At a time when many Native Americans were refused healthcare by racist White doctors, Susan La Flesche Picotte overcame gender discrimination to become the first Indigenous woman in U.S. history to earn a medical...
When the Havasupai tribe became the subject of a medical trial in the 1990s, their DNA was covertly used for scientific testing that participants had not consented to. Thirteen years later the secret was discovered and the tribe filed a lawsuit against the...
At the turn of the 20th century, the US government forced Native Americans to assimilate into Anglo-American culture. But Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, aka Zitkala-Sa, an activist, author and educator, fought against the Americanization of Native...
