavia Spencer’s Lost Women franchise returns to Investigation Discovery with Lost Women of Alaska, shining a spotlight on the cases of two murdered Alaska native women. The Oscar-winning actress ...
Alaska Dispatch News

Women will be a majority in the Alaska House for the first time

Six Alaska House seats currently held by men are set to be held by women next year, bringing the overall number of women in the chamber to 21. This will be the first time in the state’s history that ...
National Catholic Reporter

Alaska Native woman, 'everybody's helper,' is Orthodox church's first female North American saint

It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael quietly lived her entire life as a midwife and a mother of 13. As the wife of an Orthodox Christian ...