Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

Alaska Natives Before Statehood

In the early spring of 1942 Alaska's population was approximately 73,000. About half of those residents were Native Alaskans, ...
Yahoo

2 Native Women Went Missing in Alaska. Then, a Chance Discovery of Brutal Murder Footage Led Police to Their Killer

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kathleen Henry ; Brian Steven Smith ; Veronica Abouchuk. Police arrested Brian Steven Smith after video and photo evidence of him ...

Octavia Spencer Wins First Emmy For ‘Lost Women Of Alaska’

Lauded actress and producer Octavia Spencer is one step closer to EGOT status following her latest Emmy win.
Variety

‘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’

The team behind the docuseries “Lost Women of Alaska,” which explores the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) crisis, discussed raising awareness around the disproportionate violence against ...
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 ...
Yahoo

Alaska Gov. Dunleavy signs law declaring March as Women’s History Month

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Governor Ernest Gruening (seated) signs the Alaska Equal Rights Act of 1945 alongside Alaska Native Sisterhood president, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Alaska Dispatch News

Domestic violence in Native communities is focus of new survey

Abigail Echo-Hawk, director of the Urban Indian Health Institute, recalled a Native mother in her 30s who started having memory loss and other dementia-like symptoms. The woman had suffered multiple ...
Amnesty International USA

Honoring Indigenous Peoples’ Day Must Include Justice for Native Women

Karla Gonzales Garcia is AIUSA's Director of Gender, Sexuality and Identity. Autumn Adams is AIUSA's Indigenous Peoples' Rights Fellow As we mark Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we celebrate the cultures, ...
AOL

2 Native Women Went Missing in Alaska. Then, a Chance Discovery of Brutal Murder Footage Led Police to Their Killer

Police arrested Brian Steven Smith after video and photo evidence of him attacking Henry was discovered on an SD card He admitted to also killing Abouchuk and was sentenced to 226 years in prison in ...